Protect me from evil

[_zeezrom]

You know how church ordinances were supposed to protect you from temptation and evil? I would like to propose a reason why that teaching might be unhealthy.

Let's say you undergo some ordinance like baptism, endowment, priesthood ordination, etc. A year later, you yield to temptation. What is to prevent a person from feeling even much worse about his infraction than if he had never had the ordinance in the first place? What is to stop the person from feeling like there is something wrong with himself because the ordinance didn't protect him? The ordinance didn't protect him because he is ultra-bad. Like, worse than the bad you see in non-Mormons. Hopeless.

[_just me]

I've seen it. It ain't pretty. Someone very close to me feels unworthy and it makes me so sad.

[_LDSToronto]

You know how church ordinances were supposed to protect you from temptation and evil? I would like to propose a reason why that teaching might be unhealthy.

Let's say you undergo some ordinance like baptism, endowment, priesthood ordination, etc. A year later, you yield to temptation. What is to prevent a person from feeling even much worse about his infraction than if he had never had the ordinance in the first place? What is to stop the person from feeling like there is something wrong with himself because the ordinance didn't protect him? The ordinance didn't protect him because he is ultra-bad. Like, worse than the bad you see in non-Mormons. Hopeless.

Perhaps guilt is the mechanism that protects Mormons.

H.

[_Drifting]

You know how church ordinances were supposed to protect you from temptation and evil? I would like to propose a reason why that teaching might be unhealthy.

Let's say you undergo some ordinance like baptism, endowment, priesthood ordination, etc. A year later, you yield to temptation. What is to prevent a person from feeling even much worse about his infraction than if he had never had the ordinance in the first place? What is to stop the person from feeling like there is something wrong with himself because the ordinance didn't protect him? The ordinance didn't protect him because he is ultra-bad. Like, worse than the bad you see in non-Mormons. Hopeless.

Perhaps guilt is the mechanism that {controls} Mormons.

H.

FIFY