tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57012432341778607452024-02-22T09:18:37.101-08:00TriGrace MinistriesRuth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-68580147350927885792013-07-15T10:29:00.005-07:002013-07-15T10:29:56.628-07:00Come Meet Mel!!<br />
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Hey there! My name is Melinda Anderson, aka Mel, and I am an intern for Tri-Grace Ministries. I was born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania and moved to Spokane, Washington to attend Moody Bible Institute-Spokane. I graduated in December with my Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies and I hope to use that major to assist in doing full time ministry! I will be in Ephraim doing this internship at least until December. One thing I was already able to do during my time here was partake in outreach during the Manti Miracle Pageant. </div>
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This was my first year going to the pageant. I absolutely LOVED it! I loved that we had such freedom to talk to lost people about Jesus Christ. Pageant is probably the only time I will be able to see that sort of opportunity to evangelize to LDS; to have conversation after conversation about Christ is rare. I was able to talk to 10-15 LDS about their faith, who Christ really is and the free gift of grace that He lavishes on us! </div>
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During pageant a young man came to know the LORD (see Kim and Shane's story about Pageant for details). I was able to meet and converse with this young man's little sister who is 13. Not only was I able to share with her the Gospel of Christ, but also got her information and we have been keeping in touch over Facebook. Her mother is LDS and not very happy that I am talking with her, but I am so compelled to get to know her more, pour Christ's love on her and possibly mentor her. I am so thankful that I have had this opportunity to be a witness for Christ through TGM! </div>
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-53808091861892961132013-07-15T10:27:00.005-07:002013-07-15T10:27:47.260-07:00A First for me...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I <span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">had dozens of witnessing opportunities</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the second week of pageant, but a couple of these dialogues stand out as significant in my mind:</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">One</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> was with a man and his son - this was another "FIRST" for me - get this, the man was a former Southern Baptist who is now a "fundamentalist Mormon" (fundamentalist means polygamist in</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> conversation that really stands out was a dialogue that I had with three 14 year old boys from Manti. Our conversation lasted all night long and these youngsters were tough! They had a comeback for every topic. At one point an LDS woman stepped in and asked if I felt bad for picking on 14 year old boys - my response was, "Trust me lady, these three boys can hold their own in any crowd". At first we were getting nowhere but as the night progressed the truths of God's word began to break down their walls and by the end of the night they were all listening and one of the boys was clearly rocked - it was interesting to watch him transform from unbending & deceptive to being soft & honest. Will you please pray for these boys... they live in Manti so the chances are good that we will cross paths again.</span></div>
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-31058978401903328992013-07-15T10:25:00.001-07:002013-07-15T10:25:03.188-07:00Come Meet Grace!<br />
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Hello! My name is Grace Stewart. I am 19 years old, and I am from Crawfordsville, Indiana. I am currently attending Anderson University in Indiana where I am studying Music Business and Song Writing. I have a passion for singing and leading worship, and I feel like God is calling me to a life of ministry through music.</div>
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My internship here at Tri-Grace is centered around worship, so I have been leading worship for the training sessions in the mornings, as well as leading worship on the streets for the Manti pageant. It has been an incredible experience leading people in worship to our God, especially on the streets. Manti is such a dark place; it's basically Satan's playground. But having 200 Christians come together and sing praises to God, being surrounded by so much darkness, is one of the most powerful and beautiful things I've ever experienced and was so privileged to be apart of. </div>
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One night on the streets, a few people and I were talking with three boys named Paul, Steven, and Phil on the topic of eternal marriage. During the conversation, it was obvious that the false teachings of eternal marriage was getting under Paul's skin, causing him to become very defensive. But as the conversation continued on, he became very quiet & avoided eye contact with us. As we ended the conversation in prayer, tears swelled in Paul's eyes, obviously effected by our conversation. As the conversation ended, he took the eternal marriage track with him! We don't know if he studied the track or threw it out, but we do know that we planted a seed, which is what we're here to do!!</div>
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-57011853584558158012013-07-15T10:21:00.004-07:002013-07-15T10:22:42.085-07:00Life As We Know It!<br />
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-74375419758354358602013-07-15T10:18:00.007-07:002013-07-15T10:18:48.433-07:00Come Meet Fernando!!<br />
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Hello my name is Fernando Gonzalez. I am from So-Cal, and my home church is Calvary chapel, Lake Elsinore. I'm doing a service internship for Tri-grace ministries and I'll be doing my internship for a year long. I have a heart to serve God and his people.</div>
