July 7 – Jeremiah 14:14; “Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart”.
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Christ started His church by telling Peter that ‘upon this rock I build my church’. Matt. 16:18. However, here in the book of Mosiah in 145 BC, the prophet Joseph Smith claims that the church was started by Alma. Two other items of interest would include the church having a high priest. Hebrews chapters 9 & 10 say the Jesus is the only high priest. Also, church is a Greek word, so why is it being used in the times of the Old Testament?
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“And now, Alma was their high priest, he being the founder of their church”. Mosiah 23:16.
In Jeremiah 14:14 the word “Divination” really stuck out to me. That was what got Joseph Smith into a lot of trouble with the law and his neighbors before he became founder of the church. I
If you study Joseph Smith’s life, you can see that at some point he was going to claim to have found something of supernatural origin (plates).If he hadn’t claimed to have found the plates, have would have eventually claimed to have been abducted by Aliens from Mars, given a ride in their spaceship, personally introduced by the Martians to Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster.
He had a flawed character that was driven by fantasy, greed, narcissism and a special need to be worshipped