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Lies Told by Mormon Leaders

The other day I received an LDS Gem via e-mail and I have to say that it got me moving quick. It’s not often I have that reaction, thus my response here. The topic for their daily gem was “exhort them to pray”.  I thought hey that’s pretty cool, let’s take a look!

http://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/02/exhort-them-to-pray?lang=eng&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:%20youthgems%20(Gems:%20Youth%20Gems)

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Follow the Prophets

Conference Report, “Follow the Prophets”, Oct. 1981, pp. 90–91; “If we really do love God, then indeed we must and we will love and revere his anointed ones… Of his faithful servants the Lord has said: These are they who overcome by faith. Wherefore, all things are theirs and they are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. These are they whose names are written in heaven, where God and Christ are the judge of all. These are they whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all.” – Mark Petersen

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March 24 – Luke describes the Virgin Mary to his readers as such:  “And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women”.  Luke 1:28.

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True Converts

Teachings of the Living Prophets Student Manual, Truly Converted Latter-day Saints Sustain the Prophets; “Now I want to impress this upon you. Someone has said it this way, and I believe it to be absolutely true: ‘That person is not truly converted until he sees the power of God resting upon the leaders of this church, and until it goes down into his heart like fire.’ Until the members of this church have that conviction that they are being led in the right way, and they have a conviction that these men of God are men who are inspired and have been properly appointed by the hand of God, they are not truly converted.” (In Conference Report, Apr. 1972, p. 118; or Ensign, July 1972, p. 103)” – Harold B. Lee

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Questioning?

General Conference, October 2004; “Some people exalt themselves above God and His annointed servants because of their learning and scholarly achievements. We must never allow our intellect to take priority over our spirit. Our intellect can feed our spirit and our spirit can feed our intellect, but if we allow our intellect to take precedence over our spirit, we stumble, find fault, and may even lose our testimonies.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

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March 23 – John 1:18; “No man hath seen God at any time…the Only Begotten Son hath declared Him”.

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Mind Control? 

Favorite Quotations from the Collection of Thomas S. Monson, pg. 71; “There is no greater responsibility in the world than the training of a human soul.”

Like we’ve said so many times before, it’s the job of the Holy Spirit that does the transforming of the soul, not people. To believe you have that much power is a lie you’ve convinced yourself of possessing.

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Tricking the Unsuspecting

Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, pg. 87; “Do we realize to what extent the world has descended into spiritual darkness? It begins in a large measure with many of the clergy, some of whom now cast doubt on the existence of God, questioning the divinity of the Savior and denying the truthfulness of the Bible.”

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March 22 – Hosea 11:9; “…for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst…”

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Forgiveness

Today I was thinking about forgiveness in the Mormon Church and if you’re a Mormon how do you obtain forgiveness.  One of the easiest places to find concise definitions of what Mormons believe is in the study topics of their website.  So today this is what we’ve looked at to coincide with the topic of forgiveness for murder in Mormonism.

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Murder is Forgiven in Some Mormon Scriptures

3 Nephi 30:2; “Turn, all ye Gentiles, from your wicked ways; and repent of your evil doings, of your lyings and deceivings, and of your whoredoms, and of your secret abominations, and your idolatries, and of your murders, and your priestcrafts, and your envyings, and your strifes, and from all your wickedness and abominations, and come unto me, and be baptized in my name, that ye may receive a remission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my people who are of the house of Israel.”

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March 21 – Jer. 17:9; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

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Favorite Quotations from the Collection of Thomas S. Monson, pg. 56; “Most church workers are like a clock:

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Baptisms for the Dead not Necessary

Alma 34:32-35; “…that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world… ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his,… and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked.”  (See also 2 Ne 9:38 and Mosiah 2:36-39)

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March 20 – Gen. 9:4; “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”

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Joseph Smith Greater than Isaiah & Moses 

Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 7; In thirty nations are men and women who look upon him as a greater leader than Moses and a greater prophet than Isaiah; his disciples now number close to a million [the present figure is over 3.5 million]; and already a granite shaft pierces the sky over the place where he was born, and another is in course of erection over the place where he is credited with having received the inspiration for his Book. (John Henry Evans, op. cit., introduction.)

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Families are Forever – Really?

“In “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles proclaim that “marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for eternal destiny of His children.” When a man and woman are married in the temple, their family can be together forever. This is a common goal of Latter-day Saints…The covenant of eternal marriage is necessary for exaltation….After receiving the sealing ordinance and making sacred covenants in the temple, a couple must continue in faithfulness in order to receive the blessings of eternal marriage and exaltation.”

http://www.lds.org/study/topics/marriage?lang=eng

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March 19 – Numbers 14:25; “(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley).  To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea”.

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Decrees of God Unalterable

Alma 41:8;Now, the decrees of God are unalterable; therefore, the way is prepared that whosoever will may walk therein and be saved.”

 Mormon Doctrine, pg. 527;In all past ages and until recent times in this dispensation, the Lord did not offer the priesthood to the Negroes. However, on June 1, 1978, in the Salt Lake Temple, in the presence of the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve, President Spencer W. Kimball received a revelation from the Lord directing that the gospel and the priesthood should now go to all men without reference to race or color.”

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Mormons and Masons

Encyclopedia of Mormonism, pg. 1018; Many visitors came to view the new city, and efforts to promote cultural and intellectual exchange increased. Joseph Smith and about 1,500 other Church members joined the Masonic lodges in Nauvoo and nearby Keokuk and Montrose to promote fraternal relations (see Freemasonry in Nauvoo). However, once again the old settlers outside the Church clashed with the LDS settlers, and hostilities grew.

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