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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:12 pm
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By Leonard C. Albert
LAITY ALIVE
http://www.laityalive.wordpress.com/
2012/03/07
Book of Mormon. The LDS church teaches that in 1823, an angel named Moroni visited Joseph Smith and divulged the location of some golden plates containing the “fullness of the everlasting gospel.” These plates—abridged by Moroni and his father, Mormon, 1400 years earlier— were written in “reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics.” Along with the plates, Smith found a pair of magical eyeglasses that he used to translate the cryptic writing into English. The first edition of this work was printed by the church in 1830 and is called The Book of Mormon.
In the introduction page to this book it says: “The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God’s dealing with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.” This is simply not true. It is not comparable to the Bible and it certainly does not contain the “fullness of the everlasting gospel.” There are many central and critical beliefs held sacred by the Mormons that are not even mentioned in this book. Here are just a few of these teachings:
•Elohim (God the Father in Mormonism) was once a mortal man and that he was not always God.
•God has a body of flesh and bones.
•God is married in heaven.
•Men can become Gods.
•Temple participation is necessary to become exalted.
•Jesus and Lucifer are brothers.
•The blood of Christ does not cleanse us from certain sins.
•A person can lose his salvation if he is not baptized on behalf of dead relatives.
•There is more than one God.
•Males must hold either the Aaronic or Melchizedek Priesthood.
•There are “three degrees of glory.”
•“Celestial polygamy” (Mormon men will have many wives in heaven) is approved by God.
•Faithful members of the church must wear sacred undergarments that have the power to protect them.
By Leonard C. Albert
LAITY ALIVE
http://www.laityalive.wordpress.com/
2012/03/07
Book of Mormon. The LDS church teaches that in 1823, an angel named Moroni visited Joseph Smith and divulged the location of some golden plates containing the “fullness of the everlasting gospel.” These plates—abridged by Moroni and his father, Mormon, 1400 years earlier— were written in “reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics.” Along with the plates, Smith found a pair of magical eyeglasses that he used to translate the cryptic writing into English. The first edition of this work was printed by the church in 1830 and is called The Book of Mormon.
In the introduction page to this book it says: “The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God’s dealing with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.” This is simply not true. It is not comparable to the Bible and it certainly does not contain the “fullness of the everlasting gospel.” There are many central and critical beliefs held sacred by the Mormons that are not even mentioned in this book. Here are just a few of these teachings:
•Elohim (God the Father in Mormonism) was once a mortal man and that he was not always God.
•God has a body of flesh and bones.
•God is married in heaven.
•Men can become Gods.
•Temple participation is necessary to become exalted.
•Jesus and Lucifer are brothers.
•The blood of Christ does not cleanse us from certain sins.
•A person can lose his salvation if he is not baptized on behalf of dead relatives.
•There is more than one God.
•Males must hold either the Aaronic or Melchizedek Priesthood.
•There are “three degrees of glory.”
•“Celestial polygamy” (Mormon men will have many wives in heaven) is approved by God.
•Faithful members of the church must wear sacred undergarments that have the power to protect them.
