I have been told many times that within the LDS temple, you hear greater things from God.
Does God operate that way?
For the first time in my life, the first phrase of Isaiah 45:19 has pierced my heart with the open manner of the one, true God and his manner of teaching amidst idolatry.
This phrase is like a bombshell exploding in my soul. This amazing God is so open in his clear instruction, which is so completely straightforward and sufficient for all.
This is incredible. Absolutely incredible. I have lived in Southeastern Idaho almost all my life. And yet I feel like a pioneer discovering things for the first time in this major prophetical book called Isaiah.
God’s words are all right there, friends. Way out in the open for everyone to hear.
Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. I am ready to skip and laugh and play in all that beautiful snow falling today in Idaho Falls. If you see someone out there stumbling like a St. Patrick drunk. That is me. Drunk with joy.
“In the LORD have I righteousness and strength”
In Jehovah, I have complete justification.
Talk about glory. I glory in Yahweh. No gods like this God. From eternity past to eternity future. Anytime. Anywhere.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 
I don’t see why the existence of a private sphere of Mormon worship means that God is “speaking in secret.” I haven’t heard any teachings in the temple that were not available elsewhere.
There is much evidence that God speaks to man both openly to many, exoterically, and in sacred spaces to a few, esoterically. Why would God speak in secret to some? Because the others have not made themselves worthy of what he has to say. Why did Christ often speak in parables? So the worthy would understand and those unworthy would not. Matthew 7:6 –
Anyone who makes themself worthy of God’s sacred spaces may enter therein and partake of the revelations that He gives only to his covenant people.
Didn’t Christ speak in parables so that those not yet ready would not understand?
Todd are you trying to prove that Protestantism has no sensible arguements against the church?
Paul stated that the gospel was taken from Israel because they didn’t have the faith to understand it. Yet Moses must have had it to offer it to them in the first place.
Christ taught greater truths to the people who followed him around (as demonstrated in the Sermon on the Mount) than he did to the Jews.
Christ told his apostles to keep things secret until after he was gone.
We learn line upon line, precept upon precept as we are ready – given meat in due season.
I haven’t heard any teachings in the temple that were not available elsewhere.
That is the first time I have heard that Seth. Your statement needs to be placed in all the temple literature.
If you want to talk symbols and tokens. Yeah, we don’t reveal those. But the doctrines behind them aren’t secret in the least. In fact, they are boldly preached in public with frequency. The secrecy behind the forms or vehicle is purely a matter of creating “sacred space.” The doctrines and teachings of the temple are not secret and never have been.
Thank you Seth R.
People need to hear comments like this more often so they do not mis-understand the difference between Secret and Sacred.
Oh, I think it’s secret.
But in this case, it is the secrecy that keeps it sacred.
Quite true, Seth. Too often, we hear Mormons say that the temple is “sacred, not secret,” which is really not accurate. Making that false distinction—however ‘nuanced’—probably just makes us sound that much more secretive and cultish.