Posts Tagged ‘baptism’
The July 2016 issue of Friend, a Mormon periodical for teaching children, includes an article entitled “Your Path to Heavenly Father.” The article presents a game to teach children to recognize the “necessary steps” to salvation or to going back to Heavenly Father, and to distinguish those steps from other mundane activities such as biking or reading. Here is the list of “steps to salvation”:
- Premortal life
- Get a body
- Be baptized
- Receive the Holy Ghost
- Take the sacrament
- Keep the commandments
- Go to the temple
- Be sealed to your husband or wife
- Be resurrected
Strikingly, the list says nothing about repenting of one’s sins or putting faith in Jesus Christ as one’s Savior. Instead, the “steps” are all about undergoing rituals and following rules. Read the rest of this entry »