Christianity Restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith

TO ALL INVESTIGATORS of Mormonism:

I promise that God will answer your prayers and let you know through the undeniable power of the Holy Spirit that "Mormonism" -- Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ -- is true.

Those who tell you otherwise have been deceived or are intentionally leading you astray.

TO ALL MEMBERS of the LDS Church:

I promise that as you bear testimony of Jesus Christ's gospel, Joseph Smith's prophetic mission and the truths that were restored through him, you will be blessed with happiness and lives will be changed for the better!

TO ALL CRITICS and so-called ANTI-MORMONS:

Know that God loves you. He waits with outstretched arms to receive you and bless you with the Spirit of God in your life.

If you insist on attacking the Church, leading away its members with cynicism and antagonism, and angrily destroy the spirituality and innocence of those around you - you will be held accountable for your actions by the Lord God Himself, will not find peace in this life, and will be left to yourself with the distance between you and God growing daily. It need not be this way. You can always change.

To learn more about how Mormons feel about Jesus Christ, please visit:

http://www.jesuschrist.lds.org

To learn more about the Prophet Joseph Smith, please visit:

http://www.josephsmith.net

To learn basic facts about Mormon doctrine and practices, please visit:

http://www.mormon.org

Excerpt of talk by Elder Neal A Maxwell in October 2003 given at the Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held at the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

Music: Arrangement of "My Heavenly Father Loves Me" by Jonathan Chan.

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[ChristianRootsMan]

I'm not trying to attack your faith but I'm a firm believer in Jesus Christ and just as you want to talk to me about Mormonism I wouldn't feel I was doing my duty if I didn't defend what I think is the truth "which will set you free". And I think the truth is the Bible and I understand that you believe in the Bible and the Book of Mormon but I'm saying the Bible doesn't really need/have a companion. I don't hate mormons I respect them, but I respectfully disagree with them.

[DefendingMormonism]

@ChristianRootsMan Thanks for your respectful approach. I admire anybody who stands firm in their belief of Christ in the face of societal pressures and faithlessness. Nobody can say for sure how many Christian traditions actually survived throughout the ages. We can only attest to what we know survived, not what was lost. The Old and New Testament did miraculously make it to our current day, but is it exactly as it was when the prophets and apostles first spoke it or recorded it? Probably not.

[ChristianRootsMan]

So if we have preserved traditions of Jesus from his time, I think they are historically reliable, thus preserved with no need to be resotred. So they are reliable and yet they don't speak of some of the things Joseph smith does? isn't that modification not restoration of something that is already preserved? For instance I don't ever see Jesus saying we can be Gods, that he was going to the americas, that we were spirits in another realm before life. So aren't this just JS's teachings?

[DefendingMormonism]

@ChristianRootsMan More importantly, despite surviving ancients texts, God has always given authority (priesthood) to act in His name to humans, and scripture alone is not enough to run God's kingdom, according to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Mormons teach that in the Restoration, not only were revelations received to clarify Christian doctrine, but authority was given by God to Joseph Smith to perform Christian rituals such as baptism, and to speak in God's name.

[LDStothecore]

I echo the introduction to this video. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true. Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God and the Book of Mormon is true. These things I know, not because I am told to or forced to, but because I know of it by the workings of the Spirit of God. We are to be lights unto the world (although the true Light is Christ) to bring souls unto Him who gave His life that we might live.

[DefendingMormonism]

@LDStothecore Appreciate your testimony. God bless.

[THELDSLIFE]

I love how Elder Maxwell asks us to "Feast" in the revelatory banquet... it sounds much nicer than what Isaiah said.

"For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Indeed, the waters in which we drink come from the spring high a top the mountains... the milk is as pure as mama's milk and the Holy Spirit is strong!

[alanplum7]

HOW COULD JOSEPH SEE GOD?

John 1:18: No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

[rtiffanytaylor]

I add my testimony of the great work of the Lord, not just when he dwelled on the earth but today.. We all need to take a step back and now that the very essence of who he was and is being attacked all around us! Stand up with us all that those of us that are believers of Christ and doers of his words! May we stand by his side not just when he comes but in our lives daily!!

[Isaiah469]

@getdownto311 My comment has nothing to do with my pride, but of a concern to see the people that God created worship Him the way that He desires them to. If you want to talk about it further feel free to message me and I would love to talk to you. Not here to attack you, but I hope that what I say makes you think because there are a lot of people who think that they are in the truth and are not. I was one of them and that was when I had to swallow my pride, get over myself and repent.

[getdownto311]

@Isaiah469 you have it all backwards what jesus is to the lds people,you are making a mountain out of a mole hil,its plain and simple we believe and worship Jesus Christ plain and simple if you cant come to grips that we do then get over yourself and swallow your pride!.

[saintstrawman]

@DefendingMormonism is it even possible to believe the Bible & book of Mormon? that would be contradictory; for 1 thing thruout the bible Jesus is clearly the Son of God with all Gods spiritual attributes. Jesus warned of false prophets who come in his name. Paul said there would be doctrines of demons that would mislead. the doctrines of Joseph Smith were said to be given to him by an angel of light. the only angel of light in the bible is Lucifer who's not Jesus' spirit brother in scripture.

[ChristianRootsMan]

@TimothyRBerman God has not stopped speaking to people by any means, but I believe that no written Revelations are recieved, since the last works of the New Testament, that are to be written in to a book for the teaching of fellow men. God can speak to us individually but adding to the Bible I believe to be prohibited. Other works such as the Catholic Church Catechism can be held in esteem but still never elevated to anywhere near the status of the Holy Bible.

[ChristianRootsMan]

@TimothyRBerman Yes, in the book of Revelation it says that anybody that adds or revokes any of these words, so too shall the plagues be added unto him. Also, even if Christians were permitted and were at liberty to add new books to scripture, I still wouldn't accept the Book of Mormon or Mormonism in general simply on this premise since in a lot of areas I see these as diametrically opposed to the Bible and Christianity in teaching. God Bless.

[TimothyRBerman]

@ChristianRootsMan Can you point to any specific passage where God revealed that the Bible and only the Bible is the sole word of God? Would you be willing to declare that God is truly a respecter of Persons when His own word states that he is not a respecter of persons? If he is not a respecter of persons, then how can you say that God contained his revelations and teachings in the 66 Books? By whose authority is the 66 books God's only word? Man's or God's? No Christian has answered this ?

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