February 4 — Journal of Discourses 2:345-346 “This explains the mystery. If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds. But the attributes of Deity are one; and they constitute the one God that the Prophets speak of, and that the children of men in all worlds worship.
One world has a personal God or Father, and the inhabitants thereof worship the attributes of that God, another world has another, and they worship His attributes, and besides Him there is no other; and when they worship Him they are at the same time worshipping the same attributes that dwell in all the personal Gods who fill immensity”. – Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, February 18, 1855
Twenty-five years earlier Joseph Smith didn’t agree in the BoM and said this… Continue Reading »
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January 3 — Just a quick thank you to everyone who prayed for us while our unexpected guests showed up!
Kirk and I were able to share many things with the two young men.
Here’s a synopsis of what we talked about — Continue Reading »
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I’m going to make this real quick!
2 male missionaries are at my door and have been here for 1/2 hr.
one is from Utah the other from NC. Thanks, and God bless!
Michelle
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February 2 — Colossians 3:9 “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds”.
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Our post today comes courtesy of an ex-Mormon, Carl, who’s training to become a pastor! PTL!
As he was looking over his copy of an 1830 Book of Mormon, he immediately realized the contradictions of what he’d been taught as a child growing up in Mormonism.
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Mosiah 3:11 “For behold, and also his blood atoneth for the sins of those who have fallen by the transgression of Adam, who have died not knowing the will of God concerning them, or who have ignorantly sinned.” Continue Reading »
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February 1 — Ether 9:34 “And it came to pass that the people did follow the course of the beasts, and did devour the carcasses of them which fell by the way, until they had devoured them all. Now when the people saw that they must perish they began to repent of their iniquities and cry unto the Lord”. Continue Reading »
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“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”. 1 Timothy 2:5 [emp. added]
January 31 — Ensign, ‘Joseph Smith among the Prophets’, June 1994 “To be sure, we worship the Father in the name of the Son; Christ our Lord is the way to the Father, and his is the only name under heaven whereby man can be saved. But, as we have seen, the dispensation head is the preeminent prophetic revealer of Christ. Thus, to bear witness of Joseph Smith is to bear witness of Jesus Christ, who sent him, in the same way that a testimony of Christ also implies clearly a testimony of the Eternal Father, who sent Him. On the other hand, to deny Joseph Smith outright—…—is to deny the Lord, who sent him.
Jesus told his disciples that “he that despiseth you despjiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me” (Luke 10:16)…” — Robert L. Millet Continue Reading »
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January 30 — Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 81 “To “try” is weak. To “do the best I can” is not strong. We must always do better than we can”. – Spencer W. Kimball Continue Reading »
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“…Hell is a kingdom of glory.” — Dallin Oaks
January 29 — In April 2007 PBS aired the documentary ‘The Mormons’. It highlighted a short bio of the Church which included clips with those in the know of Mormon history. Helen Whitney interviewed Dallin Oaks who at the time was an LDS apostle. None of the things he said were new but it’s always shocking to me how blatantly wrong they are about the Lord and His word.
To read the interview click on link above.
Today we’re looking at a few of the things Mr. Oaks had to say about his church. Continue Reading »
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January 28 — Messenger and Advocate, Vol. 1, No. 5, February 1835, p 78 “…and it is only necessary for me to say that while this excitement continued he continued to call upon the lord in secret for a full manifestation of divine approbation and for to him the all important information if a supreme being did exist to have an assurance that he was accepted of him.” Continue Reading »
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1 John 3:1 ‘Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.’
January 27 — Today isn’t the normal Mormon quote of the day. We’re moving out of our comfort zone based on the Lord’s promptings.
My first question today is this –
Remember the day you were saved?
Do you recall how dramatically it changed your life?
Do you live with that much enthusiasm every day?
Do others know about it?
