Blood of Jesus Insufficient?

Joseph Smith and Brigham Young both taught that there are sins not covered by Jesus' blood, and that the sinner must atone for these sins with their own blood. This sins include murder, adultery the second time, and denial of the Holy Spirit.

"It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit. As it was in ancient days, so it is in our day; and though the principles are taught publicly from this stand, still the people do not understand them; yet the law is precisely the same. There are sins that can be atoned for by an offering upon an altar, as in ancient days; and there are sins that the blood of a lamb, of a calf, or of turtle doves, cannot remit, but they must be atoned for by the blood of the man. That is the reason why men talk to you as they do from this stand; they understand the doctrine and throw out a few words about it. You have been taught that doctrine, but you do not understand it."
- Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 4:53.

See also: Bruce R. McConkie (ed.), Doctrines of Salvation, 1955, Vol. 1, pp. 135-156.

http://jod.mrm.org/4/51

Did More For the Church

According to LDS doctrine Jesus is a babbling failure. He was unable to deliver on His Word.

"And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.  And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:18-19 NKJV

After speaking such words to Peter not only did His church fail in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas, but Jesus also came to the Americas to start a church the failed miserably also. What a flop! Poor Jesus couldn't do what Joseph Smith could.

"God is in the still small voice. In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of the devil--all corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet."

- Joseph Smith in History of the Church, Vol. 6, pp. 408-409.

From Heaven

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven."
John 3:27 NKJV

David understood this.

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David.’ Who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”
II Samuel 16:10 NKJV

Does the word "nothing" really mean "nothing"? I would say that indeed, a man can receive NOTHING unless it is given to him from God.

O Lord , I know the way of man is not in himself; It  is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
Jeremiah 10:23 NKJV

Knowing these things should bring us to our knees before God, praying "Lord have mercy on me..."

Systematic Theology

Let us stick to the Word, for Scripture CANNOT be broken.

"—and Scripture cannot be broken— "
John 10:35 ESV

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away."
Matthew 24:35 ESV

As Scripture CANNOT be broken, we can now see what the Bible says about the will of God.

But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.
Psalms 115:3 NKJV

Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places.
Psalms 135:6 NKJV

Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’
Isaiah 46:10 NKJV

"For the Lord of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?”
Isaiah 14:27 NKJV

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done?”
Daniel 4:35 NKJV

“I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of  Yours can be withheld from You.
Job 42:2 NKJV

In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
Ephesians 1:11 NKJV

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord , The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
Psalms 33:10-12 NKJV

KNOWING that God does ALL HE PLEASES, Jesus further drives this point home in John.

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.  This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.  And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:37, 39-40 NKJV

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:44 NKJV

And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
John 6:65 NKJV

And in Luke...

"All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. ”
Luke 10:22 NKJV

None of this should be any surprise as all Scripture agrees so far that God does as He pleases.

God addresses His love for Jacob, and contrasts it to His HATE for Esau in Malachi.

“I have loved you,” says the Lord . “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord . “Yet Jacob I have loved; But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”
Malachi 1:2-3 NKJV

This part of Scripture is SO important that Paul brings it up again in Romans, the systematic layout of salvation. When Paul does this, he also includes THE REASON God loved Jacob but hated Esau. It was so that "the purpose of God according to election might stand".

(for the  children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, THAT THE PURPOSE OF GOD ACCORDING TO ELECTION MIGHT STAND, not of works but of Him who calls), As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
Romans 9:11, 13 NKJV

This is done from the foundation of the world. God has EVERY RIGHT TO DO AS HE PLEASES, and since we are ALL sinners He has a just cause to hate us all. He doesn't owe ANY of us love. EVERYTHING God does is for His glory. Some He has chosen to hate as vessels of wrath, and some He has chosen to love as vessels of mercy.

What shall we say then? Is  there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it  is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it , “Why have you made me like this?” Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
Romans 9:14-21 NKJV

God has EVERY RIGHT TO DO AS HE PLEASES.

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Romans 9:22-24 NKJV

If you argue against any of this, your argument is with God.

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The Bible teaches that God has ALWAYS been God, and that God will ALWAYS be God.

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.  Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isaiah 44:6, 8 KJV

That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord , and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:6 KJV

LDS doctrine teaches that God was NOT always God, but that He was a man and became God.

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The Bible teaches that God is spirit, and cannot be seen by man. The Bible teaches that God FILLS Heaven and earth, and is omnipresent.

LDS doctrine teaches that the Father has a physical body, limiting Him in presence obviously, and that He lives on a planet.

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Truth does not change. 2+2 will ALWAYS be four.

The Bible has changed only in structure when the protestant Bible was canonized, but there have been NO CHANGES in the individual books of the Bible.

The Book of Mormon has endured over 3000 changes since it was written, and it is taught that the Bible is unreliable!!

Do the math for yourself.

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When Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon he translated into King James Version language, which was NOT spoken as a general language at the time. A genuine translation would be from an ancient text into the language of the current day, but this did not happen.

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The Bible teaches that Jesus has ALWAYS been God, and will ALWAYS be God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:1-2 NKJV

Jesus Christ is  the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8 NKJV

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and  coming in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:5-7 NKJV

The Book of Mormon teaches that Jesus was conceived as a spirit baby, giving Him a beginning, that He then became a human "through normal means of conception", and that He then became a god.

These two are mutually exclusive, and cannot both be true.

John 3:16

If this verse means every person to ever live, Paul and John don't agree.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 NKJV

Shouldn't Paul have said "as Jesus loves the world" instead?

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
Ephesians 5:25 NKJV

The Isaiah Scroll

In the book of Nephi, from the Book of Mormon, there is a prophecy about the corruption of Scripture that would happen after the apostles die. This prophecy would place the alleged corruption after 70 AD. (It is this prophecy which allows them to close their eyes to Biblical reference that contradicts LDS doctrine since they can claim the Bible is corrupt.)

In Joseph Smith's original translation he made changes to the book of Isaiah. (Isaiah 42:19-23 being an example.) He added text about "the Lord's servant" that would come (which was him of course) , and he could do this because he convinced people that the Bible was corrupt.

In 1947 the Isaiah Scroll was found, and it contains all 66 chapters. The Scroll is dated to 300-100 BC, which was BEFORE the prophecy of corruption by Nephi. Guess what isn't in it?

Let me riddle you this my friends...

If his translation was of God, why are there obvious errors?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_scroll

The book of Isaiah is jam packed full of amazing Scripture where God declares Himself thee ONLY God, of which He knows NO other. Today's translation of Isaiah says the same thing the Isaiah Scrolls do from 300-100 BC.

Rest and Peace

Saints...

Jesus, Himself, is our peace. Not a sparrow falls from the sky apart from the will of God, and every day of your life was written in the Book before there was even day one of your life. Trust Him FULLY, and praise His Name as you walk through the things God ordained for you from the foundation of the world. We KNOW that ALL things are working together for our good from birth because we believe the Word of God. Loved with an everlasting love...

We worry about our job, our bills, our trip we have planned, and all these other things. Come now Saint and rest in the Lord your God. You have the job you have because God has placed you there, and you will be there as long as He has determined. Your trip will happen if God wills it, and it will not if He has determined you shouldn't go. Let God be God, and you rest in His SOVEREIGN love. Amen, and amen.