Scottie wrote:Tidejwe wrote:liz3564 wrote:Tidejwe wrote:bcspace wrote:Don't forget that the wife is also a Goddess.
Heh, this reminds me of a Stake President who announced in Stake Conference that "Goddess" was false doctrine and is never used by the Lord, or the scriptures, or the prophets (as he claimed). From what I got out of the rest of his discourse, he was inferring that Women will be "Gods" and they shouldn't be referred to as a "Goddess" because there is no such things. Silly Mormons and their semantics...then again...even God plays semantics, so it's not surprising His followers do too.
Um, considering that the term, Goddess, is used as part of the temple ceremony, I would say that the Stake President is all wet, unless he feels that the temple ceremony was not inspired by God.
Actually, it's not used in the temple at all. Most people think they heard it said there, but it's not. They only say Queen and Priestess in the temple. I remember I checked all older versions as well just to be sure and sure enough it was never said. :)
Did you check the washing and annointing and the sealing prayers as well, or just the endowment?
Bapt, Initiatory, Endowment (all versions), Sealing, and second anointing. The only one that even mentions Godhood is the Second Anointing, and it says the following:
[The officiator anoints the wife's head with oil. The officiator then lays hands on the wife's head and ordains her a queen and a priestess to her husband, to rule and reign with him in his kingdom forever.]
[The officiator pronounces upon the wife additional blessings as the Spirit directs. Typically, she is blessed to live as long as life is desirable; to receive all the blessings of the everlasting priesthood; to be an heir to all the blessings sealed upon her husband; to be exalted to her husband's exaltation; to have ministering angels to attend her; to attain to Godhood; to have posterity without end; and to be sealed up to eternal life.]
As it says they bless her to attain Godhood...I suppose the officiator could potentially (of their own accord) say "Goddesshood" but then I haven't noticed any such examples. Perhaps they exist.