March 22 — Ensign, “The Keystone of Our Religion”, January 1992 “Unlike the Bible, which passed through generations of copyists, translators, and corrupt religionists who tampered with the text, the Book of Mormon came from writer to reader in just one inspired step of translation.” — Ezra Taft Benson (more…)
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LDS Love-Hate Bible Contradictions
Posted in Bible, Book of Mormon, tagged 'The Keystone of Our Religion', BOOK OF MORMON: THE KEYSTONE SCRIPTURE, Ensign, Ezra Taft Benson, Paul R. Cheesman on 03/22/2026| 3 Comments »
BoM is Keystone of Mormonism
Posted in May, Mormon Dilemmas, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice, Ezra Taft Benson, Mormonism and false prophets on 05/01/2025| 1 Comment »
May 1 — BoM is Keystone of Mormonism. Come, Listen to a Prophet’s Voice, p. 15 “Of the four great standard works of the Church—the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price—I would particularly urge you to read again and again the Book of Mormon and ponder and apply its teachings. (more…)
Fundamentally Flawed
Posted in February, Follow the Prophet, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet on 02/06/2025| 1 Comment »
February 6 — Fundamentally Flawed. Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet “…Third fundamental: “The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet” (“Fourteen Fundamentals,” 27).
We learn a great lesson about this from the scriptures. In the times of Noah it was easier for the people to believe in the dead prophets, but it was difficult for them to believe in Noah. We know that because of their incredulity they did not survive the Flood (see Genesis 6–7).” — Ezra Taft Benson (more…)
Jesus isn’t Keystone to Mormonism
Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, September, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged “The Book of Mormon—Keystone of Our Religion’, Book of Mormon, Ensign, Ezra Taft Benson, Nov 1986 on 09/24/2024| 2 Comments »
September 24 — Jesus isn’t Keystone to Mormonism. Ensign, “The Book of Mormon—Keystone of Our Religion’, Nov 1986, 4 “There are three great reasons why Latter-day Saints should make the study of the Book of Mormon a lifetime pursuit.
The first is that the Book of Mormon is the keystone of our religion. This was the Prophet Joseph Smith’s statement. He testified that “the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion” (Introduction to the Book of Mormon). A keystone is the central stone in an arch. It holds all the other stones in place, and if removed, the arch crumbles.” — Ezra Taft Benson (more…)
The Significance of Words
Posted in June, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged A New Witness for Christ, BoM 10x better than the Bible, Ensign November 1984, Ezra Taft Benson on 06/28/2024| 5 Comments »
June 28 – The Significance of Words. 1 Timothy 4:16 “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
Mormons Desecrate Jesus’ Conception
Posted in December, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged ‘Five Marks of the Divinity of Christ, ’ December 2001, Ensign, Ezra Taft Benson, false prophet on 12/13/2023| 3 Comments »
December 13 — Mormons Desecrate Jesus’ Conception. Jeremiah 31:22 “How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.”
Matthew 1:18-20 “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” (more…)
LDS: Joe Smith Involved in Earthly Matters
Posted in October, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, false prophets, Joe Smith leads from above, joseph smith, Teachings of ETB on 10/29/2023| 1 Comment »
October 29 – LDS: Joe Smith Involved in Earthly Matters. 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.”
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13th President of the Church — Ezra Taft Benson — Served from 1985–1994
LDS: Jesus Sired by Exalted Man
Posted in Jesus, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, false prophet, Five Marks of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, God had sex w/ Mary on 09/24/2023| 1 Comment »
Five Marks of the Divinity of Jesus Christ “The most fundamental doctrine of true Christianity is the divine birth of the child Jesus. It is a doctrine not comprehended by the world, misinterpreted by [many] Christian churches, and even misunderstood by some members of the true Church.
The paternity of Jesus Christ is one of the mysteries of godliness.
It may only be comprehended by the spiritually minded… … I am bold to say to you, … Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that same Holy Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. He was not the son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost. He is the Son of the Eternal Father! … ” — Ezra Taft Benson, 9 December 1979. (more…)
Rejecting God’s Power
Posted in December, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged ‘Five Marks of the Divinity of Christ, ’ December 2001, Ensign, Ezra Taft Benson on 12/13/2020| 5 Comments »
December 13 — Rejecting God’s Power. Jeremiah 31:22 “How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.”
Matthew 1:18-20 “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” (more…)
13th Prophet: Joe Smith Involved In Earthly Matters
Posted in October, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, false prophets, Joe Smith leads from above, joseph smith, Teachings of ETB on 10/29/2019| 1 Comment »
October 29 – 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.”
