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Mormon Dilemma 756

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , on 10/29/2013| Leave a Comment »

Continents to be Joined Again

Mormon Decisions 10Answers to Gospel Questions 5:73-74; “The dividing of the earth [Genesis 10:25] was not an act of division by the inhabitants of the earth by tribes and peoples, but a breaking asunder of the continents, thus dividing the land surface and creating the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. By looking at a wall map of the world, you will discover how the land surface along the northern and southern coast of the American Hemisphere and Europe and Africa has the appearance of having been together at one time…We are informed by revelation that the time will come when this condition will be changed and that the land surface of the earth will come back again as it was in the beginning and all be in one place. This is definitely stated in the Doctrine and Covenants.” – Joseph Fielding Smith

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Apostates and Non-Whites can’t Enter Kingdom of God

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , , on 10/29/2013| 2 Comments »

salt lake mormon temple 2Journal of Discourses 26:12; “The apostate will have his civil rights under that kingdom. The non-Mormon, or Gentile as he is called, will have his rights under that kingdom. The Chinaman, the negro, and the Indian—each of them will have his rights under that kingdom, and yet not be members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A good many of our people confound the Kingdom of God with the Church of God. Now there is a very wide distinction between the two. A man may, in one sense, be a member of the Church of Christ, and not a member of the Kingdom of God. The two organizations are entirely distinct.” – George Q. Cannon, Provo, Utah, November 20, 1881

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Quick Thought: Redeemed by blood of Jesus Christ?

Posted in Jesus, tagged , , , , , on 10/28/2013| 3 Comments »

thinkingimageIn response to our article “Why do you love the Book of Mormon” one our Mormon readers had this to say –

“If you left the Mormon church because you “discovered” the power of the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ outside of the LDS church, I’m sorry you never understood that before you left. But plenty of people do.” – Lynda

“the power …of the redeeming blood ….of Jesus Christ… “

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Three Male Deities

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , , , on 10/28/2013| 2 Comments »

salt lake mormon temple 2Sunstone Panel Discussion, September 7, 1991; “Women are queens and priestesses but not gods. The Godhead, the ‘Presidency of Heaven,’ is a presidency of three male deities, similar to a stake presidency whose members each have wives who are responsible for domestic religious education but not ecclesiastical functions.” – BYU Religion Professor, Rodney Turner

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Exit Story of an Ex-Mormon

Posted in Ex-Mormon Testimonies, tagged , , , , on 10/27/2013| 2 Comments »

Hi,

I discovered your site yesterday and I’ve read some of the articles.  I’m at work, so I will keep this short.  I just wanted to give you a quick summary of how I was saved.  In July of 2012 I was feeling suicidal.  Everything that I had ever done wrong as well as everything others had done wrong to me seemed to all come to a point at once.  I felt worthless.  I had a couple of customers talking about suicide as well, which didn’t help my cause.  I decided then that I was going to end it.  I bought some over the counter sleeping pills and combined them with my anti-depressants (about 30 or so) and took them all together.  I couldn’t breath and I got scared and had my wife drive me to the hospital. I was there 3 days.  I started praying asking God to help me.

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Angels Begotten of Adam and Eve

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , on 10/27/2013| Leave a Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2Mormon Doctrine of Deity, pg 256; “What are angels? They are intelligences of the human species. Many of them are offsprings of Adam and Eve. That is they are men, who have, like Enoch or Elijah, been translated; or, like Jesus Christ, been raised from the dead; consequently they possess a material body of flesh and bones, can eat, drink, walk, converse, reason, love, fight, wrestle, sing, or play on musical instruments. They can go or come on foreign missions, in heaven, earth, or hell; and they can travel space, and visit the different worlds, with all the ease and alacrity with which God and Christ do the same, being possessed of similar organizations, powers and attributes in a degree.” – B.H. Roberts, LDS Church Historian

