Beyond that, most Christians have additional beliefs and the denominations may set their own standards for membership, as indeed Mormons do. But under the standard given above, Mormons are clearly Christians.
The Mormons have been hassled, hunted, run out of town and killed since their beginning. I've heard of no other Christian group treated that way, not even the ones who reject common practices of other sects. Mormons follow the law of the land and use the King James Bible.
@omiolo The first, early church saw thousands of Christians killed in a variety of ways, especially the by the pagan Roman Empire. Christians in all forms are harshly treated, even today.
It's nice that a lot of you guys don't believe this church is true. But to be honest, how about instead of trying to tell us we have false prophets, and the BOM isn't true, how about you just don't watch these videos. We have beliefs, you have beliefs, but at least we're not going to videos about your religion and saying that you're going to hell for going to the wrong church. And if someone is, then they're just stupid.
@Edward768 I actually agree with you on your point but doesn't your book immediately bash other religions by calling them all abominations? All religions are the same. There is not one religion that has NOT preached hate in some way. Except Buddhism. Religion is like guns. They aren't supposed to be used for bad things, but in the end, man will kill in the name of a god they can't prove. And yes mormons are sick too. They fuck underage women in the name of god and those are your peers
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The Book of Mormon is make-believe. The Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price are false prophecies, false visions and false translations. The prophets of the Mormon religion are false prophets. And the Lord Jesus Christ, as revealed in the pages of the Holy Bible is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6)
What do the trinitarians have to offer the world? Their trinitarian God created this world, provided billions of souls to occupy it, and sent a Redeemer to save those souls so they could return to Heaven. However, He made a limited effort to give those billions access to the key of redemption--the chance to know that Redeemer and ACCEPT or REJECT Him. Then He condemns those billions to hell because they didn't accept the Redeemer the majority never even heard of.....cont...
If their God is omnipotent, He could have made a way for ALL to participate. Because of this I REJECT their trinitarian Jesus. I refuse to accept a God who is so uncaring, unloving, and unjust that He ignores the prayers and pleadings of the vast majority of His human creations.
This will send me to their hell, but I do this of my own free will and choice. In their hell, I will be among the billions who were never given a free will and choice.....cont...
While many in their hell are the evil & wicked of the world, many are innocent souls who tried to conduct their lives to the best of their knowledge and abilities. There are hundreds of millions who would have accepted the True Son of God had they been given the chance.
The trinitarian God created more souls to be condemned to hell than will ever be exalted to Heaven.
They have absolutely nothing to offer me. I see no reason to abandon my beliefs for theirs.....end
@beckyleer The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible and is a record of God's dealings with His chosen people in the New World. The main purpose of the Book of Mormon is "to the convincing of Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations." (Book of Mormon Title Page) It was written by ancient American prophets for our day (Mormon 8:35) and is an American testament of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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@JackNimble61 really its too ludacris. No one in his right mind believes that Jesus came into this world to destroy anyone much less 16 populated cities of thousands including women and children, when everybody knows that Christ died on the cross to redeem mankind by the a supreame act of love
.I can't get enough of this idea...Jesus killed many when He gave His own life to save all men...huh?
And this is your idea of Jesus Christ? He was a destoyer of many cities? All I can say is WOW!
@Rypaul5217 I'm not surprised at all that you don't understand. What does surprise me is that when given a response, you do not accept it as what we believe and why we believe it. Instead, you think we purposely lie to you. What good is that?
@jackNimble61 - I find not one scripture in the New Testament that says that Jesus killed and destroyed many thousands because of their sins. see 1 Tim 1:15 The Bible says "for ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God" and "The son of man is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them", Luke 9:56 Otherwise He would be a mockery aganst his own death by crucifixion. This city destruction story is only Smith's own voice. is the voice of "the thief" as in Jn 10.
Acts 17:24 The God that made the world and all things therein, seen that the Lord of heaven and earth, dwellth not in temples made with hands: Our creater does not dwelth in temples, nor does he asks for man to make temples to dwelth in, Jesus broke that rule and law, he fulfulled it in the cross of calcary, but some so called worthy priest says so, Jesus broke the veil, and made a way for us, but there r some that thinks otherwise. Oh please!!!
@Chinaculiacan Fight against Christ and His church all you can. That will not deter us from spreading the gospel. Follow me around and harrass me all you want. That will not diminish my testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon or the truth that Joseph was a true prophet of God. It does, in fact, strengthen it. You see, whenever you kick the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you always kick it up-hill and I thank you for that.
@JackNimble61 The Gospel of Christ, is to bring his good news, the eternal life he offers, and the forgiveness of our sins, NOT, the story about a man named Joseph, who liked woman tooooo much to the extend to marry little girls and other mans wives. If that's the gospel you are talking about, then you are DEAD wrong!! I ask u again, why do u do what u do?
@Chinaculiacan You can distort all you want and regret your bearing false witness against a prophet later. You mock what you do not understand and it matters little to you, that is plain to see.
@JackNimble61 Oh i understand, You've seen verses from the bible that dsiproves your prophet, church history, false prophesies, facts about Joseph lies, and on, but you still hold the pride to be an LDS, do you know why Satan is Satan? bcuz of his pride Jack, you defend a man a church, and you rather look away from the evidence that proves ur prophet was a lier, than to come to the fact of Who Jesus of Nazareth is, well than, how far are you from being a Satan?
@JackNimble61 What? did it hurt? Isiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. U c Jack, just bcuz u go around the world and preach about a man and the so call restoration, doesn't mean u r a christian, bcuz everytime someone attacks the church, you with all straingth and passion, defend Joseph, that is first word out of ur mouth, What about Jesus? Jesus is secund.
@JackNimble61 U think with all ur works and good deeds are going to win u favor b4 the almighty, you are bringing garbage b4 God. Ur so called prophet was killed for destroying a printing company, company that had prove he was having an affair with little girls, which letter were given by Jose to the little girl and later he asked 2 b destroy, one of our rights to print, Jose destroy, and American right. bcuz he didn't want to be caught. I feel sorry for u Jack.
@Chinaculiacan You do not listen. You know and have the Redeemer, Jesus Christ, at the head of His church. You can feel sorry for me until judgment day. You can preach your hatred until Christ's return. You can lie about God's prophets. And, you are free to fight against Christ's church to your dying breath. But when you finally realize the things you have done are wrong, your sorrow will not be for me.
John Tyler Bashing. Myself and hundreds of the elders around me have seen it (Christianity) pomp, parade and glory; sounding brass and a tinkling brass it is as corrupt as hell, and the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work that the Christianity of the nineteenth century’ Journal of discourses vol 6 p. 167. U mean u r waiting on Christ return, from the teachings of this mas among others? n u call urself Christian? ofcourse i feel sorry 4 u.
@Chinaculiacan these guys are redicules I hope god has mercie on your souls.haterssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! get a life and stop mocking the church of jesus christ. I myself am a member of the church of jesus christ and I know this church is the true church.amen
@JackNimble61 The apostle Bruce r. Macockie tore down and dammed all Christians who were not Mormon by claiming. There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints Mormon Doctrine 670. No! ur prophet and apostles who said this, Who was he to DAMMED all Christians? Jack I think we've had an extend battle between us, I don’t doubt u want to please God, but your leaders have made a great mistake in taking a place, a place that only belongs to God.
@JackNimble61My reward will be that if some1 sees all of these posts will doubt about joining ur church, and believing in Jose, and instead will give their lives in hearts to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and not to the Mormon Jesus, the one who was conceived by the father with his many wives. Which you guys so kindly made cartoons out of ur doctrine, and banned later for the falseness of the teachings. I told u, give Jesus a chance, he died 4 the opportunity.
@JackNimble61 For some reason It went to my daughters email, and didn’t realized it, I’m not deceiver, I’m telling the truth. This is my account. Now Jack, u keep believing in your prophet and apostles and take care.
@JackNimble61 know this--- I don't believe the Book of Mormon 'Jesus' , it is only a mere fantasy book because In it, a ghost voice proclaims to be Jesus, & destroyed some 16 large populated cities! (see 3rd Nephi chap 9) Christ supposedly at this time gave his life and died on the cross to save souls from sin, but however, destroyed many because of their sins? simple, a savior does not kill and destoy. therefore the story by and from Joe Smith is clearly absurd. See Luke 9:56 and 1 Tim 1:15.
After the kids were finally zonked, I plopped my weary self down and began thinking of some music I could put on to help calm my nerves and soothe my soul. Immediately, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir came to mind. .
Where in the Bible or the BOM does it state to build temples for exultation in the Celestial Heaven? Where does it state that temple rites add anything to ones standing with God?
@JackNimble61 the base of water was for ceremonial washings for the priests after they had sacrificed the animals. The temple of Solomon was not used for baptisms or weddings. The whole temple ceremony is not biblical or in the BOM, but a masonic creation of Joseph Smith.
@TheAslan1975 Well, since the temple ceremonies started in the Kirtland temple, and Joseph didn't have anything to do with the Masons until 1841-42, that sort of blows your theory out of the water.
