May 23, 2013 · The earliest prophets of Mormonism (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young) understood the differences between the Mormon Jesus and the Christian Christ. Neither Smith nor Young had any interest in being identified as Christians; they rejected Christianity as a corrupt theistic system that needed restoration and saw Mormonism as the true restoration of …
Nov 16, 2017 · Mormons are NOT Christians because they don’t believe in the Trinity. Neither are Quakers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and more. That’s the defining point. “… 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. …” The spirit of the world is Satan.
1) Mormons are polytheists, not monotheists. That is, they believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate beings, thus denying the essential monotheistic statements of both the ...
Dec 11, 2016 · December 10, 2016. True or False. This article provides an overview of twelve major reasons why Bible-based Christianity is true but the Mormon religion should not be accepted as true Christianity. It presents twelve simple statements that identify as succinctly as possible each of the twelve reasons. For a fuller but still brief explanation of each point, you …
Mormons are not Christians because the Mormon Jesus is not the Christian Christ. That’s why our team is here in Salt Lake City this week, talking about the differences between ...
He is the spirit brother of Satan, and is rather common in terms of His nature (in that he is one of many gods who share the same nature). Jesus earned His salvation through good works, eventually being exalted into godhood (like other obedient Mormons have been and will be).
Jesus was first “procreated” as a spirit child of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, then later conceived in an act of physical sexual intercourse between God the Father and Mary. He is the spirit brother of Satan, and is rather common in terms of His nature (in that he is one of many gods who share the same nature).
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit who supernaturally “overshadowed” Mary (she, therefore, remained a true virgin). Jesus was (and is) eternally perfect and sinless; for this reason, He’s never needed to earn His salvation. The Mormon Jesus and the Christian Jesus Are Two Different Beings.
Jesus was (and is) eternally perfect and sinless; for this reason, He’s never needed to earn His salvation. The Mormon Jesus and the Christian Jesus Are Two Different Beings. While Mormons and Christians may refer to Jesus by name, they are clearly describing two different beings.
3) Mormons believe that even God the Father has, and apparently, needs a body, denying that God in the divine nature is spirit.
If a person wants to call himself a Christian, then he or she must be a Christian.’. Yes…and no. Yes, a person has an American right to freedom of religion. No, a private individual does not get to decide for themselves what is and isn’t true or is or isn’t orthodox Christianity, and that includes me.
The Bible is ancient; the Book of Mormon is modern. Evidence from history, archaeology, and other fields of study prove that the Bible is a collection of ancient writings and confirm much of its historical claims. By contrast, the evidence shows that the Book of Mormon is not translated from ancient scriptures but is a nineteenth-century fiction.
The text of the Bible is reliable; the Joseph Smith Translation is not. Those same biblical manuscript discoveries, as well as advances in scholarly knowledge of the biblical languages, have not overturned the reliability of modern versions of the Bible, but only refined our understanding of the precise wording and meaning of its contents.
However, conflicting accounts from Joseph Smith himself and other problems demonstrate that the First Vision—Joseph’s supposedly seeing the Father and the Son in 1820—never happened. The Bible is ancient; the Book of Mormon is modern.
On the other hand, Joseph Smith took over thirty “wives,” including married women, claimed that God commanded him to practice polygamy, and lied about it repeatedly—setting a dangerous precedent of disregard for truth. Biblical prophets did not teach racist doctrines; Mormon scriptures and prophets have.
In recent decades, however, some have claimed that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not a Christian church. The most oft-used reasons are the following: Latter-day Saints do not accept the creeds, confessions, and formulations of post–New Testament Christianity. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not descend ...
Latter-day Saints believe that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving, and they pray to Him in the name of Jesus Christ. They acknowledge the Father as the ultimate object of their worship, the Son as Lord and Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit as the messenger and revealer of the Father and the Son. In short, Latter-day Saints do not accept the ...
For those making this argument, to be a Christian means to assent to the principle of sola scriptura, or the self-sufficiency of the Bible. But to claim that the Bible is the sole and final word of God—more specifically, the final written word of God—is to claim more for the Bible than it claims for itself.
The Book of Mormon, published in the late 1820s, states the following about a group of people who rebelled against God: And God had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.
This contains the Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio , about March 1832. Joseph Smith’s history states, “In connection with the translation of the Scriptures, I received the following explanation of the Revelation of St. John .”.
1. Skin Color (Dark Skin Turns White) Since people of darker skin, especially people of African descent are considered descendants of Cain and thus cursed according to Mormon doctrine or Mormon beliefs, dark skin is frowned upon in the Mormon faith. If, however, you convert to Mormonism and you have dark skin, the belief is ...
According to Mormons, God did not necessarily create the world and everything in it, but instead organised the world. God discovered the world as a pre-existing but chaotic matter and decided to organise it into the world we have today.
