If anyone's interested in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint temples, whether you are a member or not, there's a virtual tour of the Rome Italy temple here:
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If anyone's interested in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint temples, whether you are a member or not, there's a virtual tour of the Rome Italy temple here:
Of course!Fancy looking... but as I recall Jesus is greater than the temple
Greater than the temple? (Matthew 12:6)
Of course!
The point of the building is not to surpass Christ, but to be a place set apart to focus on Him and come closer to Him.
Agreed, which is why the focus is always about Christ.It's a lovely building... would be sad if a brick and mortar building becomes a distraction from looking at 'the Christ' who builds a temple using the members of his church as living stones
It's a lovely building... would be sad if a brick and mortar building becomes a distraction from looking at 'the Christ' who builds a temple using the members of his church as living stones
It would be...if it ever becomes such a distraction. It won't. None of our Temples do, any more than the church you go to, with crosses or crucifixes hanging on the walls, is a distraction from your own worship of Him.
Sometimes I have to wonder, when I hear this sort of comment from non-Mormons, especially those who attend mega churches and whose own chapels are beautiful, why they think that their buildings, crosses, etc., are reminders of Him, but ours are distractions from Him.
It is a puzzle.
Still: why would the decorations in one building automatically qualify as a potential distraction and no another?I would not look at a church building as a Temple. But in Biblical language each believer is 'a temple of the Holy Spirit' and so I am not inclined to call something besides Christ or the people in the church temples
Still: why would the decorations in one building automatically qualify as a potential distraction and no another?
The temple is beautiful and if it were not associated with our Church in particular, other people would say it was beautiful, too.It would be...if it ever becomes such a distraction. It won't. None of our Temples do, any more than the church you go to, with crosses or crucifixes hanging on the walls, is a distraction from your own worship of Him.
Sometimes I have to wonder, when I hear this sort of comment from non-Mormons, especially those who attend mega churches and whose own chapels are beautiful, why they think that their buildings, crosses, etc., are reminders of Him, but ours are distractions from Him.
It is a puzzle.
The temple is beautiful and if it were not associated with our Church in particular, other people would say it was beautiful, too.
The temple is beautiful and if it were not associated with our Church in particular, other people would say it was beautiful, too.