Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophets, George Cannon, mormonism, polygamy on 04/26/2013 | 1 Comment »
Journal of Discourses 23:280; “…Whatever men’s laws may be we cannot deny the truth of God, the revelations of God. I cannot do it, I would be damned and go to hell if I were to do it….” – George Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City, October 8, 1882
So did George Cannon go to the Celestial Kingdom or not?
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged bible, Brigham Young, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false teachings of Mormonism, Jesus, Joseph F. Smith, questioning leaders is good, salvation on 04/18/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Brigham Young once said; “How easy it would be for your leaders to lead you to destruction, unless you actually know the mind and will of the Spirit yourselves. That is your privilege. And when you testify in this public congregation, or in your prayer meetings, testifying of the things of God that you know and understand, you are at liberty to speak freely upon those things which you believe.” – Journal of Discourses 4:368, Salt Lake City, June 28, 1857
And likewise his counterpart LDS prophet Joseph F. Smith said, “We talk of obedience, but do we require any man or woman to ignorantly obey the counsels that are given? Do the First Presidency require it? No, never.”Journal of Discourses 16:248, Salt Lake City, October 7, 1873
While doing research I came upon the quotes above which gave me pause…
I don’t recall receiving this type of reaction from anyone in the Church when I began openly questioning my heritage. Do you? As a matter of fact the more I openly questioned, the more I found myself being pushed away by teachers and fellow Mormons. The sad part about this scenario is that I’ve found I’m not alone.
I received another e-mail this morning from a brand new ex-Mormon Christian who will hopefully be sharing her testimony here soon! PTL for her salvation!
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged Alma, bible, Book of Mormon, false doctrines of Mormonism, false gospel, false prophet Joseph Smith, George Washington, Jesus, Revolutionary War, salvation on 04/16/2013 | Leave a Comment »
You probably saw this title and thought “Wait a minute – what?!?”
That’s what I thought as I was reading some letters of George Washington written during the time he led this country to its independence.
I confess, I’m obsessed with the history of wars. My true love of war history is my obsession with all things that have to do with WW2 and Hitler, but the Civil and Revolutionary Wars hold a close second.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged Alma's conversion to Jesus, bible, Christianity, false doctrines in the Book of Mormon, false prophecies in the Book of Mormon, Jesus, Paul's conversion to Jesus on 04/03/2013 | 2 Comments »
I’ve often wondered how many Mormons are familiar with the conversion story of the Apostle Paul. I wonder if they know he authored thirteen of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament (some credit him w/ Hebrews making it fourteen).
I wonder if they’re aware of who he was as Saul of Tarsus and who he became as Paul the Christian missionary. I know that as a Mormon I’d never heard of him. I hadn’t spent the time to discover Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus, nor did I know he was beheaded in Rome for declaring the gospel.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged bible, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, Life After Ministries, mormonism on 04/01/2013 | 2 Comments »
I know it’s odd to read anything from me in this type of format! Yikes! I thought it was needed to explain the postings for the past few days.
Typically I have my postings written up to a month in advance and then post them automatically to the date I need/want them to be read.
About ten days ago I came down with a cold and while battling that I had a severe reaction to seasonal allergies. While I love all the gorgeous pink blossoms on flowering cherry and plum trees in my area, they cause me and my sinuses a great deal of grief. To complicate matters I have MS – no boring days in my life! Without going into ad nausea detail I need to be well for my treatments and this is where you come in!
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged 500 BC, bible, Christianity, Ether 6:5-11, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jaredites sail to America in 2, Jesus, salvation on 03/18/2013 | 4 Comments »
Living in Seattle affords me the blessing of having an abundance of seafood, namely halibut. The downside to living near any fresh halibut is that you only have two seasons; summer and winter. Summer begins on the 5th of July and lasts all the way to mid September in warm years. Woo-hoo! All joking aside, in addition to Boeing, Microsoft and Amazon this area is known for shipping and sailors and if you stick around long enough you’re sure to learn a little about the latter. After living in the Pacific Northwest for twenty years I’ve learned how long it takes to get from the Port of Seattle through the Behring Strait to Alaska or to one of my favorite hideaways in the San Juan Islands.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged bible, Catholicism, Jesus, lds church, new pope, whore of the earth on 03/16/2013 | Leave a Comment »
1 Nephi 14:10; “And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth.”
As the world watched the chimney at the Sistine Chapel puff out its white smoke signaling Catholics worldwide had a new pope, the LDS Church responded with a congratulatory smoke signal of their own.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet Joseph Smith, Jesus, Only Begotten on 01/07/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Jesus as the Only Begotten
Are We the Literal Spirit Children of God?
Conference Report, October 1854, Afternoon Meeting, pg 123-124; “We believe that he is our Father in heaven, literally; that we are his spirit offspring; that we dwelt with him in the pre-existent eternities, were taught by him, saw his face, knew of the terms and conditions that apply to the plan of salvation, and desired with an overwhelming longing that we, his spirit offspring, might progress to the state where we would have glorious bodies, and would attain the state of exaltation he then had.” – Bruce McConkie
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged families are forever, marriage for eternity on 11/10/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Wives Remarrying
If Mormons are married for all time and eternity in the Church why isn’t it considered adultery for a wife to remarry for time when her husband dies?