@JackNimble61 Joseph Smith asked to form a Masonic Lodge in early 1841 and it was granted in late 1841. The temple rites did not formulate until after that. If the temple rites were so given by God why the need for revision in 1990?
@TheAslan1975 First of, not all of the temple rituals were "formulated" only during the Nauvoo period. There are parts that came from the Kirtland era and it only goes to show that these things are built line upon line, precept upon precept, just as God's kingdom is done. As fare as the "revision goes, The message (meaning) stayed the same, the messenger (signs and symbols) or methodology have changed some. Signs and symbols are useless without meaning.
@JackNimble61 The temple rites for marriage did not start until after July 12, 1843 when JS said that he received the revelation. JS joined the Masons in 1841. If a person feels closer to God by going to a temple that is fine, when man says that you have to complete certain rites to obtain a higher level and position with God that is in error. It makes a mockery of Jesus when Jesus said "It is Finished" and the veil to the temple and the Holy of Holies was torn and open to all.
@TheAslan1975 There are only two Christian churches that offer a temple to God and Christ Jesus. It is written that Jesus will come to HIS temple in the last days. That won't be supplied by the Jews. They do not believe He is the Messiah. You say these are the last days and do not provide a temple for Christ to come to. He does not come into your body. He has His own. The only two are the LDS and the Community of Christ church (formerly the RLDS church).
@JackNimble61 You are in error when you say that Christ does not come into us. Paul says in 2 Cor 13:5 "or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Christ is in you..." Eph 1:13 "you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit.." Col 1:27 "which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory. I will believe the Apostle Paul over LDS theology. Christians are the true temple of God.
@TheAslan1975 Through the Holy Spirit we can feel His influence, but that does not mean Christ literally resides in us. Jesus Christ is not a spirit only and He doesn't just leave His body behind whenever it appears it going to be an inconvenience. He is a resurrected being. His body and His spirit have been permanently reunited in its perfect form. Your misinterpretation is understandable. It's what most of the credal Christians teach.
@JackNimble61 The emphasis must always be on Jesus Christ. As Paul says in 2 Cor 5:21 Christ became sin for us in order that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. We are complete in Him as Paul says in Col 2:10. We do not become more complete or more righteousness through the non biblical Mormon temples and rites. The truth of Jesus Christ being in us and us in Him is something you cannot understand as you are natural and have not the spirt of God.
@TheAslan1975 Hello Friend, I know you posted your common 2 weeks ago, I wanted to share with you about Jack, I had my encounters with him not too long ago, and I’m contacting you with nothing with the honest intention to only ask you if we can join prayers for Jack, His blind as a bat, can't fing any other explanation. :)
@TheAslan1975 A baptism as a ritual "washing". The "brasen sea" was, indeed, a baptismal font. Since the Jewish aversion to blood has to do with cleanliness it is highly unlikely they would use the "molten sea" as a bathtub inside the House of the Lord.
@JackNimble61 This basin was not used for "Baptism for the dead". No mention of "Baptism for the dead" in Hebrew writings dealing with the temple of Solomon. The temple of Solomon was not used for celestial/eternal exultation marriages. Being in Jesus Christ I have the Spirit of God in me and I am more Holy, Eternal, and used by Jesus than any Mormon Temple now or in the future ever will be.
@TheAslan1975 You do not know that the font was not used for baptisms. The temples are used for Heavenly Father's holy ordinances. I'm sure you believe that marriage is ordained of God. Is not everything ordained of God meant to be eternal? I believe it is. The temples will dot this earth and they will be here forever. You cannot change that because it is God's will.
@JackNimble61 Paul stated in 1 Cor 3:16-17 that individual Christians are the temple of God. 1 Cor 1:30 Jesus became for us Righteousness and Sanctification.The Jews were commanded to build ONE temple at ONE place. Jesus and the Apostles never said to build temples. The Book of Mormon (The Fullness of the Gospel) has no verses relating to the LDS temple rites of "Baptism for the Dead" and "Marriage for Time and Eternity" . Rev 21:22 there are no temples in the Eternal State.
@TheAslan1975 Heavenly Father did not reveal all things all at once with the other prophets of old either. To think that all temple ordinances were to be announced all at once isn't like what happened with prophets like Moses or Abraham. Those prophets were men, just like Joseph was a man, dealing with everyday situations both spiritual and mundane.
@JackNimble61 So the very nature of God does not seem to have been revealed to JS at one time. JS stated that "God is a man like unto one of yourselves, and that he came to be God.." Brigham Young stated; "God was once a man in mortal flesh as we are.." and that "God has once been a finite being.." These views on the nature of who God is go against ALL the prophets of the Bible, and even the BOM. True prophets of God reveal who He is to us. Joseph and Brigham were False Prophets.
@TheAslan1975 God is not spirit only. He is a spiritual person but He is not spirit only as is the Holy Ghost. We are the literal offspring of God. You have no idea of the true nature of God the Father, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost. That is clear from what you have already posted. Matt 27:46 makes that abundantly clear as does the Lord's prayer. YOU are lacking in knowledge and you should study your scriptures more.
@JackNimble61 True prophets do not contradict themselves. The 1832 D@C section 101:4 prohibited polgamy. that section stayed in the D@C till 1876 when it was replaced with section 132 which permitted polgamy, Prophet BY stated that no one could receive exultation in the celestial kingdom without polgamy, and that this was an eternal covenant. My how the prophets have now changed their song. Now the Mormon church condemns what their prophets said were revelations of God.
@TheAslan1975 Part of being a prophet is to receive revelation. Unless you don't believe the prophets of old received revelation, it would stand to reason a prophet of today would also receive revelation. Did Christ teach only those things that Moses taught? No. He taught a higher law and of repentance and redemption. His precepts advanced the gospel. Joseph does the same with the revelations he received from Heavenly Father.
@JackNimble61 True prophets of God should bring knowledge about Him. Wilford Woodruff's journal of 1854 quotes Brigham Young as saying .."Our God is father Adam..our God was no more or less than Adam." The Mormon Apostle McConkie in a 1981 letter states "BY erred in some of his statements on the nature and kind of being that God is and as to the position of Adam in the plan of salvation..." You have a Mormon apostle saying the Mormon Prophet erred in who God is?? Yes this is the true church.
@TheAslan1975 You don't understand the basics. Why would you be expected to understand those things. Have you ever wondered why it says in the BIBLE that Moses was to be god to Pharaoh?
@JackNimble61 Sir, the basics of who God is does not in anyway show that Yahweh, the only and Eternal God was once a human being, created by another God on another planet, and through obedience and faithfulness became a god. That concept preached by Mormon prophets is not found in the Bible or even in your own book of Mormon. Real prophets of God do not go against what other prophets of God have said about who God is.
@TheAslan1975 Receiving further knowledge or revelation is not going against what other prophets have said, it's merely adding more knowledge and comprehension. False prophets will deny that God reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets.
@JackNimble61 "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor" (John 12:26). No mention of 3 kingdoms here! ALL who believe in Christ are heirs of the eternal kingdom (singular). And so we meet again Jack, You didn't response my last letter, well i'm responding your last one, My prayers are still here for you b4 the father, tell me Jack, how does it feel to b in love with a church instead of God?
@TheAslan1975 Rev 21:22 talks of the earth receiving its celestial glory and it shall become the dwelling place of Jesus Christ and all the joint heirs of that earth so it will in a sense be the house of the Lord. Even Rev 22:6 is a problem with the evangelicals of today that do not believe in latter-day prophets or latter-day revelation to His prophets.
@JackNimble61 Matthew 11:21-24; Hebrews 10:29; Revelation 20:11-15, just to name a few. Not only are there degrees of punishment in hell, there are also varying degrees or reward in heaven. 1 Cor. 3:11-15; and 2 Cor. 5:10 show this very clearly. Jesus promised,
To find rest unto our souls includes peace of mind and heart, which is the result of learning and following the doctrine of Christ, and becoming Christ’s extended hands in serving and helping others. Faith in Jesus Christ and following His teachings give us a firm hope, and this hope becomes a solid anchor to our souls
We know of the doctrine that it is of God, and we do not ask any questions of anybody about it; they are welcome to their opinions, to their ideas and to their vagaries. The man who has reached that degree of faith in God that all doubt and fear have been cast from him, he has entered into ‘God’s rest’” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith [1998], 56).
The statement of faith doesn't elaborate on the "We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost"
Could you elaborate on this for me? Is Jesus God? what about the Holy Ghost? Was Jesus, a spirit child, like lucifer, born to one of God the Father's many wives?
The statement also says that they believe the bible is the word of God, as far as it is translated correct, and that the book of mormon is the word of God.
Do you then believe that the book of mormon is the word of God as far as it is translated correctly, like the bible? or do you believe the book of mormon over and above what the bible says?
In regards to the "as far as it is translated correctly". Who determines whether a verse is translated correctly or not? Could this not cause people to fall into false doctrines because they have no standard scripture to go by?
I wasn't looking for the Mormon temple related stuff, this thing pops up on my YouTube's
"Recommended Videos " list, of all things :D BTW, I'm still thanking God even as I type this that the nearest temple was in Dallas TX when I was in Lubbock in 1986. Thank you God!