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Mormon Dilemma 754

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Privileged White Mormons

Mormon Decisions 10Mormonism, Mama & Me, 1986, pgs 24‑25; “As a white Mormon, I proudly accepted the teaching that my fair skin and Mormon parentage signified that I had been one of God’s most intelligent and obedient born‑in‑heaven spirit children…. As a reward for my superior attributes and attitudes, I had been singled out, trained, and qualified to be born a white Latter‑day Saint, deserving of emulation, adulation, and eventual deification. All dark‑skinned people, even darker‑complexioned Caucasians… had been inferior spirits in heaven.” – Thelma “Granny” Geer

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Mormon Dilemma 753

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , on 10/26/2013| Leave a Comment »

No Godhood for Relying on Men

Mormon Decisions 10Journal of Discourses 1:312; “’I do not depend upon any inherent goodness of my own,’ say they, ‘to introduce me into the kingdom of glory, but I depend upon you, brother Joseph, upon you, brother Brigham … I believe your judgment is superior to mine, and consequently I let you judge for me.’ Now those men, or those women, who know no more about the power of God, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, than to be led entirely by another person, suspending their own understanding, and pinning their faith upon another’s sleeve, will never be capable of entering into the celestial glory, to be crowned as they anticipate; they will never be capable of becoming Gods.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, February 20, 1853

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Mormon Dilemma 752

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , on 10/25/2013| Leave a Comment »

Loyalty or Death

Mormon Decisions 10Journal of Discourses 3:226; “The time is coming when justice will be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet; when we shall take the old broad sword and ask, ‘Are you of God?’ and if you are not heartily on the Lord’s side, you will be hewn down.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, March 2, 1856

Habakkuk 2:4; “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.”

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Non-valiant Spirits are Black

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , , on 10/25/2013| Leave a Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2Conference Report, April 1939, Second Day – Morning Meeting, pg 59; “PUNISHMENT OF THOSE NOT VALIANT.  The negro is an unfortunate man. He has been given a black skin. But that is as nothing compared with that greater handicap that he is not permitted to receive the Priesthood and the ordinances of the temple, necessary to prepare men and women to enter into and enjoy a fulness of glory in the celestial kingdom.  What is the reason…We are told that Michael and his angels fought, and we understand that we stood with Christ our Lord, on the platform, “Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.” I cannot conceive our Father consigning his children to a condition such as that of the negro race, if they had been valiant in the spirit world in that war in heaven…Somewhere along the line were these spirits, indifferent perhaps, and possibly neutral in the war.” – George F. Richards

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Racist Teachings in Mormonism

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , on 10/24/2013| Leave a Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2Juvenile Instructor Vol. 3, No. 18, September 15, 1868, pg 141; “From Caucasian to Negro. A Negro is described as having a black skin, black, woolly hair, projecting jaws, thick lips, a flat nose and receding skull. He is generally well made and robust but with very large hands and feet. In fact, he looks as though he had been put in an oven and burnt to a cinder before he was properly finished making. His hair baked crisp, his nose melted to his face, and the color of his eyes run into the whites. Some men look as if they had only been burned brown; but he appears to have gone a stage further, and been cooked until he was quite black.”

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Mormon Dilemma 751

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , on 10/24/2013| Leave a Comment »

Hawaiian Converts  Prove Church is True

Mormon Decisions 10Juvenile Instructor Vol. 3, No. 18, October 1, 1868, pg 146; “One great evidence to the Latter-day Saints that the Sandwich Islanders are of the house of Israel is the success the Elders have had in preaching the gospel in their midst.  Not that it is a sure rule that all those nations who have not received the gospel are not of the promised seed; for God has not as yet turned the key to some of them to obey the gospel. But when we see a people obey the everlasting gospel in great numbers, we have a right to consider that they are descended from those to whom the promises were given.”

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Thought of the Day about Mormonism and “52 Life Changing Questions from the Book of Mormon”

Posted in Thought of the Day about Mormonism, tagged , , , , on 10/23/2013| Leave a Comment »

stickman thinking 3Today I read an article in the Deseret News of a newly published book called “52 Life Changing Questions from the Book of Mormon” written by BYU Professor Brad Wilcox and John Hilton III, an institute teacher for the LDS Church.

