Heresy and Lies

A Testimony of Joseph Smith is vital. No man can accept Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world, no man can accept this as His church, the Church of Jesus Christ, unless he can accept Joseph Smith as God’s mouthpiece and the restorer of His world in these latter days. First, to say that we are Christians then requires two or three certainties. We must know for certainty in our hearts and minds that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior of the world. We must know that this is indeed the Church of Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God on earth in these last days; and finally we must have a testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.

The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, pg. 371.  Lee was the 11th President of the LDS.

According to this statement, no person was really a Christian until the 1800s when Joseph Smith came along, because no person from the New Testament times until Smith could accept Smith as a prophet--they wouldn’t even have heard of him yet!! This is heresy in the utmost!!

Since Smith’s institution of his false “church,” no real Christian will accept false prophet Smith as a prophet of God, and certainly no real Christian can accept the blasphemous LDS as “the Church of Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God on earth in these last days” because it was founded on a false prophet and is based on lies, false teachings of every kind, and the worship of a false god (who is a man). Even their Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible because the LDS Mary had sex with their god to provide an earthly body for Jesus while the real Mary was a virgin when she became pregnant--and stay so until giving birth to Jesus.

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

Did They Really Say That?!?

I read the following at the Mormon Research Ministry’s blog, Mormon Coffee:

“Quite simply, you can’t have a testimony until you bear it to someone. At the moment that you tell someone that you know X is true – even if you don’t know it yet – the Spirit will testify to you that it is indeed true. It may sound a little iffy, but I can tell you that it’s true. I had the same issue as you did at one point. I wasn’t sure that the Church was true, but I wanted a testimony. I got up in testimony meeting (the same time that I described earlier, in fact) and told everyone that I ‘believed’ the Church was true. I prefaced it by telling everyone that I didn’t know for sure yet, but I had heard that this was the way to find out for sure, so I was going to give it a shot. Sure enough, it worked. The Spirit told me that the Church was indeed true. In fact, the Spirit is telling me again that the Church is true as I’m writing this response. It’s really cool. I suggest that you try it for yourself. If you want to know for sure that the Church is true, tell someone else." (“The Board,” 9/14/2005)

So, let me get this straight: you don’t have a testimony until you tell someone your testimony, and then suddenly you have a testimony?!?

The Mormon tradition of “bearing” one’s testimony is, in my view, quite humorous.  They “bear” a testimony that the church is true, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and yet they give no evidence for such a testimony other than a “burning in the bosom.”  (How do they know they don’t just have heartburn?)

I’d suggest they would do better by being “Bereans” and actually read the Bible to see if what the LDS teaches is true.  If they did that, they would leave the cult of Mormonism.