I thanked God today that I left moved out of a Ward in Lubbock TX before a temple was built there. With the added control over the membership that a temple represents, leaving that church would've been much more difficult.
@jonnygotz2343 That's an easy one. I knew something was wrong with the religion I was raised with but had no exposure to Christianity. I started reading books by Christian Theologians and Apologists. I read works by G.K. Chesterton, C.S Lewis, Brennan Manning, Thomas Merton. I listened to the words of Ravi Zacharias, one of today's leading Christian apologists. I found out who Jesus really was. I read of a God I had always knew existed.
@Myhopeisinhim For What he taught doctrinally i think he was. [God] said (in the Bible) that we were “gods” and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine. —C. S. Lewis
If you would have read them, you would see that he doesn't teach about becoming gods or goddesses in the same way or aspect as the LDS church teaches. His quotes were taken out of context and in no way support lds view of godhood.
Lewis has been referenced about 100 times in church-sponsored publications — about one-third of which were during general conference addresses. He has been quoted thousands of times "throughout LDS writing."
Many writers have been quoted throughout various denominational writings, and typically out of context. C.S. Lewis taught a difference between a glorified creature and the creator God. He never taught that a glorified creature can become the Creator God.
@Myhopeisinhim We will never surpass God but he will give us the ability to be his sons and daughters. Your taking us become gods as we are gonna be like heavenly father. gods means we are his children. Jesus himself said ye are god because ye are the children of the most high
I'm not so much referring to surpassing God, but you do teach that man can become a God as their God did before them. The bible, however, teaches that there was no God formed before our God, and there will be no God formed after him and that he alone is God. Not just God of us, but there is none like him.
The verses that speak of this in Isaiah speak very boldly against the lds doctrine of godhood.
@Myhopeisinhim Latter-day Saints do not believe that human beings will ever be independent of God, or that they will ever cease to be subordinate to God. They believe that to become as God means to overcome the world through the atonement of Jesus Christ (see 1 John 5:4-5; Revelation 2:7, 11). Thus the faithful become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ and will inherit all things just as Christ inherits all things
Galatians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Revelation 21:7). They are received into the "church of the firstborn," meaning they inherit as though they were the firstborn (see Hebrews 12:23). There are no limitations on these scriptural declarations; those who become as God shall inherit all things. In that glorified state they will resemble our Savior; they will receive his glory and be one with him and with the Father (see 1 John 3:2; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; John 17:21-23
@Myhopeisinhim There is speculation in the church but its not doctrine of the church.
Gordon B Hinkley - don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it. I haven’t heard it discussed for a long time in public discourse. I don’t know. I don’t know all the circumstances under which that statement was made. I understand the philosophical background behind it. But I don’t know a lot about it and I don’t know that others know a lot about it.
Everything Latter-day Saints teach about God is in agreement with the rest of the Christian world, with the exception of His nature. Joseph Smith said God is in the same form as we are, because we were created in His image as the Bible plainly and clearly tells us... But again, we do not emphasize Heavenly Father's past, but the possibility of our future.
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!"
So LDS taught that God was a man, who became a God. However, in order for our God to have been a man, there must have been a God before him who created him and thus the cycle goes back in the history of time.
In regards to Jesus becoming God. Jesus was God before he came to this earth according to the scriptures. Thing is though, scriptures teach that no...
God was formed before our God, and neither will their be after him, and there is only one like him, but mormon teachings is that there are countless gods throughout the universe and countless planets made by these gods, so it teaches there are more gods who are like him, more gods who have been created.
How do you correlate your teaching with what the scriptures say? Or, is it only as far as it is translated correctly? If it goes against your teaching, then its deemed uncorrectly translated?
@Myhopeisinhim It is not a doctrine that we teach. its just speculation about if God was once a man. Someone people think he was talking about Christ there. Jesus was God and Became an man. So couldnt the Father been a Christ on another planet. And that he Elohim was always to and Chose to die for that world. Who knows. Thats why its not a doctrine of the CHurch
@Myhopeisinhim I was praying to find out what church i should join and i had a dream that night with 2 missionaries that ive never seen before and my mom saying follow them, she had passed away a few years earlier. and i met the missionaries a few days later after having a flat tire, they were walking down the street and i stopped them and had the lessons
I personally feel that being born something and actually being something are two different things. Alot of people claim they were born christian, but that isn't the same as being a christian. A person can claim to be born christian, and still not really understand what it truly means to be a christian.
This is why I'm hesitant when people say they were born something. When people say that it usually denotes a misunderstanding of what it truly means to be one.
@jonnygotz2343 Most of the things you've listed seem in harmony with the Bible. So, I ask you this...Why was there a need for Joseph Smith to come around and create a separate book, the Book of Mormon, if what you guys (supposedly) believe is already mentioned in the Bible?
Why should I give Joseph Smith any shred of authenticity over what the Bible says? Or, for that matter, why should the Book of Mormon be held at an equal standard to the Bible?
@lillibeth13 I would ask if you would hold Mark, Luke, and John to that standard. Would you only have one book to tell the story of the gospel? I would think that another testament of Christ would be welcome. The fact that this very thing was spoken of in the Book of Mormon in 2 Nephi 29:3 when it was translated in the 1820s. Would not another testament of Christ be of at least equal value to Christians in that there is another written witness that the Savior lives?
@JackNimble61 That wasn't the question. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are all included in the Bible. The last time I checked, the Book of Mormon isn't one of them.
Jesus said that many false prophets and teachers would arise prior to his Second Coming. What makes you think that Joseph Smith isn't one of them?
@lillibeth13 It DID say there would be many false prophets. I agree with that. What it didn't say is that there would be no prophets at all. In fact, the Bible makes it clear that God will do nothing lest he reveal it unto His servants the prophets.
@lillibeth13 Also, The Bible as you now know it didn't exist until centuries after the apostles were long gone from this earth. You may be aware that there are also books of scripture known to not be present in the Bible that are mentioned within. Where are those.
One last thing. The doctrines spoken of in the Book of Mormon are the same as those of the Bible. The doctrine is the same and you refuse it. Read it for yourself.
@lillibeth13 The Bible clearly defines how to recognize a false prophet. (1 Jn 4:1-6) "Every spirit that confesseth...Jesus Christ " is a true prophet, but "every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: & this is that spirit of antichrist," & is thus a false prophet. The reader can say that Mormons are not Christian & therefore define us how they want, but in truth, Joseph was not a false prophet; for he saw Jesus, standing on the right hand of the Father
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11We claim the aprivilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the bdictates of our own cconscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them dworship how, where, or what they may. 12We believe in being asubject to bkings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying, honoring, and sustaining the dlaw.
@jonnygotz2343 What about the fact that Lucifer was supposedly jealous of Jesus due to the fact that God chose Jesus as Messiah and not Lucifer...and that this is the reason why Satan was cast out due to his envy of Jesus? Is it true that LDS teach such a thing?
@lillibeth13 That is true. Satan wanted the glory for himself and to be the savior. And so did jesus, but jesus wanted to give the glory to his Father and Jesus was chosen
1We abelieve in bGod, the Eternal Father, and in His cSon, Jesus Christ, and in the dHoly Ghost. 2We believe that men will be apunished for their bown sins, and not for Adam’s ctransgression. 3We believe that through the aAtonement of Christ, all bmankind may be csaved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4We believe that the first principles and aordinances of the Gospel are: first, bFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, cRepentance; third, dBaptism by eimmersion for the fremission of sins; fourth, Laying on of ghands for the hgift of the Holy Ghost. 5We believe that a man must be acalled of God, by bprophecy, and by the laying on of chands by those who are in dauthority, to epreach the Gospel and administer in the fordinances thereof.
Respond to this video...6We believe in the same aorganization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, bprophets, cpastors, dteachers, eevangelists, and so forth. 7We believe in the agift of btongues, cprophecy, drevelation, evisions, fhealing, ginterpretation of tongues, and so forth. 8We believe the aBible to be the bword of God as far as it is translated ccorrectly; we also believe the dBook of Mormon to be the word of God.
@jonnygotz2343 Jesus was always God. Jonny, I'm a bit ignorant as to what exactly Mormons believe and teach. Can you give me a list of your core doctrinal principles before I judge what you guys believe?
@lillibeth13 13aWe believe in being bhonest, true, cchaste, dbenevolent, virtuous, and in doing egood to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we fhope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to gendure all things. If there is anything hvirtuous, ilovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
The peppers, which would have been otherwise plowed back into the field, were then sold, and the money raised was donated to the Perpetual Education Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Already fulfilling part of the promises that were to be heard in Elder Nelson's dedicatory prayer, the new facility garnered praise and nods of admiration from virtually every visitor in attendance. Peaceful prelude music welcomed guests. Quiet reverence and anxious smiles of the gathering assembly reflected the peaceful tone permeating the new center.
wooooowww do know that Catholicism outnumbers you by like 80 times right?? I dont debate most religions but one of the religions i cannot stand is mormonism. Nearly all of your beliefs go against Christianities in general.
