Adam WAS Formed From Dust!

You believe Adam was made of the dust of this earth. This I do not believe, though it is supposed that it is so written in the Bible; but it is not, to my understanding. You can write that information to the States, if you please—that I have publicly declared that I do not believe that portion of the Bible as the Christian world do. I never did, and I never want to. What is the reason I do not? Because I have come to understanding, and banished from my mind all the baby stories my mother taught me when I was a child.

Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 2:6

Genesis 2:7 states: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

"it is supposed that it is so written in the Bible; but it is not, to my understanding"?!?! It is specifically written in the Bible, as anyone actually reading the Bible would know.

But Brigham called it "baby stories," blaspheming God who stated how he formed Adam. Yet Young is declared to be a prophet of God all the while what God has said.

Mormons, like other cults, dismiss things in the Bible that they don't agree with and which would prove their who belief system is founded of false prophets and false teachers.

Who Do the LDS Celebrate Today?

As a Church we have critics, many of them. They say we do not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity. There is some substance to what they say. Our faith, our knowledge is not based on ancient tradition, the creeds which came of a finite understanding and out of the almost infinite discussions of men trying to arrive at a definition of the risen Christ. Our faith, our knowledge comes of the witness of a prophet in this dispensation….

Gordon Hinckley, 2002 LDS General Conference

Hinckley, as well as other LDS teachers, is correct that the LDS Jesus is NOT the Christian Jesus.

While the Christian Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit so that Mary was pregnant while a virgin, the LDS Jesus was conceived by their man-god having sex with Mary.

While the Christian Jesus suffered the punishment of the Cross for our salvation through our faith, the LDS Jesus suffered in the garden of Gethsemane (just how did he suffer other than emotionally?) and only provides salvation through our works.

While the Christian Jesus never married, the Mormon Jesus was a married and probably a polygamist. Although this isn’t the current official view of the Church, under their doctrine of eternal progression Jesus had to be married:

Joseph Fielding Smith stated, in response to the question In the Temple ceremony we are told that only through Temple marriage can we receive the highest degree of exaltation and dwell in the presence of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Christ came here to set us the example and, therefore, we believe that he must have been married. Are we right? Yes! But do not preach it! The Lord advised us not to cast pearls before swine!  (Letter to J. Ricks Smith, 3/17/1963)

Apostle Orson Hyde stated the following:

She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.' Is there not here manifested the affections of a wife. These words speak the kindred ties and sympathies that are common to that relation of husband and wife … Now there was actually a marriage; and if Jesus was not the bridegroom on that occasion, please tell who was. If any man can show this, and prove that it was not the Savior of the world, then I will acknowledge I am in error. We say it was Jesus Christ who was married, to be brought into the relation whereby he could see his seed, before he was crucified.  (Journal of Discourses  2:81-82).

…I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children”(Journal of Discourses 2:210).

We have now clearly shown that God, the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His First Born… We have also proved most clearly that the Son followed the example of his Father, and became the great Bridegroom to whom kings' daughters and many honorable Wives to be married. (The Seer, 172)

Brigham Young stated: The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with "HIS TRAIN; I do not know who they were, unless his wives and children; (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13:309)

Apostle Orson Pratt also taught that Jesus was a polygamist: ...it will be seen that the GREAT MESSIAH who was the founder of the Christian religion, WAS A POLYGAMIST, . . .the MESSIAH chose. . .by marrying honorable wives himself, show to all future generations that HE approbated the plurality of wives under the Christian dispensation, as well as under the dispensation in which His polygamist ancestors lived. . . .We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives. . . (The Seer, page 172)

More of the early LDS apostles also taught the practice of polygamy by Jesus. Now, these Apostles claimed that what they taught came from God, so for the current Church to deny this teaching they have to denounce Brigham Young as a prophet as well as state uncategorically that their Apostles were false teachers.

So, for celebrating Christmas, remember that Mormons don’t celebrate the birth of the same person as do Christians.

