why dont mormons wear crosses, why do they have a pentegram on  their temple?
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Well, first of all, Mormons don't have pentagrams on any of their temples. That's kind of funny, I've never heard that before. Go to http://www.mormon.org to find out more. As far as not wearing crosses, it's not that you can't, it's perfectly fine if you want to. But we try not to focus on the symbol of Christs death, but rather on his life, and his atoning sacrifice for us. Hope that helps, have a great day!
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You have done research on "Mormons", yet you say they don't believe in the resurrected Jesus Christ!? Mormons ARE Christians because they DO believe in Jesus Christ. Why would they name their church "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" if they didn't believe in Him? Obviously your research skills are extremely flawed!\nTheir doctrines do not contradict the Bible. They believe in the Bible. They follow biblical teachings. They have another book of scripture that is a companion to the Bible. Again... your research skills need work. \nAs for the original question "are Mormons an occult religion?" The answer is no. the 'Mormon' religion is open to everyone.
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It's not necessarily a "marriage" thing...when a person receives their endowment in the temple, that is when we put on the garments.  You must have received your endowment to be sealed in the temple though.\nWe wear them to remind us of covenants we have made, to keep us remaining modestly dressed, and they are promised to be a physical and spiritual protection for us.\nthey are comfortable, i like them.
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I would like to direct this answer to Mr. Curious. \n\nYou look like a caucasion in your picture and I presume you speak constructively good english. How come you find it hard to understand the question? Maybe, I need to rephrase the question for you and here it goes "Are Mormons brainwashed on their belief or they just don't have the clue? Did you get it now or do I have to elaborate some more? Or are you just trying to be a smart mormon.\n\nI was actually expecting a very logical and mindopening answer from you because I would usually see Mormons decently dressed, looking educated while visiting people's homes and converting Christians to another form of Chritianity. Oh! how such looks can be so deceiving.\n\nI am an oriental and I don't see anything wrong with the question. At least, maybe the best that you can do is presume that he is not an american or british. I believe that if you are in your right mind, you will also consider my opinion either as logical, fundamental, Romanical, mormonical or moronical. Which is which? I guess you are the only one who knows and be a smart moron.\n\nI just wish that we believers of Christ should not be as judgemental because I am Christian myself. Please try to be more objective and stop evading valid questions like that, like some prejudiced, hot headed, duel ready muslims (although not all), and feel justified by calling people to look like morons or if you have nothing better more to say, might as well stop the paranoia and shut the pipe down.\n\nNow, you have lost another soul to convince.
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Sure -- I'm an ex-mormon.\nThey call them "temple garments."  They get them the first time they go through the mormon temple, when they learn signs, secret handshakes, and secret phrases that partly server as ritual reminders of the tenets of their faith, and are supposed to serve as signs as tokens they have to know to get into the highest levels of heaven.\nThe garments have "marks" sewn into them in certain places to remind them of the temple rituals -- one mark over the knee to remind them of the phrase, "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that jesus is lord"; one mark over the navel to remind them "man does not live by bread alone"; and one over each breast -- the left one is the "mark of the compass" (remind them to be straight and true), the right one is the "mark of the square". \n\nNot only do the garments serve as reminders of the temple rituals, but mormons also believe they have "protective power" -- officially the church says that you're protected by being a good mormon (which  means you wear your garments all the time), but members distort this into a sort of "magic garments" belief, giving the garments power to protect them from harm.\n\nThe temple rituals are quite similar to masonic rituals, and the reminder garments also derived from similar garments worn both by early masons and traditional jews.\n\nHope that helps :)
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It is a twist on scripture. My wife grew up in the same kind of church, a preachers daughter. If these bunch of legalisms would read the bible they would find out that that scripture ends with, "But we have no such customs in our churches." The original intent of this was concerning the Jewish law where women were supposed to cover their heads as a sign of subservience to God and their husbands. It's pure legalism. I have argued on the hair being a coverings also and how ridiculous this is. If hair is considered a covering, then men can go to church without pants on since we have hair covering our legs. It is legalism plain and simple.
