🕊️ The Temple Written on Stone vs. The Temple Written on Hearts
🕊️ The Temple Written on Stone vs. The Temple Written on Hearts
There are moments when the deepest questions rise to the surface.
Not in debate.
Not in argument.
But in quiet wondering: What is the temple really for?
Is it marble and chandeliers?
Or is it the Spirit of the Lord dwelling in us?
💎 A House as Beautiful as a Temple
The Lord has blessed many of us with homes that feel sacred. People walk in and say, “It feels like a temple in here.”
But what makes it so?
Not the granite. Not the fixtures.
It’s the Spirit.
It’s the love between husband and wife.
It’s the prayers whispered in the kitchen and the kindness shown to children.
The Nemenhah Records say the temple is not a single place — it is wherever the Peacemaker is welcomed:
“The temple is the heart of the home, where love is written, where ordinances are written not on tablets of stone but upon the flesh of the heart.” (Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn 1)
📜 Joseph, Hyrum, and the Records
One of the translators of the Nemenhah Records has told how Joseph and Hyrum were once shown these very writings — the ancient temple traditions of the People of Promise.
They saw how beautifully the ordinances were taught there.
And they recognized the pattern.
Our modern LDS endowment echoes some of these things — but in many ways it feels thinner, less alive. Where the Nemenhah temple records are filled with warmth, love, and the presence of the Peacemaker, our ordinances often reduce to signs and tokens without the same living breath.
🌹 Chastity: Fear vs. Love
Take the law of chastity.
In the LDS temple it is phrased simply:
❌ Do not commit sexual relations outside of marriage.
It’s true. But it is also narrow.
In the Nemenhah temple, chastity is presented in a far more loving way:
“Let your love be faithful, that joy may be full in your house. Let your union be holy, not by fear of transgression but by the abundance of peace.” (Mohrhohnahyah 8)
It’s not just about don’t.
It’s about do.
Do love faithfully.
Do let your marriage be a sanctuary of joy.
Do make your covenant a living well of peace.
That is temple law written on hearts.
📖 The Witness of Scripture
The Book of Mormon warns that ordinances and works are empty unless they bring us into the presence of Christ:
“He commandeth all men that they must repent, and be baptized in his name… and if they endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.” (2 Nephi 31:11, 20)
And Paul taught plainly:
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16)
Ayahtsuhway (the Peacemaker) said in the Nemenhah:
“You may build with stone, you may adorn with gold, but unless your house is filled with my love, it is no temple to me.” (Second Tsi Muhayl 8)
🌿 The Temple for the Living
I love going to the temple. There is light there. There is peace.
But the day I realized I could take that same light and love home with me was the day that changed everything.
We are meant to be the temple.
Our homes are meant to be filled with His Spirit.
Our marriages, our families, our daily lives — this is where ordinances become alive.
The Nemenhah Records remind us that in the last days, many will become entangled in “dead works” — endless rites for the dead — while forgetting that the temple was always for the living:
“The temple is for the living. If you make it a house for the dead, you build without me. But if you make your heart a sanctuary, I will dwell there forever.” (Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn 1)
The temple was never meant only for a future resurrection.
Its purpose was to bring the presence of the Lord to us today.
✨ The Living Temple
So yes, I love the temple. It has blessed me with light.
But the greater truth is this:
We are the temple.
We are the place where His Spirit longs to dwell.
Not someday, not only beyond the veil — but here, now, in this very life.
And when our homes and our hearts are filled with Him, we will already be standing in His holy house.
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