A Problem with a Man-God

God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist. There is an eternity before us, and it is full of matter; and if we but understand enough of the Lord and his ways we would say that he took of this matter and organized this earth from it.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.197

The Bible teaches us that the REAL God was all there was until HE created matter. Because God is omnipotent he created everything and nothing existed before God. The LDS god is not omnipotent and existed originally as a person on another planet and worked his way to heaven!

The “Two Sticks” Lie

The Book of Mormon…declares that the Bible is true, and it proves it; and the two prove each other true. The Old and New Testament’s are the stick of Judah [Ezekiel 37:15-19]. You recollect that the tribe of Judah tarried in Jerusalem and the Lord blessed Judah, and the result was the writings of the Old and New Testament’s. But where is the stick of Joseph? Can you tell where it is? Yes. It was the children of Joseph who came across the waters to this continent, and this land was filled with writings, and they are in the hands of Ephraim. Where are the Ephraimites? They are mixed through all the nations of the earth. God is calling upon them to gather out, and he is uniting them, and they are giving the Gospel to all the world.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg. 122

I’ve addressed this claim before when looking at a statement by Joseph Smith. This claim about the “two sticks” is nothing but scripture-twisting. In context the two sticks represent the nations of Judah and Ephraim, not the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Apprising Ministries has a good article examining the truth of the sticks.

American Eden?!?

In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American continent, where the Garden of Eden was made.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.94

Well, since the American continent didn't exist until after the Great Flood, this statement is pure nonsense. Remember, this is from a "prophet"--who if a true prophet wouldn't make such a nonsensical statement.

Science Fiction Theology

Things were first created spiritually; the Father actually begat the spirits, and they were brought forth and lived with him. Then he commenced the work of creating earthly tabernacles, precisely as he had been created in this flesh himself, by partaking of the coarse material that was organized and composed this earth,…consequently the tabernacles of his children were organized from the coarse materials of this earth.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.50

It’s hard for me to do anything but laugh at this unbiblical nonsense. Nothing in the Bible even hints that anything was created spiritually first. God did not give birth to spirits because he is not human nor did he have sexual relations with spiritual wives (as other LDS doctrines claim) to beget spiritual children.

The Mormon God Is a MAN

The great architect, manager and superintendent, controller and dictator who guides this work out of sight to our natural eyes. He lives on another world; he is in another state of existence; he has passed the ordeals we are now passing through; he has received an experience, has suffered and enjoyed, and knows all that we know regarding the toils, sufferings, life and death of this mortality, for he has passed through the whole of it, and has received his crown and exaltation and holds the keys and the power of this Kingdom; he sways his scepter, and does his will among the children of men, among saints and among sinners, and brings forth results to suit his purpose among kingdoms and nations and empires, that all may redound to his glory and to the perfection of his work.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.30

The Mormon God is a man who lived the same kind of life we live and he sinned while working his way to godhood. The Christian God is a spirit who created the universe but doesn't live in it. He has always been God, was never a man and never sinned.

Just more evidence that the LDS is NOT a Christian denomination.

Some Thought-Provoking Articles

If you read the linked articles, you can come to no other conclusion than that Joseph Smith was a false prophet and the LDS is NOT a Christian denomination (I.e., it is a convoluted cult).

Oftentimes, it’s what they don’t say

What does the word “Christ” mean?

The LDS New Testament is full of lies!!!!

The Mormons don’t believe in the biblical Trinity, so:

Why is the Trinity in the Book of Mormon?

Why is the Trinity in the Doctrine & Covenants?

For all their claims to be Christian, the LDS does not believe in the God of Scripture.

Besides claiming that Noah is the angel Gabriel, the LDS claims that Adam is Michael the archangel. The problem is that angels and humans are two different creations: man cannot become an angel!! Adam was never noted in the Bible as a priest, let alone a high priest!

Wait a minute—I thought Adam was God, who had sex with Mary to produce a body for Jesus. Wait another minute—so Adam is a “son of God?” The LDS Adam is quite a convoluted person!

Why Did the Nephites Speak Greek?

Amusing to me is that the LDS still struggles with polygamy. If God ordered it, why did they stop—why did they not disobey the law of the land?

