Mormania

 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 ...

  Written by Peggy Brown Throughout the covid lockdowns and threats of more to come I have found myself listening to more talk radio. I try and get a full meal deal but had my spirit quirked by listening to Glenn Beck in the mornings. My radar was going off the rails. So I decided to do a little research and yep just what I thought. Glenn Beck has really been pushing the Nazarene Fund. It’s a knockoff of Samaritan’s Purse run by the Billy Graham and now Franklin Graham association. If you know anything about Mormonism, and I do, you will come to realize the Mormons or what they demand (good luck with that) to be referred to these days as ONLY Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have a knock off for anything and everything that a Christian or Christian organization has made successful. Let’s take the Light and the Glory books by David Manuel and Peter Marshall. Yep, they have their knock off of those books. Right down to the same exact stylized front cover artwork. Sa...

  St. George 2021 The Mormons spend millions of dollars every year in upgrades of old temples such as this one in St. George, Utah as well as the construction of new temples around the world.  At present there are 168 temples and 36 more under construction.  They play a part in Mormon's salvation.  What Jesus did on the cross was apparently not enough. "[Building this House] may be called a temporal work, but it pertains to the salvation of ourselves as well as our friends who have passed behind the veil, and also to the generations that are to come after us." —Brigham Young They place more faith in their temples than they do in the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  The bible clearly says that any power we have over Satan is through the power of the blood of Christ and our testimony of what He has done (Rev. 12:10-11).  Historically there was only one temple in Jerusalem which was built according to the pattern of heavenly shadows.  God literally had to dri...

LDS TEMPLE WORK  A Ridiculous Work and A Blunder by Dale Brown The ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem contained an altar for animal sacrifice which atoned for the sins of the living. A practice within the Mormon Temple however has given rise to one of the worlds largest genealogical research libraries. It revolves around a most questioned religious doctrine, that is, the salvation of those already dead through proxy baptism. This practice is reserved for an elite class of church members. Perhaps the most embarrassing thing to the Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) concerning their doctrine of baptism for the dead is the Book of Mormon itself. The Book of Mormon is supposed to contain the "fullness of the everlasting Gospel." In the Doctrine and Covenants (42:12) we read: "And again, the elders, priests, and teachers of this church shall teach the principles of my gospel, WHICH ARE IN THE BIBLE AND THE BOOK OF MORMON, IN WHICH IS THE FULLNESS OF T...

  Why is it that the Book of Mormon which supposedly covers a time period of about 600 B.C. to about A.D. 420 uses Elizabethan English that was popular in 1611?  Well considering that most Americans considered the King James Bible to be holy writ and were used to the style because they had been reading it in school from an early age the writer, or I should say translator, of the Book of Mormon would have wanted to impress his audience with "holy language" that would be too sacrilegious to question.  Throughout the Book of Mormon we see the phrase "and it came to pass" over and over again.  If you had written something this redundant in English class your teacher would have marked it with red ink and suggest you find another way of introducing the next part of your story, but because this is "holy writ" one cannot question the style.  Few talk about a man named Solomon Spalding who had written a manuscript prior to the Book of Mormon that was still at the p...

Like many Mormon writers Timothy Ballard goes to great length to draw a connection between the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and the divine destiny of America.  In this case he connects Smith and his Book of Mormon with Abraham Lincoln.  How one can find a parallel with Lincoln who lead the nation in a fight against slavery and the "white and delightsome" Mormon prophet who would not allow blacks to be a part of his priesthood is another page of fiction.  But, Mormons are all about fiction as is the core of their religion.  The author with a background in Mormonism and educated at BYU also spent a decade working for the Department of Homeland Security.  His experience with trying to help those caught in the web of child trafficking caused him to see some parallels with the early American slave trade. He wrote another book zeroing in on George Washington as well.  Books published by Mormon publisher Deseret Books are designed to glorify the LDS church at all c...