MORMON – RABBIT TRAIL
- The
Book of Mormon
says that the Bible is so imperfect that instead of leading men to
God, it actually causes them to stumble. Mark Twain describes The
Book of Mormon as “Chloroform in Print”.
- Jesus
Christ
lived too long ago to relate to anyone today, especially when you have a
living prophet like Joseph Smith.
- Joseph
Smith
continually informed his followers, as God’s chosen leader that he alone
had the right to revelation concerning the “whole church truth”, and every
spirit that did not confess this is of the antichrist.
- The
“wife” revelation was given that Joseph and other faithful Mormon men were
permitted to have as many wives as they pleased. Before he died, Joseph had between 27
and 48 wives based on the documentation from the Mormon Church and other
historians. He had married 12 women
whose husbands were still living.
It was share and share alike – He said, “I did not introduce
polygamy, I just merely restored it”, and not only did God tolerate it,
but that God required it.
- The
abstinence
from tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol is essential for entrance into
the celestial kingdom.
- A
Mormon water tradition is that, in the beginning God blessed water, but cursed
it in the last days – many older Mormons will not get near any body of
water greater than a bathtub.
- Evil
Spirits
in a person can be detected as they “emit” an unpleasant odor and
produce a “shock” to the observer.
- The
earth was created by Jesus by “Organizing the existing Elements”.
- There
are moon dwellers according to Joseph Smith, which are six feet tall and
dress like Quakers and live to be 1,000 years old.
- Aaronic
Priesthood – When
ordained, through adoption, their blood is changed and they become
the Jewish sons of Levi.
- Priesthood
privileges
were refused to blacks. No
man with even a single drop of Negroid blood in his veins could hold the
Mormon priesthood. On
- 144,000
- The
Mormons claim that they ONLY are the 144,000 who inherit eternal life and
the remainder of their denomination will just live in
- Three
distinct Gods
– God the Father – God the Son – God the Spirit (the spirit does not have a body as does the Father and Son.)-
(There is not a three in one trinity)
- God had
many wives – A
heavenly Mother is logically a necessity. Only a part of the entities born to God
are on earth, the rest are in many other worlds.
- God is one of the
countless gods in existence. – There are also Mother gods.
- God has a body of
flesh and bones – He has a God nature and a flesh nature.
- God
evolved from
a lower form of life as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who evolved into Gods.
- God was once a man,
but has been exalted. – We too can become exalted – become a god.
- Mary was not a virgin – The Bible is in
error. Jesus had two fathers – Joseph and God Himself in bodily form -
Mary was one of God’s many wives.
- Jesus is the
spiritual brother of Lucifer and so is man.
- Pre-existence – We existed in
heaven with God our Father and our Mother before we became human. There was never a time when man did not
exist and there will never be a time when he will cease to exist. - Each person was self existent and
coequal with God. It was necessary
that at our birth, the knowledge of “pre-existence” be removed. This is
called The veil of memories. - The
fall of mankind was a blessing in the progression of humanity to the
level of Godhood.
- The
Book of Mormon
corrects the translated errors in the Bible. The scriptures in the Bible
that are correctly translated are the word of God –
- The
lost books of
the Bible that Joseph refers to are: Book of the Covenant - Book of Jasher
- Book of the Acts of Solomon - Book of Jehu - Acts of Uzziah - Sayings of
the Seers - Third Corinthians - Second Ephesians - The Epistle to the
Laodiceans and of course the Bible which contains supplementary text.
- Scripture
include;
Book of Mormon - Doctrine & Covenants – Pearl of Great Price -the
Bible.
- The
Gospel
is the laws and ordinances of the Mormon Church.
- Works – “Once we have been
resurrected, it will be our own efforts, not Christ’s sacrifice
that will be the deciding factor.” Mormons are promised that they will
become gods with angels in subjection to them. By joining the Mormon Church, a person
makes himself eligible for eternal life.
- Salvation is achieved by
obedience to Mormon laws and ordinances.
- Baptism in the “Mormon
Church” washes away all your sins - An agreement to “tithe” is reported to
be necessary before baptism.
- Baptism
for the Dead is
practiced in their secret temple rites according to the “Doctrine and
Covenants”. Mormons emphasize that the
family succession of baptized persons must form an unbroken chain
back to Adam. – They must research their own genealogy. – The
doctrine of vicarious baptism
is a way to save someone who has already died.
- Secret
temple vows – Not
to reveal the secrets – “The penalty is demonstrated by a cutting motion
across the chest with the right hand.
The hand grip is given by pressing the thumb in the hollow between
the first and second knuckles of the Hand.” – There are signs, tokens,
penalties, and grips - Symbols like the Compass and Square - Sounds identical to the Masonic order to me.
Just saying.
- Unpardonable sin – Accepting
Mormonism and then rejecting it.
- Prophecies of Joseph
Smith: – The U.S. Government would be overthrown unless it redressed the
wrong doing to Mormons to their satisfaction - Christ would return in 1891
– Missouri Temple would be built in his generation - All nations would be
involved in the American Civil War –The earth will tremble and the sun
hidden in “not many days” – None of these things happened.
- Bible - If the thing a prophet
says does not come to pass, he is a false prophet.
1 Tim 1:3-4 – Endless
genealogies – Mormons baptisms
3 Not to teach false doctrines any longer
4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless
genealogies. NIV
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