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To: SeekAndFind; Elsie

Great.

Note that members of mormonism fill out a report each year to determine their worthiness.

Don’t meet the criteria, no temple recommend. No temple recommend, no eternity in the presence of God, no future godhood for themselves...


6 posted on 11/20/2020 7:29:16 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead... )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

AMPU, it’s sad to see you’re still a bigot until now against us Latter-day Saints.

As a Latter-day Saint, I voluntarily give 10% of my income to my church because I believe what God commanded in Malachi 3:8-11. And yes, during our annual tithing settlement with our pastor (bishop), we are asked whether we’re full tithe payers. If not, then we cannot get a temple recommend.

However, you are wrong in claiming not having a temple recommend means we cannot be in the presence of God or we cannot get exalted as the glorified Children of God.

We do CHARITY work for the dead in the temple in all visits after the first one. Only the first time we go do the ordinances apply to us. Only those ordinances matter to us. All subsequent visits are to help those who cannot help themselves in fulfilling Christ’s condition that only those who are born of water and of the spirit may enter the kingdom of God.

So, a Latter-day Saint only needs to go to the temple once to qualify for exaltation and never set foot in the temple for the rest of his life. However, that raises another issue of whether that person developed the traits Christ expects of his true followers - the character of being charitable - and its greatest expression is when someone helps those who cannot help themselves.

Get your facts right before misrepresenting my church. It’s unbecoming.


20 posted on 11/20/2020 8:41:04 AM PST by Raymond Pamintuan
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

That’s truly weird. In 40 years I have never filled out such a report! Where do I get one? How do you know more than I do about the Church and its practices?


347 posted on 11/23/2020 2:21:59 PM PST by Paulus Invictus (Paulus)
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