Melissa e-mailed me the meme of a Mormon quote that’s quite popular on FB. She mentioned the quote had no reference on where to find the original source so I went looking around and found this in a speech given by one of their apostles, Robert D. Hales. Our question is this – If you’re […]
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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 […]
Punishment for Non-Valiant Brings Disabilities and Dark Skin
Decisions for Successful Living, pp. 164-165; “The privilege of obtaining a mortal body on this earth is seemingly so priceless that those in the spirit world, even though unfaithful or not valiant, were undoubtedly permitted to take mortal bodies although under penalty of racial or physical or nationalistic limitations.” – Harold B. Lee, 1973 John 9:2-3; “And […]
Thousands Ready to Die for Joseph; Jesus had None
Journal of Discourses 14:149 “…much as he is scorned and despised, he had hundreds and thousands who would have gone to the death with him when he went to death, but Jesus found not a man. Joseph Smith, though he spent only fourteen years in presiding over this people, organizing the Church, proclaiming the Gospel and […]
Stolen Salvation of the Mormon People
Ensign, ‘The Living Christ,’ May 1977, 26 Bernard Brockbank (1909 – 2000) served in several capacities in the Church, namely that of Missions President in the British Isles in the early 1960’s. In the ‘70’s he served as one of the seven assistants to the twelve to live outside the U.S. He was also in […]
Is Moroni ‘America’s Angel’?
We came upon Mr. Hyde’s remarks about Moroni while looking for references on another subject, and had to share this one. Sigh… We’ll be sure to add this to our next installment of ‘Worst of the Worst Quotes’. Journal of Discourses 6:368 “…it may not be amiss to ask here, by whose power victory so often […]
LDS: Joseph Smith Helped Jesus Open Doors of Salvation
Joseph Smith and the Messiah: Prophetically Linked “Prophets Aid in Redemption … These three prophets, Joseph of Egypt, Moses, and Joseph of the latter days, are linked to the Savior by their work in helping to redeem His children … Joseph of Egypt helped bring…salvation to his family who fled the famine in Canaan…Moses helped bring…salvation to […]
2nd Coming Began in 1820
“Our Consuming Mission,” Address to CES Religious Educators, 5 February 1999 “[T]he Second Coming has been in process at least since 1820, beginning on a lovely spring morning in a sacred grove in Palmyra, New York. We have been in one phase or another, then, of the Second Coming for at least 179 years, with […]
LDS Reject Jesus but Pray for Perfection
Millennial Star, No. 17, Vol. 56, 23 Apr. 1894, 260 “If any of us are imperfect, it is our duty to pray for the gift that will make us perfect. Have I imperfections? I am full of them. What is my duty? To pray to God to give me the gifts that will correct these imperfections. … He wants […]
LDS: God Needs Time to Transport Himself
The Kingdom of God, Pt. 1, No. 2, p. 4 “The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being… The substance of his person occupies space the same as other matter. It has solidity, length, breadth, and thickness, like all other matter. The elementary materials of his […]