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13th President of the Church — Ezra Taft Benson — Served from 1985–1994
Significance of Words
Posted in June, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged A New Witness for Christ, BoM 10x better than the Bible, Ensign November 1984, Ezra Taft Benson, false apostles of Mormonism, false prophecies of Mormonism on 06/28/2019| 3 Comments »
June 28 – The significance of words. 1 Timothy 4:16 “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
Tip of the Day April 19 His Word is Our Light
Posted in April, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged being humble, Book of Mormon is better than Bible, Ensign November 1984, Ezra Taft Benson, false prophet of Mormonism, Psalm 119:105 on 04/19/2019| 2 Comments »
April 19 – His Word is Our Light. Psalm 119:105; “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path.”
LDS Racism: Communists Formatted Civil Rights
Posted in Racism in the Mormon Church, tagged blacks in Mormon Church, Civil Rights, communism, Ezra Taft Benson, false doctrines of Mormonism, racism on 12/17/2018| Leave a Comment »
TodayinMormonHistory.com “55 years ago today – Dec 14, 1963 “LOGAN, UTAH–Former Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson charged Friday night that the civil-rights movement in the South had been ‘formatted almost entirely by the Communists.’ Elder Benson, a member of the Council of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said in a public meeting here that the whole civil-rights movement was ‘phony’.***”” — Deseret News, Dec. 14, 1963 (more…)
Witnessing Tip of the Day July 21 The God of This World
Posted in July, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, false prophet of Mormonism, god of this world, Satan on 07/21/2018| Leave a Comment »
July 21 – The god of this world. 2 Corinthians 4:4; “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (more…)
Most Important Mormon Prophet isn’t Jesus
Posted in Discourses and Lectures, tagged 14 Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, Ezra Taft Benson, rejecting Jesus on 06/25/2018| Leave a Comment »
Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, Speeches of the Year, 1980, p. 27; “The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet. … Many people in our own time also revere prophets of the past but refuse to accept the prophet the Lord has sent to guide them today. The most important prophet, so far as you and I are concerned, is the living one in our day and age to whom the Lord is currently revealing His will for us.” – Ezra Taft Benson (more…)
Whom are You Following; Jesus, or an LDS Prophet?
Posted in Follow the Prophet, tagged Bruce McConkie, Ezra Taft Benson, false prophets of Mormonism, no Mormon prophet no salvation on 09/18/2017| Leave a Comment »
If nothing else from this lesson is remembered beloved, remember what our Lord God has told us in His word. Hebrews 13:5 declares –
“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
Today we’re publishing our new page for an all important Mormon topic; ‘Follow the Prophet’. We published an article on this about 3.5 yrs ago, but since then the amount of attention the Church has given to this warrants our time, and updates with many of the things they’ve said.
We’ve listed some of the contents of our new page below, but for future reference you can find it in full on the sidebar over to the right.
Ezra Benson’s False Interpretation of Testing Prophets
Posted in General Conference October 1981, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, false prophecies, false prophets of Mormonism, Joseph Smith Prophet to Our Generation on 10/18/2016| 5 Comments »
Deuteronomy 13:1-5; “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.”
General Conference, ‘Joseph Smith: Prophet to Our Generation,’ October 1981; “Joseph Smith 
obtained this ancient record from a heavenly messenger, just as John prophesied. … Also, in harmony with the testimony of John, the book contains “the everlasting gospel.” It is now preached by our missionaries to the world. …A revealing characteristic of a true prophet is that he declares a message from God. …
The ultimate test of a true prophet is that when he speaks in the name of the Lord his words come to pass. That standard was explained by the Lord to Moses in these words:
“When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously.” (Deut. 18:22.)
Many prophecies of Joseph Smith are recorded to which this test might be applied…
Joseph Smith was a prophet of the living God, one of the greatest prophets that has ever lived on the earth. He was the instrument in God’s hand in ushering in the present gospel dispensation, the greatest of all, and the last of all in preparation for the second coming of the Master.” – Ezra Taft Benson
Witnessing Tip of the Day June 28
Posted in Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged A New Witness for Christ, BoM 10x better than the Bible, Ensign November 1984, Ezra Taft Benson, false apostles of Mormonism, false prophecies of Mormonism on 06/28/2016| Leave a Comment »
June 28 – The significance of words. 1 Timothy 4:16; “Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
Lying in Wait to Deceive
Posted in Mormon Terminology, tagged Ezra Taft Benson, false doctrines of Mormonism, General Conference April 1982, lies of the Mormon Church, The Cross v. Gethsemane on 05/10/2016| Leave a Comment »
Ensign, “Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus,” May 1982 [April Conference issue], 62; “To possess a testimony of Jesus is to know that He voluntarily took upon Himself the sins of all mankind in the Garden of Gethsemane, which caused Him to suffer in both body and spirit and to bleed from every pore. All this He did so that we would not have to suffer if we would repent. (See D&C 19:16, 18.)” – Ezra Taft Benson
Witnessing Tip of the Day April 19
Posted in Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged being humble, Book of Mormon is better than Bible, Ensign November 1984, Ezra Taft Benson, false prophet of Mormonism, Psalm 119:105 on 04/19/2016| Leave a Comment »
April 19 – His Word is Our Light. Psalm 119:105; “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path.”
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