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 [...]
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 scale
Everything is hand-made down [...]
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 as they exist [...]
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