Doctrines of Salvation 1:236“SAINTS ARE THE BEST PEOPLE. We are, notwithstanding our weaknesses, the best people in the world. I do not say that boastingly, for I believe that this truth is evident to all who are willing to observe for themselves. We are morally clean, in every way equal, and in many ways superior […]
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LDS: We do NOT have the Fullness of the Gospel
“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.” — Isaiah 40:8 Doctrines of Salvation 3:224“At the command of the Lord, however, Moroni also sealed up the greater things in this vision and also the interpreters-which were the same “two stones” had by the Brother of Jared-so that this vision should […]
Teaching LDS Kids God had Sex with Mary
We’ve been republishing some older articles based on requests of readers who share the updated versions with family and friends, We pray it’s helpful to those who use them, but mostly that it brings glory to God, and puts focus on Him. Here we go! Originally published in 2014. Today’s dilemma reminded me of God’s providence. […]
Adam did NOT Sin in Garden of Eden
“Fall-Atonement-Resurrection-Sacrament,” in Charge to Religious Educators, 1982, p. 124“What did Adam do? The very thing the Lord wanted him to do; and I hate to hear anybody call it a sin, for it wasn’t a sin. Now this is the way I interpret that: The Lord said to Adam, here is the tree of the […]
LDS Contradiction: Smith’s BoM Translation
Doctrines of Salvation, 3:225“SEER STONE NOT USED IN BOOK OF MORMON TRANSLATION. We have been taught since the days of the Prophet that the Urim and Thummim were returned with the plates to the angel. We have no record of the Prophet having the Urim and Thummim after the organization of the Church…” – Joseph […]
Pretending BoM Cities Exist
Doctrines of Salvation 3:239 “ANCIENT CITY OF MANTI IN MISSOURI. The following is also taken from the history of the travels of the Kirtland Camp: “The camp passed through Huntsville, in Randolph County, which has been appointed as one of the stakes of Zion, and is the ancient site of the City of Manti, and pitched […]
LDS: Sacrificing Animals Must be Restored
Doctrines of Salvation 3:94~ “Now in the nature of things, the law of sacrifice will have to be restored, or all things which were decreed by the Lord would not be restored. It will be necessary, therefore, for the sons of Levi, who offered the blood sacrifices anciently in Israel, to offer such a sacrifice again to […]
LDS Prophet Calls BoM Teaching False!
Doctrines of Salvation 2:130 “FALSE LIMITATIONS ON HOPE OF SALVATION. Let us reflect for a moment on this teaching that only those who confess the name of Christ or who are baptized in this life shall be saved; that all who have died without confessing Christ, or without having had the privilege of hearing him, are […]
MANY DEAD WILL REJECT GOSPEL
Conference Report, April 1959, p. 23 “I have no idea in my mind that every soul that has lived upon the face of the earth, who has died and gone to the spirit world, is going to repent and receive the gospel. There will be many that will not do that. Our scriptures point to that fact. They […]
God Created Other People…On Other Earths
1 Corinthians 15:22, 45; “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” BYU Speeches, Devotional, ‘A Wonderful Flood of Light,’ March 26, 1989;“We do not know how many […]