Mormania

Anyone familiar with the Genesis story about Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit understands that it was not a good thing.  Sin never is.  By disobeying God they were driven from the garden and God said they would die.  It brought about a curse upon all of creation.  God eventually sent his Son as a sacrificial lamb to die on the cross to redeem man from the mess because this sin had spread to all mankind.  As Apostle Paul put it, "Just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned..." (Rom. 5:12). Satan said that they would be like God knowing good and evil In Mormonism however this whole ordeal is looked at as a good thing.  Adam said,  "Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.  And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and as glad, saying: Were it not ...

The Book of Mormon tells a story of a guy named Nephi  who lead a group of people from Jerusalem through the wilderness, then on a boat (actually more akin to a barge) to America.  With him was Ismael and his family (Arabs).  Strangely enough the descendants of these Jews and Arabs from Jerusalem did not record their history of events in Hebrew or Arabic, but something called "reformed Egyptian" (1 Nephi 1:2, Mormon 9:32-33).  Any bible student knows that the Old Testament was written in Chaldean Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Greek, but the record of Joseph Smiths new found religion was written in some unknown Egyptian on gold and bronze plates that he found buried on the Hill Cumorah in New York.  From these came contradictory geneologies of Aaron and others.  The biblical Aaron's father was Aram (Ex. 6:20) whereas the Mormon Aaron had a father named Heth (Ether 1:16).  The names of Aaron's sons differ as well.  After 344 days at ...

Though Liahona might sound like a Hawaiian word it is not.  It is actually a fictional brass ball dreamed up by a character in the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi 16:10) that acted as a compass.  This thing simply appeared one morning, "And it came to pass..." that upon the ground "a round ball of curious workmanship; and it was of fine brass.  And within the ball were two spindles; and the one pointed the way whither we should go into the wilderness."  So it came to pass that Nephi lead his clan from Jerusalem through the wilderness by the help of this ball, or director, which latter in Alma 37:38 came to be known as a Liahona which Mormons interpret as a compass.  This is not scientific tool using magnetic poles for direction however.  It was more like a divination device that would show them the way depending upon their faith (Alma 37:40).  Playing upon the biblical story of Moses leading the children of Israel through the wilderness to the promised land,...

Anyone familiar with biblical language and the timeline of the New Testament events will have problems with the Book of Mormon.  In 1 Nephi chapter 13, which supposedly covers a time period between B.C. 600 and 592, we read of references to a great abominable church which has gone forth from the Lamb to spread the gospel.  The Greek word however where we get the word "church" was not even thought of much less used in the Bible during this time.  The Greek bible did not come into existence for several hundred years with the advent of the Septuagint LXX and the word gospel did not come about until the time of Jesus.  The writer of the Book of Mormon is playing to a naive and ignorant audience that would likely know only King James English and have little knowledge of ancient biblical languages.  In Doctrine and Covenants 76:67 there is even mention of a church of Enoch. Another blooper appears in Alma 46:15 which Mormonism claims occurred in B.C. 73 those th...

When Mormons are giving their pitch for the Mormon faith they will often asked you to pray to see if the Book of Mormon is true.  We are not talking about objective truth here, we are talking about Mormon "truth" which has little to do with facts.  Many will tell you of a burning sensation or some other feeling they got when they prayed about the Book of Mormon. Jesus said the truth would set us free (and it might hurt your feelings).  But with Mormonism if one begins to question anything in your search for truth you will soon be labeled contentious, divisive, or of the Devil.  Never mind the obvious contradictions in Mormon writings, the burning in the bosom is the sought after truth.  Heart burn from a spicy pizza will do as long as it ends with Mormonism being true. F U L L   B U R N