@jonnygotz2343 Mormons could be called christians but they dont recognize christ in his full divinity and believe that the church has died and has been reborn. These are heresies to be corrected
And since the 4th of July falls on fast Sunday this year, this blogger figures that wards have three options: "1) Do a patriotic themed Sacrament meeting (the Sunday before)
2) Do a patriotic themed Sacrament meeting on July 11th (which feels kinda lame, kinda like singing Christmas Carols at New Year's)
Regarding the survey, research director Luis Lugo and associate director Alan Cooperman said in the preface, “There was no comprehensive, national survey assessing the general state of religious knowledge among U.S. adults.” To address this gap, they said, “the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life set out to gauge what Americans know about their own faiths and about other religions.”
"Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life. May we recognize that each one is doing her best to deal with the challenges which come her way, and may we strive to do our best to help out," said President Monson while offering the closing address at the General Relief Society Meeting on Sept. 25.
"I have learned by experience that there is but one God that pertains to this people, and He is the God that pertains to this earth – the first MAN. That first MAN sent his own Son to redeem the world, to redeem his brethren; his life was taken,? his blood shed, that our sins might be remitted." Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 4, p. 1
The Mormon Messages YouTube page is also being utilized for General Conference. With a click you can find many of the talks from April 2010 General Conference. This is especially nice for those watching conference from mobile devices who cannot upload the LDS.org site but can watch YouTube videos. With a few clicks into the individual video pages, you can also find codes for embedding your favorite conference talks into your blog or Facebook page.
While some Mormons have supposed that this refers to the coming of the Spaniards (which may possibly account for a future and dual fulfillment of Lehi's prophecy), Lehi immediately launched into an exhortation telling his children that as "one generation passeth to another there shall be bloodshed" (v. 12). Apparently, Lehi suspected the coming of "other nations" in the near future...
My name is NORMAN Scott and I have been visited by an angel of God I was told that all religions are false including Mormonism, I was told that I am to start a NEW AND EVERLASTING CHURCH, IT IS TO BE CALLED NORMANISM. The angel showed me that NORMANISM will replace mormonism and I have a new edict from God: You are to leave the corrupted Mormon Sysytem of False Doctrine and join my TRUE AND EVERLASTING CHURCH OF NORMAN HERE AFTER REFERED TO AS NDS or Normans Different Sysytem. Pretty cool huh?
The witnesses of Christianity TESTIFIED of Glory Christ
LDS Witnesses - PRAISE the GLORY of PLATES!
"Smith...AUTHOR & PROPRIETOR of THIS work, has shewn unto us the PLATES...we also saw the engravings thereon all of which has the appearance of ancient work & of curious workmanship & THIS WE BEAR RECORD with words of soberness that the said SMITH HAS SHEWN? UNTO US for we have seen & hefted & know of a surety that the said SMITH HAS GOT the PLATES"
to return to England, to renew the dream of Camelot, to grow up and to grow old, Sir Tom places aside the weapons of war; and armed with the tenets of truth, he hears his monarch command, "Run, boy, run!" A boy had been spared, an idea safeguarded, a hope renewed (See Ensign, Nov. 1982, p. 19.) (Ensign Article - “Run, Boy, Run!”)
"I know many of you are faced with uncertainty," Elder Hinckley said. "Most of you hope to find employment in what is a very difficult job market. Others of you will go on to pursue other degrees at this or other institutions. Still others will settle in to building a home life and raising children. In every case, you will be better off for having completed your degree here."
To prepare spiritually for the tour, the choir was challenged to read the entire Book of Mormon. Then, once they arrived, each choir member was given a Chinese copy of the Book of Mormon with the challenge to give it away to someone they would meet. Almost all the books had been placed before the two-week tour was complete.
The 14th temple in Utah (a 15th is planned in Payson) will be larger than, but not dwarf, the neighboring LDS tabernacle. Its angel Moroni statue will reach several feet higher than the tabernacle’s steeple, according to the church’s website.
A groundbreaking is expected this summer, and construction should be under way soon after that, said Paul Larsen, director of community and economic development. The temple was announced during the Utah-based faith’s General Conference last October.
The typhoon that ravaged Taiwan last August sparked an idea in Tim Bean, a high councilor in the Pleasanton California Stake. The idea was a service project in his stake to help the victims and also build a stronger relationship with the Asian Americans within the area of the stake — Church members and those of other faiths — who might also be willing to help.
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — Ground will soon be broken for the new temple at the top of Utah.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Brigham City Temple is scheduled for July 31 at 9 a.m., according to Scott Trotter, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The public is invited to attend. The event will also be broadcast to stake centers in the temple district.
Building and landscape designs for the temple were created to reflect both the history of the town and other historic temples in that state, according to Brigham City's economic-development directo
"We had some sisters donate all the yarn for the ties, and other sisters donated double-sized sheets and material," she said. "Some sisters went to the thrift stores and found sheet sets. There have been a few sisters who made their own at home to donate. Sometimes we had three workdays a week."
The Bessemer Ward is rooted in faithful families who joined the Church in the early 1900s. One of the first members of the Church in the area was Zillah Ann Mitchell Acker. A large number of the quilts were completed by her descendants. One of her descendants is Shannon Campbell, ward Relief Society president. Sister Campbell was impressed by the various means used by sisters in her ward to help out.
I love all my brothers and sisters but arent we the temples of God? Jesus is the King of king thats all we need not a physical building.
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Middle TN Mormons keep the faith
October 31, 2011
The Tennessean
omiolo 3 months ago
Beyond that, most Christians have additional beliefs and the denominations may set their own standards for membership, as indeed Mormons do. But under the standard given above, Mormons are clearly Christians.
omiolo 3 months ago
The Mormons have been hassled, hunted, run out of town and killed since their beginning. I've heard of no other Christian group treated that way, not even the ones who reject common practices of other sects. Mormons follow the law of the land and use the King James Bible.
omiolo 4 months ago
@omiolo The first, early church saw thousands of Christians killed in a variety of ways, especially the by the pagan Roman Empire. Christians in all forms are harshly treated, even today.
BeeJayEm1 3 months ago
@BeeJayEm1 EVANGELICALs seem to be the ones that hassled, hunted, and ran out of town and killed the Mormons.
omiolo 3 months ago
Letter: Stop the persecution of Mormons
Oroville Mercury-Register
omiolo 4 months ago
It's nice that a lot of you guys don't believe this church is true. But to be honest, how about instead of trying to tell us we have false prophets, and the BOM isn't true, how about you just don't watch these videos. We have beliefs, you have beliefs, but at least we're not going to videos about your religion and saying that you're going to hell for going to the wrong church. And if someone is, then they're just stupid.
Edward768 6 months ago
@Edward768 I actually agree with you on your point but doesn't your book immediately bash other religions by calling them all abominations? All religions are the same. There is not one religion that has NOT preached hate in some way. Except Buddhism. Religion is like guns. They aren't supposed to be used for bad things, but in the end, man will kill in the name of a god they can't prove. And yes mormons are sick too. They fuck underage women in the name of god and those are your peers
daniel11812 6 months ago in playlist About Mormons / LDS
The Redlands Service Club Council, Mormon Helping Hands, Redlands Community Music Association, Home Depot and Victor and Lisa Marabella coordinated improvements to the Bowl, inside and out, in spring. On Friday night, audiences will sit on freshly ...
omiolo 7 months ago
The Book of Mormon is make-believe. The Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price are false prophecies, false visions and false translations. The prophets of the Mormon religion are false prophets. And the Lord Jesus Christ, as revealed in the pages of the Holy Bible is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6)
beckyleer 7 months ago
@beckyleer Sorry to hear you don't believe in revelation.
JackNimble61 7 months ago
@beckyleer
What do the trinitarians have to offer the world? Their trinitarian God created this world, provided billions of souls to occupy it, and sent a Redeemer to save those souls so they could return to Heaven. However, He made a limited effort to give those billions access to the key of redemption--the chance to know that Redeemer and ACCEPT or REJECT Him. Then He condemns those billions to hell because they didn't accept the Redeemer the majority never even heard of.....cont...
GaryKColeman 7 months ago
@beckyleer
If their God is omnipotent, He could have made a way for ALL to participate. Because of this I REJECT their trinitarian Jesus. I refuse to accept a God who is so uncaring, unloving, and unjust that He ignores the prayers and pleadings of the vast majority of His human creations.
This will send me to their hell, but I do this of my own free will and choice. In their hell, I will be among the billions who were never given a free will and choice.....cont...
GaryKColeman 7 months ago
@beckyleer
While many in their hell are the evil & wicked of the world, many are innocent souls who tried to conduct their lives to the best of their knowledge and abilities. There are hundreds of millions who would have accepted the True Son of God had they been given the chance.
The trinitarian God created more souls to be condemned to hell than will ever be exalted to Heaven.
They have absolutely nothing to offer me. I see no reason to abandon my beliefs for theirs.....end
GaryKColeman 7 months ago
@beckyleer The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible and is a record of God's dealings with His chosen people in the New World. The main purpose of the Book of Mormon is "to the convincing of Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations." (Book of Mormon Title Page) It was written by ancient American prophets for our day (Mormon 8:35) and is an American testament of the Lord Jesus Christ.
