The Angel Moroni Statue on the Washington D.C. Temple by Scupltor Avard Fairbanks

[@landijunior]

Thanks for sharing your beautiful story.

[@novawarren5074]

Lovely statues Thank you for sharing all you have, hope you continue.❤️🙏

[@elisabethgood]

Thank you for sharing this marvelous story. I look so forward to my visit.

[@jihanjoo]

Thank you, Galen, about the lovely stories about your grandfather. Michelangelo also deliberately sculpted David with a slightly warped proportion (e.g., bigger head) because it was originally supposed to sit atop the roof of a cathedral and he assumed that people would be looking at it from below.

[@ghstrdio]

Magnificent!

[@jesuschristlives2724]

Cool! DC is my temple.

[@SUD_SUD_MORMON]

THANK

[@tanyas.3812]

You look so much like him. Do you sculpt also? I took a sculpture class at the Community College, and found that I could sculpt!

[@kevinhullinger8743]

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

[@astrangerhere]

So every painting ("likeness") of Christ, or any paintings of the sea, the mountains, clouds, the sun or moon (these are, after all, "likenesses" of things in the earth and above it) should all be burned. Taken further, all portraits of people would fall in this category, since we are all on the earth, and any paintings of us are "likenesses" of us, including famous statues of figures such as America's Founding Fathers, or the famous "David" statue just for a couple examples. Let's not forget the angelic tree=tops that many people put on top of Christmas trees, or Nativity scenes that many people display, often including a tiny sculpture of the newborn Babe, along with various Christmas and Easter pageants with a depiction of Jesus, animals, and other people.......I could go on, but that's probably sufficient to get the point across that yanking a random scripture from the Bible as an attack, without putting any other thought into it, usually fails miserably.

[@kevinhullinger8743]

@@astrangerhere if you understood the biblical context its about worshipping graven images.

[@astrangerhere]

@@kevinhullinger8743 I do understand the biblical context. Studied the Bible through and through. If you understood the church, you would know that members do not worship the angel whose figure adorns the steeple of some temples. I barely remember it's there half the time as I walk into the temple to worship God.

[@kevinhullinger8743]

@@astrangerhere i know quite a lot about the LDS & angel Moroni. If you read the bible then you should have read this truth. Galatians 1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!

[@astrangerhere]

@Kevin Hullinger You know "quite a bit," eh? From where? Did you spend any significant time attending LDS services? Read any publications? Talk to actual LDS members about what they believe? Or did you, as is typical, just find a bunch of hate-filled internet sites from where you got your "information?" If I was a betting man I'd go with the latter. Also, you didn't address the initial question at hand that I responded to - the issue of the angel statue that you erroneously believe we worship. So... as is a typical response from you people, YOUR interpretation of holy writ and YOUR beliefs are the "correct" and everyone else is wrong. Do I have it?

[@hollayevladimiroff131]

I believe this would be called idolatry, I would much rather see a statue of Jesus Christ!!

[@thomaspearson1919]

Read the top comment..

[@thomaspearson1919]

Big M never existed..