What we get wrong about the endowment

[Nofear]

A nice faithful discussion from Keystone that covers a lot of topics. What we mean by "endowment", changes that occurred, context of some of the more controversial things (e.g. penalties, vengeance, freemasonry, gender asymmetry, etc.). I suspect many will find it quite enjoyable. Others, perhaps not so much (we have some here on this board who to this day lament some of the recent ceremony changes).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9fmwbPX-AY

Edited September 9, 2025 by Nofear

[bluebell]

50 minutes ago, Nofear said:

A nice faithful discussion from Keystone that covers a lot of topics. What we mean by "endowment", changes that occurred, context of some of the more controversial things (e.g. penalties, vengeance, freemasonry, gender asymmetry, etc.). I suspect many will find it quite enjoyable. Others, perhaps not so much (we have some here on this board who to this day lament some of the recent ceremony changes).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9fmwbPX-AY

I've started watching it.

[MustardSeed]

Thank you. It looks like a very interesti interview. I will watch it today.

[MustardSeed]

I finished a little more than the first half. It is a much more hopeful message than the message that I received most of my life in the church. I’m not sure how to feel about that.

[Nofear]

14 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

I finished a little more than the first half. It is a much more hopeful message...

I remember the second half being even more so.
 

14 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

... that I received most of my life in the church. I’m not sure how to feel about that.

Some try to hold that we received the Truth unvarnished and more complete in the first instance and that decay has been the only real consequence since then (kind of a creedal Christendom perspective we inherited). My perspective is that we know and understand the Gospel better than at anytime in humanity's past ... and we still have a ways to go.

 

Edited September 11, 2025 by Nofear