LDS4Life71 7 months ago
Film makes Lehi's journey real
By Dan Peterson
omiolo 8 months ago
SALT LAKE CITY -- An Academy Award-winning filmmaker has now turned his talents to a different kind of writing.
Kieth Merrill's first novel takes on the timeless conflict of evolution vs creation.
"As a filmmaker I've written a lot of scripts and they're not all going to get made into movies, so I thought, as a storyteller, I've got some stories I really want to tell so it's way cheaper to make them into novels than movies. I'll pick some of the best ones and write novels."
omiolo 8 months ago
@RuPaul5217 You're not exactly known for honesty so I guess we can consider the source on that one. Same ol' same ol'.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 really its too ludacris. No one in his right mind believes that Jesus came into this world to destroy anyone much less 16 populated cities of thousands including women and children, when everybody knows that Christ died on the cross to redeem mankind by the a supreame act of love
.I can't get enough of this idea...Jesus killed many when He gave His own life to save all men...huh?
And this is your idea of Jesus Christ? He was a destoyer of many cities? All I can say is WOW!
Rypaul5217 8 months ago
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@Rypaul5217 I'm not surprised at all that you don't understand. What does surprise me is that when given a response, you do not accept it as what we believe and why we believe it. Instead, you think we purposely lie to you. What good is that?
JackNimble61 8 months ago
Smith once said "oh how I love to hear the wolves howl!" (History of the Chruch vol 6 pg 408)
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Rypaul5217 8 months ago
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@Rypaul5217 What does that have to do with what we've been talking about?
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@jackNimble61 - I find not one scripture in the New Testament that says that Jesus killed and destroyed many thousands because of their sins. see 1 Tim 1:15 The Bible says "for ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God" and "The son of man is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them", Luke 9:56 Otherwise He would be a mockery aganst his own death by crucifixion. This city destruction story is only Smith's own voice. is the voice of "the thief" as in Jn 10.
Joe was a thief.
Rypaul5217 8 months ago
Acts 17:24 The God that made the world and all things therein, seen that the Lord of heaven and earth, dwellth not in temples made with hands: Our creater does not dwelth in temples, nor does he asks for man to make temples to dwelth in, Jesus broke that rule and law, he fulfulled it in the cross of calcary, but some so called worthy priest says so, Jesus broke the veil, and made a way for us, but there r some that thinks otherwise. Oh please!!!
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@Chinaculiacan Fight against Christ and His church all you can. That will not deter us from spreading the gospel. Follow me around and harrass me all you want. That will not diminish my testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon or the truth that Joseph was a true prophet of God. It does, in fact, strengthen it. You see, whenever you kick the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you always kick it up-hill and I thank you for that.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 The Gospel of Christ, is to bring his good news, the eternal life he offers, and the forgiveness of our sins, NOT, the story about a man named Joseph, who liked woman tooooo much to the extend to marry little girls and other mans wives. If that's the gospel you are talking about, then you are DEAD wrong!! I ask u again, why do u do what u do?
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@Chinaculiacan You can distort all you want and regret your bearing false witness against a prophet later. You mock what you do not understand and it matters little to you, that is plain to see.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 Oh i understand, You've seen verses from the bible that dsiproves your prophet, church history, false prophesies, facts about Joseph lies, and on, but you still hold the pride to be an LDS, do you know why Satan is Satan? bcuz of his pride Jack, you defend a man a church, and you rather look away from the evidence that proves ur prophet was a lier, than to come to the fact of Who Jesus of Nazareth is, well than, how far are you from being a Satan?
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 What? did it hurt? Isiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. U c Jack, just bcuz u go around the world and preach about a man and the so call restoration, doesn't mean u r a christian, bcuz everytime someone attacks the church, you with all straingth and passion, defend Joseph, that is first word out of ur mouth, What about Jesus? Jesus is secund.
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 U think with all ur works and good deeds are going to win u favor b4 the almighty, you are bringing garbage b4 God. Ur so called prophet was killed for destroying a printing company, company that had prove he was having an affair with little girls, which letter were given by Jose to the little girl and later he asked 2 b destroy, one of our rights to print, Jose destroy, and American right. bcuz he didn't want to be caught. I feel sorry for u Jack.
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 Give Jesus of Nazareth a chance and he will take away the veil, He died for the opportunity.
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@Chinaculiacan You do not listen. You know and have the Redeemer, Jesus Christ, at the head of His church. You can feel sorry for me until judgment day. You can preach your hatred until Christ's return. You can lie about God's prophets. And, you are free to fight against Christ's church to your dying breath. But when you finally realize the things you have done are wrong, your sorrow will not be for me.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@JackNimble61
John Tyler Bashing. Myself and hundreds of the elders around me have seen it (Christianity) pomp, parade and glory; sounding brass and a tinkling brass it is as corrupt as hell, and the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work that the Christianity of the nineteenth century’ Journal of discourses vol 6 p. 167. U mean u r waiting on Christ return, from the teachings of this mas among others? n u call urself Christian? ofcourse i feel sorry 4 u.
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@Chinaculiacan these guys are redicules I hope god has mercie on your souls.haterssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! get a life and stop mocking the church of jesus christ. I myself am a member of the church of jesus christ and I know this church is the true church.amen
376snake 8 months ago
@376snake Yes your church is true!! And I’m mother Teresa. Hey! When u refer to god, Use Capital, (God) not a little god. Have fear!
pinkflare303 8 months ago
@Chinaculiacan You will receive your reward for fighting against Christ's church.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 The apostle Bruce r. Macockie tore down and dammed all Christians who were not Mormon by claiming. There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints Mormon Doctrine 670. No! ur prophet and apostles who said this, Who was he to DAMMED all Christians? Jack I think we've had an extend battle between us, I don’t doubt u want to please God, but your leaders have made a great mistake in taking a place, a place that only belongs to God.
pinkflare303 8 months ago
@JackNimble61My reward will be that if some1 sees all of these posts will doubt about joining ur church, and believing in Jose, and instead will give their lives in hearts to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and not to the Mormon Jesus, the one who was conceived by the father with his many wives. Which you guys so kindly made cartoons out of ur doctrine, and banned later for the falseness of the teachings. I told u, give Jesus a chance, he died 4 the opportunity.
pinkflare303 8 months ago
@pinkflare303 It's so nice to see you have to have multiple accounts, Chinaculiacan, to look like others back your story. You are a deceiver.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 For some reason It went to my daughters email, and didn’t realized it, I’m not deceiver, I’m telling the truth. This is my account. Now Jack, u keep believing in your prophet and apostles and take care.
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@JackNimble61 know this--- I don't believe the Book of Mormon 'Jesus' , it is only a mere fantasy book because In it, a ghost voice proclaims to be Jesus, & destroyed some 16 large populated cities! (see 3rd Nephi chap 9) Christ supposedly at this time gave his life and died on the cross to save souls from sin, but however, destroyed many because of their sins? simple, a savior does not kill and destoy. therefore the story by and from Joe Smith is clearly absurd. See Luke 9:56 and 1 Tim 1:15.
Rypaul5217 8 months ago
@Rypaul5217 If you do not believe in the "Book of Mormon Jesus" then you do not believe in the risen Lord at all. Good luck with that.
JackNimble61 8 months ago
After the kids were finally zonked, I plopped my weary self down and began thinking of some music I could put on to help calm my nerves and soothe my soul. Immediately, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir came to mind. .
omiolo 9 months ago
Nicely constructed video. It would be easy to mistake it for a Church production.
Sorry for all the silly people that want to belittle and criticize rather than find a way to build something up.
Thanks for the video and Happy Easter!
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1RogerRoger1 9 months ago
Fucking Magnets! How do they work?
Warheart1349 9 months ago
Where in the Bible or the BOM does it state to build temples for exultation in the Celestial Heaven? Where does it state that temple rites add anything to ones standing with God?
TheAslan1975 10 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Did you know that Solomon's temple contained a baptismal font?
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 the base of water was for ceremonial washings for the priests after they had sacrificed the animals. The temple of Solomon was not used for baptisms or weddings. The whole temple ceremony is not biblical or in the BOM, but a masonic creation of Joseph Smith.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Well, since the temple ceremonies started in the Kirtland temple, and Joseph didn't have anything to do with the Masons until 1841-42, that sort of blows your theory out of the water.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 Joseph Smith asked to form a Masonic Lodge in early 1841 and it was granted in late 1841. The temple rites did not formulate until after that. If the temple rites were so given by God why the need for revision in 1990?
