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: 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…)
Mormon Holy Ghost Isn’t Omnipresent
Posted in May, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses on 05/18/2025| 1 Comment »
May 18 – Mormon Holy Ghost Isn’t Omnipresent. 2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (more…)
Brigham Young: Mankind is Naturally Good
Posted in Brigham Young, March, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, man is good on 03/14/2025| 3 Comments »
‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?’ Jeremiah 17:9
March 14 — Brigham Young: Mankind is Naturally Good. Journal of Discourses 9:305 “…It is fully proved in all the revelations that God has ever given to mankind that they naturally love and admire righteousness, justice and truth more than they do evil. …It is, however, universally received by professors of religion as a Scriptural doctrine that man is naturally opposed to God. This is not so. (more…)
LDS Know Jesus’ Birth and Death Dates
Posted in Journal of Discourses, March, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Jesus’ birth and death, Journal of Discourses, Orson Pratt on 03/13/2025| 3 Comments »
‘…It is Finished…’ John 19:30
March 13 — LDS Know Jesus’ Birth and Death Dates. Journal of Discourses 13:127 “When we come to trace back all these authorities, we find that this very day, on which I am speaking, would be the close of the year, and that to-morrow, the 11th day of April, would be the anniversary of the very day on which Jesus was born; and the 6th day of April the very day on which he was crucified precisely eighteen hundred years prior to the organization of this Church.” — Orson Pratt, April 10, 1870. (more…)
Brigham Young: We Preach Doctrine of the Bible
Posted in Brigham Young, March, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged bible, false prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses on 03/12/2025| 3 Comments »
March 12 — Brigham Young: We Preach Doctrine of the Bible. Journal of Discourses 14:200 “The doctrine that we preach is the doctrine of the Bible, it is the doctrine the Lord has revealed for the salvation of the children of God, and when men, who have once obeyed it, deny it, they deny it with their eyes wide open, and knowing that they deny the truth and set at naught the counsels of the Almighty.” — Brigham Young, Ogden City, June 3, 1871. (more…)
Women Must Obediently Accept Polygamy
Posted in February, Polygamy Quotes, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, November 9 1856, women must accept polygamy on 02/15/2025| 3 Comments »
February 15 — Women Must Obediently Accept Polygamy. Journal of Discourses 4:82 “It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.” — Heber C. Kimball, Great Salt Lake City, November 9, 1856. (more…)
Brigham Young: Jesus Begotten Just Like Us
Posted in April, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Brigham Young, false prophecies of Mormonism, God had sex with Mary, Journal of Discourses on 04/16/2024| 1 Comment »
April 16 – Brigham Young: Jesus Begotten Just Like Us. Philippians 2:5-7 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.”
Brigham’s God is Joseph Smith
Posted in February, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false prophet Brigham Young, false prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith is Mormon god, Journal of Discourses on 02/09/2024| 1 Comment »
February 9 – Brigham’s God is Joseph Smith. Philippians 3:17-20; “Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“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.” 2 Corinthians 4:4 (more…)
LDS: Jesus Persecuted and Crucified for Polygamy
Posted in February, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false gospel, Jedediah Grant, Jesus was married, Journal of Discourses, Ogden Kraut on 02/02/2024| 3 Comments »
February 2 – LDS: Jesus Persecuted and Crucified for Polygamy. In Colossians 1:15 we learn a lot about the nature and character of Jesus. “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creation.” There are truly no other words which could exemplify how beautiful He really is. (more…)
Mormon Jesus Not Born of a Virgin
Posted in October, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Brigham Young, false christ, Jesus created through sex act by God and Mary, Journal of Discourses on 10/21/2023| 3 Comments »
October 21 –– Mormon Jesus Not Born of a Virgin. 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 public 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…)
My Prayer for the Mormons
Posted in September, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Jesus was married in Cana, Journal of Discourses, Orson Hyde on 09/12/2023| 1 Comment »
September 12 – My Prayer for the Mormons. Psalm 137:6-7 “If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.”
LDS: Bible Isn’t Meant For Today
Posted in September, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Bible not meant for today, false apostle Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses on 09/03/2023| 1 Comment »
September 3 – LDS: Bible Isn’t Meant For Today. 1 Peter 1:24-25 “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
Mormonism is Polytheism
Posted in Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Brigham Young, Exodus 22:20, false gods, gods, Journal of Discourses, polytheism on 05/01/2023| 1 Comment »
May 1 – Mormonism is Polytheism. Exodus 22:20 “He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.”
Mormonism to Rule Every Nation
Posted in February, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Isaiah 6:1-3, Journal of Discourses, Mormonism to rule the earth, Orson Hyde on 02/14/2023| 3 Comments »
February 14 – Mormonism to Rule Every Nation Isaiah 6:1, 3; “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 3b Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.”
Whosoever Calls on LDS Prophets
Posted in November, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged confessing name of Mormon leaders for salvation, false apostle, Joseph Young, Journal of Discourses on 11/13/2022| 3 Comments »
November 13 — Whosoever Calls on LDS Prophets. Joel 2:32 “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.”
Romans. 10:12-13 “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (more…)
A Prayer for Mormons
Posted in September, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Jesus was married in Cana, Journal of Discourses, Orson Hyde on 09/12/2022| 5 Comments »
September 12 – A Prayer for Mormons. Psalm 137:6-7 “If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.” (more…)
LDS: Bible not Meant for Today
Posted in September, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Bible not meant for today, false apostle Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses on 09/03/2022| 4 Comments »
September 3 – LDS: Bible not Meant for Today. 1 Peter 1:24-25 “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” (more…)
Mormon Holy Ghost is a Son of God
Posted in May, Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged false apostle of Mormonism, false doctrines of Mormonism, Heber C. Kimball, Holy Ghost is a man, Journal of Discourses on 05/18/2022| 4 Comments »
May 18 – Mormon Holy Ghost is a Son of God. 2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Who Will Rule?
Posted in Witnessing Tip of the Day, tagged Isaiah 6:1-3, Journal of Discourses, Mormonism to rule the earth, Orson Hyde on 02/14/2022| 3 Comments »
February 14 – Who Will Rule? Isaiah 6:1, 3 “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 3b Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.”
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