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Who’s Telling the Truth: Pratt, or Smith?

Posted in contradictions in Mormonism, tagged Answers to Gospel Questions 4:59, God needed Satan, Joseph Fielding Smith, Journal of Discourses 1:218, Orson Pratt on 08/21/2019| 3 Comments »

If this wasn’t such an important part of LDS theology, it’d hardly be worth the time to point out the discrepancy we found here. However, Mormonism’s foundation relies on the belief God needed Satan’s intervention to help carry out His plan…

Devil is Cause of Death

Journal of Discourses 1:281 “…He has permitted the destroyer to visit them, who has usurped a certain dominion and authority, carrying desolation and ruin on every hand; the perfections of the original organizations have ceased.” — Orson Pratt, Great Salt Lake, July 25, 1852 (more…)

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Dualism/God Needed Satan 2019

Posted in original sin, tagged Acts 17:25, Adam, bible, D&C 29:39, fall of man, false doctrines of Mormonism, false prophet Joseph Smith, God needed Satan, God needs Adam to sin, God tricked Adam into sinning, James 1:13, Rev 4:11 on 05/23/2019| Leave a Comment »

Doctrine and Covenants 29:39 “And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet—” (more…)

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Mormon Dilemma 709 Dualism/God Needed Satan

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged Acts 17:25, bible, D&C 29:39, false doctrines of Mormonism, God needed Satan, God tricked Adam into sinning, James 1:13, Rev 4:11 on 09/11/2013| 2 Comments »

Dualism/God Needed Satan

D&C 29:39; “And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet—”

Acts 17:25; “Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.”

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