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Born Into The Covenant

I was born under the covenant as my parents were both sealed members of the church. Something I always wondered though, does being born under the covenant or having to be later sealed to your parents make any difference in your spirituality? A member was saying last Sunday that they felt it made a difference and that she felt more protected than someone who was not born under the coveneant.

Covenant The Born

Nephi:

How does one measure this? If you're born under the covenant you have no ways to compare your feelings of before/after. To compare with others is usually always wrong, imo.

I can not say whether a person is born under the covenant or not, simply by hearing or watching him/her.

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If you want to be special then you keep the commandments and be a servant. A covenant is just a contract, it does no good if there is no action on it.

Covenant The Born

I was not born into the covenant, my parents were sealed in the temple when I was 4 years old. My parents were strong and active in the church. I feel that because my parents kept their covenants; I have had the extra strength and protection from that covenant throughout my life.
The covenant is the same whether you were born into the covenant or received the covenant later on. To me, saying that being born into the covenant is better is like saying that your repentance is better than mine because of the timing of the repentance. I think that the Lord will not make a distinction like that.
My belief is that we will be judged for our own faithfulness and obedience, our parents may have got us started on the right path and protected us but in the end the strength and protection given to us is predicated on our own obedience to the covenants that we make in the temple.

Covenant The Born

We believe in the church that as we keep the commandments we gain blessings. (this we have Faith in every day). So I have to assume those that were married in temple, and had kids in the covenant, were blessed a little more to those that weren't. I don't think this affects anything LONG term, but I think it would affect those for that time frame. (I can explain that more if needed)

With that said, I think probably a bigger blessing (if there can be such a thing) is a baby blessing. Usually those born in the covenant would get a baby blessing. Compare to those that don't. I have to at least have some small amount of faith that a baby blessing does actually help the child getting the blessing. (Compare to one that doesn't get a blessing). If I have no faith in that, then there is no point in giving or getting a baby blessing.

Yes, every blessing is still based of off faithfulness. I have to assume sense this done by the power of the priesthood, that those that gain that child blessing does have at least a little extra protection. Now maybe there are things others can do, that make up for these blessings, I don't know. The thought process of how Faith and priesthood and blessings all work, it makes a little sense.

Edited: tubaloth on 28th Nov, 2008 - 6:15pm

Born Into The Covenant

I think the idea 'better' comes from the fact that those BIC have those blessings from the time they are born (which is better for your family, right?). Once you have them though, they are the same. One person is not better off because they received the blessings sooner.

I think of my own family on this. Me and my siblings were born into the covenant. A few of my sibs have strayed from the church. Despite not being active members, there are certain blessings my parents get for them because of being sealed in the temple. If my parents were sealed after my sibs left the church, my sibs would not have those blessings unless they came back and were sealed to my parents. Once they did, though, I would consider them to have the same blessings because of their current faithfulness.