Looking around for a quote the other day proved to be an interesting experience as I came across a talk given by LDS apostle George Q. Cannon. Just like his counterparts who trick people, he blathered on with lies about the body of Christ and didn’t provide any evidence for his damning accusations.
Our dilemma today and for the next day or two is a multi-part series as we look at this talk to compare it with historical facts, but most of all the Bible.
Fake Christianity?
Journal of Discourses 24:185 – 186; ‘I do not wish to say anything in relation to other forms of religion; I do not know that it is necessary that I should do so; but no thinking man can admit that Christianity so-called—I call it a false Christianity, untrue to its name—satisfies the wants of humanity at the present time.’
Since the beginning of time the world has engaged in the worship of false gods. It began with Adam and Eve, went on through the days of King David, the Middle Ages and on up to the 21st century.
The presence of false teachers doesn’t mean Christianity is fake! This man has completely rejected the New Testament and specifically what Jesus told His disciples in John chapters 14-17. Here’s a promise from this passage –
John 14:16-18; “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
Devoid of Power?
‘It is not a religion that satisfies. I comes short in almost every particular. It is devoid of all the powers that characterized it and gave it force in the early days. You look in vain for those features that distinguished it, and that gave it power in the earth, and that made it the foe of Paganism and false religions existing in those days, and which gave it the wonderful success it achieved. It is destitute of these features.’
Besides Joseph Smith and other leaders of Mormonism, specifically, who doesn’t it satisfy?
Have they asked any Christians about this?
Specifically, what powers of Christianity are missing today?
Tomorrow we’ll see how they’ve accused God of abandoning His children. For now we have to ask the question; why would Jesus die if He knew this would happen?
wait… you mean to tell me that Mormons started “bashing” Christians before Christians began calling Mormonism a cult???
Oh, that’s right – I knew that. Uncle Joe started that first.
It’s interesting that they’re not citing examples of doctrines, giving verse references… kind of like the “We believe the Bible insofar as it is correctly translated…”
And then not citing examples from the Greek and Hebrew to show what verses are not translated correctly…
It’s all a smoke screen to get people into the cult, and once in, keeping them from thinking critically so they stay in the cult.