Comments on: Can I be a saviour?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:02:37 +0000

as noted above, last lemming explained correctly. It’s not as if you are a literal Savior, but a savior in the sense that you are helping doing work for those that can’t do it for themselves. By helping fulfill one part of the 3 fold mission of redeeming the dead, you are bringing to pass the work and the glory of bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that Latter-day Saints are to become saviors on Mount Zion. He explained:

â€œHow are they to become saviors on Mount Zion? by building their temples, erecting their baptismal fonts, and going forth and receiving all the ordinances . . . upon their heads, in behalf of all their progenitors who are dead, and redeem them that they may come forth in the first resurrection and be exalted to thrones of
glory with themâ€ (History of the Church, 6:184; see also obadiah 1:21).

By: Sugel

Sugel — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:50:37 +0000

The prophet, Elijah, often stayed at her home (he and his servant). One day, Elisha sent his servant to ask the woman what Elisha could do for her. She asked for nothing. Elisha then called the woman to him and gave her a prophesy. He told her that she would have a child. Her husband, it is said, was old. But, indeed, she had a child, and the child grew up. One day, the child got sick and died. The woman laid the child on Elishaâ€s bed. Why? The child was dead. Did she expect a miracle? She then went with haste to the home of Elisha. After hearing her, he offered for his servant to take his staff and go and lay it on the child. She would not leave Elisha until he consented to go. Did she expect a miracle? It seems so. Did her making a special room for Elisha and his servant (where he could rest as he ministered in that area), have anything to do with her miracle? I wonder!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:03:25 +0000

I would suggest the following book for the origin of the phrase.

â€œChapter 41: Becoming Saviors on Mount Zion,â€ Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, (2007),468â€“478

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low carb bread recipes — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:57:01 +0000

I dont know what word you are trying to be but im sure if you try real hard you can be it. Life in a dictionary is boring though.

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stop smoking — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:06:54 +0000

i think also last lemming saying right

By: HeidiAnn

HeidiAnn — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:13:12 +0000

Last Lemming is correct.

By: Last Lemming

Last Lemming — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:54:17 +0000

It’s not one of my favorite phrases, but “saviors on Mount Zion” has a very specific meaning in the Church. It simply refers to those who perform temple work on behalf of others, and, by extension, those who submitted the names. It does not imply that their contribution is comparable to that of Christ–he is The Savior (with no “Mount Zion” tie). But it is necessary for the salvation of those folks, so the term is not inaccurate. (As for Mount Zion, I interpret it in this instance as a reference to temples in general, not to the millennial New Jerusalem.)

I think it is important that we never shorten the phrase, but instead treat it as if it were a single word. If you can come up with a single-word replacement, I say go for it. I checked the scriptures, assuming the phrase appeared somewhere in the D&C, but the only instance is in Obadiah and its link to temple work is tenuous at best. Joseph Smith used the phrase in an address and it has stuck ever since. But being essentially noncanonical, I think it could be replaced. (Saint Bernards would be my candidate, but some would find that too Catholic, and there are WoW implications with the brandy kegs and all.)