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged false prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith's First Vision, nine versions of Smith's first vision on 11/09/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Joseph Smith’s First Vision
Mormonism today is not what it was when Joseph Smith founded it. While the Church prides itself on receiving continuing revelation, there’s something to be said about being truthful in the process.
Several questions must arise in the minds of anyone with a vested interest of the Church and this goes for those contemplating the contradictory history of the Church to TBMs (True Blue Mormons).
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, LDS Church congratulates Pope on 11/05/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism; Are You Kidding Me?
On the LDS Church’s Newsroom website I came across the following message and had to wonder why…
“Following the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the First Presidency issued the following statement:
“We join with men and women of goodwill everywhere in congratulating Cardinal Ratzinger on his election as Pope Benedict XVI.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged anti-Mormons, bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, salvation on 10/18/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism; If Christians are anti-Mormon, are Mormons anti-Christian?
I signed up for Google-Alerts a few years back so I could get a heads up on top Mormon issues every day.
Now every morning when I download e-mails I keep seeing reports throughout the world of “anti-Mormons” doing this or that and how they’re out to get those un-offending Mormon people.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged abortion and the Mormon Church, bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet Joseph Smith, General Conference Oct 2012, Jesus on 10/11/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism, Ministries, and Abortion
Today I read with interest on the Salt Lake Tribune’s website some of the highlights from the LDS Conference that took place this past weekend (October 6-7, 2012).
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55035771-78/church-mormons-faith-oaks.html.csp?page=1
The apostle Dallin Oaks urged members to stand up for what they believe in along with others who might not be of their own faith.
Posted in Mitt Romney 2012, Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, Presidential Debate 2012, salvation on 10/05/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mitt’s Mormonism and the Presidential Debate
Yesterday Melissa alerted me to something Mitt Romney said in the debate earlier this week.
Here in part is what Mr. Romney said;
“We’re a nation that believes that we’re all children of the same god and we care for those that have difficulties, those that are elderly and have problems and challenges, those that are disabled. We care for them.”
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, Mormon converts, Mormons converting Christians, wolves in sheep clothing on 10/05/2012 | 4 Comments »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Mormon Converts
This is a re-post and clarification of original article posted yesterday (Oct. 4, 2012)
Tonight while searching the net for a project I’m working on, I came across one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in a long time.
While the Mormons are out touting the story that they’re just like everybody else here’s what they’re saying behind your backs as Christians.
Welcome to Mormonism my friend.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophets, Jesus, joseph smith, polyandry, polygamy on 09/21/2012 | 3 Comments »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Stealing Wives
I’ve been working on another addition to Polygamous Leaders in Mormonism and began wondering about the validity of Joseph Smith’s prophetic calling from God.
Now if someone wants to claim they’ve found a new religion and a new god based upon what they believe is the way to heaven I really wouldn’t care if he or she says you need x amount of spouses to get to heaven or you need to do a certain amount of work. It’d make my heart sad they believe this and I’d want to share the truth with them, but really I wouldn’t be up in arms about it.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged Christianity, Divine Gift of Gratitude, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet Thomas Monson, Gal. 5:22-23, grace, Holy Spirit, salvation on 09/19/2012 | 1 Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Gratitude or is it Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Today I received an e-mail from the Church. A few years back I signed up to receive daily inspirational quotes from past and present LDS leaders and while they usually provide me with enough subject matters to witness to Mormons with, I thought I’d share this one with my readers.
There are times when we read the quotes of these leaders and have to wonder where they get their ideas from. Okay, okay I know it’s not the Lord, but I mean really, where do they get these ideas??? What is going on in those heads of theirs that opens their minds to some of this stuff?
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged ABC News and Mormonism, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet Joseph Smith, Jesus on 08/24/2012 | 1 Comment »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and ABC News 2
Unfortunately as I thought, part two of ABC News’ piece on the Mormon Church didn’t really do justice to what the true LDS Church is really like. And to me this is disappointing because if I’m watching the news for truthful information I’d like to spend my precious time learning something new.
While I wasn’t expecting to be blown away I was hoping they would at least tell the truth about what Mormons really believe. I’m not sure I understand why they didn’t ask them who they thought Jesus was or how many of the Mormon population is actually temple worthy.
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged ABC News, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus on 08/23/2012 | Leave a Comment »
I try to be fair – I really do!
But tonight I just finished watching ABC News and their report on Mormonism. After a brief intro of how Joseph believed he saw the Father and the Son in a grove of trees, they posed three questions:
1. Why all the secrecy?
2. What do they believe?
Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophets, Jesus, Mormon e-mails, salvation on 08/21/2012 | 3 Comments »
Thought of the Day about Mormonism and Mormon E-mails 2
After I got done with a meeting I had this afternoon I took a quick look at my post about the Mormon e-mail and realized I hadn’t included what I had intended to write to Shane – yikes!
I wrote Shane back and apologized. I got sidetracked and didn’t pay attention to what I was doing because I’m in a hurry today – ugh… I should never be in that big of a hurry!!! So here’s the follow up and please, pray for him won’t you?