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During Manti pageant I had some great conversations, but one conversation that stood out to me was with an atheist named James. We talked about his past life, he said went to a baptist church because his parents made him go growing up. During his life he has done drugs and stated that he prayed and he got himself out of trouble during that time. I asked him, who were you praying to? And he said to God... but he made it clear that he had cleaned himself up, without God's help. I told him that God is the one that helped him get clean. After we got done talking I had asked him if I could pray with him and he said no and I shook hands with him and said God bless you and your family. Please pray for James that God would work in his heart.</div>
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-76437904985332256452013-07-15T10:15:00.002-07:002013-07-15T10:15:13.643-07:00Manti Pageant 2013 Outreach<br />
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<span style="color: black;">My name is Brett Gray, and I am a summer intern with Tri-grace ministries for the first time. I am from Spokane, WA where I am attending Moody Bible Institute hoping to obtain a degree in Biblical Languages. I hope to some day serve the body of Christ through </span></div>
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This summer was the first time ever attending the Manti Pageant. It was thoroughly a joy to be there witnessing and encouraging fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord. We started every night singing songs of worship to Jesus the King and praying for the hearts of the Mormon people that they would turn to Christ as their Lord.</div>
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I had many conversations with people, but one stood out to me as I talked to young about several topics from polygamy to the priesthood to eternal marriage. By the end of the conversation, he (John) did not know what to say when we started getting into the LDS view of the priesthood and eternal marriage. Please be praying that God would turn his heart towards Jesus that he would have a biblical understanding of Christianity.</div>
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Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-59247308648357056332013-07-15T10:03:00.001-07:002013-07-15T10:15:54.032-07:00Manti Pageant 2013 Training Manti Pageant 2013 Training<br />
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-61714088474970975162013-07-15T09:45:00.001-07:002013-07-15T10:17:00.100-07:00"Real" Ministry? <div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-13006756553877415162013-04-21T21:31:00.000-07:002013-04-21T21:32:10.720-07:00Snow College Changes Policies<div class="text">
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-71898956960150121702013-02-06T19:35:00.000-08:002013-02-06T19:40:08.720-08:00Love Your Mormon Neighbors<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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Today I had an article that I wrote for the Gospel Coalition, "Love Your Mormon Neighbors," posted on their blog.<br />
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I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as Mormonism. Since my parents were active members of the LDS Church, I went to church every Sunday. And like many of those raised in the church, I had a testimony, was baptized when I turned 8, received the Aaronic priesthood at 12, and had a temple recommend. But as I grew older, I became less interested in my Mormon faith. So at age 18, instead of serving my two-year mission as I had been raised to do, I decided to go to college.</div>
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While I was pursuing my bachelor's degree, I came to trust in Jesus Christ alone for my salvation. Through my own study and hearing the Word taught at a campus ministry, I knew that I deserved God's punishment for my sins. I also knew that Mormonism did not have the answer, because I could never be good enough to gain eternal life. I came to faith in Christ, resting solely in what he had done for me—he fully paid for my sins on the cross, and in him I received his perfection and righteousness. Because of Christ, I have been reconciled to God and adopted as his son. Praise God for his free gift of salvation!</div>
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Now that I have been saved, I continue to have a deep love for Mormons and a strong desire for them to know hope and rest in Christ. Over the years, I have found that if they were not raised in the LDS Church then they generally became interested because of the care and love they received from Mormons. I also know that some became attracted to Mormonism because of their high moral standards and devotion to family. But however one becomes a Latter-day Saint, I am convinced that the teaching of the LDS Church does not provide true hope or security for eternal life. With millions of Mormons worldwide and their aggressive plan for expansion, I pray that all genuine believers will recognize that God has called us to reach out to Mormons with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Will you join with me? Then let me provide you with some counsel.</div>
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Yes, I am stating the obvious, but is it really so easy? We slam the door in the faces of Mormon missionaries. We tend to avoid our Mormon coworkers because of their weird beliefs and practices (don't they wear holy underwear?). We may even mock Mormons on our blogs, Facebook, Twitter, or other public forums. Maybe we should stop and ask ourselves why we act this way, repenting if necessary. We should love our Mormon neighbors, getting to know them and developing relationships with them as friends. Here's an idea: The next time we see Mormon missionaries, let us invite them over for dinner, enjoying their company.