August 30 — Journal of Discourses 14:116-117 “As for the Bible account of the creation we may say that the Lord gave it to Moses, or that Moses obtained the history and traditions of the fathers, and from them picked out what he considered necessary…no matter whether it is correct or not, and whether the Lord found the earth empty or void, or whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements…it will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, May 14, 1871 (more…)
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Brigham’s Unsure How Earth was Created
Posted in August, False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Journal of Discourses, Prophet Brigham Young not sure how earth was created on 08/30/2025| 3 Comments »
LDS: Jesus and Joseph are Saviors of Mankind
Posted in August, Joseph Smith and Jesus Compared, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged baptism, false prophet Joseph Smith, first vision, Jesus, John the Baptist on 08/29/2025| 3 Comments »
August 29 — Isaiah 40:25 “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.” (more…)
Brigham Young Declared Civil War Won’t Free the Slaves
Posted in August, false prophets, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Civil War won't free slaves, false prophet Brigham Young on 08/28/2025| 1 Comment »
August 28 — Journal of Discourses 10:250 “Will the present struggle free the slave? No.…Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot.” — Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, October 6, 1863 (more…)
No Fellowship with Polygamists Allowed
Posted in August, False Prophecies of Joseph Smith, Witnessing Tip of the Day on 08/27/2025| 1 Comment »
August 27 — Messenger and Advocate (May 1837), p. 511 “1st. That we will have no fellowship whatever with any Elder belonging to the quorums of the Seventies who is guilty of polygamy or any offense of the kind, and who does not in all things conform to the laws of the church contained in the Bible and in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants.” (more…)
Joe Smith Hurt the Church Introducing Masonry
Posted in August, Masonic Logde and Mormonism, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Joseph Smith a mason, secret oaths in Mormon temple on 08/26/2025| 1 Comment »
August 26 – Matthew 6:24 “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (more…)
Baptism in the Mormon Church
Posted in August, baptism, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged baptism in Mormon church on 08/25/2025| 1 Comment »
“You are now the cleanest person on the planet.” This is what the Branch President of my local Mormon Church would say at the ceremony for anyone who had just been baptized into the Church.
On a Church website for Baptism, it says, “Baptism is being born of the water.” It makes it possible for us to be made clean from our sins, which is necessary for us to return to God.” (more…)
Joseph Smith: There’s No Creator Nor Creation
Posted in August, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged AN EXPOSÉ OF MORMONISM’S BASIC TEACHING & HERESY, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith on 08/24/2025| 1 Comment »
August 24 — Isaiah 43:10-11 “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.” (more…)
LDS: Apostasy Happens When Man isn’t Glorified
Posted in August, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged bible, false gospel Book of Mormon, God is glorified man, Katherine Thomas, Thoughts on Gospel Doctrine on 08/22/2025| 1 Comment »
August 22 – Job 38:4-6 “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof.”
LDS Told to Rely on Self
Posted in August, self reliance, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false doctrines in Mormonism, Manual for Priesthood Holders on 08/21/2025| 1 Comment »
August 21 — Matthew 6:11 “Give us this day our daily bread.” (more…)
LDS: Apostle John was a Polygamist
Posted in August, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Apostle John, false prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, polygamy on 08/19/2025| 4 Comments »
August 19 – John 13:23 “Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.” (more…)
Book of Mormon Says It May or May Not Be True
Posted in August, Bible vs Book of Mormon, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Bible vs Book of Mormon, false gospel, false prophet Joseph Smith on 08/16/2025| 1 Comment »
Matthew 8:26 “And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.”
Not only does the Book of Mormon contain anachronistic problems along with its plagiarism issues, we also see contradictions within its own text. Sometimes the Book of Mormon will tell you it’s completely trustworthy and at other times, not so much.
Jesus a Biological Son of God
Posted in August, False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, false prophets, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus sexually begotten by God, Messages for Exaltation on 08/15/2025| 1 Comment »
August 15 — Messages for Exaltation, For the Sunday Schools of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gospel Doctrine Class, pp. 378-379, 1967 “[Jesus Christ] was willing to make payment because of his great love for mankind, and he was able to make payment because he lived a sinless life and because he was actually, literally, biologically the Son of God in the flesh.” (more…)
The Foundation of Jesus’ Church
Posted in August, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Christianity v Mormonism, Family Home Evening September 2004, Matthew 16:18 on 08/14/2025| Leave a Comment »
August 12 – Matt. 16:18 “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (more…)
Who Gives the Spirit of God
Posted in August, false gospel, False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, false prophets, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Heber J. Grant false prophet, John 14:15-17, Relief Society Manual pg 182 on 08/11/2025| 2 Comments »
August 11 — 2004 Priesthood/R.S. Manual – p. 182 “It is not position, it is not education that gives the Spirit of God; but it is keeping the commandments of Almighty God and being lowly in heart and desiring to fulfill the commandments of God in our daily walk and conversation.” — Heber J. Grant (more…)
Where’s the Promised Land?
