SEVEN THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT MORMONISM
 
 But first, Why All The Fuss?
 
    Some would say, “Why all the fuss in the fist place? All Churches are the same, right?”  Mormon theology is a radical departure form orthodox Christian theology. Mormonism is closer to being a Gnostic Church than a traditional Christian church. Some areas where Mormonism teachings differ from mainstream Christianity are:
 
* Humankind’s purpose in life is to become gods. God was a man just like us, who lived on another planet on a world like ours. God is married and has basically “celestial sex” with his many goddess wives to produce spirit offspring. People can become gods after they die  like god by going through secret temple rituals and living a moral life.
 
*Christ’s death on the cross did not obtain salvation for Christians. People are saved by works.
 
*Jesus was not the only begotten Son of God, but merely, the firstborn of many spirit children. All the angels in heaven were or will be incarnated into the bodies of people on the earth (the doctrine of preexistence). Lucifer and the demons are the spirit brothers and sisters of Jesus (as well as our spirit brothers and sisters). Since they fell, they did not get bodies.
 
*The Bible cannot be trusted as scripture, because it has been “mistranslated” (actually, more like deliberately altered in the Mormon view).  Other books, such as The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, and The Book of Mormon are favored over the Bible.
*The Mormon Church is the only true Church - - depending on which of the 150 or so Churcches that claim to follow Smith’s teachings you’re talking about. The largest and most well known is the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints with headquarters in Utah. The second largest, althugh a distant second, is the Community of Christ (formerly called the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). Each church claims to be the only true church. Outside of the Mormon Church, no one can attain godhood, but will live in one of the lower 2 levels on heaven. People who leave the Mormon Church will be condemned to Hell, along with other sinners.
 
So, you better decide if the Mormon Church is true or not, or else you miss out on Godhood!
Mormons will tell you they don’t think the Mormon church is true, they know it is. The reason they know this, is because they prayed about it and got a feeling it was true, called the “burning in the bosom”. This is shockingly similar to Gnostic cults of the past, who thought they had obtained divine knowledge directly from God. In fact, Mormons have quite a few things in common with Gnostic cults of the past, including the belief the Jesus and Lucifer were brothers.
 
THIS VIDEO WHICH THE MORMON CHURCH FORBIDS IT'S MEMBERS TO WATCH TELLS THE STORY OF MORMON THEOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL

 
It all boils down to this:

THE VALIDITY OF MORMONISM IS ULTIMATELY BASED ON THE TESTIMONY OF ONE MAN, JOSEPH SMITH JR. IF SMITH WAS A FALSE PROPHET, THEN SO IT GOES MORMONISM IS WRONG.
 
If Smith was wrong, then Mormonism is also wrong. I am presenting 7 irrefutable things which prove Joseph Smith was a false prophet: Here they are (click on them to read in detail):
 
1 DNA testing has proven Native American Indians, Polynesians, and Aleutes (Eskimos) are from Asia, and not Israelites as the Book of Mormon says, thus proving it and Joseph Smith false.
 
2. The Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price is not a lost book of the Bible, but just a Pagan document called The Book of The Dead, thus proving Smith a false prophet.
 
3. Mormon temple rituals and other things were not the result of "divine revelations", but were simply plagiarized from Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
 
4. Joseph Smith was fooled by the Kinderhook Plates, thus proving he was a false prophet.
 
5. Joseph Smith falsely predicted that all Mormons alive in 1830 would live to See Christ return.
 
6. Joseph Smith could very well indeed have written The Book of Mormon (and did!).
 
7.Joseph Smith was not a humble pious man as Mormons claim, but was proud, power hungry, and practiced the occult!

 
 
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Now, I think you see from these 7 things that Joseph Smith Jr. was a false prophet. I don’t
write these things to hurt anyone feelings, only that you will know the truth.
I know some of you say you feel the church is right. But every follower of Joseph Smith,
belonging to the other 150 sects, each claiming to be true and the others of Satan, also say
they have this same feeling. How can all of you be right?

You CAN trust the Bible. Click on the Bible Contradictions Answered section and you’ll see.
I invite you to know the real Jesus, not some Gnostic creation of a false prophet. Jesus said many
would come in his name and deceive many. Paul said if even an angel of light preached another
Gospel let him be accursed.

If you’re reading this and thinking of becoming a Mormon, please reconsider. Mormons
will try to rush you through the conversion process as quickly as they can. When I was 13,
I joined to please my dad, and got out after a year. (I still dabbled in the occult off and on even as a Mormon)  My first visit from the missionaries was on a Monday. I got baptized on Saturday.
On Sunday I was made a Deacon in the Priesthood of Aaron. All that was in just 6 days!
Don’t let anyone rush you.
If you’re a Mormon and you want to leave, they will tell you that you have to have a “trial” to be excommunicated. Sounds cult like, huh? The Mormons will try to brow beat you into staying.
You don’t have to go this “trial”, no one can make you, and they’ll have the trial without you.
 Just write a letter and mail it to your branch or stake and be done with it.  In the long run,
it’s better to be right than liked.


May The Peace of God that Surpasses All Understanding
Be With You This Day and Always
 And here’s some recommended reading:

Maze of Mormonism

The Book of Mormon and DNA

ADDITIONAL LINKS:
 
http://www.utlm.org/
 
http://www.bible.ca/mor-questions.htm
 
http://josephlied.com/

 
http://www.biblebelievers.net/Cults/Mormonism/FortyYears/kjcfor06.htm
 
http://www.4truth.net/site/c.hiKXLbPNLrF/b.2950559/

 
http://www.watchman.org/lds/abraham2.htm

 
http://www.mrm.org/topics/d-c-and-pearl-great-price/book-abraham

 
http://www.mrm.org/book-of-abraham

 
http://www.irr.org/mit/Books/BHOH/bhoh1.html

 
http://www.rickross.com/reference/mormon/mormon190.html
 
http://query.nytimes.com/

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