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></strong>Scripture shows us why there are other religions in the world. According to the apostle Paul, unbelievers suppress the truth by their unrighteousness (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Romans 1.18" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Romans%201.18" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Romans 1:18</a>). So other religions are essentially counterfeit worldviews created by men who desire to keep living in sin and rebellion against God. We see this in religions that corrupt God's general revelation in creation (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Romans 1.19ff" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Romans%201.19ff" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Romans 1:19ff</a>), and we also see this in religions that corrupt God's special revelation in Scripture. The apostle Paul warns us against those who come and proclaim another Jesus, a different spirit, and a different gospel (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Galatians 1.8" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Galatians%201.8" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Galatians 1:8</a>; <a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="2 Corinthians 11.4" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Corinthians%2011.4" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">2 Corinthians 11:4</a>). So not everyone who claims to believe in Jesus Christ is a genuine believer. When you compare what Mormons teach with God's revelation in the Bible, you will quickly see that their teaching is not the faith "once for all delivered to the saints" (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Jude 3" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jude%203" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Jude 3</a>). They need to believe in the true gospel of the true Christ with the true Spirit. Will you love them enough to share this gospel of hope with them?</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></strong>If you were going to be a missionary in the Middle East, you would obviously have to understand the beliefs of Islam in order to effectively communicate the gospel to Muslims. It is no different when seeking to evangelize Mormons. You must recognize the differences between Mormonism and Christianity. Thankfully, there are many resources easily available today to help you. I would suggest <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.amazon.com/Mormonism-101-Examining-Religion-Latter-day/dp/0801063353/?tag=thegospcoal-20" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="">Mormonism 101</a></em> by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson as a worthwhile comparison between Mormonism and evangelical Christianity. I also highly recommend <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Truth-Love-Mormons-Cares/dp/1893702065/?tag=thegospcoal-20" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="">Speaking the Truth in Love to Mormons</a></em> by Mark J. Cares. This book may be harder to find, but its "Dictionary of Mormonese" alone is worth the price. Since Mormons often "use the same language as Christians but with a different dictionary," you must understand how they use words to effectively share the gospel with them.<em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></em><br />
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></strong>Because of the LDS Church's history and unique identity, Mormonism is not merely a set of religious beliefs—it is also a culture. You should learn how Mormons live, what they value, and other important aspects of their culture. While I sometimes disagree with David Rowe and think he is too critical of traditional countercult apologetic efforts, I still recommend his book <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Mormons-Christ-Latter-day-Saints/dp/0801065224/?tag=thegospcoal-20" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="">I Love Mormons</a></em> because he insightfully explains and interacts with Mormon culture.<em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></em><br />
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></strong>When evangelizing Mormons, we should not debate Mormonism as an abstract system. We should be lovingly engaging with a real, living Mormon person. Most Mormons are not theological scholars. They are usually more interested in living a good and moral life. As a result of the LDS Church's emphasis on morality and family and a general lack of doctrinal understanding among its members, many Mormons today are unfamiliar with historic and even contemporary LDS Church teaching. We cannot assume that just because the church has taught something, an individual Mormon believes it. You need to take the time to know what your Latter-day Saint friend believes and then respond to his or her faith in light of the truth of God's Word.<em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></em><br />
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Salvation is of God, not man. Your persuasiveness or intellectual ability will not convince Mormons of the truth—only the Holy Spirit can open their hearts. As evangelical campus minister Will Metzger reminds us: "Prayer for others is the supreme God-ordained method in evangelism. Unless God changes a person's heart, nothing lasting will be achieved. Prayer is a means of raising dead sinners to life!" While we may be tempted to trust in our own abilities when evangelizing a Mormon, we must trust in God to give faith to those who hear the gospel. This critical truth must <em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">never</em> be overlooked.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></em></strong>I have talked to many Christians who believe that Mormons are somehow harder to win to Christ than others. While I recognize that there are challenges, all unbelievers are dead in their trespasses and sins (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Ephesians 2.1" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ephesians%202.1" style="color: #2f8ad1; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Ephesians 2:1</a>). The salvation of Mormons is no more difficult for God than that of any other unbeliever. We should faithfully proclaim the gospel to Mormons, trusting in Christ to draw them to himself. Let us rest in his strength to save Mormons for his glory!</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Divito is a former Mormon, a graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv 2007), and currently serves as the administrator for the Midwest Center for Theological Studies in Owensboro, Kentucky. He also serves as a deacon at Heritage Baptist Church.</em></div>
