Then GOD's given us an operating manual that must have lost a LOT in the translation.
The LDS church teaches that after many translations the present bible is corrupted. This is why they believe that a new corrected revelation needed to come to a latter day prophet.....i.e. Joseph Smith Jr..........and the onward succession of latter day prophets on up to their present LDS president.
Sadly, the whole premise of needing a new revelation flys in the face of an
Omnipotent God. An
Omnipotent God has no problem protecting the accuracy of His scripture throughout the centuries through the many re-copies via scribes.
In fact the the strict Jewish tradition of copying scripture was so well perfected, that the Dead Sea Scoll's nearly complete copy of Isaiah, is word for word, the same as our present day translations. Now that is a perfect example of God's
omnipotent protection.
The LDS's Book of Mormon only dates back to the early 1800's, yet it has gone through a myriad of changes.
Also the credentials of Joseph Smith Jr. as a prophet are suspect, as he lived the life of a treasure hunter with J.S. Sr., his father back in New York, before coming up with this idea of leading people Westward with their "new" improved religion that trumps biblical Christianity.
If the bible believing world were to accept Mormon doctrine as the "truth" then we have a very weak, unpredictable God, who lacks
omnipotence, and ability to protect His Word, throughout the centuries. I.E. He could not stop man from corrupting it, and needed J.S. Jr. to receive a new revelation out of a hat, via a sears stone, and it was all written in a new kind of Egyptian Heiroglyphics unknown to even present day researchers/linguists. Samples back in the 1800's of this new Egyptian Heiroglyphics were sent to a respected scholar in New York, and were subsequently refuted as any new language, but were plaguerized from bits and pieces of Egyptian and other languages. A regular "hodge-podge" that is believe to have come from a current day of that time calendar.
Also the dimensions of the golden plates that J.S. Jr. received with all the new revelations of God, were allegedly carried
at a run for a great distance to some other church members and then hidden. They have never been found, these very important evidences of God revealing a new revelations to man via J.S. Jr..
J.S. Jr. gave the dimensions of the golden plates, which actually ruled out his carrying them at a fast gate, as they would have been too heavy for a man to physically accomplish.
Also keep in mind that while J.S. Jr. was living in New York and not "called" by god to lead a people with the "
real truth" and not the corrupted truth of the present church, as LDS members are taught, he lived a sordid life of scamming folks. This is all documented, but not kept or agreed-upon by LDS officially. Because much of Joseph Smith's and the founding history of LDS is on Christian websites, or Cult-watch websites, the LDS church claims to be "victims" of vicious propagandized attacks upon them.
They/LDS indeed use the King James version of the bible, but if you "press them" they will admit that their Book of Mormon, Jounal of Discourses, Doctrine of Covenants, and other Mormon venerated doctrine,
trumps the King James where there is differences in doctrine.
The standard sign of a Christian or non-Christian cult is what that religion does with "Jesus Christ". Do they totally accept Him as the Son of God, uncreated, and having existed for eternity past through the future eternally, the Alpha and Omega, and God revealing Himself to man in incarnate flesh to identify with man 100% so that He could be the perfect sacrifice for humanities fallen, sinful nature that comes from the loins of Adam. Remember that Jesus referred to Himself as, "I AM". That is why the Jews wanted to stone Him to death. The admitted with their own mouths that He/Jesus claimed to be God. Was Jesus a lunatic/liar? Hardly. The truth can hurt, and it can turn our paradyms of belief upside down. We fight, do flight, or we accept.
Does that suspect(whatever it may be) religion believe in the distinct personages of God in triune nature, in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit(Holy Ghost/Spirit)?
The LDS who come to your door will say yes, but if you press them on the issue they will retract or alter what their "yes" means.
They believe that Jesus was an actual result of God having sexual relations with Mary. That was taught by their latter day prophets. God basically inseminated Mary. They believe that if you are a very good Mormon, after death you too, can become an Adam of your own new world, like the Adam of the K.J. bible. In some ways, their belief system is very similar to Scientology, only they don't refer to planets like Nob, as a place where human ancestors came from to populate planet earth.
Anyway, deep down, the Mormon Jesus is not the Jesus of the K.J. bible that Mormons carry with them from door to door. They only carry that K.J. bible to give validity to their belief system before your average Joe/Jane American at the doorstep, as most of us have some Christian background/understanding, and recognize the bible with some respect or validity.
The Book of Mormon although has it's own titled books, they take bits and pieces from the bible, and intermingle it with their own J.S. Jr. added story or information. You might find yourself very weary if you try to read the book of Mormon.
Mormons believe that the American Indians are that lost tribe of Israel. DNA-wise, it hasn't proved out.
Also they/Mormons teach that metalurgy was developed here on the North and South American continents at or before it happened in Europe/Asia/Africa.
