Temple confusion

[semodex]

So a few days later with lots of prayer and contemplation and I feel much better. Thanks to everyone who posted. I found this on another forum site (wished I could have thanked the original poster): Our religion..

"clearly describes what salvation will be like...it gives other religions exactly what they expect and promise to their adherents-eternal life with Jesus in an unmarried state without progression toward Godhood...At the same time it holds forward an even higher degree of salvation-life with God and eternal progression-hence the additional ordinances of the Temple.

After reading what everyone had posted, everything just clicked. Thank you...

[The_Phoenix]

A lot (most?) of what's in the Temple is symbolic. You're right, signs and tokens and clothing don't matter... except to point us to the Savior. Any more than eating a piece of bread and drinking a dinky little cup of water each week has nothing to do with Salvation, except that they point us to the Savior. The symbols (which is what the Sacrament, and the Temple ceremonies are) aren't, in and of themselves, important; it's what they represent (the Atonment, and preparing to enter the Precense of the Lord). They aren't what save us, but they serve to draw us closer to He Who Does.

Keep going to the Temple. Talk with your Bishop. Maybe buy some books from Deseret Book on the subject. Going through the Temple can be overwhelming. It's nothing like our Sunday services. It takes bit of time to adjust to being immersed in such a symbolic ceremony when we're used to a very literal world.

Very well stated. :)