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Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-56768608832262188992013-01-15T21:00:00.002-08:002013-01-15T21:02:57.633-08:00Testimony From a Former Mormon<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Randy Gavin, a former LDS missionary and stake mission president, slowly comes out of Mormonism into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. How it happened will surprise you</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-83979702906991511632012-11-13T20:39:00.004-08:002012-11-13T20:39:57.295-08:00A Song by Josiah<span style="font-size: large;">The link below is a song written and performed by my son, Josiah, who
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Many of our supporters know Josiah and have heard him lead worship at
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<br />Ruth Douthitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02210433378863401466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701243234177860745.post-80609298369998127272012-11-13T20:33:00.006-08:002012-11-13T20:33:47.056-08:00The “32 Questions” Feared by the LDS (Mormon) Church<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This is a great document to read and use with your LDS friends/family/missionaries. What makes it especially impactful is the credibility of the author. If you're not familiar with LDS teaching and witnessing, it's a great teaching tool on some of the LDS quandaries. If you're already familiar, it's a great review. Take a read!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">-Kim Jones</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tri-Grace Ministries, Associate Director</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The “32 Questions” Feared by the LDS (Mormon) Church</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">By William Schnoebelen</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Explanatory note: Back in 1984, I was an elder in the LDS Church and held a temple recommend. I had been to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the temple many times and had been an elders’ quorum president in Milwaukee II Ward. Due to reading both</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the Book of Mormon and the Bible (King James LDS edition) through many times, I began to find all sorts of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">problems with consistency between the Book of Mormon, the Bible AND current LDS doctrine, which I knew</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">pretty well (I had been a teacher in the LDS Church Institute of Religion).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The other factor that caused me to question was the differences between the current Book of Mormon and the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">first edition. When going to the Salt Lake temple for our endowments in 1981, I had purchased a facsimile</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were literally LEGION and they rattled me. Gradually, I began to put together a list of questions for my local</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">grown to 32 in number by then. Pathetically, they had no answers for any of them. With the exception of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">question four, all are presented with the original source documentation. In there was no DNA testing but the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">questions. If you are LDS, please repent and LEAVE the Church and come to the Messiah in saving faith!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. If the Book of Mormon is the “most correct book ever written,”1 why were there more than 3,900</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">changes between the first few editions, many quite significant?2 For example, the first Book of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon3 references King Benjamin on p.200.4 Later on, the name is changed to Mosiah. The names are</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">not even remotely similar!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2. LDS Doctrine (and Scripture5) teaches that there is a plurality (more than one) God. The Book of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon says there is only ONE God in several places.6</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3. The Book of Mormon teaches that God is a Spirit.7 Mormon theology and scripture teaches that He is a</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">glorified resurrected man with a body, parts and passions.8</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">4. A central claim of the Book of Mormon is that Native Americans are descended from Jewish people</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">who came over to the New World during the time of Jeremiah the prophet and the fall of Jerusalem. But</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">5. Why does the Book of Mormon (which was supposedly finished around 421 AD) quote quite extensively</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">from the King James Bible, which was produced in 1611 – over a thousand years later? It even quotes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">clarity of reading. Those words were NOT in Isaiah or Matthew in 400 AD. Explain this!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">6. The Book of Mormon claims a huge battle was fought on Hill Cumorah10 between the good Nephites</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and the evil Lamanites – we are talking hundreds of thousands of warriors! Many of the Lamanites had</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 Joseph Smith, HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, vol. 4, p. 461.