Hope in Jesus v People

 March 16 – Hope in Jesus v People. Colossians 1:5-6 “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth.”

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Only our sweet Jesus knows the number of times the scenario in Colossians has played itself out in history. Mormons firmly believe that without Joe Smith no one would know the Lord. This is the reason they do vicarious works for the dead in their temples, and why they have such an extensive missionary program.

Ask your Mormon friend why God would abandon all of us, and then suddenly reappear to just one person in upstate NY (Joe Smith), who by the way, had rejected the God of the Bible.

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“Why the Church?” “Without…His Church in place, the Savior’s commission to take the gospel to all the world could not be realized.” — D. Todd Christofferson