For everyone who thinks about Mormons as Non-Christians and evil, I just want you to look at these few pictures of temple marriages and tell me that they are not Christians. Can't you see the happiness and righteousness and worthiness in their faces? Mormons are Christians. Everyone should know that. I know it, and I have a testimony of the this church's teachings and the truthfulness in them. These pictures help me know even better that this church is true. Can you not see in their eyes that it's just a RIGHT and GOOD thing that they are doing? Well for me it does. Sorry if I've offended anyone in any way, which is not my intent whatsoever. Thanks for checking them out!
http://sandyjamesphoto.com/TempleWeddings/index.htm
2007-10-01 10:58:52 · 21 answers · asked by dGom 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What a lucky couple, I love the San Diego Temple! They look so happy, those are beautiful pictures.
Can't remember who said that the bride would not have worn that dress for the ceremony but yes she would. She would have worn a modesty insert underneath the top, but she would have worn her wedding dress.
I have a testimony of the church too, and I am so happy to be married for eternity to my RM!
BTW, last time I checked the divorce rate for couples sealed in the Temple was 3%. That's tiny compared to the 50% for other marriages.
2007-10-04 11:23:47 · answer #1 · answered by sunnyannie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The LDS "family first" mantra is nothing but a PR stunt. If you're a non-mormon or heaven forbid, a former mormon, you are often shunned, disparaged, and excluded from the most central family gatherings including funerals (as a speaker) and weddings since they are in the LDS-only temples. Most Mormons aren't aware that their temple rituals came from the Masons and even LDS historians agree that Mason rituals were invented in the 16th century. So faithful Mormons must face the fact that their rituals are 95% masonic so why would God use that as the means to bring them to Him and Godhood? Most Mormons don't realize that anciently, with the Jewish temple, patrons came to it to become worthy rather than live so that they could come. Big difference. And it was there that sacrifices (the metaphor of Christ's sacrifice) allowed them to be worthy. So Mormons must wrestle with the fact that their temples aren't a restoration of anything Biblical, and even worse, their exclusionary tactics fly in the face of New Testament Christianity. Read Luke 18 for some grounding here. Also read 1 Cor 3 where Paul says that now, we are the temple. Psuedo Christian cults are always about control and the LDS church is exactly that. And oddly, not even their founding prophet would have been deemed worthy to enter the temples that Mormons enter today.
2016-05-18 04:51:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you should have focused the camera lens on others waiting outside the temple, being denied access to participate in the wedding of loved ones because they do not believe the same doctrine that you do. You wouldn't see happiness in their faces. Even after the wedding, the church counsels young couples to not have anything too extravagant or similar to a wedding ceremony that would enable these marginalized family members to join in the celebration of a couples commitment that you have so forcefully trumpeted in our faces. You should be ashamed of your church's attitude of total self absorption. This isn't a question, it's a taunt.
2007-10-01 17:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by jungle84025 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
#1 Happiness can be seen in faces; righteousness and worthiness cannot.
#2 Exactly how did you verify truthfulness of teachings? Travel in time? Cross referencing to another doubtful source is not verification.
#3 I'll bet nearly all of the 50% of people who get divorced were just as convinced that what they were doing was "right and good." The test of that comes forty years later.
2007-10-01 11:04:59 · answer #4 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I'm a skeptic and life long student of religious history. I will agree that the LDS church is indeed a Christian denomination although it has added a whole set of beliefs that other Christians find impossible to accept. But then again there are many so called main stream Christian denominations that look at other mainstream Christian denominations as heretics. Well with 22,000 different denominations, what do you expect? Harmony?
2007-10-01 11:06:44 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
My wife and I were married in the San Diego temple but your point is not right.
2007-10-02 04:55:19 · answer #6 · answered by guest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those are beautiful pictures.
Is that the San Diego temple?
2007-10-01 11:28:54 · answer #7 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw the same facial expressions in National Geographic of people being married in a mass wedding by "Rev. Sun Yung Moon"-- the moonie guy.
2007-10-01 11:19:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
beautiful pics -- congrats to the happy couple...
btw - so long as the bride's dress was modest enough [seemed to be from the pics], it would have been what was worn during the ceremony... I would know -- I have a beautiful satin wedding dress that I used in my own temple wedding...
2007-10-01 11:12:53 · answer #9 · answered by strplng warrior mom 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
So if someone is happy, righteous and worthy they must be Christians?
I shall notify the Dalai Lama.
2007-10-01 11:06:06 · answer #10 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