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 See downloadable article from our website at www.withoneaccord.org on “Significant Changes in the Book of</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mormon.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3 Special Anniversary Facsimile Edition of the original 1830 Book of Mormon, published by the LDS Church in</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1980.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4 There were no verse numbers in the original edition of the Book of Mormon.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5 Doctrine and Covenants (D&C) 121:32; 132: 18-20, 37</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6 Testimony of the Three Witnesses, 2 Nephi 31:21, 3 Nephi 11:27, Alma 11:27-39 and Mormon 7:7</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7 Alma 18:26-28 and 22:8-11</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8 D&C 130:22</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9 See the DVD, “DNA vs. the Book of Mormon,” available at www.withoneaccord.org.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">7. The Book of Mormon, in agreement with the Bible, says that the Word of God cannot change.11</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">However, both LDS practice and scripture say His Word CAN change.12</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">8. The Book of Mormon, again agreeing with Bible, says the Almighty cannot lie.13 However, in the Pearl</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of Great Price, the Mormon “god” commands lying.14</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">9. Adam is said to have been in America.15 But the Pearl of Great Price, another LDS “scripture,” says that</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Adam was in the Old World.16</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">10. Mormons are taught the “Law of Eternal Progression.” This states that God changes or evolves –</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">succinctly put in the following aphorism: “As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">However, the Book of Mormon contradicts this by saying God never changes.17 This is echoed is</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon 9:9-10 as well.18</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">11. Mormons are taught a system of salvation by works, not faith. Yet the Book of Mormon teaches we are</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">saved by faith.19</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">12. Mormons tend to seriously discount the power of the saving blood of Yah’shua20 (Jesus). They even</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">carry this to the point of using water rather than red wine or grape juice in their communion service,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because it resembles blood. One Mormon apostle, Orson Pratt, said it had no more power than the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“blood of a dead dog.” Yet the Book of Mormon teaches that we can be saved “only through the atoning</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">blood of Jesus Christ.”21</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">13. Though Mormons have a complex, three-tiered system of salvation, involving things like temple work,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">endowments, wearing of the temple garment, tithing, genealogy work, etc.; yet the Book of Mormon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">teaches that, “…he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”22</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">14. Mormons are taught that they must baptize their dead ancestors in order for their departed loved ones to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">be saved. However, the Book of Mormon makes it clear that the state of the soul at death is fixed and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">there is no redemption after that.23 Please explain this paradox!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">15. Mormons are taught that there are three levels of heaven and that almost all people except the most</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wicked will make it to one of them. But the Book of Mormon denies this, and teaches an essentially</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Biblical view of heaven and hell where only those who accept the Messiah are saved.24 What’s the deal?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">16. Polygamy or plural marriage is commanded as necessary for salvation in the Mormon Doctrine and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Covenants scripture.25 Yet the Book of Mormon condemns polygamy (??).26 How can this be?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">11 Alma 41:8</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">12 D&C Section 56:4-5</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">13 Ether 3:12, 2 Nephi 9:34</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14 Book of Abraham 2:22-25</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15 D&C 107:53 and 117:8</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">16 Book of Moses 3:8, 10-15</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">17 3 Nephi 24:6</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">18 For a third witness, see Moroni 8:18</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19 Mosiah 5:7</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">20 Yah’shua is the Hebrew way of saying “Jesus.” Of course, I did not know this in 1984, but since getting</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">saved and growing in the Scriptures, I have been using His Hebrew name out of respect for more than a decade.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">21 Helaman 5:9</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">22 Mormon 9:24</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">23 Mosiah 2:36-39, Alma 34:32-35</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">24 1 Nephi 15:35; 2 Nephi 28:22; Mosiah 16:11, 27:31; Alma 41:4-8, 42:16</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">25 D&C 132:1, 37-39 and 61.