Along those lines, we have The Changing God of Mormonism.

The temple oaths are nothing more than signs and oaths from the Freemasonry cult.

But the LDS says that the earth was created for temple endowments—so how come there were no such things until aft Joe Smith invented them?

The Bible was never meant for today?!?!?

How did Joe Smith really get his priesthood?

Mormons say we don’t need God! Of course they also say there are multiple gods and people on other planets!

So, LDS members, doesn’t any of this make you think just a wee bit that there is a problem with your religion, that it doesn’t make a bit of sense?

Priesthood Nonsense

The Priesthood…is a perfect order and system of government, and this alone can deliver the human family from all the evils which now afflict its members, and insure them happiness and felicity hereafter.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.18

Since the LDS priesthood is made up and there is no "perfect order or system of government" in it, how can it deliver anyone from evil and guarantee happiness?

Mormons Teach That They Are the Only True Church

 The Gospel we preach is the Gospel of life and salvation. The Church which we represent is the Church and Kingdom of God, and possesses the only faith by which the children of men can be brought back into the presence of our Father and God.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, Pg.18

Sorry, Mr. Young, but as has been proven on this blog (and many others), the LDS is a false church built on a false prophet worshiping a man-god on another planet. There is NOTHING Christian about the LDS—not their god, their Jesus, nor their gospel.

What Is the Gospel?

[The Gospel] embraces all morality, all virtue, all light, all intelligence, all greatness, and all goodness. It introduces a system of laws and ordinances.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.17

The biblical Gospel is much simpler. It is that we are all sinners before God and in need of a savior, and that Savior is Jesus the Messiah, who was born from a virgin and was sinless. Jesus took our punishment by being put to death on a cross and then raised from the dead, proving his sacrifice was acceptable to God the Father. He is our great high priest and those who place their faith in Him and his sacrifice are saved from hell and punishment in the afterlife.

It does NOT embrace all those ideas, laws and ordinances of which Mr. Young claims. Which is another example as to the false nature of the Mormon Church.

Testimony Requirement?

Three great truths must be included in every valid testimony: 1. That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of the world (D. & C. 46:13); 2. That Joseph Smith is the Prophet of God through whom the gospel was restored in this dispensation; and 3. That The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.” (D. & C. 1:30.)

Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce R. McConkie, p. 786

Item 2: Well, Jesus said even the gates of hell wouldn’t prevail against the Church (Matt.16:18) so it couldn’t have been restored by Smith if it was never gone!! And if you look at my articles in October and November of 2014 you will see proof that Smith was one heck of a false prophet! So how can anyone have item 2 included in their testimony when the whole item is a lie?

Item 3: Since the LDS was founded by false prophet Joseph Smith, then the LDS is a FALSE and spiritually dead church.,

H/T: Life After Ministry

Works Are Not a Part of the Gospel

The Gospel of the Son of God that has been revealed is a plan or system of laws and ordinances.

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, page.15

Brigham Young is a liar. The Gospel as has been revealed in the Bible is that we are all sinners who need a savior, and that Savior is Jesus Christ. The real Gospel is that if we have faith in Jesus and believe he died for our sins, we are saved. There is absolutely NOT a “plan or system of laws and ordinances.” Neither made up laws nor any ordinance is required for salvation.  As Galatians 2:21 notes: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (KJV)

A Couple of Mormon Geography Problems

Where does the Bible say the Garden of Eden was? In the Middle East.

Where did Joseph Smith say the Garden of Eden was?  Jackson County, Missouri.

Which should you believe, the Bible or Smith?  Eden was definitely in the Middle East.

1 Nephi 2:8 says,  “And it came to pass that he called the name of the river, Laman, and it emptied into the Red Sea; and the valley was in the borders near the mouth thereof.”

As the blog, “Life After Ministry” points out,

“There has never been a river that empties into the Red Sea.  It’s surrounded by wilderness (desert) only.”

Just these two examples should be enough for anyone to question the Book of Mormon and its author, Joseph Smith.

