We covenanted to:
Enter the Church of Jesus Christ.
Be called after His name.
Serve God and keep His commandments.
Serve each other and bear each other’s burdens.
Be a witness for Christ and His Church.
And just how is that not dedicating your life to Christ? Do you understand what it means to take the name of Christ on you?
I understand full well what it means.
The first covenant in that article stated, "Enter the Church of Jesus Christ."
In John 3:5 "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
If baptism is the method by which you enter the mormon church, WHY THEN is there the confirmation? After we are baptized we receive the ordinance of confirmation. In this ordinance, men who hold the Melchizedek Priesthood lay their hands on our heads and (1) confirm us members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and (2) bestow on us the gift of the Holy Ghost, also called the “baptism of fire” (2 Nephi 31:13).
The Purpose of Priesthood Ordinances
When mormons begin to actually BEGIN to put Christ before "The Church" perhaps THEY will "understand what it means to take the name of Christ on them".
In all the posts I have read from mormons on FR in the past months, the majority defended and glorified "The Church" and Joseph Smith....
"I love my CHURCH".
How many have you seen from mormons that stated, "I love Jesus"?
The list of "covenants" that mormons claim God to have agreed to and you have listed is a list of works...Enter..be called...serve...be a witness.
In John 3, he says... 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g]..."Whosoever believes.