dzheremi
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I'm surprised that you would use the word wacky to describe a Mormon temple wedding. I have seen a lot of wacky drunken weddings before, but a Mormon wedding in a temple is the opposite of wacky.
Well, you -- the Mormon -- would know, wouldn't you? We -- the non-Mormons -- wouldn't know.
That's kinda the point of the thread...
So maybe you need to ask a good active Mormon about that before you use terms like wacky.
Maybe your religion needs to stop hiding from people. Then there'd be no reason to not describe according to what actually happens. As it is, it seems pretty wacky to me. All this hush-hush stuff for what seems like an imitation of a secular ceremony, based on the description that has been posted elsewhere in the thread.
So, no, I think I'll keep describing it like that until the Mormon religion stops being a cult and is willing to let other people see what's going on without first becoming Mormons and earning temple recommends.
Not sure what you mean by uneven application of the Mormon temple ceremony policy. It is not uneven, it exists for all who marry in the temple.
Read the article. It talks about the differences in marriage requirements for Mormons inside of the United Sates and outside of it, as well as the development of Mormon marriage practices away from what had been the historical standard to something that is more restrictive.
The power that Jesus gave Peter to bind or loose on earth and it will be bound or loosed in heaven is a real power. Peter was given the keys of the KOH. These keys have been lost since Peter died, and were restored to the earth by Peter himself when he was sent by Jesus Christ to JS and gave him the binding and loosing powers again. Otherwise JS could not do anything and have it be accepted by heaven.
I don't care about your organization's lies, Peter. This ridiculous narrative has nothing to do with the topic of how anti-family Mormon temple weddings are, as such occult ceremonies were not founded by Christ or the apostles at any point.
It is essential to salvation that these keys be used as you go through the salvation process, and although the temple wedding is essential for the highest form of salvation, it is not essential for lower forms of salvation.
More Gnostic nonsense.
Before and during the time of the millenium, there will be a lot of work to get people ready for salvation.
Millenialism is condemned by the ancient Church, down through to today. "Whose kingdom will have no end."
Remember that only a few of billions and billions of people have even heard of the name Jesus. All have to be given the chance to hear and accept. It will be a monumental work, that I suspect you will be actively engaged in, being a good Christian.
That would be the case if it weren't for the fact that Mormon soteriology is completely false and anti-Christian.
If you marry civilly first there is no assumption at all. It is because you are not willing to take upon yourself and live the higher principals of the gospel of Jesus Christ at this time.
Hahaha. Peter, did you read and think about the first sentence that you wrote before writing that second sentence in this passage?
Mary Ellen Robertson is the director of Sunstone. Sunstone is not dedicated to the study of Mormonism, it is dedicated to expose what they think is the real Mormonism and to eradicate it.
I don't care. Smear campaigns only work if the ones doing the smearing are of more exemplary character than those they smear. That's not true in the case of the LDS organization, so...yeah, don't care.
Give me a break, she got married in the temple 20 years ago and still has not recovered from not having some of her friends at the wedding. That is too much to even listen too. Go get another life if you still haven't recovered after 20 years. Seriously let it go and get another marriage and get those friends that could not come to your temple wedding and have another wedding so they can be there this time.
Wow. No comment. I'll just let that stand so that all can read it.
Your last paragraph is logical.
I actually don't think so, if you mean the last quote from the article. It makes sense why Mormons would want to make such a comparison, and see it as being very logical, but having been Roman Catholic myself at one time, I can say with some degree of confidence that probably no Catholic would agree with such a comparison. For one thing, unless I have been misinformed in the summary I have read, the Mormon marriage ceremony is not a Eucharistic celebration (well, Mormonism doesn't really have a 'Eucharist', at least not as Roman Catholics or other traditional Christians would understand it, but I mean that you do not distribute your sacrament there), so it's much more akin to something like Vespers or another prayer service. Such services can be attended and participated in by anyone, and Catholics would no doubt welcome non-Catholics to do so.
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