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 First of, not all of the temple rituals were "formulated" only during the Nauvoo period. There are parts that came from the Kirtland era and it only goes to show that these things are built line upon line, precept upon precept, just as God's kingdom is done. As fare as the "revision goes, The message (meaning) stayed the same, the messenger (signs and symbols) or methodology have changed some. Signs and symbols are useless without meaning.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 The temple rites for marriage did not start until after July 12, 1843 when JS said that he received the revelation. JS joined the Masons in 1841. If a person feels closer to God by going to a temple that is fine, when man says that you have to complete certain rites to obtain a higher level and position with God that is in error. It makes a mockery of Jesus when Jesus said "It is Finished" and the veil to the temple and the Holy of Holies was torn and open to all.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 There are only two Christian churches that offer a temple to God and Christ Jesus. It is written that Jesus will come to HIS temple in the last days. That won't be supplied by the Jews. They do not believe He is the Messiah. You say these are the last days and do not provide a temple for Christ to come to. He does not come into your body. He has His own. The only two are the LDS and the Community of Christ church (formerly the RLDS church).
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 You are in error when you say that Christ does not come into us. Paul says in 2 Cor 13:5 "or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Christ is in you..." Eph 1:13 "you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit.." Col 1:27 "which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory. I will believe the Apostle Paul over LDS theology. Christians are the true temple of God.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Through the Holy Spirit we can feel His influence, but that does not mean Christ literally resides in us. Jesus Christ is not a spirit only and He doesn't just leave His body behind whenever it appears it going to be an inconvenience. He is a resurrected being. His body and His spirit have been permanently reunited in its perfect form. Your misinterpretation is understandable. It's what most of the credal Christians teach.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 The emphasis must always be on Jesus Christ. As Paul says in 2 Cor 5:21 Christ became sin for us in order that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. We are complete in Him as Paul says in Col 2:10. We do not become more complete or more righteousness through the non biblical Mormon temples and rites. The truth of Jesus Christ being in us and us in Him is something you cannot understand as you are natural and have not the spirt of God.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Hello Friend, I know you posted your common 2 weeks ago, I wanted to share with you about Jack, I had my encounters with him not too long ago, and I’m contacting you with nothing with the honest intention to only ask you if we can join prayers for Jack, His blind as a bat, can't fing any other explanation. :)
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@TheAslan1975 A baptism as a ritual "washing". The "brasen sea" was, indeed, a baptismal font. Since the Jewish aversion to blood has to do with cleanliness it is highly unlikely they would use the "molten sea" as a bathtub inside the House of the Lord.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 This basin was not used for "Baptism for the dead". No mention of "Baptism for the dead" in Hebrew writings dealing with the temple of Solomon. The temple of Solomon was not used for celestial/eternal exultation marriages. Being in Jesus Christ I have the Spirit of God in me and I am more Holy, Eternal, and used by Jesus than any Mormon Temple now or in the future ever will be.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 You do not know that the font was not used for baptisms. The temples are used for Heavenly Father's holy ordinances. I'm sure you believe that marriage is ordained of God. Is not everything ordained of God meant to be eternal? I believe it is. The temples will dot this earth and they will be here forever. You cannot change that because it is God's will.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 Paul stated in 1 Cor 3:16-17 that individual Christians are the temple of God. 1 Cor 1:30 Jesus became for us Righteousness and Sanctification.The Jews were commanded to build ONE temple at ONE place. Jesus and the Apostles never said to build temples. The Book of Mormon (The Fullness of the Gospel) has no verses relating to the LDS temple rites of "Baptism for the Dead" and "Marriage for Time and Eternity" . Rev 21:22 there are no temples in the Eternal State.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Heavenly Father did not reveal all things all at once with the other prophets of old either. To think that all temple ordinances were to be announced all at once isn't like what happened with prophets like Moses or Abraham. Those prophets were men, just like Joseph was a man, dealing with everyday situations both spiritual and mundane.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 So the very nature of God does not seem to have been revealed to JS at one time. JS stated that "God is a man like unto one of yourselves, and that he came to be God.." Brigham Young stated; "God was once a man in mortal flesh as we are.." and that "God has once been a finite being.." These views on the nature of who God is go against ALL the prophets of the Bible, and even the BOM. True prophets of God reveal who He is to us. Joseph and Brigham were False Prophets.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 God is not spirit only. He is a spiritual person but He is not spirit only as is the Holy Ghost. We are the literal offspring of God. You have no idea of the true nature of God the Father, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost. That is clear from what you have already posted. Matt 27:46 makes that abundantly clear as does the Lord's prayer. YOU are lacking in knowledge and you should study your scriptures more.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 True prophets do not contradict themselves. The 1832 D@C section 101:4 prohibited polgamy. that section stayed in the D@C till 1876 when it was replaced with section 132 which permitted polgamy, Prophet BY stated that no one could receive exultation in the celestial kingdom without polgamy, and that this was an eternal covenant. My how the prophets have now changed their song. Now the Mormon church condemns what their prophets said were revelations of God.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Part of being a prophet is to receive revelation. Unless you don't believe the prophets of old received revelation, it would stand to reason a prophet of today would also receive revelation. Did Christ teach only those things that Moses taught? No. He taught a higher law and of repentance and redemption. His precepts advanced the gospel. Joseph does the same with the revelations he received from Heavenly Father.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 True prophets of God should bring knowledge about Him. Wilford Woodruff's journal of 1854 quotes Brigham Young as saying .."Our God is father Adam..our God was no more or less than Adam." The Mormon Apostle McConkie in a 1981 letter states "BY erred in some of his statements on the nature and kind of being that God is and as to the position of Adam in the plan of salvation..." You have a Mormon apostle saying the Mormon Prophet erred in who God is?? Yes this is the true church.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 You don't understand the basics. Why would you be expected to understand those things. Have you ever wondered why it says in the BIBLE that Moses was to be god to Pharaoh?
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 Sir, the basics of who God is does not in anyway show that Yahweh, the only and Eternal God was once a human being, created by another God on another planet, and through obedience and faithfulness became a god. That concept preached by Mormon prophets is not found in the Bible or even in your own book of Mormon. Real prophets of God do not go against what other prophets of God have said about who God is.
TheAslan1975 9 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Receiving further knowledge or revelation is not going against what other prophets have said, it's merely adding more knowledge and comprehension. False prophets will deny that God reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 "If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor" (John 12:26). No mention of 3 kingdoms here! ALL who believe in Christ are heirs of the eternal kingdom (singular). And so we meet again Jack, You didn't response my last letter, well i'm responding your last one, My prayers are still here for you b4 the father, tell me Jack, how does it feel to b in love with a church instead of God?
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
@TheAslan1975 Rev 21:22 talks of the earth receiving its celestial glory and it shall become the dwelling place of Jesus Christ and all the joint heirs of that earth so it will in a sense be the house of the Lord. Even Rev 22:6 is a problem with the evangelicals of today that do not believe in latter-day prophets or latter-day revelation to His prophets.
JackNimble61 9 months ago
@JackNimble61 Matthew 11:21-24; Hebrews 10:29; Revelation 20:11-15, just to name a few. Not only are there degrees of punishment in hell, there are also varying degrees or reward in heaven. 1 Cor. 3:11-15; and 2 Cor. 5:10 show this very clearly. Jesus promised,
Chinaculiacan 8 months ago
To find rest unto our souls includes peace of mind and heart, which is the result of learning and following the doctrine of Christ, and becoming Christ’s extended hands in serving and helping others. Faith in Jesus Christ and following His teachings give us a firm hope, and this hope becomes a solid anchor to our souls
omiolo 10 months ago
We know of the doctrine that it is of God, and we do not ask any questions of anybody about it; they are welcome to their opinions, to their ideas and to their vagaries. The man who has reached that degree of faith in God that all doubt and fear have been cast from him, he has entered into ‘God’s rest’” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith [1998], 56).
omiolo 10 months ago
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The statement of faith doesn't elaborate on the "We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost"
Could you elaborate on this for me? Is Jesus God? what about the Holy Ghost? Was Jesus, a spirit child, like lucifer, born to one of God the Father's many wives?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
The statement also says that they believe the bible is the word of God, as far as it is translated correct, and that the book of mormon is the word of God.
Do you then believe that the book of mormon is the word of God as far as it is translated correctly, like the bible? or do you believe the book of mormon over and above what the bible says?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
In regards to the "as far as it is translated correctly". Who determines whether a verse is translated correctly or not? Could this not cause people to fall into false doctrines because they have no standard scripture to go by?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
I wasn't looking for the Mormon temple related stuff, this thing pops up on my YouTube's
"Recommended Videos " list, of all things :D BTW, I'm still thanking God even as I type this that the nearest temple was in Dallas TX when I was in Lubbock in 1986. Thank you God!
eeikman 11 months ago
I thanked God today that I left moved out of a Ward in Lubbock TX before a temple was built there. With the added control over the membership that a temple represents, leaving that church would've been much more difficult.
eeikman 11 months ago
@eeikman why did you leave?
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343 That's an easy one. I knew something was wrong with the religion I was raised with but had no exposure to Christianity. I started reading books by Christian Theologians and Apologists. I read works by G.K. Chesterton, C.S Lewis, Brennan Manning, Thomas Merton. I listened to the words of Ravi Zacharias, one of today's leading Christian apologists. I found out who Jesus really was. I read of a God I had always knew existed.
eeikman 11 months ago
@eeikman Okay but Cs Lewis was mormon
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Where did you hear that he was a mormon?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim For What he taught doctrinally i think he was. [God] said (in the Bible) that we were “gods” and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine. —C. S. Lewis
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Have you read his books in their entirety, or just seen quotes in mormon based articles that use an odd quote or two from him?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim Yes ive read his books and he would have been lds if he was shared the gospel too
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
If you would have read them, you would see that he doesn't teach about becoming gods or goddesses in the same way or aspect as the LDS church teaches. His quotes were taken out of context and in no way support lds view of godhood.
