Posted by:
SEcular Priest
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Date: July 21, 2014 07:10PM
Yep, Stake primary kids 8 and over who are baptised can go on the Stake Primary Temple Baptism Day. I have problems with this.
1. They are doing work for "dead people." Children are coming to grips with life and death issues as part of growing up. I see this a problem because it focuses on death rather than life.
2. What 8 to 12 year old really knows what baptism is really about as a doctrinal issue? So baptism becomes something less important.
3. Starting children at a young age going to the temple will not make it as important. When something becomes too common, people tune out.
So I am trying to make sense of wht the Church is doing this?