If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!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. [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged aaronic, adam, altar, atonement, bible, consecration, herod, holy of holies, melchizedek, moses, ordinances, prayer, priesthood, sacrifice, solomon, symbol, tabernacle, vicarious
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The temples on earth are reflections of the temple in heaven. They mirror each other both in form and content. Consider the following points that I pull from Matthew Brown’s exceptional and classic book on the temple, The Gate of Heaven:
John saw “the temple which is in heaven” (Rev. 14:15, 17; Rev. 15:5-8).
Other [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged faithfulness, garments, heaven, hugh nibley, initiate, names, new name, ordinances, ordination, plan of salvation, premortal, priesthood, redemption, repentance, robe
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No, it isn’t being sealed to your spouse on wedding day, although that is a prerequisite (preparatory and required) to receive this highest and most sacred sealing ordinance. The priesthood sealing powers of Elijah, as restored in this last dispensation (D&C 110:13-16) and vested in the presiding high priest of the Church (D&C 132:7), [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Also tagged anointing, bruce r. mcconkie, calling, election, elijah, exaltation, faithfulness, joseph smith, life, marriage, ordinances, priesthood, sealing, three degrees, vicarious
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This last week I finally swung by Seagull Book and picked up Dr. Andrew Skinner’s new book Temple Worship. I had heard about it before from ads, and from an excellent interview that Carol Mikita had with Dr. Skinner.
I’ve been impressed with the depth that Dr. Skinner approaches the temple subject, and the new [...]
February 24, 2008 – 11:59 am
This morning I heard an excellent 50-minute interview on KSL News Radio on the program “People of Faith with Carole Mikita.” Today, Mikita interviewed Professor Andrew Skinner, Excecutive Director of The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, on his recent publication of the book entitled Temple Worship: 20 Truths That Will Bless Your [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Favorites, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged ancients, audio recording, book, BYU, egyptian, farms, hugh nibley, interview, secret
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February 19, 2008 – 1:37 pm
Dr. Andrew C. Skinner, currently executive director of The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU, gives a good and succinct definition and description of what an LDS temple is over at the MormonChurch.com blog. Such an answer would be good for those who question us what the temple is all about.
Here [...]
