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Ray Comfort has produced several short videos on
Mormonism and I will quote a few things from one of them later. After Islam, Mormonism is the fastest growing religion in the world. I think God’s
people need to know more about the roots of Mormonism and all the cults, for
that matter. Perhaps I will take on a small project in these days to reveal some of the major errors of the cults, the roots of some very bad trees. We
will see. If the roots of a tree are bad, Jesus taught, you cannot expect good
fruit (Mt.7:17-19; 12:33).
William Miller, the co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventists, came forward,
more or less in 1818, about the same time as Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day
Saints (the Mormons). They both were ignorant young men, who appeared in the
same state of New York. Miller prophesied of the return of Christ after 1840,
and then postponed his prediction twice, before he gave up. Meanwhile, his
followers sold their lands and properties in preparation for what never happened.
Enter Helen G. White from Maine, an ignorant woman, who followed William Miller
and became a leader and co-founder of the Adventist movement. Charles Russell,
the founder of the Jehovah Witnesses
began his radical Bible studies in the 1870s in the state of Pennsylvania,
after attending the meetings of the Adventists. So within 50 years, three of
the major cult movements began in the same area of the United States.
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| Visitation of Moroni. Notice siblings asleep. |
Joseph Smith had a tremendous imagination and
apparently a tongue to match. His mother said that he would relate imaginary
stories of the Native Americans, as realistically as if he lived among them. The
Mormon believer relies totally on the revelations that Joseph Smith claimed to
have. His story is that in the spring of 1820, he first had a vision of God
the Father and Jesus Christ, while alone praying
in the woods. Three years later, he was visited three times by an angel, Moroni,
while in his bed at night. Although his brothers were in the same bedroom, they
were not awakened. No witnesses. He was shown, where he could find an ancient
record and the next day he found it. But no witnesses. Although he was an
ignorant young man, as were the other cultists, he was given the ability to translate it from a form of Egyptian
into English. That record, The Book of
Mormon, to the Mormon is as valid as the Bible.
Unsubstantiated claims and blind faith
To be a Mormon you must take and believe this
testimony of one man without any proof or confirmation that what he is saying
is the truth. It´s blind faith, something that even God does not demand… God
gives confirmation and proof… but this is blind faith in a man and in his
story. The Mormon thinks something like this: “Okay, Joe, I believe your story
and I’m banking on it and everything you teach with my whole life and trusting
it for my eternal destiny.” It is amazing to me that anyone would do that,
especially when the Bible teaches, “Thus
says the Lord; Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his
strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.” (Jer.17:5)
The life of Jesus Christ was the fulfillment and
confirmation of hundreds of Old Testament texts. Many people witnessed the
testimony of the Father upon Him, “This
is my beloved Son…” Even on the Mount of Transfiguration, three disciples
testified to the revelation of His glory and the words of the Father, and so it
was, throughout His life. Paul writes of over 500, who saw Him after His resurrection. Paul’s vision
of Christ was witnessed by those who accompanied him and his conversion was
witnessed by Ananias. The Word of God can be put to the test and found to be
unfailing.
Later, there were eleven “witnesses”, all of which had
close ties to Smith and his family and one, who had a great financial interest
in The Book of Mormon, who claim to have
seen the golden plates in visionary form… not literal. By 1847, not one of
these “witnesses” was any longer a part of the Mormon Church. Hmmmm…
It is astounding that very intelligent people today would
believe something so radical, something they would never do in business or
other areas of life. It indicates that they are under a curse already, before
they turn to Joseph Smith. That is the only explanation for such blindness. Joseph
Smith has no confirmation whatsoever that he saw a vision of the Father and
Jesus Christ. Every Mormon has believed the word of one man. Mormonism must be the most illogical, as well as
unbiblical, of the three sects that I have mentioned.
Polygamy, deception, no repentance
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| Joseph Smith |
Polygamy was taught by Joseph Smith
and practiced by early Mormons. Joseph Smith had at least 32 women, in addition
to his original wife, Emma. Seven girls were under the age of 18 and at least
11 were simultaneously married to other men. Smith’s successor, Brigham Young,
was sealed to 55 women.
In the last years, Mormons have
attempted a huge snow job, trying to convince evangelicals that they are a
legitimate church and believe evangelical doctrines. I believe that one of the reasons is to gain their vote, which is necessary in order to put Mormons into political office. They quote past and
present evangelical leaders. They even speak of salvation by grace through
faith, but if you have opportunity to question them, they will tell you that grace comes after you have done everything possible to save yourself. As in all the cults, as well as in Catholicism, the Mormons cannot conceive of salvation without works. All have that in common.
Because such efforts are made, the biblical doctrine of repentance becomes extremely important. It doesn’t matter if a Mormon quotes famous evangelicals and puts forth doctrines, which seem to be genuine. The question is, has he repented of the evil, blasphemous teachings that Mormons have held to from their beginnings? If he is ready to denounce the damnable errors that have been historically taught by the Mormons and publicly confess that Joseph Smith was wrong, that clears the air, you see, and lets you know that he is sincere in what he is saying. Otherwise, we are being duped by the same spirit of deceit that has come forth from the lips of Mormon teachers throughout their history.
