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Posts Tagged ‘joseph smith’
Tip of the Day, May 23
Posted in May, tagged Alma 42:13, bible, Book of Mormon, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false gospel, God would cease to be God, joseph smith on 05/23/2013 | 1 Comment »
Mormon Dilemma 574
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet, first vision, Heber C. Kimball, Jesus, joseph smith, salvation on 04/30/2013 | Leave a Comment »
False Apostle’s Faulty Memory
Journal of Discourses 6:29; “Do you suppose that God in person called upon Joseph Smith, our Prophet? God called upon him; but God did not come himself and call, but he sent Peter to do it. Do you not see? He sent Peter and sent Moroni to Joseph, and told him that he had got the plates. Did God come himself? No: he sent Moroni and told him there was a record, and says he, “That record is matter that pertains to the Lamanites, and it tells when their fathers came out of Jerusalem, and how they came, and all about it; and, says he, “If you will do as I tell you, I will confer a gift upon you.” Well, he conferred it upon him, because Joseph said he would do as he told him. “I want you to go to work and take the Urim and Thummim, and translate this book, and have it published, that this nation may read it.” Do you not see, by Joseph receiving the gift that was conferred upon him, you and I have that record?” – Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City, November 8, 1857
Proverbs 18:2; “A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.”
Mormon Dilemma 568
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged A New Witness for Christ, false doctrines of Mormonism, joseph smith, Magic, Masonic Lodge, Occult, seer stones, treasure seeking on 04/23/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Treasure-Seeking Ways of Joseph
The following is an excerpt from an interview of Joseph Smith’s father by local journalists. The book A New Witness for Christ in America was written by Francis Kirkham in defense of the Church. Mr. Kirkham was tutored by James Talmage, attended BYU, graduated from Univ. Michigan, went to law school at the Univ. of Utah and even taught at BYU for two years, served 3 yr mission for the Church and wrote a grammar book for missionaries to help them learn Maori.
While living in New York and performing in-depth studies of the Book of Mormon Mr. Kirkham had the opportunity to compile dozens of interviews and articles of Joseph Smith’s family members and contemporaries from New York and Ohio newspapers. The compilation of those papers resulted in Kirkham’s book series A New Witness for Christ in America.
Mormon Dilemma 566
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, body of Christ, Christianity non-existent, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet, Jesus, joseph smith, salvation on 04/21/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity non-Existent Until Joe Smith
Journal of Discourses 2:192; “Every man that will read the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments, will see that there was an organization in the days of Jesus Christ, a system for the salvation of the children of men. It is laid down plainly and definitely for the inhabitants of the earth to follow. But, if we search throughout the earth at this day, we cannot find a system existing that has scarcely any resemblance to the example laid down by Christ and the Apostles. And I will here say that the persecution, opposition, and oppression that this Church has met with from its first organization, have been in a great measure in consequence of carrying out that very system, those very ordinances, that same Gospel which Jesus Christ and his Apostles established in their day, and which cost the most of them their lives.” – Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, February 25, 1855
Philippians 1:6; “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
Mormon Dilemma 565
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Christianity, everlasting covenant, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet, Jesus, joseph smith, Kingdom of God, polygamy on 04/20/2013 | Leave a Comment »
No Polygamy, No Kingdom of God
Journal of Discourses 24:229-230; “He [Joseph Smith] has told us about our associations hereafter. He has told us about our wives and our children being sealed to us, that we might have a claim on them in eternity. He has revealed unto us the law of celestial marriage, associated with which is the principle of plural marriage. This you will see is strictly in accordance with what I have told you Joseph Smith told the Twelve—that if this law was not practiced, if they would not enter into this covenant, then the kingdom of God could not go one step further.” – John Taylor, “Selections from his Discourses delivered in the Various Settlements”
Mark 1:14-15; “Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
Mormon Dilemma 564
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet, Jesus, joseph smith, salvation, Synagogues in the Book of Mormon on 04/19/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Synagogues
Alma 16:13; “And Alma and Amulek went forth preaching repentance to the people in their temples, and in their sanctuaries, and also in their synagogues, which were built after the manner of the Jews.”
