Mormania

There seems to be a new trend among Mormon temples since 2020.  The "Church" no longer wants to be called Mormons and most of the more recent temples no longer have a statue of Moroni on it's highest spire. What is next, no magic underwear?  The Muslims won't be able to call them idolaters.   Moses Lake, Washington

 After Joseph Smith organized his church in 1830 conflict was soon to follow.  In New York he had a reputation that got him driven out.  They built a temple in Kirtland, Ohio in 1836 but soon they moved on. With "divine" prophetic revelation to take possession of other people's land they eventually moved to Nauvoo, Illinois and Missouri. "And thus, even as I have said, if ye are faithful ye shall assemble yourselves together to rejoice upon the land of Missouri, which is the the land of your inheritance, which is now the land of your enemies." (D&C 52:42).  This brought about a series of Mormon Wars.  As they were building a temple in Nauvoo some disenchanted members started a newspaper which published some information critical of Joseph Smith's religious practices, in part was the issue of polygamy.  A few of the Mormons decided they did not like this freedom of the press idea and therefore destroyed the print shop and the press.  This further inflamed

  Another Book of Mormon problem The Mormon claim from 2 Nephi 5:16  is that Nephi built a temple like Solomon's, "And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon".   So where is it?  We know where Solomon's temple was.  The foundation still exists in Jerusalem where Herod rebuilt the temple that stood during the days of Jesus.  The temple of Nephi, is nowhere to be found.  Nothing resembling the temple of Solomon is found any where on the planet.

One of the books in the Mormon collection of so-called scripture is Ether.  It claims to cover a time period from about 2600 BC to 600 BC.  It alludes to the great tower (tower of Babel) when people rebelled against God.  So, low and behold, Jesus Christ reveals himself to Jared and his brother and tells them to get to work and build some barges for a great voyage to a new world (Ether 2:12, 2:16, 3:1).  Rather strange that Jesus had yet to be born in Jerusalem and be given the name Jesus, but this is Mormonism.  These eight barges have a hole in the bottom and in the top, but no windows for air.  There is no mention of these vessels having sails yet they managed to go either around the Horn of Africa, or through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic Ocean.  Keep in mind that the Joseph Smith found the golden plates with this record on a hill in New York, but Mormons claim the barges actually landed somewhere in southern Mexico near present day San Lorenzo.  Therefore they lay clai

 What would Jesus say? Jesus seemed to have little problem addressing the false teachers of his day.  He called some a brood of vipers (Matt. 23:33).  Of others he said their father was the Devil (Jn. 8:44).  So why is it not Christ like if we do the same?  When we are out number by cultists we tend to keep a low profile.  Jesus however did nothing in secret.  He spoke openly in the temple and in the synagogues.  Martin Luther, a Catholic, tacked a written rebuke on the door of a Catholic church in his day (1517), and of course the top dogs in Rome wanted him dead for it. The final message Jesus had for Capernaum was a rebuke in memory of Sodom which God had destroyed with fire hundreds of years earlier.  There was no question what he was saying because all the Jews knew the history of Lot leaving the wicked town of Sodom shortly before its destruction (Matt. 11:23).

A nd when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he [Jesus] answered them and said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation;  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."  (2 Cor. 17:20-21, KJV) When dealing with Mormons and some New Age people this creates a problem when read it in the King James translation.  We can all agree that all humans are God's creation however Jesus said unless we are born again we cannot enter the kingdom of God.  Therefore the kingdom of God is not in everyone.  Most modern English translations read "the kingdom of God is in your midst". Mormon scripture claims "the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man's heart is an old sectarian notion, and is false." (Doctrine and Covenants 130:3) Apostle Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians writes, "Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves!  Or