To this day, archeologists have found no evidence of the American Indian or his very early predecessors having developed metalurgy; i.e. copper, tin, bronze, Iron, etc...
There are so many "holes" or incongrueties in LDS history that was given to J.S. Jr. to the world about North America and it's early inhabitants.
One important fact to remember, that was held to very high standards in Israel; all a prophet of God has to do is prophesy one false prophecy, and he/she is a false prophet, and was to be stoned or killed in some way. That's how important is was to God, that His truth be protected.
Trully their were very belligerent prophets of old like Jonah, and others, but they didn't false prophesy.
Josesph Smith Jr. has false prophesied left and right. Just the fact that African Americans were deemed unfit for the the Mormon priesthood, as J.S. Jr. taught that people of the negroid race were unclean and from Cain's race. In the late 20 century, the LDS church had a new revelation from god, that it was now ok to allow people of the negroid race into the LDS priesthood.
God did an "oops", and had to correct Himself.
Also Joseph Smith Jr. was not martyred for his beliefs, but was killed while having a shoot out in a midwest town where he had been jailed for damaging the local newspaper's printing press. He had broken into the newspapers office and attempted to destroy the press, because that newspaper had been printing negative things about J.S. Jr. and his band of followers. This is documented in press archives in the state of illinois. J.S. Jr. was escaping a mob of towns people that were about to lynch him, and was given access to a gun to defend or shoot it out with them. He died in a shoot-out.
The official LDS version does not coincide with official news accounts archived in illinois.
I will be subsequently called a liar and a hater of Mormons for writing this, but that is far from the truth.
LDS are taught that us bible Christians hate them. This is typical cult technique.........."We are victims".
Actually, there are many Christian ministries directed towards the LDS.........One is Ex-Mormons for Jesus.
These are bible Christians comprised of many ex-LDS members who are burdened with compassion towards their friends who still are in the LDS church.
The LDS will refute the many statements that rebuttal LDS doctrine in respect to bible doctrine, yet when "push comes to shove" they will become silent when pressed to prove that they are doctrinal in respect to the bible.
Of course, their strong defense is that the present-day bible is not the same scripture, intent, or communication that God sent down to man thousands of years ago. It is corrupted through man's fallibility of re-translating over and over again.
Well, the Dead Sea Scrolls refuted man's corrupting the scriptures through the myriads of years.
Also, remember again, that the bible teaches that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The LDS church teaches or inferrs through their attack of the validity of present day translations of the bible.....i.e. King James.....etc. that God lacks greatly in the area of "Omnipotence" or the ability to protect and or keep His Word to man intact in it's entirety.
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Burning Bosom:
This is a very important part of Mormonism. The "burn bosom" is an experience that most Mormons will use to give creedence to their religion being factual or of God.
Often this experience happens as a dream or visual thing or communication that tells the recipient that "Mormonism is the truth!". Many Mormons will share how this experience involved a long deceased relative of great significants coming to them in a dream and telling them that "Mormonism is the truth!". Well, in most cases this super-natural experience "cements" a person's belief that Mormonism is the way and truth. In fact it this spiritual communication is so distinct and important that it trumps all the obvious evidences that Mormonism is not God inspired.
Now in Romans there is a verse that succinctly says that Truth, comes not from anything but the scripture. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word/Scripture of God." In other words, burning bosom experiences cannot be relied upon to validate God's truth. All visions, messages, or nuances that are spiritual or outside of the norm must be "tested" against God's Word. If they don't pass muster they are to be rejected.
Sadly, the Mormon church has gathered a multitude of members based on the "burning bosom" experience as a validation of Mormonism being the truth and only true system of belief in God.
The bible says, "Test the spirits!". Josephy Smith Jr. didn't test this "angel" called Moroni, by asking Moroni, "Is Jesus the one and only Son of God, and is He God in the Flesh?" If J.S. had done so, Moroni would have disappeared from J.S. Jr. vision in a nano-second. He didn't test the spirits in lieu of God's Word. Thence we have built a monolith of a belief system upon this founder, who ignored the most important aspect of Christian truth. "Test the message and test the message sender".
The bible teaches that there is a spirit world, of deceivers that are trying to deceive humanity into following false gospels. Mormonism is built upon "subjective feelings" via the burn bosom experience...........From thence onward the initiate is "hooked" if they don't recall and test this experience in lieu of God's Word the bible.
When those fine well dressed men with white shirts, dark slacks, and neckties come to your door and challenge you to pray and ask God if Mormonism is the truth, don't bite, as this is the first opening or gateway to allowing spirits to influence and affect your psyche via a "burning bosom" experience. We are not suppose to pray to God to validate his reality, but are supposed to go to His Word, that has been handed down through the centuries, totally intact, because of his onminipotence, and see what He says. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God; not faith cometh by feeling/seeing/experiencing/dreaming.
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