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FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In order to gain permission to enter sacred temples built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one must be baptized into the Church and interviewed by a bishop of the Church. During this interview, the bishop will ask several questions of the interviewee to determine whether or not that person is worthy to enter the temple. One of these questions asks if the person is a full-tithe payer or a person who gives 10% of their income to the Church.
The temples and the ordinances performed therein are believed to be necessary for individual exaltation.
Some critics have asked if this practice, of requiring that someone be a full-tithe payer prior to being deemed eligible to enter the temple, is a form of “spiritual blackmail” and making someone “pay their way into heaven”.[1]
This question was thoroughly addressed by David Snell of the YouTube channel Saints Unscripted in a segment of that show they call Faith and Beliefs. We encourage readers to view their more than adequate response.
Clearly this practice has more to do with sizing up the conditions of your heart in preparation for exaltation rather than extorting money.
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