Find This in the Bible, Please!

H/T: Preaching From an Asbestos Suit: Reasoning With Mormons on the Internet Facebook Page

History Invented to Support Lies

Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of Heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire. That empire was founded on the banks of the Tiber by wandering brigands. When these robbers founded the city of Rome, it was evident to them that their success in attaining a balance of power with their neighbours, depended upon introducing females into their body politic, so they stole them from the Sabines, who were near neighbours. The scarcity of women gave existence to laws restricting one wife to one man. Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

Brigham Young, 6 July 1862, Journal of Discourses 9:322.

Young’s history of Rome and the Roman Empire is unrecognized by historians; Young made it up as a way to support the unsupportable polygamist system invented by Joseph Smith to cover for his serial adultery.

See my article on God’s View of Polygamy.

Reed Peck Manuscript

An interesting document describing the dictatorial reign of Joseph Smith in Missouri and the resulting “Mormon War” was originally written in 1839, known as the Reed Peck Manuscript. The Utah Lighthouse Ministry, in Salt Lake City, published a typed transcription of this document. It is subtitled, “An Important Document Written in 1839 Concerning the Mormon War in Missouri and the Danite Band.”

Just to demonstrate the unbiblical nature of Mormonism and its leaders, below you will find some examples of quotations taken from this publication. Page numbers are in the edition reprinted by the Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Salt Lake City, UT. Punctuation added to help comprehension.

Pg.6-7

[On Sunday, June 17, 1839], S. Rigdon took his text from the fifth chapter of Matthew, “Ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted, it is henceforth good for nothing but to be  cast out and be trodden under foot of men.” From this scripture he undertook to prove that when men embrace the gospel [of Mormonism] and afterwards lost their faith it is the duty of the Saints to trample them under their feet. He informed the people that they had a set of men among them that had dissented from the church and were doing all in their power to destroy the presidency laying plans to take their lives &c., accused them of counterfeiting, lying, cheating, and numerous other crimes and called on the people to rise en masse and rid the county of such a nuisance. He said it is the duty of this people to trample them into the earth and “if the county cannot be freed from them any other way I will assist to trample them down or to erect a gallows on the square of Far West and hang them up as they did the gamblers at Vicksburg and it would be an act at which the angels would smile with approbation.” Joseph Smith in a short speech sanctioned what had been said by Rigdon, though said he, “I don’t want the brethren to act unlawfully but will tell them one thing; Judas was a traitor and in stead of hanging himself was hung by Peter,” and with this hint the subject was dropped for the day, having created a great excitement and prepared the people to execute any thing that should be proposed.

pg.8

A friend of long standing…said that if Joseph Smith should tell him to cut my throat he would do it without hesitation. I heard expressions of this nature from several and shuddered at the thought of living in a community where the nod of one man if displeased would deprive an individual of every privilege  and even life if the consequence had not been feared more by him than his followers.

pg.10

[Sampson Avard said] “No person shall be suffered to speak evil of disrespectfully of the presidency.”

I was appointed Adjutant of the [Danite] band in consequence I suppose of my holding that office in the 59th Reg, Missouri Militia. I did not think it policy to reject the appointment though I declared to my trusty friends that I would never act in the office—All the principles of the Society [Daughters of Zion, i.e.,Danites] tended to give the presidency unlimited power over the property, persons and I might say with propriety lives of the members of the church as physical force was to be resorted to if necessary to accomplish their designs. The blood of my best friend must flow by my own hands if I would be a faithful Danite should the prophet command it.

pg.12

In July the law of consecration took effect which required every person to give up to the bishop all surplus property of every description not necessary for their present support. Sampson Avard, the most busy actor and sharpest tool of the Presidency, informed John Corrill and Myself that “all persons who attempted to deceive and retain property that should be given up would meet with the fate of Ananias and Saphira who were killed by Peter.”

You’ll see the violence and murder instilled among the people, as well as the dictatorship of Joseph Smith, let alone the abject abuse of Scripture!  I can’t understand why Mormons who know of this history still believe it is from God!