Tag Archives: representation

Can You Accidentally Worship the Devil?

Now that is an odd thing to say, and sounds silly, yet it is precisely what some of our critics claim members of the Church are doing, especially in the design and function of our temples.  This is the premise of a great new blog post by James Carroll at Amateur Scriptorians called “The Language [...]

Man Builds Massive Model of Herod’s Temple

The Telegraph reported today about a man from Norfolk, England, who has spent the last 30 years building an awesome, gigantic and highly detailed scale model of Herod’s Temple.  Here are some interesting facts about it: Estimated 33,000 hours to construct Measures 20ft by 12ft Includes 4,000 tiny human figures, with authentic time-period dress 1:100 [...]

Temple as a Scale-Model of the Universe

Several scholars, both LDS and members of other faiths, have noted that the temple is a model of the universe: The temple is a scale model of the universe… …the temple represents the principle of ordering the universe. [The temple is] for the purpose of taking our bearings on the universe… …the temple reflects things [...]

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