Lies About Joseph Smith’s ‘Godly’ Lifestyle

21 September

anthony_w-_ivins Relationship Between Mormonism and Freemasonry, p. 179; “From the time of his first heavenly manifestation, Joseph Smith was persecuted, reviled, ridiculed and hated.  His only friends were the few devoted men and women who recognized him in a chosen instrument, raised up by God our Father for the accomplishment of a divine purpose.

Charged with offenses against the civil law he was never found guilty of an unlawful act.  Accused of perverting the word of the Lord as it is contained in the Bible, it cannot be shown that he ever taught a doctrine which is not on harmony with the teachings of that sacred volume.  He was imprisoned and condemned to death when he had committed no offense against God or man.

If ever a man was in need of sympathy and the friendship of good men, that man was Joseph Smith.  It was under these circumstances that Joseph Smith became a member of the Masonic Fraternity.  He hoped to find there the friendship and protection which he so much craved, but which had been denied him outside of his few devoted adherents.  The sequel proved that he was mistaken.” – A.W. Ivins

Ezekiel 35:13; “Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.”

We’re looking over the numerous lies Mr. Anthony Woodward Ivins told in his book about Joseph Smith and Smith’s involvement with the Masonic Lodge. It should come as no surprise Ivins was an LDS Apostle, cousin of the Mormon prophet, Heber J. Grant, and married to a daughter of another apostle, Erastus Snow.

His was a story of nepotism run amuck, making the chance of coming upon any objective truth slim to none. Be that as it may, we‘re taking a look so we can shine some light in the very dark world of adoration Mormons hold for their prophet. We could chalk this book up to just another love-fest for Smith, but we want to use this as an opportunity to give a heads up to the unsuspecting. Many times Mormons will read books like this and get that infamous, ‘burning in the bosom’, they look for as confirmation it must be from God.

The sad reality is that it’s hard to get an objective point of view from things like this when everyone is related to each other. Who’s going to be gutsy enough to tell the truth?

Here are the following problems, aka lies, we found in this small section of Mr. Ivins’ work;

From the time of his first heavenly manifestation, Joseph Smith was persecuted, reviled, ridiculed and hated.

Not true. There are no records anywhere of anyone persecuting Smith when he said he had a vision.

In fact, no one had heard about it for a long time. It was rarely referenced in any Church material, and in fact was left out of the original History of the Church’s publication altogether. Keep in mind this was written by Joe Smith and Oliver Cowdery. It was also omitted in the first version of the Book of Commandments in 1833 which was the precursor of the Doctrine and Covenants. The general membership of the Church hadn’t heard of Smith’s vision until the 1840’s. See LAM’s response to the Church’s Essays.

His only friends were the few devoted men and women who recognized him in a chosen instrument, raised up by God our Father for the accomplishment of a divine purpose.

That was only true for the first few years. His popularity grew exponentially, and rather quickly given the time era. By 1830 he had successfully published the the first version of the Book of Mormon.

Charged with offenses against the civil law he was never found guilty of an unlawful act.

Not true. Smith was found guilty of glass looking in 1826 which included the charge of defrauding Stowell and others.

Accused of perverting the word of the Lord as it is contained in the Bible, it cannot be shown that he ever taught a doctrine which is not on harmony with the teachings of that sacred volume.

This would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic. Furthermore, anyone in the position Mr. Ivins was as an apostle, knew full well about Smith’s wholesale rejection of the Bible.

If it weren’t for Smith’s deviant behavior we wouldn’t be talking about this today.

He was imprisoned and condemned to death when he had committed no offense against God or man.

Technically speaking, Smith was never ‘condemned to death’ by any court. Those that shot and killed him in the Carthage Jail were members of the Masonic Lodge, not the court system.

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