Because such efforts are made, the biblical doctrine of repentance becomes extremely important. It doesn’t matter if a Mormon quotes famous evangelicals and puts forth doctrines, which seem to be genuine. The question is, has he repented of the evil, blasphemous teachings that Mormons have held to from their beginnings? If he is ready to denounce the damnable errors that have been historically taught by the Mormons and publicly confess that Joseph Smith was wrong, that clears the air, you see, and lets you know that he is sincere in what he is saying. Otherwise, we are being duped by the same spirit of deceit that has come forth from the lips of Mormon teachers throughout their history.
When a Mormon repents and denounces Joseph Smith, his teachings and practices; when he publicly declares that the Book of Mormon is garbage, containing claims of lost civilizations, which have been disproven archaeologically, that is when I begin to listen to what he has to say about salvation through faith alone and take seriously his quotes from John Wesley, Martin Luther, etc.
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| Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City |
Mitt Romney, a Mormon
teacher, was invited to speak at Liberty University, during his candidacy for
president of the United States. Mormons have invited Pentecostals to speak on
their doctrine of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Other evangelicals have been
invited to speak at their meetings. I think that to comply with those
invitations are acts of irresponsibility, given the background of Mormonism,
unless you are prepared to take advantage of the opportunity, in order to tear
down the whole whitewashed wall that Joseph Smith built (Ez.13:10-14).
The basic reason that cults are cults is because they
have been taught by another teacher and not by the Holy Spirit. Anyone, not
born again by the Spirit of God, can hope to do no better in Bible study. Their
creeds come straight from the human mind, greatly prompted by spirits of
darkness.
True Christians, on the other hand, regardless of
denominational differences, have this in common: They are born again, taught by
the Spirit of God, and therefore He will teach them the essential doctrines…
especially as to who God is… and they can have fellowship in spite of their
differences over non-essential doctrines.
The interpretations that Joseph Smith and his
followers pretend to make about the Bible are on a physical level, even a
sexual level, and include physical reproduction. That’s right, even their god has
begotten through wives and continues to beget. Flying in the face of Jesus’ clear
teaching to the Sadducees (Lk.20:27-36), Mormons believe that they will have
wives in heaven.
From a Ray Comfort film
Joseph Smith said (in one of his last writings before
he was killed in jail): “We have imagined
and supposed that God has been God from all eternity. I will refute that idea
and take away the veil, so that you may see.” Says James White, director of
Alpha and Omega Ministries (see http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/statement-of-faith/): “When
he refused the idea that God had been eternally God, he forever separated his
followers from biblical Christianity. Until Mormonism can repudiate that
belief, there is no way that Mormonism can even begin to consider biblical
Christianity.”
“And so, when we talk about the biblical
Jesus, we have to step back and say, ‘First we start with an eternal God, who
in Psalms 90:2 (is described), Before
the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the
world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.’ When we talk about
Jesus being God, and we point to the passages on the deity of Jesus Christ…
which a Mormon will accept; they believe that Jesus is a god. He is the god of
the Old Testament... just a different god than Elohim. They have two different
gods at that point.”
“We emphasize that we are talking about
an eternal God, Who created all things. Who is not Himself created; He is not
Himself one of the spirits of men. Interestingly enough, the Mormons believe
that Jesus is Jehovah and yet when you go into the Old Testament, Jehovah
creates the spirits of men (Zech.12:1). And yet, in Mormonism, He is one of the
spirits of men.”
“In Colossians, chapter 1, Paul
describes Jesus and says that He is the Creator of all things. (he quotes vs. 16, 17, well worth
looking into at this point). And yet in
Mormonism, Jesus obviously did not create the planet that his father lived on,
when he was a man, or the god before him, or the god before him. So they have
to limit these descriptions of Jesus to just having relevance to this planet!
Elohim was once a man, who lived on another planet and he went through a
process of following the gospel there. He was deemed worthy and when he died,
he was resurrected with his wives and organized this world. (Notice I did not
say created, because the Mormon god cannot create anything out of nothing. He
can only organize preexisting matter.)”
“But he organized this earth, and with
his wives, he begets spiritual children. The first-begotten of his spiritual
children was Jehovah, or Jesus. We all are the spirit-brothers of Jesus. Each
one of us, you and I, we also were begotten by Elohim and one of his heavenly
wives, in a spiritual pre-existence. Another one of the offspring of Elohim was
Lucifer.”
Now, you begin to see how absolutely
ridiculous Mormonism is. I’ve gotten you started in exposing their beliefs. Please
go on, listening to these videos that Ray Comfort is offering, beginning with
the following, so you can see the extreme nature of Mormon teaching! The next
time the two white-shirted, tie-wearing young men come to your door, you will
be able to see beyond the smooth and friendly words, with which they greet you.
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