The God Makers: A Shocking Expose of What the Mormon Church Really Believes by Ed Decker

Author:Ed Decker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-01-22T18:51:00+00:00

Sacred or Secret?

When asked what could be so secret that visitors aren t even allowed to look inside a Mormon Temple once it has been dedicated, the tour guides at Temple Square will reply sincerely that there is nothing secret about what goes on in the Temple, only sacred. Since the most essential elements of their religion are performed in a secrecy so dark that it is maintained by death oaths, Mormons are continually trying to excuse the secrecy as a necessity created by the sacredness of these rituals. The official LDS pamphlet The Purpose of The Temple, which is a reprint of remarks by President David 0. McKay at the September 11, 1955, dedication of the Mormon Temple in Berne, Switzerland, explains defensively: "Temples are built for the performance of sacred ordinances-not secret, but sacred."

The implication that Mormons are always laboring to convey is that anything sacred must be kept secret. This would presumably excuse the death oath of secrecy imposed upon Temple Mormons as a legitimate necessity for preserving the sacredness of the ceremonies performed inside Mormon Temples. However, there is neither biblical nor logical support for this. There is not one example in the Bible (or the Book of Mormon, for that matter) of any ritual, ceremony, or act of worship that was practiced in secret-much less an example of an oath forfeiting one's life for revealing something sacred.

It is true that only certain members of the Aaronic priesthood were allowed inside the Temple sanctuary, and that no one but the high priest himself could go into the Holy of Holies. However, the Bible explains that it was only because Christ had not yet died for our sins upon the cross that the High Priest had to enter alone behind the veil, symbolizing the entrance that Christ would make as our Forerunner into heaven itself.Z' None of the priests involved in the main sanctuary, nor the High Priest who went alone into the Holy of Holies, ever swore oaths promising not to reveal what went on inside the Temple. In all that was most sacred to Israel-and surely it was at least as sacred as what takes place in Mormon Temples today-there was nothing that was not to be known and discussed openly and freely for all. Yet those who participate in Mormonism's "sacred" Temple rituals must swear to have their throats slit from ear to ear, tongues torn out, and hearts and vitals ripped from their bodies should they tell anyone what goes on in these alleged houses of the Lord! At least they did that until recently when the Mormon "God" changed his mind again.

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