Did any one else heard this kind of bs too?. I used to be told this very same thing and that this was supposed to be the main reason to attend the temple so frequently. They used to say that wasn't even possible to have bad thoughts inside the temple and that the most important decisions should be taken through serious inquiry in the celestial room. If that was so? how comes I made so many mistakes? or even any one else? - Someone that I know was so delusional about a job that he had and he stayed on it for so many years because the inspiration in the temple "approved it"...

In reality, that part in the video where satan looks at the camera and says "...they are learning the teachings of men, mingled with scripture..." used to make me feel so uncomfortable because I took it literally. We were actually given bs mingle with scripture.

Well I masturbated and swore like a sailor in the temple, sometimes at the same time. So yes evil does exist within it's drab white walls.

Somehow, the temple killed any sexual feelings I had. It's half-life lasted about 30 minutes after I left. Proud to be a Boner!

Yet another mythical Mormon belief that has no basis in reality.

That's why you have to lock up your stuff.

Really? Then why have locks on the lockers (or even locks on the doors)? Because the Morgs know that they are just spewing a continual line of BS and the TBMs are eating it up because it gives them something to believe in. The rest of us call it BULL$#!T.

Apparently in Aba, Nigeria, Satan had some fire power at his disposal:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705325941/Violence-forces-closure-of-LDS-Nigeria-temple.html?pg=all

Solomon's Temple: destroyed
Maccabean Temple: destroyed
Kirtland Temple: lost
Nauvoo Temple: destroyed
Samoan Temple: decimated by fire
Bountiful, UT Temple: Moroni hit by lightening in the ass

If these places are so magical, why do they keep getting damaged and destroyed?

In my very last visit to the St. George, Utah temple I couldn't get that stupid robe to go on properly and I'm kind of turned facing the old dude (come to think of it they all are old) sitting down behind me and I said quietly but loud enough to travel, plus lip reading a couple of feet, "f@@@". The look on that old dudes face was something to be remembered. I resigned less then a year later.
Inspired by god my happy ass!!! There is nothing holy about a LDS temple. In fact just the opposite, horrible evil place. A good horror "B" movie could be made out of a temple visit especially before 1990.



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That's funny...reminds me of the time I went post-mission. I wore a short sleeve shirt, and headed down to hallway to begin the ceremony. I was stopped by no less than three old dude who told me that I was forbidden to wear such an evil white shirt, and one of the escorted me back to the white shirt desk and then to the locker room. I was in there changing my shirt when I whispered to myself, "A$$#^&%." I didn't know the old dude was still standing there. He said, "you shouldn't use foul language I the Lord's house" to which I replied "oh yeah, f$%& you (in my mind). Satan was very proud of me that day.

Did they charge you for the white shirt?

Yep..probably a buck

I hope that was my father. He goes to that temple.

I'm just glad ghawd allowed the temple rites to be video taped and shared with the world. I think it was an inspired move, to take the 'mystery' out of the whole process!

I think blood oaths are something Satan would think of, so if anything Satan rules Mormon temples more than other places.

Christ said not to swear by your head. Pantomiming cutting your throat while making an oath sounds pretty much like swearing by your head.

Matthew 5:37
"Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."

"Yes, but that's different . . . "

Sometimes I think the slogan on Utah license plates should be,
"But that's differnt"

Not only does the Bible forbid such things, but the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses do also. (In the latter, Cain makes a secret pact with Satan.)

But...imaginary beings don't have "power" anywhere!

:)

Yeah, I heard that too.
At the same time, I heard stories about temple-goers who saw or felt "Satan" in the temple, and used the arm-to-the-square-magic-temple-words-spells to cast him out.

After all, you can't have those wonderful faith-promoting miraculous fairy tales without Satan.

Just FPRs that may be retold to make them more "current" on Satan in the temple.
http://www.moroni10.com/mormon_history/logan-temple-devil.html

I heard the one about the Temple president that saw Satan wandering around the temple and asked, "How did you get in? How can you be in this sacred building and on holy ground?" Satan answered, "I have a temple recommend and was invited."


Also Joseph Smith (and in the temple [remember Adam asking Satan about his apron?])) is that Satan has priesthood and power over the Telestial level.