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim I have read them and he loved the lds church
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
Lewis has been referenced about 100 times in church-sponsored publications — about one-third of which were during general conference addresses. He has been quoted thousands of times "throughout LDS writing."
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Many writers have been quoted throughout various denominational writings, and typically out of context. C.S. Lewis taught a difference between a glorified creature and the creator God. He never taught that a glorified creature can become the Creator God.
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim We will never surpass God but he will give us the ability to be his sons and daughters. Your taking us become gods as we are gonna be like heavenly father. gods means we are his children. Jesus himself said ye are god because ye are the children of the most high
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
I'm not so much referring to surpassing God, but you do teach that man can become a God as their God did before them. The bible, however, teaches that there was no God formed before our God, and there will be no God formed after him and that he alone is God. Not just God of us, but there is none like him.
The verses that speak of this in Isaiah speak very boldly against the lds doctrine of godhood.
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim Latter-day Saints do not believe that human beings will ever be independent of God, or that they will ever cease to be subordinate to God. They believe that to become as God means to overcome the world through the atonement of Jesus Christ (see 1 John 5:4-5; Revelation 2:7, 11). Thus the faithful become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ and will inherit all things just as Christ inherits all things
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
Galatians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Revelation 21:7). They are received into the "church of the firstborn," meaning they inherit as though they were the firstborn (see Hebrews 12:23). There are no limitations on these scriptural declarations; those who become as God shall inherit all things. In that glorified state they will resemble our Savior; they will receive his glory and be one with him and with the Father (see 1 John 3:2; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; John 17:21-23
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
So you see There is always the One God but we help in The Lords creation
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Do you believe that the God that created this world had a father who became God before him?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim There is speculation in the church but its not doctrine of the church.
Gordon B Hinkley - don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it. I haven’t heard it discussed for a long time in public discourse. I don’t know. I don’t know all the circumstances under which that statement was made. I understand the philosophical background behind it. But I don’t know a lot about it and I don’t know that others know a lot about it.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
Everything Latter-day Saints teach about God is in agreement with the rest of the Christian world, with the exception of His nature. Joseph Smith said God is in the same form as we are, because we were created in His image as the Bible plainly and clearly tells us... But again, we do not emphasize Heavenly Father's past, but the possibility of our future.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
Beside Jesus was a Man who became God. Revelation 3:21 so it is possible, but we dont know we just worship God and we will see in the Next Life
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Joseph smith taught:
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!"
So LDS taught that God was a man, who became a God. However, in order for our God to have been a man, there must have been a God before him who created him and thus the cycle goes back in the history of time.
In regards to Jesus becoming God. Jesus was God before he came to this earth according to the scriptures. Thing is though, scriptures teach that no...
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
God was formed before our God, and neither will their be after him, and there is only one like him, but mormon teachings is that there are countless gods throughout the universe and countless planets made by these gods, so it teaches there are more gods who are like him, more gods who have been created.
How do you correlate your teaching with what the scriptures say? Or, is it only as far as it is translated correctly? If it goes against your teaching, then its deemed uncorrectly translated?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim It is not a doctrine that we teach. its just speculation about if God was once a man. Someone people think he was talking about Christ there. Jesus was God and Became an man. So couldnt the Father been a Christ on another planet. And that he Elohim was always to and Chose to die for that world. Who knows. Thats why its not a doctrine of the CHurch
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Does that mean you don't really believe you can become a god of your own planet?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim I dont know and if i do i would be grateful
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Have you been LDS for very long?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim 2 years
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
May I ask what led you to the lds church?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim I was praying to find out what church i should join and i had a dream that night with 2 missionaries that ive never seen before and my mom saying follow them, she had passed away a few years earlier. and i met the missionaries a few days later after having a flat tire, they were walking down the street and i stopped them and had the lessons
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
Did you have much experience with the bible and christianity prior to them?
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim of course i was born baptist and felt it wasnt true... so i prayed and God told me where i needed to be
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343
I personally feel that being born something and actually being something are two different things. Alot of people claim they were born christian, but that isn't the same as being a christian. A person can claim to be born christian, and still not really understand what it truly means to be a christian.
This is why I'm hesitant when people say they were born something. When people say that it usually denotes a misunderstanding of what it truly means to be one.
Myhopeisinhim 11 months ago
@Myhopeisinhim I know what a christian is because i am one
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343 Most of the things you've listed seem in harmony with the Bible. So, I ask you this...Why was there a need for Joseph Smith to come around and create a separate book, the Book of Mormon, if what you guys (supposedly) believe is already mentioned in the Bible?
Why should I give Joseph Smith any shred of authenticity over what the Bible says? Or, for that matter, why should the Book of Mormon be held at an equal standard to the Bible?
lillibeth13 11 months ago
@lillibeth13 I would ask if you would hold Mark, Luke, and John to that standard. Would you only have one book to tell the story of the gospel? I would think that another testament of Christ would be welcome. The fact that this very thing was spoken of in the Book of Mormon in 2 Nephi 29:3 when it was translated in the 1820s. Would not another testament of Christ be of at least equal value to Christians in that there is another written witness that the Savior lives?
JackNimble61 11 months ago
@JackNimble61 That wasn't the question. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are all included in the Bible. The last time I checked, the Book of Mormon isn't one of them.
Jesus said that many false prophets and teachers would arise prior to his Second Coming. What makes you think that Joseph Smith isn't one of them?
lillibeth13 11 months ago
@lillibeth13 It DID say there would be many false prophets. I agree with that. What it didn't say is that there would be no prophets at all. In fact, the Bible makes it clear that God will do nothing lest he reveal it unto His servants the prophets.
JackNimble61 11 months ago
@lillibeth13 Also, The Bible as you now know it didn't exist until centuries after the apostles were long gone from this earth. You may be aware that there are also books of scripture known to not be present in the Bible that are mentioned within. Where are those.
One last thing. The doctrines spoken of in the Book of Mormon are the same as those of the Bible. The doctrine is the same and you refuse it. Read it for yourself.
JackNimble61 11 months ago
@lillibeth13 The Bible clearly defines how to recognize a false prophet. (1 Jn 4:1-6) "Every spirit that confesseth...Jesus Christ " is a true prophet, but "every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: & this is that spirit of antichrist," & is thus a false prophet. The reader can say that Mormons are not Christian & therefore define us how they want, but in truth, Joseph was not a false prophet; for he saw Jesus, standing on the right hand of the Father
batterdown 10 months ago
9We believe all that God has arevealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet breveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. 10We believe in the literal agathering of Israel and in the restoration of the bTen Tribes; that cZion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will dreign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be erenewed and receive its fparadisiacal gglory.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
11We claim the aprivilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the bdictates of our own cconscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them dworship how, where, or what they may. 12We believe in being asubject to bkings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying, honoring, and sustaining the dlaw.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343 What about the fact that Lucifer was supposedly jealous of Jesus due to the fact that God chose Jesus as Messiah and not Lucifer...and that this is the reason why Satan was cast out due to his envy of Jesus? Is it true that LDS teach such a thing?
lillibeth13 11 months ago
@lillibeth13 That is true. Satan wanted the glory for himself and to be the savior. And so did jesus, but jesus wanted to give the glory to his Father and Jesus was chosen
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
1We abelieve in bGod, the Eternal Father, and in His cSon, Jesus Christ, and in the dHoly Ghost. 2We believe that men will be apunished for their bown sins, and not for Adam’s ctransgression. 3We believe that through the aAtonement of Christ, all bmankind may be csaved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
4We believe that the first principles and aordinances of the Gospel are: first, bFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, cRepentance; third, dBaptism by eimmersion for the fremission of sins; fourth, Laying on of ghands for the hgift of the Holy Ghost. 5We believe that a man must be acalled of God, by bprophecy, and by the laying on of chands by those who are in dauthority, to epreach the Gospel and administer in the fordinances thereof.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
Respond to this video...6We believe in the same aorganization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, bprophets, cpastors, dteachers, eevangelists, and so forth. 7We believe in the agift of btongues, cprophecy, drevelation, evisions, fhealing, ginterpretation of tongues, and so forth. 8We believe the aBible to be the bword of God as far as it is translated ccorrectly; we also believe the dBook of Mormon to be the word of God.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343 Jesus was always God. Jonny, I'm a bit ignorant as to what exactly Mormons believe and teach. Can you give me a list of your core doctrinal principles before I judge what you guys believe?
lillibeth13 11 months ago
@lillibeth13 13aWe believe in being bhonest, true, cchaste, dbenevolent, virtuous, and in doing egood to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we fhope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to gendure all things. If there is anything hvirtuous, ilovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
We also have posted a video that looks into the population of the
Hopewell Indians, who lived around the Great Lakes region of the
U.S., during Book of Mormon times to see if they can be considered a
candidate for Book of Mormon peoples. As we learn, the population of
the Hopewell is so small and so spread out, that they would not have
the numbers to comprise the smallest numbers mentioned in The Book
of Mormon. Therefore, cannot be Book of Mormon people.
omiolo 1 year ago
Missionary shoes: I think this photo of missionary shoes littering a doorstep of the mission president's home is worth a thousand words
omiolo 1 year ago
The peppers, which would have been otherwise plowed back into the field, were then sold, and the money raised was donated to the Perpetual Education Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
omiolo 1 year ago
Ambassador of Pakistan Thanks Church Leaders for Mormon Humanitarian Aid
omiolo 1 year ago
If I were an angel
I would like to see
A multitude of temples
Gracing the Earth brightly
retiretoheber 1 year ago
Already fulfilling part of the promises that were to be heard in Elder Nelson's dedicatory prayer, the new facility garnered praise and nods of admiration from virtually every visitor in attendance. Peaceful prelude music welcomed guests. Quiet reverence and anxious smiles of the gathering assembly reflected the peaceful tone permeating the new center.
omiolo 1 year ago
wooooowww do know that Catholicism outnumbers you by like 80 times right?? I dont debate most religions but one of the religions i cannot stand is mormonism. Nearly all of your beliefs go against Christianities in general.