Mark 6:2; “And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?”
Mormon Dilemma 563
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged Alpha Omega, bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet, Greek in the Book of Mormon, joseph smith, Nephites, salvation on 04/18/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Alpha & Omega
3 Nephi 9:18; “I am the light and the life of the world. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.”
Revelation 1:8; “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”
Mormon Dilemma 562
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Book of Mormon Jesus baptized in 500 BC, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet, Jesus, joseph smith, salvation on 04/17/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus’ Baptism
2 Nephi 31:7; “Know ye not that he was holy? But notwithstanding he being holy, he showeth unto the children of men that, according to the flesh he humbleth himself before the Father, and witnesseth unto the Father that he would be obedient unto him in keeping his commandments.”
Matthew 3:13-15; “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.”
Mormon Dilemma 552
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Brigham Young, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophets, Jesus is the resurrection and life, joseph smith on 04/07/2013 | 1 Comment »
Joseph Stands as Head of Resurrection
Discourses of Brigham Young, pg 116; “If we ask who will stand at the head of the resurrection in this last dispensation, the answer is—Joseph Smith, Junior, the Prophet of God. He is the man who will be resurrected and receive the keys of the resurrection, and he will seal this authority upon others, and they will hunt up their friends and resurrect them when they shall have been officiated for, and bring them up.”
John 6:44; “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Warren Jeffs and the Residual Fruits of Joseph Smith’s Religion
Posted in Warren Jeffs, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophets of Mormonism, joseph smith, polygamy, Warren Jeffs on 04/04/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight ABC News did a five minute blurb on the power Warren Jeffs still has on his followers in the Mormon polygamist group, Fundamental Latter-day Saints.
Time hasn’t changed or healed the wounds of the heretical teachings of polygamy and neither has it changed the minds of those who grasp tightly onto its slippery past while they try to maintain some sort of normalcy in an insane ideology.
Mormon Dilemma 548
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Brigham Young, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophets, godhood, idolatry, Jesus, joseph smith, polytheism on 04/04/2013 | 14 Comments »
Mormonism & Godhood
Journal of Discourses 10:251; “…it [Mormonism] embraces all truth, wherever found, in all the works of God and man that are visible or invisible to mortal eye. It is the only system of religion known in heaven or on earth that can exalt a man to the Godhead, and this it will do to all those who embrace its laws and faithfully observe its precepts.” – Brigham Young, October 6, 1863, Salt Lake City
Isaiah 44:6; “Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.”
Changes Made to Mormon Scripture???
Posted in Mormonism, tagged bible, changes to LDS scripture, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, joseph smith on 03/02/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Ready or not – here it goes.
The Church changed, er, make that updated, its scripture…again.
Apparently they felt it was time to come out with a new contemporary explanation about race and polygamy. You can witness the changes for yourself on their site.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported the change “includes hundreds of minor spelling and punctuation changes to the holy script, as well as more substantive (though subtle) alterations of chapter headings, study helps and historical descriptions.
Mormon Dilemma 513
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged angel of light, bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, joseph smith, resurrected men, Satan, winged angels, Witchcraft on 02/27/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Angels
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg 162; “…An angel of God never has wings. Some will say that they have seen a spirit; that he offered them his hand, but they did not touch it. This is a lie. First, it is contrary to the plan of God; a spirit cannot come but in glory; an angel has flesh and bones; we see not their glory. The devil may appear as an angel of light. Ask God to reveal it; if it be of the devil, he will flee from you; if of God, He will manifest Himself, or make it manifest. We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.”
Isaiah 6:1-2; “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.”
