Big Love has overstepped the line! Temple ordinances are not secret they are sacred.
My favorite 1828 Webster’s Dictionary includes the following definitions which are beneficial to remember:
Sacred:
• Holy pertaining to God or his worship. Proceeding from God and containing religious precepts; as the sacred books of the Old and New Testament.
• Relating to religion or to his worship; separated from common secular uses and consecrated to God and his service; as a sacred place; a sacred ay; a sacred feast; sacred service; sacred orders
• Proceeding from God and containing religious purposes; as sacred songs; sacred music; sacred history.
• Removed or separated from that which is common, vulgar, polluted or open, public; accursed is separated from society or the privileges of citizens.
Sacredness:
• The state of being sacred, or consecrated to God, to his worship or to religious uses; holiness; sanctity; as the sacredness of the sanctuary or its worship; the sacredness of the Sabbath; the sacredness of the clerical office.
Mock:
• False, counterfeit; assumed; imitating reality, but not real.
Mockery:
• The act of deriding and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.
• Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things.
• Sport, subject of laughter.
• Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates.
• Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show.
Mocked:
• Imitated or mimicked in derision; laughed at; ridiculed; defeated; illuded.
Galations 6 reads:
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
My favorite 1828 Webster’s Dictionary includes the following definitions which are beneficial to remember:
Sacred:
• Holy pertaining to God or his worship. Proceeding from God and containing religious precepts; as the sacred books of the Old and New Testament.
• Relating to religion or to his worship; separated from common secular uses and consecrated to God and his service; as a sacred place; a sacred ay; a sacred feast; sacred service; sacred orders
• Proceeding from God and containing religious purposes; as sacred songs; sacred music; sacred history.
• Removed or separated from that which is common, vulgar, polluted or open, public; accursed is separated from society or the privileges of citizens.
Sacredness:
• The state of being sacred, or consecrated to God, to his worship or to religious uses; holiness; sanctity; as the sacredness of the sanctuary or its worship; the sacredness of the Sabbath; the sacredness of the clerical office.
Mock:
• False, counterfeit; assumed; imitating reality, but not real.
Mockery:
• The act of deriding and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.
• Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things.
• Sport, subject of laughter.
• Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates.
• Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show.
Mocked:
• Imitated or mimicked in derision; laughed at; ridiculed; defeated; illuded.
Galations 6 reads:
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.