have the Temple Recommend Questions been changed?

I tried looking them up, didn't see anything official.


-Did they water down the honesty question (to: Do you strive to be honest) instead of the "Are you honest..."


If they changed/diluted that, it's a serious lowering of the bar.

Are you planning to go to a Mormon temple, I would not, And I have never been to one. I knew there was something creepy about them when I was younger, so one a Mormon once revealed the way they dressed, I got sick to my stomach and knew I was right from the being. I spared myself the drama.

I would love a redo of my recommend interview. I would go in flowing white robes with an acolyte swinging a censer, another acolyte as a holy scribe, maidens with large palm fans on each side. I would answer every question with a piercing gaze and a serene, "Thou sayest."

Love the way you put that!

Clearly Mormons lie a lot in their temple interviews and worthiness interviews which only goes to show they only care what the Bishop and the other Mormons think and not what their supposedly Heavenly Father thinks or what the Holy Ghost who is supposedly is going to report back. Which means Mormons don't really believe/know, they are just succumbing to peer pressure. Which brings me back to what you said: The questions don't matter.*



*Unless you are twelve or thirteen and the Bishop traumatizing you with the nasty stuff.

Even to the point that my cousin, who I had to get my marriage TR from, wanted to postpone my wedding because he knew something was wrong, but I wasn't going to tell him my future husband is gay as, for one thing, my parents weren't supposed to know and I had been told not to tell anyone. My "husband" sailed through his TR interview because the bishop knew the whole story as he was still in the singles ward.

I had moved home to get away from the situation and I was dating someone else (who my "husband" was afraid I'd marry, so he decided to get married).

I only had one more TR interview. Never went back.

From what I can tell, they just changed a few words. Nothing of great importance. The bishops will still add on what they want to as they always have.

I always wondered how TR holders who were employed for the casinos could answer the questions, especially about honesty, with a straight face. Same thing for the bishops asking them the questions.

valkyriequeen Wrote:
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> I always wondered how TR holders who were employed
> for the casinos could answer the questions,
> especially about honesty, with a straight face.
> Same thing for the bishops asking them the
> questions.

I think that many members compartmentalize their experiences. If you're a used car salesperson or a nurse, then you're expected to follow a set script and that's part of the job. They think that as long as you're doing your job then being honest with your fellow man doesn't matter.

Nurses tend to tell people that injections won't hurt. Used car peddlers claim that every used car runs great.



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I can lie and say almost anything when I'm upset and angry. I started having a more difficult time with the lying for the lord's church. It was pressure from the top to demand impossible results (like setting a baptismal goal of 15 people when you were only teaching 5 people). As ward clerk, I went head-to-head with the bishop when sacrament attendance dropped from 175-180 to 155-160. Statistically, it was a no brainer. Four large sized families left the area. That was about 20 people. Bishop wouldn't accept it and blamed me and poor reporting. I finally gave in and copied the stats from the previous year, BUT it bothered the heck out of me. We had other fights over what the SLC database showed and what he thought about it. I worried about it until I realized the church was a fraud and it really never mattered.

ChurchCo is like a crooked business or mobster, they know that exposing the real story would hurt them;


I became aware of this after showing bishop my wife's blatantly / obviously False-Deceptive divorce financial statements, he immediately made excuses for her then again approved her TR.


but, 'of course', THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!

The new recimmend questions are:

https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2019-10-06/general-conference-october-2019-temple-recommend-questions-163456

Number 10 is the most important

1. Do you have faith in and a testimony of God, the Eternal Father; His Son, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Ghost?

2. Do you have a testimony of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and of His role as your Savior and Redeemer?

3. Do you have a testimony of the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ?

4. Do you sustain the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the prophet, seer, and revelator and as the only person on the earth authorized to exercise all priesthood keys?
Do you sustain the members of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as prophets, seers, and revelators?
Do you sustain the other General Authorities and local leaders of the Church?

5. The Lord has said that all things are to be “done in cleanliness” before Him (Doctrine and Covenants 42:41).
Do you strive for moral cleanliness in your thoughts and behavior?
Do you obey God’s law of chastity?

6. Do you follow the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ in your private and public behavior with members of your family and others?

7. Do you support or promote any teachings, practices, or doctrine contrary to those of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

8. Do you strive to keep the Sabbath day holy, both at home and at church; attend your meetings; prepare for and worthily partake of the sacrament; and live your life in harmony with the laws and commandments of the gospel?

9. Do you strive to be honest in all that you do?

10. Are you a full-tithe payer?

11. Do you understand and obey the Word of Wisdom?

12. Do you have any financial or other obligations to a former spouse or to children?
If yes, are you current in meeting those obligations?

13. Do you keep the covenants that you made in the temple, including wearing the temple garment as instructed in the endowment?

14. Are there serious sins in your life that need to be resolved with priesthood authorities as part of your repentance?

15. Do you consider yourself worthy to enter the Lord’s house and participate in temple ordinances