Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:

Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Published:
6/5/2015
Specs:
Digest / 5.25" x 8.25"
84 pages Saddle-stitched
Category:
Religion
Tags:
apologetics, freemasons, lds, Mason, masonry, mormon, Mormonism, Temple

Joseph Smith taught that the origins of modern temple ordinances go back beyond the foundation of the world.1 Even for believers, the claim that rites known anciently have been restored through revelation raises complex questions because we know that revelation almost never occurs in a vacuum. Rather, it comes most often through reflection on the impressions of immediate experience, confirmed and elaborated through subsequent study and prayer.2 Because Joseph Smith became a Mason not long before he began to introduce others to the Nauvoo endowment, some suppose that Masonry must have been the starting point for his inspiration on temple matters. The real story, however, is not so simple.

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