Posted in August, Mormon Dilemmas, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged 2 Nephi 10:20, America, false gospel, Israel, Promised Land on 08/07/2025| 1 Comment »
August 7 – 2 Nephi 10:20 “And now, my beloved brethren, seeing that our merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these things, let us remember him, and lay aside our sins, and not hang down our heads, for we are not cast off; nevertheless, we have been driven out of the land of our inheritance; but we have been led to a better land, for the Lord has made the sea our path, and we are upon an isle of the sea.”
Are Jesus and Joseph Smith Both Saviors of Mankind?
Posted in August, Joseph Smith and Jesus Compared, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged baptism, false prophet Joseph Smith, first vision, Jesus, John the Baptist, joseph smith on 09/01/2024| 1 Comment »
Isaiah 40:25 “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.”
In August 2016 I was searching around for info on a speech by Melvin J. Ballard, when I came upon a very interesting online publication called Mormonism Against Itself, written by a fellow by the name of Maurice Barnett.
The book was a compilation of dozens of Mormon documents that are now out of print, or hard to find. One of the items I read in Mr. Barnett’s compilation was a handout for a ward teacher’s lesson from 1922. While I am fully aware this sounds mundane, when you glance over this, one will discover how the Church knew no bounds when trying to pull the wool over the eyes of its followers. And surprisingly (or maybe not), they’re still banking on the same doctrines they did way back when.
They obviously felt no shame when referring to Joseph Smith as a redeemer, nor did they bother with publishing biblically sound materials. The content for their comparison of Jesus and Joseph was so outlandish, I’m still left without words to describe how awful it is!
Was Joseph Smith Possessed?
Posted in August, Mormon Dilemmas, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet Joseph Smith on 08/31/2024| 1 Comment »
August 31 — Was Joseph Smith Possessed? D&C 132:7 “…by revelation and commandment through the medium of mine anointed, whom I have appointed on the earth to hold this power (and I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power in the last days, and there is never but one on the earth at a time on whom this power and the keys of this priesthood are conferred)…” [emp. added] (more…)
Apostasy?…Not Exactly
Posted in August, Mormon Dilemmas, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged apostasy, bible, body of Christ, Christianity, false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus, salvation on 08/30/2024| 1 Comment »
August 30 — Apostasy?…Not Exactly. Answers to Gospel Questions 2:45 “…the Lord, of necessity, has kept authorized servants on the earth bearing the priesthood from the days of Adam to the present time; in fact, there has never been a moment from the beginning that there were not men on the earth holding the Holy Priesthood. (Moses 5:59.)
Even in the days of apostasy, and apostasy has occurred several times, the Lord never surrendered this earth and permitted Satan to have complete control. Even when the great apostasy occurred following the death of the Savior’s apostles, our Father in heaven held control and had duly authorized servants on the earth to direct his work and to check, to some extent at least, the ravages and corruption of the evil powers. These servants were not permitted to organize the Church nor to officiate in the ordinances of the gospel, but they did check the advances of evil as far as the Lord deemed it necessary.” – Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. (more…)
Latter-day Deceivers
Posted in August, Mormon Dilemmas, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Ensign 1999 He Lives by Richard Scott, false doctrines of Mormonism, Mormon Jesus on 08/29/2024| 2 Comments »
‘And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.’ Matthew 24:11
August 29 — Latter-day Deceivers. Ensign, ‘He Lives’, November 1999, 89 “As one of His Apostles, authorized to bear witness of Him, I solemnly testify that I know that the Savior lives, that He is a resurrected, glorified personage of perfect love. I witness that He gave His life that we might live with Him eternally. He is our hope, our Mediator, our Redeemer.” – Richard S. Scott (more…)
Don’t Leave Because of Facts
Posted in August, Mormon Dilemmas, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged bible, false doctrines, follow the brethren, mormonism, Restoration of the gospel, salvation on 08/28/2024| 2 Comments »
August 28 — Don’t Leave Because of Facts. Ensign, Nov. 2009, 37 “Some are willing to set aside the precious gospel truths restored by Joseph Smith because they get diverted on some historical issue or some scientific hypothesis not central to their exaltation, and in so doing they trade their spiritual birthright for a mess of pottage. They exchange the absolute certainty of the Restoration for a doubt, and in that process they fall into the trap of losing faith in the many things they do know because of a few things they do not know.” – Tad R. Callister (more…)
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