One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.
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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.
In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.
Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.
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