On the heels of the Church’s latest announcement on ‘finding’ the names of 57,000 deceased Mormon pioneers, a few questions about their temples come to mind.
Ecclesiastes 9:5; “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”
Joseph Smith said he received a vision from God telling him to incorporate oaths with signs, and tokens into several secret ceremonies he called ‘Temple Endowment Ceremonies’.
Question #1 –
Why are the oaths from these ceremonies, almost word for word, the same oaths Masons use at their ceremonies?
See a side-by-side chart comparing the two organizations in our article, ‘Temple Oaths, Mormon & Masonic’.
Question #2 –
Why couldn’t the Mormon god come up with his own set of oaths, unique to the ‘Restored Gospel’?
Question #3 –
While some changes took place in the original endowment ceremonies as early as 1842, why were major changes implemented several decades after Smith’s death, if originally, they came from God?
See ‘Temple Oaths, Can They Change?’ for a concise list of changes the endowment ceremonies have gone through over the years.
Question #4 –
Why didn’t God foresee men’s evolutionary societal habits beforehand, eliminating the need for changes?
Question #5 –
Will deceased Mormon relatives know how to respond to the changes? If so, how?
The Lord tells us in the bible verse above the dead know nothing at all, so how does this happen?
Amazing how corrupt religions like Mormonism and Catholicism are constantly “finding” things superlative to Scripture.
Isn’t it though? It never ceases to amaze me…