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For the same reason Pagans wear a pentagram Jews wear a Star of David ...\n\nIt's a reminder of their faith.  I wore a crucifix (a cross with a man on it) for years before LaCroix (famous French fashion designer) took his name and made the cross a "must have dahlink" for the fashion conscious.  Not only Christians wear crosses nowadays.
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I wouldn't worry about it, plenty of Pagan, neo-pagan, and Wiccans I know wear crosses.  Crosses have been used by tons of non-Christian peoples, gods, goddesses, and sects over time (Assyrians, Celts, Yorumbas, etc); the cross is not inherantly a Christian thing.  The Christians just co-oped the symbol from the pagans around them and made it popular.  My ex-roommate used to wear the cross his grandmother gave him for his Roman Catholic confirmation to circle all the time.  It's not a big deal.\n\nWhen someone asks you about your cross, tell them that you are not Christian and that neither is wearing a cross necklace.  Tell them that plenty of other cultures wore cross jewelry.
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Well it is interesting that you ask that. My brother who is not mormon recently married a mormon. They were married in the temple and we were not alowed to attend because we are not mormon. We asked what the big deal was and we were told that the temple is considered a sacred ground for the worship of mormons to their god and that non mormons entering this temple curses the belief of the church. I know it sounds ridiculous but that is part of there religion and so be it I guess. I sure am glad I am not mormon.
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What difference does it make who is wearing a cross? The cross is a pagan symbol that predates Christianity by thousands of years. No true Christian will wear a cross.
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First off, I don't know about Mormons. I tried to get info from two of them one time. I asked them why they claim to be Christian (Which is what I am - Protestant) but then they try to convert Christians to Mormonism...if we're both Christians, then why would you need to convert me? They weren't really able to answer that. Jehovah's Witnesses have some idease that I differ with as well.\n\nI think that the reason people switch from Catholicism or Protestant to Mormon or Jehovah's Witness, is that they feel something is missing, they're not getting a warm and fuzzy feeling, or maybe they're feeling down on themselves, like they're not being the sort of person they should be. I'm not saying that Catholicism is wrong or anything, just that for whatever reason, each individual that converts feels that something is lacking in their own spiritual life and they assume it's the church they're attending instead of looking inward to their own faith.\n\nMy sister converted to Catholicism...and I can tell you her reason. She wanted to marry the love of her life who is Catholic, and his family would have flipped out if they did not get married by church.
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"Practices That Have Been Abandoned\n\n  This Christmas celebration at Brooklyn Bethel in 1926 was their last. The Bible Students gradually came to appreciate that neither the origin of this holiday nor the practices associated with it honored God\n\n  For years, Bible Students wore a cross and crown as a badge of identification, and this symbol was on the front cover of the “Watch Tower” from 1891 to 1931. But in 1928 it was emphasized that not a decorative symbol but one’s activity as a witness showed he was a Christian. In 1936 it was pointed out that the evidence indicates that Christ died on a stake, not a two-beamed cross\n\n  In their “Daily Manna” book, Bible Students kept a list of birthdays. But after they quit celebrating Christmas and when they realized that birthday celebrations were giving undue honor to creatures (one reason that early Christians never celebrated birthdays), the Bible Students quit this practice too\n\n  For some 35 years, Pastor Russell thought that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh was God’s stone witness, corroborating Biblical time periods. (Isa. 19:19) But Jehovah’s Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has anything to do with true worship. (See “Watchtower” issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928)"\n............................................\nA Progressive Cleansing (W 1/1 2000)\n\n15 During some 40 years up until Christ’s heavenly rule began in 1914, the Bible Students had been freed from many of the non-Biblical doctrines of Christendom, such as infant baptism, immortality of the human soul, purgatory, hellfire torment, and a Trinitarian God. But it took additional time to purge all wrong ideas. For example, in the 1920’s many Bible Students wore a pin featuring a cross-and-crown emblem, and they celebrated Christmas and other pagan holidays. However, for worship to be pure, all vestiges of idolatry must be discarded. God’s Word, the Holy Bible, must be the sole basis of the Christian’s faith and way of life. (Isaiah 8:19, 20; Romans 15:4) It is wrong to add to God’s Word or to take anything away from it.—Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelation 22:18, 19.