Friday, December 8, 2017

Firm foundation

If the whole gospel is true, it cannot be completed without Temple ordinances. And temples need solid foundations or they cannot last.

I love it when a thing is said and fits perfectly but had no inkling even that it would be seen as such. What such stories tell is truth. It is a thing that happens between two objects and may not be explained in words, but can be applied through metaphor to other things without the truth even ever being spoken of. I suspect this is why Jesus taught in parables.

The Salt Lake temple was painstakingly built over 40 years and much, much sacrifice. At one point the foundatiom needed to be burried and when it was uncovered it was observed that there were tiny fractures in the foundation, a hard choice had to be made.

All of the sacrifice to lay that foundation had to be abandoned because the temple was going to be a edifice that represented God's place among us. It would simply not  stand for the necessary time, unless it was form, which means that it needed to be rebuilt.

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