So...
mormon missionaries have been coming to my house for about a year, and we've been doing pretty great. We talk about everything and I know I'm going to get baptized and stuff.
The only thing is, what's the deal with the mormon underwear? The Elders haven't said anything about it, but i read it in my Understanding Mormonism book i bought before they started coming. I want to know... what's the deal with it? Please explain!
And please leave out all the BS about how mormon people are part of a cult. I just wanna know what's up with the underwear. Don't make it a big argument.
Thanks! :)
2007-07-24 13:01:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can totally ask the elders about it. They will probably say about the same things I am saying. :)
They are galled garments and you wear them after you go through the temple. They are a reminder of the convenants you made there.
I haven't been through the temple so I don't know much about what those covenants are.
Congrats on learning about the LDS church. It is nice to see people actually wanting to know about it rather than just bashing it relentlessly.
2007-07-24 13:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Do an image search on LDS garments... then you can see them, then... definitely have the missionaries explain how and why they wear them... (the missionaries ARE wearing them... )
There's alot to go through before you can wear them... you must go throught the temple, and (personally) I thought it was stupid... sorry, but lot's of people struggle with the temple.
There's nothing totally bizarre or inappropriate, it just seemed silly to me.
2007-07-24 20:06:12 · answer #2 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are called temple garments. Contrary to popular belief, they don't have magical powers. They don't make us fly or disappear or anything, althought that would be cool.
The garments are a special piece of clothing worn as a symbolic gesture...It's related to the temples and is sort of a reminder of the promises we have made to God.
2007-07-24 20:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Revelations 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
2007-07-25 10:44:27 · answer #4 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In their KJV bible in Ephecians 6:10-19 it says to put on the (invisible) full of armor of God, it is also in the christian bible, so mormons put the garments on because they still think they need soemthing extra besides the armor of God. These garments signify that they went thru the temple and took out their endowments, they have special symbols ont he chest and they enforce modesty. Some mormosn think they are a special sheild against bullets too.
There are scriptures about us being God's temple, in their scriptures and in the christian bible, but they have over looked this as well:
1 corinthians 6: 16,19
Know ye not that ye are the TEMPLE of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
What? know ye not that your body is the TEMPLE of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
2007-07-24 22:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Wait a minute...Missionaries have been coming to your house for almost a YEAR?
These guys aren't doing such a bang-up job converting you, I'd say.
Garments are optional - you need to be an ubermoron to wear 'em anyway.
2007-07-24 21:22:29 · answer #6 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I dunno
2007-07-24 20:05:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