Christianity believes there is only heaven, but according to Mormon beliefs, there are three categories of heavens that are hierarchical based on how good you were as a human being, Heaven 1 , Heaven 2 and Heaven 3, these are namely: Celestial Kingdom, Terrestrial Kingdom, and Telestial Kingdom, this doctrine is not even close to the doctrines of purgatory and limbo in Roman Catholicism. According to the Mormons, Celestial Kingdom is the highest heaven where God lives, only those that are good enough to follow all the laws laid down by God will go there, this is followed by the Terrestrial Kingdom or the second heaven, though this heaven is not as good the Celestial Kingdom, but it’s still heaven, it is reserved for those that followed the laws of Moses but didn’t live up to the laws translated by the founder, the last is the Telestial Kingdom, this is the least of the three heavens and is reserved for those that managed to follow “carnal law,” but not any of the religious laws. D&C 76: 94-98 94 They who dwell in his presence are the church of the Firstborn; and they see as they are seen, and know as they are known, having received of his fulness and of his grace; 95 And he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion. 96 And the glory of the celestial is one, even as the glory of the sun is one. 97 And the glory of the terrestrial is one, even as the glory of the moon is one. 98 And the glory of the telestial is one, even as the glory of the stars is one; for as one star differs from another star in glory, even so differs one from another in glory in the telestial world;
In most instances, Mormons also believe that the earth is roughly around 7000 years old. The dinosaur bones that are unearthed which point to the earth being much older are simply recycled materials from other created and destroyed planets. The presence of these bones is not meant to point to the actual age of the planet but it is more to test our faith in God. This contains the Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, about March 1832. Joseph Smith’s history states, “In connection with the translation of the Scriptures, I received the following explanation of the Revelation of St. John .”
This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. Shifting sexual mores have made Mormon polygamy and sacred undergarments a matter more of slightly kinky fascination rather ...
Native Americans Are Descendants of Ancient Israelites. Much of the BoM story focuses on two groups of Israelites in the New World, the Nephites and the Lamanites, descended from two of the sons of Lehi of the tribe of Manasseh.
This includes four groups: the Jaredites, who came from Mesopotamia after the fall of the Tower of Babel (3 rd Millennium BC), and three groups of Israelites who came in the 6 th Century B.C.—Lehites from the tribe of Manasseh, Ishmaelites from the tribe of Ephraim, and Mulekites from the tribe of Judah.
Their renewed hostilities culminated in a great religious war in AD 385 at the hill Cumorah in upstate New York, in which the Lamanites were victorious and 230,000 Nephites were killed. The few surviving Nephites soon died, and the surviving Lamanites became the “American Indians.”.
In the BoM dark skin is a sign of God’s curse, while white skin is a sign of his blessing. When the Lamanites displease God, “because of their iniquity….the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them” (2 Nephi 5:21). Later, when the Lamanites become Christians, “their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites” (3 Nephi 2:15). Other racist passages in the scripture have simply been changed by Mormon authorities—e.g., 2 Nephi 30:6, which originally referred to conversion to Christianity bringing about a “white and delightsome people,” now reads, as of 1981, “a pure and delightsome people.” As for black people, Joseph Smith taught that they are cursed as “sons of Cain.” Brigham Young, the successor of Joseph Smith, stated: “Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so” ( Journal of Discourses, vol. 10). Since blacks were a stigmatized race in Mormonism, black men were denied ordination to the priesthood in the LDS Church. While the LDS Church, under pressure, finally granted black men the priesthood in 1978, the racism in their Scriptures remains as offensive as ever. Note: The doctrine that black skin is a punishment was renounced by the Church hierarchy in December 2013.
Mormon authorities teach that the BoM is a translation from ancient records written in a “Reformed Egyptian” script on metal plates between the years 2500 BC and AD 421. Among the many reasons for doubting this claim are the following:
The Mormon story is that the Nephite military commander and prophet Moroni buried a history of his people, written on “gold plates,” in the hill Cumorah in AD 421. 1400 years later, on the night of September 22-23, 1823, Moroni, now having become an angel, visits 17-year-old Joseph Smith in his bedroom and tells him where the plates are buried. It happens to be just 3 miles south of where Smith lives. He goes there and sees the plates in a stone box, but as soon as he tries to take them the angel forbids him. He returns to the same spot on the same night of the year for the next two years, without success. Then, by looking into his seer-stone or “peep stone,” a chocolate-colored, egg-shaped stone which he had found when digging a well in 1822 and used to find lost and buried treasure, Smith learns that to be successful he must marry Emma Hale and take her with him to Cumorah. So on Sept. 22, 1827, he and Emma conduct a “black magic” ritual: at midnight, dressed entirely in black, they drive a black carriage drawn by a black horse to the hill. Joseph unearths the box and takes the plates, along with some magical eyeglasses made out of stones (called “interpreters” and “the Urim and Thummim”) with which to decipher the “reformed Egyptian” language in which the texts on the plates are written. According to Smith, the plates were “six inches wide and eight inches long and not quite as thick as common tin;” they were “filled with engravings in Egyptian characters and bound together in a volume, as the leaves of a book with three rings running through the whole;” and the stack of metal pages stood about six inches high.