mikebatie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Many of them are answered in the endowment ceremony, regarding why we are here, and where we are going after this life. The crowning ordinance of the temple is eternal marriage.

151607 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

and how do eternal questions get answered? who answers the questions?

mikebatie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sacred structures in which eternal questions are answered. Each is dedicated as a house of the Lord, a place of holiness and peace shut apart from the world. There truths are taught and ordinances are performed that bring knowledge of things eternal and motivate the participants to live with an understanding of our divine inheritance as children of God and an awareness of our potential as eternal beings.

cajunmaoris (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks. I found it on Deseret Book, I am going to buy them. Apparently there is more than one CD.

mikebatie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The temple is a sacred and holy place where we can commune with God most effectively (that's not to say we can't commune with God anywhere at anytime). Within His Holy House the highest sacraments of the faith are administered, including eternal marriage and the sealing of eternal families.

mikebatie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This particular song is by Lex de Azevedo, titled "If You Could Hie To Kolob," from his CD, "Variations on a Sacred Theme."

cajunmaoris (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Where do you get all this music? It is great.

mikebatie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Since the completion of the Salt Lake Temple in the 1890s, every temple built since then has hosted an "open house" in which anyone, of any faith, were invited to attend and examine the interior of the House of the Lord. Photos and now in modern times video is taken of the interior for brochures and to offer the news and media outlets a look inside. The Newsroom of the Church posts these online. This isn't a recent change, it's been done since the 1890s.

nate295 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

wait a second how come there is a tour of a temple i thought known mormons could not enter them? let alone pics or videos of the inside be taken for the world to see?

151607 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

whats the point of all these temples?