Showing posts with label book of mormon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book of mormon. Show all posts

Saturday, January 30, 2016

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.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Is the Bible Corrupted?

The Mormon looks at a Bible believing Christian with pity, for in their pride they believe they have the truth and that the Bible we have has been corrupted. They believe the Bible believing Christian is part of the abominable Church that is under the power of Satan and leading people to Hell.

This is the very foundation that prevents a Mormon from hearing and responding to Biblical truths. Why would they believe this? Because Joseph Smith told them so in Nephi, which is a prophet from the Book of Mormon.

26 And after they go forth by the hand of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, from the Jews unto the Gentiles, thou seest the formation of that great and abominable church, which is most abominable above all other churches; for behold, they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away.

27 And all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord, that they might blind the eyes and harden the hearts of the children of men.

28 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.
- Nephi 13:26-28

This prophecy by Nephi predicted that this corruption would happen "after the twelve apostles". Joseph Smith had started to write into the KJV the "precious things taken away from the book", and in 1867 the translation was published. Guess what these missing parts were?

They were prophecies about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Imagine that! Check this out... A large part of what was added by Joseph Smith was added to the book of Isaiah, and these additions were specific prophecies about him and the Book of Mormon.

The Isaiah Scroll was found in 1947, and was written around 100 BC. This was written before the corruption that Nephi prophesied about, and is an exact match to today's book of Isaiah. Guess what is NOT in it? Joseph Smith's additions, the "precious things taken away from the book" are NOT in the Isaiah Scroll.

Who is it that has corrupted the Book, but Joseph Smith? Who then is the church that is taken captive by Satan and leading people to Hell, but his church? Yet they do not see...