The article said Mr. Hilton “was awakened six or seven years ago by a curiosity to know how many questions existed in the Book of Mormon… He discovered there are 543 questions in the Book of Mormon.”

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Mormon Dilemma 750

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , on 10/23/2013| Leave a Comment »

God Scattered Israelites on Islands Around the World

Mormon Decisions 10Journal of Discourses 14:333; “Here let me say again, according to the Book of Mormon, many of those great islands that are found in the Indian Ocean, also in the great Pacific Sea, have been planted with colonies of Israelites. Do they not resemble each other? Go to the Sandwich Islands, to the South Sea Islands, to Japan‑‑go to the various islands of the Pacific Ocean, and you find a general resemblance in the characters and countenances of the people. Who are they? According to the Book of Mormon, Israelites were scattered forth from time to time, and colonies planted on these islands of the ocean.” – Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, February 11, 1872

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Joseph and Brigham are gods to Mormons

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , on 10/23/2013| Leave a Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2The Rocky Mountain Saints, 1873, 1904 edition, pg 294; “[Heber C. Kimball] declared to the people that Brigham Young was his God, and their God, and the only God they would ever see if they did not obey him: ‘Joseph Smith was God to the inhabitants of the earth when he was amongst us, and Brigham is God now.’ This strain was caught up and reiterated by many of the elders, from Orson Hyde, the president of the twelve apostles, down to the most ignorant teacher, and to question it openly was to be put under the ban.” – T. B. H. Stenhouse

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Mormon Dilemma 749

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , on 10/22/2013| Leave a Comment »

Criticism of Leaders

Mormon Decisions 10Ensign, February 1987, “Criticism”, pg 68; “It’s wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.” – Dallin H. Oaks

1 Thessalonians 5:21; “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Black Race not Favored of God

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , , on 10/22/2013| Leave a Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 3, No. 20, October 15, 1868, pg 156-157; “The Negro Race. We understand that when God made man in his own image and pronounced him very good, that he made him white. We have no record of any of God’s favored servants being a black race. All His prophets and apostles belonged to the most handsome race on the face f the earth – Israel, who still, as represented in the scattered tribe of Judah, bear the impress of their former beauty. In this race was born His Son Jesus, who, we are told was very lovely, and “in the express image of his Father’s person,” and every angel who ever brought a message of God’s mercy to man was beautiful to look upon, clad in the purest white and with a countenance bright as the noonday sun.

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Mormon Dilemma 748

Posted in Mormon Dilemmas, tagged , , , , , , , on 10/21/2013| Leave a Comment »

Dictatorship

Mormon Decisions 10Journal of Discourses 11:298; “The man whom God calls to dictate the affairs in the building of his Zion has the right to dictate about everything connected with the building of his Zion, yes even to the ribbons the women wear; and any person who denies it is ignorant.” – Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, February 3, 1867

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False Prophecies of Mormonism Vanity Leads to Small Families

Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged , , , , , , , on 10/20/2013| Leave a Comment »

salt lake mormon temple 2Gospel Ideals, pg 468; “Any effort or desire on the part of a married couple to shirk the responsibility of parenthood reflects a condition of mind antagonistic to the best interests of the home, the state, and the nation. No doubt there are some worldly people who honestly limit the number of children and the family to two or three because of insufficient means to clothe and educate a large family as the parents would desire to do, but in nearly all such cases, the two or three children are no better provided for than two or three times that number would be. Such parents may be sincere, even if misguided; but in most cases the desire not to have children has its birth in vanity, passion, and selfishness.” – Prophet David O. McKay

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Angel of Light Mormon Dilemma 747

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Angel of Light

Mormon Decisions 10Ensign, “Candle of the Lord”, January 1983 “We Can Be Deceived. Be ever on guard lest you be deceived by inspiration from an unworthy source. You can be given false spiritual messages. There are counterfeit spirits just as there are counterfeit angels. (See Moro. 7:17.) Be careful lest you be deceived, for the devil may come disguised as an angel of light.

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