2 Chronicles 20:7; “Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?”
Ensign, FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE, ‘True to the Faith of Our Forefathers,’ July 2016; “To be a Latter-day Saint is to be a pioneer…they often must leave behind old habits, longtime customs, and cherished friends. Some make the agonizing decision to leave behind family members who oppose their Church membership. Latter-day Saints move forward, however, praying that precious ones will yet understand and accept. …
As we seek to build Zion in our hearts, in our homes, in our communities, and in our countries, may we remember the resolute courage and abiding faith of those who gave their all that we might enjoy the blessings of the restored gospel, with its hope and promise through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
President Monson tells a story about one pioneer family and then quotes President George Albert Smith: “Will you live true to the faith of your ancestors? … Strive to be worthy of all the sacrifices [they] have made for you.”” – Thomas Monson
Genesis 12:1; “Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.”
When I read Mr. Monson’s talk the first thing I thought of was God’s admonition to Abraham. He told him to gather up his stuff and get out. He then told Abraham to leave his father behind and the kinfolk, and keep hoofin’ it until He told him he had arrived.
What did Abraham do? Well, he kinda sorta, obeyed in a half hearted way. It’s like he was doing a little bit while trying to fly under the radar without getting noticed. Guess what? God noticed.
You see, Abraham took along dear ol’ dad, and he took along a nephew that he had to drag out of Sodom and Gomorrah, just for good measure.
Never mind the fact the meaning of Terah’s name (Abraham’s father) means ‘delay’, and the land (Haran) they stayed in means ‘parched’. And ignore the meaning of Sodom which is ‘scorched’, or Gomorrah which means ‘a ruined heap’.
None of these things seemed to bother the man everyone knows as ‘God’s friend’, the father of the faith. Did it mean he was a bad guy? No, certainly not!
What it did was cost him precious time and trouble in the places he decided to meander into and set up camp. In other words, Abraham seemed to be sending out mixed messages by living one way when God told him He had something better in mind for Abraham.
Which brings us to Mr. Monson’s talk, ‘True to the Faith of Our Forefathers’. His talk was very heartwarming from the outside… However, looking at the inner workings of Mormonism’s forefathers tells a much different story.
Like Abraham, Monson’s ancestors weren’t worshiping the God of the Bible, so why would he tell millions of his adherents to follow them? Monson has direct access to all the writings, talks, and historical documentations of his forefathers. He knows whom they were worshiping, and he knows what the Bible says.
Yesterday we also saw how the blessing of the Mormon atonement was a trick. The Church claims Jesus died for them, but they still have to work for their salvation, and God sees our work for our own righteousness as filthy rags. Again, how is this a blessing???
I like the clear way you wrote this It’s a glossed-over story that looks good from the outside. If one doesn’t know the Bible, or the rest of Mormon doctrine, it sounds good. Like the outside look of bakers chocolate, it looks inviting; however, bite into it and it’s terribly bitter.
If you have ever closely perused the Mormon “Book of Abraham,” written by the charlatan Joseph Smith, Jr., you will discover a sneaky rewrite of the Holy Bible’s Book of Genesis, wherein Smith attributed the idea of the making of a lie to the real God of Israel. You know, in Genesis 12: 11-13, where Abram, later Abraham, was afraid that the Egyptian’s would kill him if they knew that Sarai was his wife, and asked her, himself, to say that she was his sister, instead of the truth. Smith, in the “Book of Abraham,” Chapter 2: 22-23, attributed the lie to God, and left out the rest of the story about the result of the lie, where Saria was taken from Abram by the Egyptians to the Pharaoh and the great plagues that resulted from God on the house of Pharaoh because of the lie; as Pharaoh had made it plain in he Bible that if Abraham had just told the truth, he would not have taken her from Abram.
