Why do Mormons use water instead of wine/grape juice in communion.?

Question

Are they denying the blood of Christ? Also why are there huge similarities between their Temple rituals and Freemasonry rituals? How can they explain all the occult symbols on the Temple such as the pentagram, the all seeing eye, and the secret handshakes?

Answer 1

It is the religion that St. Paul warned us about:

"4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him]...13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds." (2 Corinthians 11:4 & 13-15 KJV)

Answer 2

Using water isn't denying the blood of Christ. The Lord's supper or sacrament is a symbolic rite to taste the Lord's Body and blood. Remembering every week the Lord died for our sins. As for the symbols on early Temples, those are symbolic of the three heavens...People will rise and have bodies like the glories of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars....No the Stars aren't a pentagram...there isn't a circle around the the star..A five pointed star isn't a pentagram without the circle around it. As for the temple rituals, they are covenants we make in there...the other stuff is just a ceremony vehicle.

Answer 3

We have permission from Jesus to substitute water for wine. It is not the fluid in the cup it is the promise you make in your mind and the prayer you say that is important. Jesus had blood as a man, his blood was not wine.
As for temple rituals that is what freemasonry uses as a way to teach righteousness, the building of the temples. mostly King Solomon's temple. Now I don't know but what their may have been similarity's between the rituals back then and now but don't know why there wouldn't be.

Answer 4

What happens in the Temple stays in the Temple, it is not secret but sacred!
We use water because water is clean and reflects purity, when we drink the water we are like reminding to keep those commitment we did with the Lord when we baptized and repent of our sins. Wine is not a sign of purity, isn't it? We also have the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89 - that one is famous BTW ^_^) and we don't drink wine or any other alcohol related beverages. Even the Bible says it:

"Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations" Leviticus 10:9

"And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean" Leviticus 10:10

Hope this help! :)

Answer 5

I went to a Mormon service with a friend and they did use a type of grape juice. I know because I tasted it.

I don't really know a lot about their beliefs but i do know that the time I went to a Mormon service grape juice was used.

p.s. no one let me in on the secret handshake though.

Answer 6

We call it the sacrament, and use bread and water. The substance of what's used isn't the considerable factor, yet that it incredibly is achieved in remembrance of Christ and his atonement is. the unique sacrament of Christ used unleavened bread, and the term "wine" replaced into fairly different then as now. Wine replaced into grape juice that replaced into used to maintain the grapes, and not of the comparable extreme alcoholic content cloth as is now linked with wine. additionally, there are and can be well being concerns with many "custom" sacrament food products. For those with glucose intolerance, particular forms of bread are risky. For those with alcoholism, eating wine because of the fact the sacrament can convey them back out of sobriety. back, it incredibly is not the article, however the remembering of Christ it is the considerable factor.

Answer 7

Their leader that started their religion was a 32 degree Mason. They use water instead of wine because yes, they do deny the blood of Jesus. They are in Communion but not with God.

Answer 8

First, the Masons are not a cult. Second, the Mormons don't care much for reading the Holy Bible so why would they observe according to the tradition of the Holy Bible?

Answer 9

they use grape juice for the same reason baptists and methodists do. i really don't think it matters much. in my church, we use wine. i think other churches are somehow afraid they'll get drunk. lol

there are similarities between the mormon temple and the masonic lodge because joseph smith was a freemason. his own wife was quoted as saying he died flashing freemason signs, in an effort to save his own hyde.

Answer 10

it is supposed to be grape juice which is "new wine" the juice of the grape...some where down the line people got the bright idea that wine"juice of the grape" actually meant the fermented alcoholic stuff....

Answer 11

Because wine is naughty because 'they' said so, and we believe what 'they' say because 'they' said so.
The Freemasons copied the original rites, but messed it up, so 'they' said we have the old real version again, although 'they' changed it several times so we don't pretend to hurt ourselves anymore.
The other stuff is because 'they' said it's not important for us to know, and you shouldn't ask, so there.

'They' are the Usual Gang of Old White Men running the church