The LDS Is Wrong About the Trinity

Why The Trinity WASN'T Invented By Early Christians

What Mormonism Is Based On

As I’ve said many times before, Mormonism was built on two things. Sex and godhood status and you can’t get one without the other.

Michelle, at Life After Ministry.

My studies of the LDS proves she is 100% correct.

Is the Bible Translated Correctly?

The follow article is by Eric Johnson, Mormonism Research Ministry, and was published in the 2022 “Nauvoo Times.”

The eighth LDS Article of Faith says the Bible can be trusted only “as far as it is translated correctly.” Translation means to take words from one language and put them into the words of another. We agree that a correct translation of the Bible—which was written in Hebrew and Koine Greek 2,000-4,000 years ago—is necessary for proper understanding.

Anytime words from one language are put into another—whether it is Spanish into English or French into Arabic—there is always the risk of losing something in the translation. It is doubtful that our many modern-day translations were produced by unprincipled people who wanted to keep God’s truth hidden. In actuality, quite the opposite is true. The motivation behind a new translation is, in most cases, to give a clearer understanding of what God wants to reveal to His people. Granted, some translations do a better job than others.

Although some Mormons believe that the King James Version of the Bible was a translation of another Bible translation, thus producing errors, this is absolutely not true because the KJV translators utilized the best manuscripts available to them in the 17th century. They did not depend on other translations. In fact, while translators will differ, the goal of Bible translators is to utilize the most accurate manuscripts and then attempt to put the words of the Bible into an understandable language for the audience it addresses.

Certainly two translators of any written piece will differ in the choice of words, verb tense, and style. But if two good Spanish translations independently translate this morning’s paper, you would have to say that the basic message would be the same despite their numerous differences. Truly there is no such thing as a perfect translation. LDS Church leaders must certainly be aware of this since their translators have often had to revise not only their English edition of The Book of Mormon but several foreign editions as well.

Perhaps the LDS leaders would say that the transmission, or the copying and handing down of the biblical manuscripts, is why they believe the Bible has errors. Yet Biblical scholars have carefully sorted through the tens of thousands of biblical manuscripts to determine the earliest and most reliable texts. In addition, not having the original manuscripts of the Bible should not be a problem to the Mormon who realizes that there are no original manuscripts for The Book of Mormon.

In conclusion, consider the comments of BYU professor Richard L. Anderson on the accuracy of the New Testament at the 14th Annual Symposium of the Archaeology of the Scriptures: “For a book to undergo progressive uncovering of its manuscript history and come out with so little debatable in its text is a great tribute to its essential authenticity. First, no new manuscript discovery has produced serious differences in the essential story. This survey has disclosed the leading textual controversies, and together they would be well within one percent of the text. Stated differently, all manuscripts agree on the essential correctness of 99 percent of all the verses in the New Testament.” Truly the Bible is a very special book.

God Had a Father God?!?!

We were begotten by our Father in heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by still a more ancient Father ….

The Seer by Orson Pratt, p. 132 

This is one of those really absurd doctrines of the LDS. Everyone can become a god (as long as they are “temple” Mormons). According to the LDS, everyone on earth, and whoever has ever been on earth, are spiritual siblings begotten of the “god” over this earth. But our LDS god was originally a spirit child of another god on another planet, and ad infinitum. No beginning, just another god as far back as into eternity.

And LDS claims they are Christian?!?! Their “god” is nothing like the God of the Bible, the God not only of Christians but of every human being—not as a spiritual child waiting for a body to inhabit, but born of a man and woman and not existing until such time.

H/T Life After Ministry

Speaking Against Polygamy Brings Damnation??

Journal of Discourses 5:203: “The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away”(Deseret News, November 7, 1855.)

“You might as well deny Mormonism and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives. Let the Presidency of this Church, and the Twelve Apostles, and all the authorities unite and say with one voice that they will oppose that doctrine, and the whole of them will be damned.” 

Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City, October 12, 1856

I suppose Mr. Anonymous will also claim these passages are out of the context of the time, but that would be a lie.  Good ol’ Joseph Smith received a revelation from God, so you know it had to be imbibed in or else. Actually, Smith’s so-called revelation was to justify his serial adultery which was sometimes with other Mormon members’ wives!

And then, conveniently, it was inconvenient for statehood to be polygamous so President Wilford Woodruff received another revelation cancelling the law of polygamy.

The REAL God of the Bible intended for one man/one woman unions (the reason he gave Adam ONE woman). Just because there were people in the Bible who failed to obey God’s rules, that doesn’t condemn the rule—it condemns those who break the rules.

H/T Life After Ministry.

4 Reasons the Great Apostasy is a FALSE Doctrine of Mormonism

Important video for Mormons to watch.

Some Quick Thoughts About LDS Racism

Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species, and put them on a national equalization.

Joseph Smith, History of the Church 5:217-218.

Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.

Brigham Young, March 8, 1863, Journal of Discourses 10:110.

The descendants of Ham, besides a black skin which has ever been a curse that has followed an apostate of the holy priesthood, as well as a black heart, have been servants to both Shem and Jepheth, and the abolitionists are trying to make void the curse of God, but it will require more power than man possesses to counteract the decrees of eternal wisdom. 

John Taylor, Times and Seasons, April 1, 1845, 6:857.