\n\n16 One example will underline how important this principle is. In 1886 when C. T. Russell published a book that came to be called The Divine Plan of the Ages, this volume contained a chart linking the ages of mankind with the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It was thought that this memorial of Pharaoh Khufu was the pillar referred to at Isaiah 19:19, 20: “In that day there will prove to be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Jehovah beside its boundary. And it must prove to be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of armies in the land of Egypt.” What relationship could the pyramid have with the Bible? Well, as an example, the length of certain passages in the Great Pyramid was said to indicate the time for the beginning of the “great tribulation” of Matthew 24:21, as it was then understood. Some Bible Students became engrossed with measuring different features of the pyramid to determine such matters as the day they would be going to heaven!\n\n17 This so-called Bible in Stone was held in esteem for some decades, until the Watchtower issues of November 15 and December 1, 1928, made clear that Jehovah needed no stone monument built by pagan pharaohs and containing demonic signs of astrology to confirm the witness given in the Bible. Rather, Isaiah’s prophecy was seen to have a spiritual application. As at Revelation 11:8, “Egypt” is symbolic of Satan’s world. The “altar to Jehovah” reminds us of the acceptable sacrifices made by anointed Christians while they are temporary residents in this world. (Romans 12:1; Hebrews 13:15, 16) The pillar “beside [Egypt’s] boundary” points to the congregation of anointed Christians, which is “a pillar and support of the truth” and which stands as a witness in “Egypt,” the world that they
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I am not a Mormon, but in the studies I have done, I have found that Mormons believe in the Torah and the NT>  The problem is, they believe in it so long as it is correctly interpreted...by the leaders of the church.  Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, said that the Bible and all it's teachers were corrupt.  He claimed to have been given a new testament of Jesus Christ.  The Mormons use th Book of Mormon and The Pearl of Great Price as their ultimate authority on everything, including the OT and NT.  There were literally thousands of errors in the original Book of Mormon when Joseph Smith recieved the Divine revelation.  Those have been corrected, for the most part.  There is also the contradictions of scripture and revelation that have taken place since then.  At one point, the prophet, Joseph Smith and then the presidents of the church...Brigham Young, etc., stated as prophecy that Mormons will practice polygamy...that this was a commandment that shall be everlasting.  After the US government told them that they will abandon that belief or get kicked out of Utah and the US, a new, everlasting commandment, came down from God to the president of the church saying you shall not commit polygamy.  I hate it when gods are afraid of the gvernment. ;)  Sorry, my Christian bias came through there.
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I'm not certain but perhaps it's because Pentocostals are so overly charismatic that they have taken the whole spiritual gifts thing and have taken it way out of context. (i.e. snakes, tongues, etc.) They have twisted and distorted the Word of God to fit their own needs and purposes and have caused great confusion within the Body of Christ.
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I left the LDS (Mormon) church several years ago.  There are special undergarments that devout members wear.  After my husband and I received our "endowments" (going through a "sacred/secret" ceremony in their temple), we were required to wear the garments.  They are white and two pieces - a top and a bottom.  They come in different fabrics from satin-like to cotton.  The men's garments are basically a white undershirt and white boxer shorts - no big deal, right?!  The women's however, was like wearing big granny underwear down to your knees and always having an extra layer on top.  That's fine in the winter, but not so comfy in the hot summer weather!\n\nOn the tops and bottoms there are different markings sewn into the garments.  They correlate with markings and symbols found in the temple.  And yes, they are the same as some Masonic symbols.\n\nThe purpose of the garments are to remind you to keep the covenants you made in the temple ceremony.  They're supposedly a kind of protection, as well.  Whenever garments wear out, you're supposed to cut the symbols off before you throw them out.\n\nYou can only buy garments from the store at the temple or through the lds website.  You  have to have a number from a "temple recommend" to order them, though.
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Mormons are Christians. I cannot see a problem, but then again, I am a Pagan.
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I have a pentogram but im not Satanic. A pentogran reprosents five elements, earth, wind, air, fire and spirit. it is a pagan symbol. However it can be used as a satanic symbol if it is upside down, and the spirit element is at the bottom. Alot of bands use it as a gimmick, something for people to copy. like slipknot with there barcodes, and him with there heartagram. hope this is helpfull. love you lots like jelly tots, faerie rainbow dust xxxx