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Wearing the garment is viewed as "an outward expression of an inward commitment" to follow Jesus. [16] The garments contain four embroidered marks over the breasts, the navel, and the right knee, each of which has symbolic meaning to serve as reminders to the wearer of covenants made as part of the endowment.
To members of the LDS Church, the temple garment represents the sacred and personal aspects of their relationship with God. Church president Joseph F. Smith taught that the garment was to be held as "the most sacred of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life."
Mormon temple garment underwear for men (left) and women. [6] Adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and some Mormon fundamentalist groups often receive temple garments at the time of receiving their endowment, after taking part in the endowment ritual. These religious undergarments are to be worn at all times ...
The modern LDS Church does not use the cross or crucifix as a symbol of faith. Mormons generally view such symbols as emphasizing the death of Jesus rather than his life and resurrection. [43] The early LDS Church was more accepting of the symbol of the cross, but after the turn of the 20th century, an aversion to it developed in Mormon culture ...
Jen, of course, is referring to Mormon temple garments, an item worn "under the clothing that has deep religious significance," per the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The garments ...
The temple garment has been compared to the modern tallit katan, a sacred undershirt of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Both the temple garments in Mormonism and the tallit katan are meant to be worn all day under regular clothing as a constant reminder of the covenants, promises, and obligations the wearer is under. [102]
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In addition to the golden plates, the Book of Mormon refers to several other sets of books written on metal plates: The brass plates , originally in the custody of Laban , containing the writings of Old Testament prophets before the Babylonian exile , as well as the otherwise unknown prophets Zenos , Zenoch , Neum , and possibly others.