MrBronbron 1 year ago
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@MrBronbron Catholics are good people. You must NOT be Catholic.
omiolo 1 year ago
@MrBronbron How can you hate mormonism. we are christians
jonnygotz2343 11 months ago
@jonnygotz2343 Mormons could be called christians but they dont recognize christ in his full divinity and believe that the church has died and has been reborn. These are heresies to be corrected
MrBronbron 11 months ago
And since the 4th of July falls on fast Sunday this year, this blogger figures that wards have three options: "1) Do a patriotic themed Sacrament meeting (the Sunday before)
2) Do a patriotic themed Sacrament meeting on July 11th (which feels kinda lame, kinda like singing Christmas Carols at New Year's)
omiolo 1 year ago
Regarding the survey, research director Luis Lugo and associate director Alan Cooperman said in the preface, “There was no comprehensive, national survey assessing the general state of religious knowledge among U.S. adults.” To address this gap, they said, “the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life set out to gauge what Americans know about their own faiths and about other religions.”
omiolo 1 year ago
"Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life. May we recognize that each one is doing her best to deal with the challenges which come her way, and may we strive to do our best to help out," said President Monson while offering the closing address at the General Relief Society Meeting on Sept. 25.
omiolo 1 year ago
President Thomas S. Monson speaks at the General Relief Society Meeting in the Conference Center on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010.
omiolo 1 year ago
How did the FIRST MAN send his son?
"I have learned by experience that there is but one God that pertains to this people, and He is the God that pertains to this earth – the first MAN. That first MAN sent his own Son to redeem the world, to redeem his brethren; his life was taken,? his blood shed, that our sins might be remitted." Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 4, p. 1
FIRST "MAN" or EXALTED "MAN" No difference
MAN WORSHIP & ADAM WORSHIP it IS still IDOLATRY!
bdplist 1 year ago
go to w w w . utlm dot org for the truth about mormon beliefs if you would like to know. Blessings
filoIII 1 year ago
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Gal. 1, 1-9 (No hay otro evangelio.)
Aunque viniera un ángel del cielo para anunciarles el evangelio de otra manera que lo hemos anunciado sea un anatema (maldito)
1Tm 6, 3-5
Si alguien les enseña de otra forma ese hombre es un ciego y anda lejos de la verdad….Vr.5 para ellos la religión es un puro negocio
elsie123val 1 year ago
The Mormon Messages YouTube page is also being utilized for General Conference. With a click you can find many of the talks from April 2010 General Conference. This is especially nice for those watching conference from mobile devices who cannot upload the LDS.org site but can watch YouTube videos. With a few clicks into the individual video pages, you can also find codes for embedding your favorite conference talks into your blog or Facebook page.
omiolo 1 year ago
While some Mormons have supposed that this refers to the coming of the Spaniards (which may possibly account for a future and dual fulfillment of Lehi's prophecy), Lehi immediately launched into an exhortation telling his children that as "one generation passeth to another there shall be bloodshed" (v. 12). Apparently, Lehi suspected the coming of "other nations" in the near future...
omiolo 1 year ago
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My name is NORMAN Scott and I have been visited by an angel of God I was told that all religions are false including Mormonism, I was told that I am to start a NEW AND EVERLASTING CHURCH, IT IS TO BE CALLED NORMANISM. The angel showed me that NORMANISM will replace mormonism and I have a new edict from God: You are to leave the corrupted Mormon Sysytem of False Doctrine and join my TRUE AND EVERLASTING CHURCH OF NORMAN HERE AFTER REFERED TO AS NDS or Normans Different Sysytem. Pretty cool huh?
THEAUDIOCONSTRUCT 1 year ago
The witnesses of Christianity TESTIFIED of Glory Christ
LDS Witnesses - PRAISE the GLORY of PLATES!
"Smith...AUTHOR & PROPRIETOR of THIS work, has shewn unto us the PLATES...we also saw the engravings thereon all of which has the appearance of ancient work & of curious workmanship & THIS WE BEAR RECORD with words of soberness that the said SMITH HAS SHEWN? UNTO US for we have seen & hefted & know of a surety that the said SMITH HAS GOT the PLATES"
bdplist 1 year ago
to return to England, to renew the dream of Camelot, to grow up and to grow old, Sir Tom places aside the weapons of war; and armed with the tenets of truth, he hears his monarch command, "Run, boy, run!" A boy had been spared, an idea safeguarded, a hope renewed (See Ensign, Nov. 1982, p. 19.) (Ensign Article - “Run, Boy, Run!”)
omiolo 1 year ago
the temples rare the house of the Lord.
BryceisBibleMan 1 year ago
"I know many of you are faced with uncertainty," Elder Hinckley said. "Most of you hope to find employment in what is a very difficult job market. Others of you will go on to pursue other degrees at this or other institutions. Still others will settle in to building a home life and raising children. In every case, you will be better off for having completed your degree here."
omiolo 1 year ago
On the path
Wilson and Johnson are among eight Mormon missionaries, including six men and two women, currently serving out part of their mission in Savannah.
All completed three weeks of training in Provo, Utah, before beginning their 18- to 24-month commitment.
omiolo 1 year ago
What religions are wrong and right? - iuchat . com
NashleeSanders21 1 year ago
To prepare spiritually for the tour, the choir was challenged to read the entire Book of Mormon. Then, once they arrived, each choir member was given a Chinese copy of the Book of Mormon with the challenge to give it away to someone they would meet. Almost all the books had been placed before the two-week tour was complete.
omiolo 1 year ago
The 14th temple in Utah (a 15th is planned in Payson) will be larger than, but not dwarf, the neighboring LDS tabernacle. Its angel Moroni statue will reach several feet higher than the tabernacle’s steeple, according to the church’s website.
omiolo 1 year ago
A groundbreaking is expected this summer, and construction should be under way soon after that, said Paul Larsen, director of community and economic development. The temple was announced during the Utah-based faith’s General Conference last October.
omiolo 1 year ago
EXAMINE YOURSELF 2CO 13:5
Jesus "IN YOU" then you are Christian
Jesus NOT IN YOU then you are none of His!
bdplist 1 year ago
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Jesus Christ "in you" = Christian
Jesus Christ NOT IN you then you are NOT Christian
bdplist 1 year ago
The typhoon that ravaged Taiwan last August sparked an idea in Tim Bean, a high councilor in the Pleasanton California Stake. The idea was a service project in his stake to help the victims and also build a stronger relationship with the Asian Americans within the area of the stake — Church members and those of other faiths — who might also be willing to help.
omiolo 1 year ago
Taiwanese children rejoice in donations
omiolo 1 year ago
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — Ground will soon be broken for the new temple at the top of Utah.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Brigham City Temple is scheduled for July 31 at 9 a.m., according to Scott Trotter, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
omiolo 1 year ago
The public is invited to attend. The event will also be broadcast to stake centers in the temple district.
Building and landscape designs for the temple were created to reflect both the history of the town and other historic temples in that state, according to Brigham City's economic-development directo
omiolo 1 year ago
"We had some sisters donate all the yarn for the ties, and other sisters donated double-sized sheets and material," she said. "Some sisters went to the thrift stores and found sheet sets. There have been a few sisters who made their own at home to donate. Sometimes we had three workdays a week."
omiolo 1 year ago
The Bessemer Ward is rooted in faithful families who joined the Church in the early 1900s. One of the first members of the Church in the area was Zillah Ann Mitchell Acker. A large number of the quilts were completed by her descendants. One of her descendants is Shannon Campbell, ward Relief Society president. Sister Campbell was impressed by the various means used by sisters in her ward to help out.
omiolo 1 year ago
You need to update Asia-Sapporo Japan will have a temple too.
bigbuggie5 1 year ago
Is it authentic? Very probably.
omiolo 1 year ago