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The whole temple thing is something that has bothered me for a while. The clothing and hand signals etc have always been weird to me, and seem very periodic of JS time. My own personal feeling is that JS went to HF and said what can I do to help keep these people strong in the gospel. (think all the interview questions) and just like the brother of Jared, HF said you figure it out. So JS came up with something involving promises borrowed a little from the Masons which he was familiar with, and came up with the endownment. By doing it for the dead, it forces us to continually keep striving to keep ourselves worthy, and become better. So my own personal feeling is that it has it’s purpose, and it is a good and important thing, but perhaps doesn’t have as much to do with the dead as it is laid out to be. Like one of the previous posters said that there are billions and trillions who would need the work, and how could it be done on earth. And I do think it is good to have ties and understandings of our ancestors. That being said, I don’t frequent the temple, but I do try to keep a recommend and keep myself worthy. This is one of the ways I have made the temple fit into my belief system to make the church still work for me.

then again, it is just the gosple according to ams

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