A favorite pastime for our family is visiting Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. Four city blocks stretching across nine acres are filled with indoor vendors selling anything from fresh fish and flowers to fruits and vegetables and even floor to ceiling teas and spices from all over the world. There’s really no other place like it! Continue Reading »
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January 26 — Ether 1:43 “And there will I bless thee and thy seed, and raise up unto me of thy seed, and of the seed of thy brother, and they who shall go with thee, a great nation. And there shall be none greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed, upon all the face of the earth. And thus I will do unto thee because this long time ye have cried unto me”. Continue Reading »
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January 25 — Doctrine and Covenants 82:7 “And now, verily I say unto you, I, the Lord, will not lay any sin to your charge; go your ways and sin no more; but unto that soul who sinneth shall the former sins return, saith the Lord your God.” Continue Reading »
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January 24 — Doctrine and Covenants 90:2-3 “Therefore, thou art blessed from henceforth that bear the keys of the kingdom given unto you; which kingdom is coming forth for the last time. 3 Verily I say unto you, the keys of this kingdom shall never be taken from you, while thou art in the world, neither in the world to come”. — March 8, 1833 Continue Reading »
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January 23 — Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 354 “All the fools and learned and wise men from the beginning of creation, who say that the spirit of man had a beginning, prove that it must have an end; and if that doctrine is true, then the doctrine of annihilation would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house-tops that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all. God himself could not create himself.” [emp. added]  Continue Reading »
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January 22 — Doctrines and Covenants 3:2-3 “For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round. 3 Remember, remember that it is not the work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men”. – July 1828 Continue Reading »
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Dictionary.com defines the word fact as “something said to be true or supposed to have happened”.
January 21 — All are Alike Unto God, August 18, 1978 “Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world.
We get our truth and our light line upon line and precept upon precept. We have now had added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. They don’t matter any more.
It doesn’t make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year, 1978. It is a new day and a new arrangement, and the Lord has now given the revelation that sheds light out into the world on this subject.” — Bruce McConkie Continue Reading »
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January 20 — 1 Nephi 11:34 “And after he was slain I saw the multitudes of the earth, that they were gathered together to fight against the apostles of the Lamb; for thus were the twelve called by the angel of the Lord.” Continue Reading »
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History of the Church, 4:461 (28 November 1841); “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” – Joseph Smith, Jr. [emp. added]
January 19 – Just like anyone else, whenever I read the Church has made changes to the Book of Mormon, I think about Smith’s claim noted above. If it was so perfect, why did it need a revision? And so it was, when I came across two noteworthy items in the Sunstone Magazine.
The Church’s revision about the Lamanites will always be a prime example of why the Book of Mormon isn’t true. Anytime you make excuses for and ultimately change the entire narrative for why your book is inspired of God, you’ve created a huge credibility problem for yourself.
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January 18 — Liahona and Ensign, November 2012 “The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our ancestors who are waiting for our help. Through our efforts in holy temples here on earth using the authority delegated by the Savior, our progenitors receive the saving ordinances that allow them to enjoy eternal happiness.” —Richard G. Scott, “The Joy of Redeeming the Dead” Continue Reading »
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‘…And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.’ Acts 11:26
January 17 — Liahona and Ensign, November 2012 “A Christian has faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the literal Son of God, sent by His Father to suffer for our sins in the supreme act of love we know as the Atonement.
Through the scriptures and the witness of Joseph Smith, we know that God, our Heavenly Father, has a glorified and perfected body of flesh and bone. Jesus Christ is His Only Begotten Son in the flesh. The Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit whose work is to testify of the Father and the Son. The Godhead is three separate and distinct beings, unified in purpose.
With these doctrines as the foundation of our faith, can there be any doubt or disputation that we, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are Christian?” — Robert D. Hales, Being a More Christian Christian Continue Reading »
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February 4 — Journal of Discourses 2:345-346 “This explains the mystery. If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds. But the attributes of Deity are one; and they constitute the one God that the Prophets speak of, and that the children of men in all worlds worship.
