Please keep this in mind:to warn against impending doom is not unloving…

Today has been quite a day for the comment box here at Go share your faith. A coupla LDS folks are objecting to my posts…that’s understandable, I’ve challenged their false religion. On one post I called it “silliness” and I believe the shoe fits.

However…I do this because I truly want to sound the alarm and make sure that Christians aren’t misled into thinking that Mormons are “just another sect of Christianity” as they are trying to pass themselves off as. One of the LDS commenters said that I was harsh in the way I went about it…that I’d be better off trying to attract Mormons with something more inviting…that way they’d be more apt to “choose what I’ve got to offer.”

Since I firmly believe that God is the one who must change their hearts before they’ll accept the truth of the Gospel, and that their following a false religion is sin against the God that I love, then I’d rather make sure they understand the predicament they’re in than try and sweet talk them to “my way of thinking.”

Here is a quote by Richard Baxter and though it’s about friendships, I think that it’s somewhat relevant to the situation…

Friendship must be cemented by piety. A wicked man cannot be a true friend; and, if you befriend their wickedness, you show that you are wicked yourselves. Pretend not to love them, if you favour their sins, and seek not their salvation. By favoring their sins, you will show your enmity to God; and then how can you love your brother? If you be their best friends, help them against their worst enemies. And think not all sharpness inconsistent with love: parents correct their children, and God himself ‘chastens every son whom he receiveth.’ Augustine saith, ‘Better it is to love even with the accompaniment of severity, than to mislead by (excess of) lenity.’”

So if you think that I come off a little harsh, it’s only that I love you and I’m trying to wake you up to the truth before its too late.

Just ONE example of the many failed prophesies of Joseph Smith

Recently I posted on the LDS belief in eternal progression. A couple of LDS folks came by to comment and the question of what we ground our faith on came up. This commenter (link here) said that he rests his faith in Christ…I ask which Christ? The Christ of the Bible or the Christ of Joseph Smith?

Can we trust Joseph Smith as speaking for God? Let’s find out…this is just one of many prophesies made my Joseph Smith that didn’t happen. The people living at that time felt no less sure that they were believing in the truth as our commenter does…but see the sad results:

 Joseph Smith prophesied that their would be a temple built in Zion…did it happen? (Notice that this is documented in one of their standard works of scripture…not an “anti-mormon” book)

Temple in Zion

    In a revelation given by Joseph Smith September 22 and 23, 1832, the following statements appear:

Yea, the word of the Lord concerning his church, established in the last days for the restoration of his people,… for the gathering of his saints to stand upon Mount Zion, which shall be the city of New Jerusalem.

Which city shall be built, beginning at the temple lot, which is appointed by the finger of the Lord, in the western boundaries of the State of Missouri, and dedicated by the hand of Joseph Smith, Jun., and others …

Verily this is the word of the Lord, that the city New Jerusalem shall be built by the gathering of the saints, beginning at this place, even the place of the temple, which temple shall be reared in this generation.

For verily this generation shall not all pass away until an house shall be built unto the Lord, and a cloud shall rest upon it….

Therefore, as I said concerning the sons of Moses-for the sons of Moses and also the sons of Aaron shall offer an acceptable offering and sacrifice in the house of the Lord, which house shall be built unto the Lord in this generation, upon the consecrated spot as I have appointed (Doctrine and Covenants 84:2-5, 31).

    Notice that this revelation, given in 1832, plainly states that a temple would be built in the western boundaries of the state of Missouri (that is, in Independence, Missouri) before all of those that were then living passed away. The leaders of the Mormon church understood this revelation to mean exactly what it said. Although the Mormons were driven from Independence (Jackson County, Missouri) they expected to return and fulfill the prophecy.

   

More Mormon Silliness

Mormons have the most Polytheistic religion there is; possibly second to Hinduism. As James White says; “Islam is much closer to Christianity on that level than Mormonism.”

Lest any Mormon you know tries to tell you that they are “just another sect of Christianity” read the following:

“Each God, through his wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters; indeed, there will be no end to the increase of his own children: for each father and mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever. As soon as each God has begotten many millions of male and female spirits, and his Heavenly inheritance becomes too small, to comfortably accommodate his great family, he, in connection with his sons, organizes a new world, after a similar order to the one which we now inhabit, where he sends both the male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones. Thus each God forms a world for the accommodation of his own sons and daughters who are sent forth in their times and seasons, and generations to be born into the same. The inhabitants of each world are required to reverence, adore, and worship their own personal father who dwells in the Heaven which they formerly inhabited.”

(Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, 37, March 1853)

It doesn’t get much more blasphemous or far from Christianity than that.

And I thought that the Morris Cerullo video was disgusting…

And I thought that the Morris Cerullo video was disgusting…

It was nothing compared to this…

More Todd Bentley from “The Battle Cry”

Found over at The battle Cry

“Many of us would rather watch a noisy demonstration of miracles, signs and wonders than have a quiet Bible study. Yet we are faced today with the sad reality that our untempered zeal is a sign of immaturity. Our adolescent craving for the wild and crazy makes us do stupid things. It’s way past time for us to grow up.”

You can read the rest of the blog entry HERE