I heard the stories about how an endowment session is about to
begin but the facilitator stops and says, "someone here is
unworthy and needs to leave before the session can commence."
Everyone looks at each other and one guy, looking grim, gets
up and leaves and then they begin the session.

Ah, yes, that wonderful "power of discernment" that proves
we're the real deal when it comes to true Churches. Of course
that never stopped Mark Hofmann from getting a recommend.
Come to think of it, it didn't stop me from getting a
recommend after I, a closet anti-Mormon at the time, lied
through my teeth in the interview. It also didn't stop the GA
in the temple, whom I shook hands with, from discerning
anything and asking me to leave.

They pull this same "discernment" ruse at the MTC. A visiting
Poobah will address the new missionaries and will stop and
look as if in a trance and then say, "there are 23
missionaries, right here in this room who have unresolved
sins. You know who you are and you must resolve them with the
Bishop."

Then you see the big line of anxious-looking missionaries in
front of the Bishop's door . . .

Discernment comes straight from the scriptures:

"27 And unto the bishop of the church, and unto such as God
shall appoint and ordain to watch over the church and to be
elders unto the church, are to have it given unto them to
discern all those gifts lest there shall be any among you
professing and yet be not of God."
--D&C 46:27

See, they can discern "lest there shall be any among you
professing and yet be not of God."

The "Guide to the Scriptures" clearly states, in defining "Gift
of Discernment:

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/discernment-gift-of?lang=eng#

"To understand or know something through the power of the
Spirit. The gift of discernment is one of the gifts of the
Spirit. It includes perceiving the true character of people and
the source and meaning of spiritual manifestations."

See, Church leaders can perceive "the true character of people"
and can tell if people are only claiming to be "of God."

Here are the top church leaders showing their sacred powers of
discernment in action:

http://www.utlm.org/images/newsletters/115/115cover_hofmannchurchleaders.gif

From left to right:

Mark Hofmann (liar and forger and future murderer, secretly
atheist since age 14, while claiming to be a believing Mormon,
presenting a forged document to the leaders of the Church)

N. Eldon Tanner (member of the First Presidency)

Spencer W. Kimball (prophet, seer and revelator and President
the Church)

Marion G. Romney (member of the First Presidency)

Boyd K. Packer (Apostle)

Gordon B. Hinckley (member of the First Presidency and future
President of the Church who paid $10,000 to Hofmann for a
forged document about Joseph Smith, and who then promptly hid
the document from the rest of the world).

Yeah, these guys really have that discernment mojo.

baura Wrote:
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> They pull this same "discernment" ruse at the MTC.
> A visiting
> Poobah will address the new missionaries and will
> stop and
> look as if in a trance and then say, "there are 23
>
> missionaries, right here in this room who have
> unresolved
> sins. You know who you are and you must resolve
> them with the
> Bishop."

Hehe. Funny how they never change...

A poohbah GA pulled that when I was there. I had some "unresolved sins" (a little petting, no big deal) that I hadn't confessed. I panicked for a moment...then recognized it for what it was (a schtick he probably pulled every time), and let it go. Hilarious!

Satan may have no power in the temple, but I'm pretty sure the church put him in charge of temple feng shui.

sooo...Satan CAN get into mormon churches and stake centers??

Let's do the math...

There is a smattering of temples in the world, the majority concentrated on the I15 corridor (morridor).

There are a sh1t-load of mormon churches in Utah and Idaho...and a smattering in the rest of the country...BUT Satan can get into those places????

If I was mormon, I wouldn't like those odds..

I remember a Mormon telling me that Jesus comes to Earth all the time, but He can only be in Mormon temples. All the ground outside is hot lava.

Stan, I can help you with that. I can also sell you some signs and tokens for money. Let's talk :)

The ideas in religion are unlimited. It's the best field of information that only takes belief and faith and not an ounce of evidence or facts. Just a good imagination and a belief in imaginary characters.

If all these people have the "Power of Discernment" why do all the faithful members have to go in to get their temple recommends and get asked all those questions about their worthiness?

Shouldn't the bishop be able to just go down the list of members and mark them off, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, yes .........

Thanks to Mel Brooks for the scene in the "History of the World, Part 1".