1 Enoch 1:2; Community Rule (1QS) initiation
Enoch seals words for a distant generation; Qumran withholds the community’s counsel from outsiders until covenant.
Sacred withholding is biblical and Jewish. Exposé culture is not.
Anti-Mormon Claims
Anti-Mormon Claimstempleendowmentsecrecy
“Secret” Temple Rites
Why are temple ceremonies secret if they are from God?
Bible
The Bible answers
Bible · Matthew 13:11
KJV + NRSVUEIt is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom. Not everything is a press release.
King James Version
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
NRSVUE
He answered, 'To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.'
Book of Mormon
Also restored
Doctrine and Covenants 124:40–41
Ordinances hidden because they were lost — not because they are dark.
Let this house be built unto my name, that I may reveal mine ordinances therein unto my people; for I deign to reveal unto my church things which have been kept hid from before the foundation of the world.
Ancient witnesses
Dead Sea Scrolls and related extra-biblical texts that illuminate the same pattern the Restoration restores.
Faithful answers
Gospel Topics
Temples
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The endowment teaches the plan of salvation and binds us to keep commandments. Clothing, names, and presentations are not a different gospel; they are a deeper cut of the same one. Critics who post illicit recordings are not doing journalism. They are violating a confidence Jesus Himself practiced with the Twelve.
The Holy of Holies had a veil for a reason. Holiness is not the same as a cover-up.
- Purpose of temples is published; the ordinance is guarded.
- Matthew 13 already distinguishes public parable from given mystery.
- Covenant privacy is older than Nauvoo.
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