are there any specific symobls of mormonism /LDS?

Question

are there special crosses they use or any other symbols?


non-biased answers please!

any links to pics would be quite handy

Answer 1

the angel moroni is a great one, I have heard that the temple could be a symbol of our faith as well, since it represents our covenants and our standards and our focus on Jesus and on eternity as a family. I like to think that our actions represent our faith, and our lives are representative of our covenants. So the temple sums that up.

Answer 2

Uniquely Mormon symbols? I'd say the "Angel Moroni blowing his trumpet" (that you see on top of most LDS temple spires) and maybe the Beehive, though I've heard from some that the symbol of the beehive as an "industrious symbol" has been used by other societies prior to the 19th century.

Though we don't really have any symbols all to ourselves (save those two already mentioned) one can see symbols borrowed by the LDS from other cultures (whether we have any similarity to or relationship with them or not) like "The All-seeing Eye", "The Morning Star (Inverted pentagram)", astrological motifs (Sun, Moon, Stars), "Square & Compass" (although it seems that the square and compass are being replaced with actual geometric squares and circles).

Answer 3

I guess the main "symbol" as you put it for Mormons would be to simply live a good, honest Christlike life. The symbol comes in our actions, values, and behaviors toward others.

If you are looking for other inanimate symbols, I would say the replica of the angel who brought the restoration of Christ's Gospel to the earth, Moroni, would be a good one. The angel A statue of this angel Moroni is found on top of most all of the Mormon Temples that dot the earth.

Mormons do not use the cross as a symbol. We feel that it is the resurrected, living Christ that we worship, more so than a symbol of his death.

Answer 4

The temple garments, the CTR rings (Chose To do the Right) for the young kids (get them when they are young) a neckless for the young (mutual) women (it was a bracelet when I was in the young women's program) The mormon KJV Bible and their other scriptures. Moroni on the temples and the symbols inside of the temple, I do not have links for these symbols, I know they exist. You will have to ask a question on these.

Answer 5

No, there aren't really any public symbols that we use like a Cross or David's Star. Maybe the angel Moroni blowing the trumpet? Or a beehive, the symbol of the state of Utah. Beyond that, we don't use alot of symbols to represent our church.

Answer 6

LDS servicemen are buried in VA cemataries with a profile of an angel blowing a trumpet to represent Moroni on the tombstone. Other than that we are kinda symbol shy. You know the graven image thing.

Answer 7

We do not use the cross -- as our focus is upon the living Christ.

Symbolism is a tool used to help us remember the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sometimes that is in anacronyms [CTR=choose the right]. Sometimes it is in imagery [steeples upon chaples and temples pointing toward heaven].

Personally, I enjoy historic symbolism and finding traces of the gospel of Christ taught throughout the ages in architecture and art [just attended a fascinating lecture from an art history professor last month].

Are you looking for something specific?

Answer 8

Mormon britches are pretty specific.

Answer 9

None to my knowledge.
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Answer 10

There are a bunch, but they only tell the initiates about their weirdness, after they are thoroughly indoctrinated.