Mormon Dilemma 508
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, joseph smith, mormonism, Moroni, pride, utah on 02/22/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Pride in Being a Mormon
Discourses of Brigham Young, pg 30; “Take a pride in acknowledging the Savior. Train and educate yourselves until you will take a pride in acknowledging God, the Author of all. Take a pride in the religion that makes you pure and holy, and that produces in the heart of every individual who embraces it a feeling to be truthful in every word he speaks, to be honest in every act he performs, in all his dealings with his neighbors. Take a pride in this and fear not the wicked. 12:326”
Matthew 6:21; “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Mormon Dilemma 507
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged bible, Book of Mormon, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, gold plates, Jesus, joseph smith on 02/21/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Where are the Golden Plates?
Mormon Doctrine, pg. 327; “Moroni deposited the plates in the Hill Cumorah in about 421 A.D., and then as a resurrected being revealed the hiding place to the Prophet on September 22, 1823. Four years later the Prophet was permitted to obtain possession of them, but the actual translation of the portion we now have as the Book of Mormon did not take place until between April 7 and June 11, 1829. Thereafter the plates were returned to the custody of Moroni. (Jos. Smith 2:27-65; D. & C. 27:5; Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, pp. 215-226.)”
Jeremiah 31:33; “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887
Posted in Polygamy, tagged bible, Edmunds-Tucker Act 1887, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, joseph smith on 02/19/2013 | 1 Comment »
The Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887
February 19, 1887
One hundred and twenty six years ago today the US Congress passed an anti-polygamy act – two weeks later (March 3) it would be signed into law.
The Edmunds-Tucker Act became the official law against polygamy in America, giving the government power to seize assets and dis-incorporate the LDS Church. The Church’s refusal to truthfully testify about their polygamous activities and their refusal to stop practicing it had been a thorn in America’s side for over a half century.
Mormon Dilemma 498
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged Brigham Young, false doctrines of Mormonism, God sympathizes with our temptation, joseph smith on 02/12/2013 | 1 Comment »
God was a Sinner Like Us
Discourses of Brigham Young, pg 24; “It must be that God knows something about temporal things, and has had a body and been on an earth. Were it not so, he would not know how to judge men righteously, according to the temptations and sin they have had to contend with. 4:271.”
Hebrews 4:14-15; “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
Mormon Dilemma 497
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged Brigham Young, false doctrines of Mormonism, false teachings, joseph smith on 02/11/2013 | Leave a Comment »
God’s Power
Discourses of Brigham Young, pg 18; “God is the source, the fountain of all intelligence, no matter who possesses it, whether man upon the earth, the spirits in the spirit-world, the angels that dwell in the eternities of the Gods, or the most inferior intelligence among the devils in hell. All have derived what intelligence, light, power, and existence they have from God—from the same source from which we have received ours. 8:205.”
Proverbs 25:26; “A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.”
Mormon Dilemma 493
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged eternal life, false doctrines of Mormonism, immortality, joseph smith, salvation on 02/07/2013 | Leave a Comment »
Eternal Life and Immortality
Easter Thoughts – Marion Romney – Ensign May 1975, pg. 82; “Man’s soul is thus assured of immortality. Christ has completed the first part of his “work and … glory [which he declared to Moses was]—to bring to pass the immortality and [the] eternal life of man.” (Moses 1:39.)
Great is the debt we owe to our Redeemer for our resurrection. But this is not the final goal. Attaining to immortality is a prerequisite to, but it is not necessarily the same as attaining eternal life. Immortality denotes length of life—deathless. Eternal life denotes quality of life—the quality of life God enjoys.”
1 Tim 6:14-16; “That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.”
Mormon Dilemma 491
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, Holy Spirit, indwelling of the Holy Spirit, joseph smith on 02/05/2013 | 1 Comment »
Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
“Helping Others Recognize the Whisperings of the Spirit”, Ensign, November 2009; “One reason we are encouraged to pray and read the scriptures every single day is that both of these activities invite the Spirit into our homes and into the lives of our family members.” — Vicki F. Matsumori
John 15:7; “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
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