Helle aiheuttaa hengenvaaraa! Itse Smithkin kuoli, koska oli kuumuuden vuoksi jättänyt taika-alusasun pois:
"Initiates are told that the garment "will be a shield and a protection to you against the power of the destroyer until you have finished your work here on earth." Today, official Church discourse treats this as a spiritual promise: as a reminder of one's covenants and a token of obedience to God's commandments, the garment serves "as a protection against temptation and evil."
However, the notion that the garment can provide not only spiritual but also physical protection from harm has a long history among the Saints. Just one year after the death of Joseph Smith, members of the Quorum of the Twelve opined that Willard Richards had survived the attack on Carthage Jail because he had been wearing his garment. (Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and John Taylor had removed their garments "on account of the hot weather.")
To this day, stories abound of Saints who have been miraculously saved from harm by the temple garment. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a 1996 feature on Mormons for 60 Minutes, in which hotel magnate Willard Marriott told Mike Wallace of a boat fire that had consumed his pants yet left him unscathed above the knee, where his garment was. As a missionary, I read a typescript account about an elder from that same mission who had been the victim of a drive-by shooting a year before (during the 1990 Gulf War): according to his mother's account, bullets shredded his shirt without piercing his garments, while the only wound he received was from a bullet that hit him below the knee.
D. Michael Quinn observes that stories such as these attribute to the garment the kind of power associated with a magical object such as an amulet. That the stories survive in contemporary Mormonism is an indication of how vividly many Latter-day Saints believe in divine intervention and in the power connected to temple rituals."
"Initiates are told that the garment "will be a shield and a protection to you against the power of the destroyer until you have finished your work here on earth." Today, official Church discourse treats this as a spiritual promise: as a reminder of one's covenants and a token of obedience to God's commandments, the garment serves "as a protection against temptation and evil."
However, the notion that the garment can provide not only spiritual but also physical protection from harm has a long history among the Saints. Just one year after the death of Joseph Smith, members of the Quorum of the Twelve opined that Willard Richards had survived the attack on Carthage Jail because he had been wearing his garment. (Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and John Taylor had removed their garments "on account of the hot weather.")
To this day, stories abound of Saints who have been miraculously saved from harm by the temple garment. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a 1996 feature on Mormons for 60 Minutes, in which hotel magnate Willard Marriott told Mike Wallace of a boat fire that had consumed his pants yet left him unscathed above the knee, where his garment was. As a missionary, I read a typescript account about an elder from that same mission who had been the victim of a drive-by shooting a year before (during the 1990 Gulf War): according to his mother's account, bullets shredded his shirt without piercing his garments, while the only wound he received was from a bullet that hit him below the knee.
D. Michael Quinn observes that stories such as these attribute to the garment the kind of power associated with a magical object such as an amulet. That the stories survive in contemporary Mormonism is an indication of how vividly many Latter-day Saints believe in divine intervention and in the power connected to temple rituals."
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Vanhimmat
Helteillä tulee huolehtia riittävästä nesteensaannista, syömistäkään ei pidä unohtaa ja tietysti säähän sopiva pukeutuminen kuuluu asiaan.
Luoteja eivät alusvaatteet pysäytä, 1800-luvulla ei liene vielä ollut luotiliivejä eli ihan sama mitä profeetta piti tai oli pitämättä yllään/allaan - luoteja hänen vaatteensa eivät olisi pysäyttäneet missään tapauksessa.
Kyse olikin taikavoimasta. Jos Smithillä olisi ollut taikagarmentit, luodit eivät olisi osuneet tai olisivat vain hiponeet vaatteita.