Christ is Christ, and just like God, the rules stay the same. Just like Christ was baptized, we too must be baptized. If we want to take it further, we make the covenants in the Temple.Finrock wrote: ↑January 22nd, 2018, 10:25 amI recognize that ordinances are just a way to help people come unto Christ or to receive Christ. Ordinances are a means, not the end. The law is a schoolmaster. If you adhere to the law in spirit and live the principles that the law points to in sincerity, then you will be lead to Christ and will receive Him. I don't doubt that at all. But at the same time many people who are not Mormon and who don't live under the law have received Christ. While many Mormons who live the law with determination and vigorously, in the end know nothing of Christ. We can see it manifested in their works and in who they are. It is the results that matter. The analogy was not about ordinances, it was about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Ordinances change, temple ordinances change, baptism ordinances change, how we implement principles has and will likely change in the future. But, the principles of Christ do not change and Christ is eternal. A person, regardless of their social group or background, who is filled with the pure love of Christ will in no wise lose their reward, whether they received this charity through the school master or through the circumstances of their life, the result in the end will be the same. Christ is Christ.drtanner wrote: ↑January 19th, 2018, 9:18 amPretty safe to say this is exactly what President Nelson is saying, confirmed by the fact that no other modern prophet has ever outlined an alternative way to receive ordinances and make covenants with the Lord when there is a temple on the earth and modern scripture also confirms that fact.Affirming something doesn't necessarily deny something else.
If you believe there are other ways in our day to receive ordinances and make covenants with God outside of the temple that is inconsistent with the teachings of every single prophet of the restoration.
Ordinances are not like diet and exercise.
Have you experienced something that leads you to believe differently or know someone who claims they have? Or are you just saying anything is possible? Why do you disagree?
-Finrock
There isn’t another way. That is why we do the covenants by proxy for those who have died and have not received the covenants.
President Nelson’s announcement was held at the Salt Lake Temple. Symbolic for a reason.