November 20 – Was Joseph Smith a True Martyr? Hebrews 11:36-38 “And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”
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Was Joseph Smith a True Martyr?
Posted in November, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false gospel, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 7:102 - 103, John Taylor, martyrdom of Joseph Smith on 11/20/2021| 3 Comments »
LDS Will be Ahead of World in Everything
Posted in Conference Quotes, False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 21:100, The Gospel Kingdom on 09/25/2021| 1 Comment »
“Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” — C.S. Lewis
The Gospel Kingdom, pp. 274-275 “You will see the day that Zion will be far ahead of the outside world in everything pertaining to learning of every kind as we are today in regard to religious matters.” — John Taylor
Also see Journal of Discourses 21:100. Reported by George F. Gibbs, delivered at Ephraim, San Pete County, Utah, April 13, 1879. (more…)
Death Events of Jesus and Joseph Smith Compared
Posted in Holy Week, tagged Death Events of Jesus and Joseph Smith Compared, John Taylor on 04/04/2021| 1 Comment »
‘And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.’ Mark 15:23
History of the Church 7:101 “Sometime after dinner we sent for some wine. It has been reported by some that this was taken as a sacrament. It 
was no such thing; our spirits were generally dull and heavy, and it was sent for to revive us. I think it was Captain Jones who went after it, but they would not suffer him to return. I believe we all drank of the wine, and gave some to one or two of the prison guards. We all of us felt unusually dull and languid, with a remarkable depression of spirits. In consonance with those feelings I sang a song, that had lately been introduced into Nauvoo, entitled, ‘A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief’, etc.” – edited by John Taylor (more…)
Church Will Destroy Polygamy Persecutors
Posted in Polygamy Quotes, tagged false prophet, John Taylor, Millennial Star, persecutors destroyed on 02/08/2020| 1 Comment »
The Latter-day Saints Millennial Star Vol. 49, No. 19, May 9, 1887, p. 301 “If we are persecuted for our religion, it is no more than we have been taught to expect. … The most encouraging words that could be uttered by Our Almighty Father to His children have been given to us. We have proved them to be true up to the present, and we know every word will be fulfilled that has been spoken concerning the future.
They who fight against Zion shall be destroyed; and the pit which has been digged shall be filled by those who digged it, unto their utter destruction.” — John Taylor (more…)
LDS: We Don’t Know Why Jesus Had To Die
Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged false prophet of Mormonism, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, sin on 11/28/2019| 4 Comments »
‘…why it was necessary that his blood should be shed is an apparent mystery….’
Journal of Discourses 10:114 “It is not fully comprehended why it was necessary that Jesus Christ should leave the heavens, … and come upon the earth to offer himself up a sacrifice… why this should be, why it was necessary that his blood should be shed is an apparent mystery…. What sins of the world did he take away? We are told that it is the sin which Adam committed.” — John Taylor, Great Salt Lake City, February 22, 1863 (more…)
LDS Defies US and Contradicts Mormonism
Posted in Polygamy, tagged defying America, Edmunds-Tucker Act, January 6 1880, John Taylor, Salt Lake Tribune on 08/30/2019| 4 Comments »
Salt Lake Tribune, January 6, 1880 “The people of the rest of the country are our enemies…. We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise or our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the government…Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been handed down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined…I defy the United States; I will obey God.” — John Taylor (more…)
LDS: Mormonism is True Christianity
Posted in Christianity v Mormonism, tagged Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, Christianity hatched in hell, false doctrines of Mormonism, John Taylor, Mormon Doctrine 363, Mormonism is Christianity on 08/17/2019| 1 Comment »
Mormon Doctrine, p. 363 “Mormonism is Christianity; Christianity is Mormonism; they are one and the same, and they are not to be distinguished from each other in the minutest detail … Mormons are true Christians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ and accepted by Peter, James, and John and all the ancient saints.” — Bruce R. McConkie (more…)
LDS: Anti-Polygamy Laws Unconstitutional
Posted in Polygamy, tagged anti-bigamy laws, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, rights of men on 06/09/2019| Leave a Comment »
Journal of Discourses 14:267 “It is the violation of the natural rights of man that has deluged the earth with blood in all ages. These principles were enunciated also by Joseph Smith, he believed in them, so do we, in the right to think, in the right to speak, in the right to act, in the right to do all things that are right and good and proper, but not in the right to interfere with any other man’s rights, any other man’s religion, any other man’s principles. These are our views. God has planted them in our bosom, they will remain there eternally, for they are principles that dwell in the bosom of God.” — John Taylor, Salt Lake City, December 17, 1871 (more…)
LDS: Uninspired Men Translated Bible
Posted in Bible Translations, tagged Bible translated incorrectly, false prophets of Mormonism, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 1:25 on 05/24/2019| 2 Comments »
Journal of Discourses 1:25 “…it is the spirit and intention of the language that are to be looked at, and if the translator does not know this it is impossible for him to translate correctly, and this is the reason why there are so many blunders in the Bible. I believe the English Bible is translated as well as any book could be by uninspired men.” — John Taylor, Great Salt Lake City, August 22, 1852 (more…)
Curse of Cain, Blacks, Satan Needed Representative on Earth
Posted in Racist Remarks by Leaders in the Church, tagged blacks, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, racist teachings, Satan on 01/13/2019| 1 Comment »
Original Posting 2012
Curse of Cain, Blacks, Satan Needed a Representative on Earth
Journal of Discourses 23:336 “Why is it, in fact, that we should have a devil? Why did not the Lord kill him long ago? Because he could not do without him. He needed the devil and a great many of those who do his bidding just to keep men straight, that we may learn to place our dependence upon God, and trust in Him, and to observe his laws and keep his commandments. When he destroyed the inhabitants of the antediluvian world, he suffered a descendant of Cain to come through the flood in order that he might be properly represented upon the earth.” – John Taylor, Grantsville, Utah, October 29, 1882
