September 12, 2008 – 11:01 am
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This morning I was listening to the ABC News report on the incoming hurricane Ike, which is heading straight towards the Galveston/Houston area of Texas, and the forecast of widespread destruction that it [...]
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September 9, 2008 – 2:02 pm
(Continued from Part 1)
As you might have imagined, the first thing I did when my parents told me the story of the “seal of Melchizedek” on the San Diego temple, and of the connection with Hugh Nibley, I immediately did some searches to see if I could find if it was referenced in LDS literature. [...]
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Also tagged book, BYU, design, gammadia, hugh nibley, melchizedek, non-lds, offerings, photos, sacrifice, san diego temple, scholar, seal, signs, symbol, symbols
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September 6, 2008 – 12:44 pm
I was doing some research this morning when I stumbled upon a very interesting passage from a book published in 1916 by Levi Rightmyer entitled, The Light of Truth as Revealed in the Holy Scriptures. The entire text of the book is available for perusal on Google Books here. The author is not LDS, although [...]
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Also tagged abraham, altar of incense, apostasy, book, google, imagery, incense, jesus christ, joseph smith, melchizedek, non-lds, prayer, priesthood, resurrection, saints, scholar, scriptures, throne
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As most people know, it is a tradition in many parts of the world to bake up a birthday cake for a friend or family member celebrating a birthday. Typically this cake is decorated nicely and topped with birthday candles, one for every year of the celebrant’s life. When the time comes to eat the [...]
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Also tagged altar of incense, bible, blessing, family, hands, holy place, prayer, psalms, ritual, sacrifice, scriptures, tabernacle, traditions, uplifted hands, veil
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I was thinking yesterday that there might be more to the common saying “asking for her hand in marriage.” Doing a few searches and I found that some believe it comes from a medieval ritual known as handfasting. Today it has been adopted by certain Neopagan groups as part of their engagement or marriage rituals, [...]
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Also tagged BYU, ceremony, crown, eastern orthodox, greek, handclasp, hands, marriage, middle ages, oath, ritual, video
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One of our readers, Dr. Kathy Larsen, pointed out a scripture yesterday that intrigued me. It is Leviticus 21:10:
And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
There [...]
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Some of our critics have been quick to contend that our modern temples and practices have no relationship whatever to the temples of ancient Israel. This is a quick judgment indeed. If one is willing to open their eyes that they may hear, and their ears that they may see, then many marvelous [...]
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The other article that impressed me from the latest Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, 16/2 (2007), was Donald W. Parry’s “Service and Temple in King Benjamin’s Speech.” Why did it impress me? Because it related subjects in the Book of Mormon to the temple, something that we haven’t seen a lot of [...]
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Also tagged bible, book of mormon, donald w. parry, garments, hebrew, jesus christ, moses, offerings, ordinances, sacrifice, scholar, service, solomon, tabernacle
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Last night a reader referenced me to what appears to be a new blog by Bill Hamblin, a well-known LDS scholar and Associate Professor of History at BYU, and particularly about a post of his of a couple week ago. Dr. Hamblin talks about early Byzantine veils, and especially one that he has photographs of [...]
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Today in priesthood we talked about chapter 7 in the Joseph Smith manual. It is about “Baptism and the Gift of the Holy Ghost.” One thing that struck me as I read the chapter is the number of times that Joseph referred to baptism and some of the other principles and ordinances as [...]
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Also tagged baptism, blessing, covenant, endowment, holy ghost, joseph smith, laying on of hands, ordination, sealing, signs, symbol, vicarious
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April 10, 2008 – 10:59 pm
The sacred ceremonies in which new monarchs are crowned kings and queens in the United Kingdom have significant parallels to the LDS Mormon endowment. These traditions stem from ancient times in English history, and have remained relatively unchanged in form throughout ages. The most recent coronation ceremony was on June 2, 1953, when [...]
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Also tagged anointing, blessing, cap, ceremony, coronation, critics, crown, endowment, garments, initiate, liturgy, oath, ordinances, robe, royal, symbols, throne, tokens, uplifted hands, video
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One of the criticisms leveled at the LDS (Mormon) practice of temple worship is the seemingly dissimilar forms of the ordinances when compared with those found practiced by ancient Israelites in the Bible. It is true that the forms of the ordinances and sacrifices are different, but their meaning and symbolism remain the same. [...]
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February 8, 2008 – 8:01 am
An exhibition back in 2000 at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, which was curated by Yael Israeli and David Mevorah, shows artifacts from the early years of the Christian church. The exhibition was entitled “The Cradle of Christianity“:
The exhibition attempts to synthesize the literary sources with finds that have been excavated in this country, particularly [...]
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