This is just one aspect of the fraud behind the Mormon “Book of Abraham.” Every Mormon canon scripture is inundated with fraud and corruption in their origins. Thomas Monson wants the rank-and-file Mormon Church population to “cling to the old ship,” the traditions of the deceived pioneers of Mormonism, as Simon Southerton, the Australian ex-Mormon bishop and microbiologist who wrote “Losing a Lost Tribe. . .” was told by the stake and general authorities in Australia in the early 2000s. Monson has sold his soul to Satan, just like the other 100+ Mormon general authorities, and doesn’t care beans about whether the Mormon father-gods they worship are of human pagan origin. You see, because Monson believes that the Jesus of the Holy Bible was not totally God and totally human at the time he was born of a virgin, he clandestinely venerates a Mormon Jesus that was not born of a virgin mother, but as naturally as he, Monson, was born sexually as a purely biological entity. Monson won’t admit this basic Mormon theology publicly, with the fervent belief that he will one day be a chief ruling Mormon father-god, with a capital G. He will only venerate it in secret conclaves of the Mormon Melchizedek Priesthood in pagan Mormon temples.
“Lesson 21-Man May Become Like God,” from the 39-Lesson 1984 LDS Melchizedek Priesthood Study Guide, “Search These Commandments,” is incontrovertible proof and evidence that the ultimate destiny of every Mormon elder, who is deemed worth, is to become as great as the Mormon father-god, with a capital G, who began his existence as a human man on a planet somewhere in the cosmos. “Lesson 21 clearly states that every worthy Mormon elder has a destiny of becoming a Mormon father-god, with a capital G, to achieve that equal greatness, and of creating an earth (world), and savior, just like Jesus. Every Mormon elder will create his own version of Jesus, which makes the Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible just another savior in a long, long line of saviors. Without saying it, this is what Monson wants Mormon elders and their wives to do, to venerate the gods, with a capital G, that have preceded the current Mormon father-god, with a capital G, and that will come after the current Mormon father-god, with a capital G. Yet, in his testimony of the canon LDS theological and doctrinal features of the Mormon Church, Monson, or any other Mormon elder (Monson is currently the head-honcho of all Mormon elders), won’t mention the ultimate destiny of all Mormon elders and their wives, per “Lesson 21.” This makes Monson, and all other Mormon elders in the know, just lying Mormon suits bent on deceiving the Christian world into believing that Mormonism is Christian.
The following is a very good example of the sophistry produced by the Mormon Church hierarchy through, non-contextual use of biblical scriptures, in order to convince their rank-and-file members that “man has the potential of becoming, and being as great as, the everlasting changeless God, for which there is no beginning or end. The following is from the LDS.org website:
“New Testament passages also point to this doctrine (that man may be like God). When Jesus was accused of blasphemy on the grounds that “thou, being a man, makest thyself God,” He responded, echoing Psalms, “Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus commanded His disciples to become “perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”7 In turn, the Apostle Peter referred to the Savior’s “exceeding great and precious promises” that we might become “partakers of the divine nature.”8 The Apostle Paul taught that we are “the offspring of God” and emphasized that as such “we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.”9 The book of Revelation contains a promise from Jesus Christ that “to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
The perfection of the Holy Bible is proven by its inner-connectedness and contextual usage of scripture to provide an entire understanding of what is stated by all of the inspired writers. In the reference that the Mormon Church hierarchy makes to Jesus statement in John 10:34, ” I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High,” they purposely don’t refer, in context, to what David wrote about the writing of Ezekiel, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.” In Ezekiel 28: 2, the prophet wrote “Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your heart is lifted up And you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas’; Yet you are a man and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God. . .” By understanding the full and complete context of John 10:34, the sincere seeker of truth can clearly see that Jesus was not telling the Jews that they were gods, or deities, but, rather, rulers among the people. The use of the word “gods” in John 10:34, was to mean mortal rulers, or those Jews who preside over the people. In saying that the Jews were also children of the most High was to assure them that He, Jesus was, and is, their true God, and that the Jews were his children, despite how prideful and arrogant they were.
The Mormons are good about taking single verses out of context and building pagan doctrines around them; such as 1 Cor. 15:29. “Else what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?” The Mormons have taken this one verse and built a doctrine of vicarious baptism for the dead with a bunch of Joseph Smithery to make it appear acceptable to the gullible rank-and-file Mormon. Baptism for the dead is mentioned only one time in the Holy Bible, and the mention of it in 1 Cor. 15:29 does not in any way define it. Only two questions are asked by Paul, which he does not choose to answer, as though he saw this practice being done, didn’t approve of it, and went on to another topic; for he goes on in verse 30 to mention that “we stand in jeopardy.” The whole ball of wax revolves around whether Joseph Smith was a real prophet, and we know he wasn’t; so his concoction was not of God, but of the devil.