Acts 17:11; “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
“25 years ago today – Sep 27, 1991 – Elder Neal A. Maxwell, speaking at the FARMS annual banquet, tells his listeners,
“The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology,” Dialogue, Vol.26, No.1; “Joseph [Smith] will go on being vindicated in the essential things associated with his prophetic mission. Many of you here, both now and in the future, will be part of that on-rolling vindication through your own articulation. There is no place in the Kingdom for unanchored brilliance.
Fortunately, those of you I know are both committed and contributive. In any case, ready or not, you serve as mentors and models for the rising generation of Latter-day Saint scholars and students. Let them learn, among other things, submissiveness from the eloquence of your example. God bless you!”” – Lavina Fielding Anderson
1 Thessalonians 5:21; “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
Imagine sitting in that room listening to a leader of your church who’s highly admired, and telling you that come what may, you have to be submissive.
What would you do?
Would you obey?
Reject the teaching regardless of who taught it?
Would you stand up and walk out?
Acts 5:41; “And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.”
Dear Mormons, Jesus loves you so very much! He wants for you to know Him, and invites you to study His word to learn more about Him! 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us scripture is inspired of God and written for your benefit to study, for correction, and for instruction.
This means His words trump whatever someone else has to say.
The Mormon reference listed today is an essay written by Ms. Anderson where she gave 136 examples of how the Church has either publicly, or privately, chastised its members and placed injunctions against many of them.
Sometimes actions against Mormon ‘intellectuals’ were done so on rumors taken out of context, which afterwards were reinstated if found to be innocent. Other people were thrown under the bus, as they say, and left to fend for themselves.
The closing statement in Ms. Anderson’s article was very telling. It gives the reader great insight as to the love and devotion these people have for their church.
p.64 “Consequently, as I hope for forgiveness, so must I offer it. And I do. We must mutually acknowledge our pain, whether intentionally or unintentionally inflicted. We must ask for and offer forgiveness. We must affirm the goals of charity, integrity, loyalty, and honesty that are foundational in the gospel. Such forgiveness, such acceptance hold the promise of movement toward a Christlike community.”
At one time I had that type of love and adoration for the Church. That was, until.
Palm Sunday, March 27, 1993 was a game changer. God convicted my heart and asked me whom I loved more. The Church, or Him. Before that time I had never thought of it in those terms. I had been investigating their teachings in my private diaries, however, the question Hs posed to me on that day had never crossed my brainwaves.
There’s just one question in the takeaway of all this. In the image on the left is a a very large, over sized cross. It sits on a hill just on the ouskirts of Big Fork, Montana that you can’t miss as you drive out of town. On the cross is a pointed question –
He died for you, Will you live for Him?
Each of us has to answer that question in our lifetime because once we’re face to face with Him, the time for questions is over and done with.
We’re praying Mormons will answer affirmatively!
{ Imagine sitting in that room listening to a leader of your church who’s highly admired, and telling you that come what may, you have to be submissive.}
Lets look at what you want me to submit to if I were to follow you away from the Restored Church into a reformed church.
Can you can show me someone that had the power and authority of Peter, James and John to adjust God’s Word. Adjustments that add “Mandatory Submissiveness Expected” definitions to His Word in the Bible.
Can you prove that these mandatory creeds were of God and not of good men doing their best to try and define what Jesus taught?
After all, you teach I must submit to the proper creeds; just like you submit to them.
The pagan polytheism of Mormonism is clearly evident from “Lesson 21-Man May Become Like God.” The fascist proclamations of the uninspired Mormon hierarchy are merely side-effects of a devil-inspired cult. All a rank-and-file Mormon has to do to know that Mormonism is of the devil is to read what has been acclaimed by a 20th Century LDS First Presidency as canonized Mormon scripture and commandments, in “Lesson 21.” Mormon apologetics have been designed and tuned to immediately refute any statements by Christians against Mormon theology, doctrine, and history. These deceitful people, such as Jeff Lindsay and Michael Griffith, are paid by the Mormon Church for their heretical apologetic efforts, and they like to inundate Christian minds with a lot of convoluted rhetoric that is intended to confound instead of explain. They, like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, get confounded by the lies they tell about the convoluted heresies of Mormonism. But the bottom-line is that they cannot possibly refute what the Mormon Church extolled, and sought to hide, in 1984; the last 20th Century statement of real Mormon polytheistic theology, the inexorable restatement of Joseph Smith’s 1844 King Follett Discourse and Lorenzo Snow’s perverse refinement of it in the late 1890s, which contradicts what the Mormon missionaries fraudulently tell their investigators to persuade them that Mormonism is Christian, and which even contradicts the Book of Mormon, the key-stone of the Mormon cult.
As Jesus said, a pure fountain cannot produce bitter and sweet water. Mormonism is impure and produces all kinds of impurities because it is a man-made organization that Satan has used to lead Christians astray into a false accursed gospel. If anyone reading this wants a PDF copy of “Lesson 21-Man May Become Like God,” especially Mormons who would like to know the truth, please contact me at email address .