People Believed in Jesus in BC Era
Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged false prophet, Jesus in BC era, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses on 12/10/2018| Leave a Comment »
Journal of Discourses 16:196 “…Christ, of whom we hear and read so much in the Scriptures of divine truth, was “the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world.” He was believed in, long before he made his appearance, both on the Asiatic and American continent, and God gave unto his ancient Prophets many visions, manifestations and revelations of his coming to take away the sins of the world by the sacrifice of himself.” — John Taylor, Salt Lake City, September 7, 1873 (more…)
Reason for Joseph Smith’s ‘Martyrdom’
Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged John Taylor, Joseph Smith's death, Times and Seasons on 09/18/2018| Leave a Comment »
Times and Seasons, Vol. V. No. 15] CITY OF NAUVOO, ILL. AUG. 15,1844. [Whole No. 99, p. 618 “CITY OF NAUVOO, THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1844. THE NEXT PRESIDENT…as our candidate for this high office, has been butchered in cold blood, for aught [ought] we know to the contrary, to prevent him from being elected, and the murderers running at large with impunity; and as we are not abolitionists and will not go against one half the interest of the nation-what shall we do as honest and consistent men? Shall we honor the “views of the powers and policy of the government,” as published by the now martyred Gen. Joseph Smith? We will.”” ~ JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, August 1844. [emp. mine] (more…)
‘Integrity’, aka Lies, of Mormon Prophets
Posted in Teachings of the Presidents of the Church, tagged false prophet, John Taylor, polygamy on 08/21/2018| Leave a Comment »
“Chapter 7: Integrity,” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor (2011), 58–65 “The following is a portion of that tribute describing the stalwart character and integrity of this beloved prophet:
“Few men have ever lived who have manifested such integrity and such unflinching moral and physical courage as our beloved President who has just gone from us. He never knew the feeling of fear connected with the work of God. But in the face of angry mobs, and at other times when in imminent danger of personal violence from those who threatened his life, and upon occasions when the people were menaced with public peril, he never [flinched]—his knees never trembled, his hand never shook.” (more…)
Abraham Applied for Priesthood Ordination
Posted in Mormon Quotes, tagged Abraham, anachronism, John Taylor, Mormon quotes on 06/18/2018| Leave a Comment »
Journal of Discourses 21:159 “It was this priesthood that would be the means of introducing him into the presence of God that Abraham found that he was a rightful inheritor of, according to his lineage and descent, and he applied for an ordination, which he received, according to the revelation given unto us, and with that ordination the powers, the blessings, the light, intelligence and revelation associated with the Gospel of the Son of God.” – John Taylor, 14th Ward Meetinghouse, December 7, 1879 (more…)
Polygamy Produced Lies and Living Underground
Posted in Polygamy, tagged hiding from feds, John Taylor, living underground on 05/19/2018| 3 Comments »
Journal of Discourses 26:94; “…their bigamy is deception and fraud and a breach of the marriage covenant; while our polygamy, as it is called, is the fulfilling of the marriage covenant, it is honorable and the fruits of it are good; theirs is done clandestinely, ours openly; we acknowledge ours, they repudiate theirs.” – John Taylor, Salt Lake City, February 12, 1882 (more…)
Witnessing Tip of the Day December 27
Posted in December, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, Jesus preaches in Galilee, John Taylor, Mormons are saviors on 12/27/2017| Leave a Comment »
Fulfilling a calling. Malachi 3:1c; “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Luke 4:43; “And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.”
Mormon Prophet John Taylor: Men Must Conform to Law of Polygamy!
Posted in Polygamy Quotes, tagged Diaries of John Henry Smith, false prophecy, John Taylor on 11/25/2017| Leave a Comment »
TodayinMormonHistory.com; “135 years ago today – Friday, Nov 24, 1882 — [John Henry Smith] Liverpool
… I received a copy of the following revelation.
Revelation given through President John Taylor,
… Thus saith the Lord … Let my servants George Teasdale and Heber J. Grant be appointed to fill the vacancies in the Twelve… You may appoint Seymour B. Young to fill up ‘the vacancy in the presiding quorum of seventies, if he will conform to my law [plural marriage]; for it is not meet that men who will not abide by law shall preside over my priesthood ….” –– Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990.
Magnify Your Calling to Save Others
Posted in godhood, tagged false teachings of false prophets, John Taylor, mangifying your priesthood on 09/27/2017| 1 Comment »
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church, Deseret News Semi-Weekly, 6 August, 1878; “If you do not magnify your callings, God will hold you responsible for those whom you might have saved had you done your duty.” – John Taylor
Witnessing Tip of the Day August 19
Posted in August, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Apostle John a polygamist?, John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 21:163 on 08/19/2017| Leave a Comment »
August 19 – Was the Apostle John a Polygamist? John 13:23 “Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.”
Jesus Made Perfect
Posted in False Prophecies of the Mormon Church, tagged false apostle of Mormonism, false prophecies of Mormonism, Jesus wasn't perfect, John Taylor on 09/20/2016| Leave a Comment »
Today we’re looking at a passage of scripture the Mormon Church has zeroed in on, and made a doctrine from half a line in one verse of scripture. We’ll look at what the Church has taught, and compare it with what the Bible really means when it said, ‘Jesus was made perfect’.
The length of the sermon we’re looking at today was extraordinarily long, therefore, we’ll only be looking at one small subject from Mr. Taylor’s teaching today. We’ll be exploring the rest of it in the near future! If you’d like to read it in full, you can do so by clicking on the link provided within the text below.
Hebrews 2:9-10; “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” [emp. mine]
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