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">26 Mosiah 11:2, Jacob 1:15, 2:24 and 3:5</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">17. A central feature of the “sacred” LDS temple rite is (Masonic-like) oaths that the temple patrons must</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">take, before being initiated into the gnostic, occult rites of Temple Mormonism.27 However, the idea of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">secret societies and oaths is condemned in the Book of Mormon.28</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">18. The Book of Mormon teaches that the heathen can be saved without baptism.29 Yet, elsewhere Mormons</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">are taught the absolute necessity for their dead ancestors to be baptized in the temple in order for them to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">be saved.30</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">19. Any zoologist or archaeologist will tell you that there is no evidence of horses being in the New World</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 1500’s. Yet, the Book of Mormon speaks numerous times of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">horses in their supposed pre-Columbian civilization.31</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">20. Scimitars (misspelled “cimeters”) in the Book of Mormon are featured in several passages.32 This is</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">amazing, because the Book of Mormon is set from before the time of Messiah to 421 AD. The scimitar</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was actually unknown until it was invented around the 9th century in the Ottoman Empire. How did this</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">9th century weapon from the Middle East get into the 4th century New World?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">21. LDS doctrine denies that there is a Trinity of one Deity in three Persons. However, in the Book of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon “Testimony of the Three Witnesses,” we are told that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are “one</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">God.” Both cannot be true. Please explain this?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">22. Mormons deny that Yah’shua (Jesus) is God, but say He is only the Son of God. Yet the Book of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon tells us that He IS God.33 Which is correct?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">23. The Book of Mormon teaches that murder can be forgiven.34 Later LDS scripture (Doctrine and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Covenants) contradicts this.35 Please explain!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">24. There is a serious “anatomical problem” with a sword battle in the Book of Ether (a book IN the Book of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon). The hero, Coriantumr, smites off the head of the bad guy, Shiz. The verse following declares,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“And it came to pass that after he had smitten off the head of Shiz, that Shiz raised up on his on his</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hands and fell; and after that he had struggled for breath, he died.” 36 Now, the question is, Shiz was</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">decapitated. How did he raise up on his hands and breathe his last? Also, which HALF of him breathed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">his last? This is a ridiculous statement for a supposed scripture, it makes no sense.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">25. Once again, Mormon leaders deny Yah’shua (Jesus) is God. They say He is only the Son of God and the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">elder brother of Lucifer. Yet, why does the Book of Mormon say He IS God?37 Is the Book of Mormon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wrong, or are LDS leaders heretics?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">26. In the same vein, Mosiah 13:34 says, “God Himself should come down among the children of men…”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This contradicts LDS theology. Please explain the contradiction?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">27. BOTH the unity of the Trinity AND the deity of Messiah are affirmed in Mosiah 15:1-5. If it is the most</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">correct book ever written, why does it contradict the teachings of Joseph Smith and other LDS</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">leaders?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">28. Since Joseph Smith and his account of his “First Vision,”38 Mormon leaders have affirmed that the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Father and the Son are two distinct personages. Yet the Book of Mormon speaks of “Christ the Lord</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">who is the very eternal Father.”39 How is this possible?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">27 See William Schnoebelen and James Spencer, MORMONISM’S TEMPLE OF DOOM, 1987.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">28 2 Nephi 9:9, 26:22; Alma 34:36 and 37:23-31; Mormon 8:27</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">29 2 Nephi 9:22-26, Mosiah 15:24-27 and Moroni 8:22-23</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">30 D&C 128:5 and 17-18</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">31 Alma 20:6, Ether 9:19 and elsewhere.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">32 Alma 27:29, 44:8 and Enos 1:20</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">33 2 Nephi 11:7</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">34 3 Nephi 30:2</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">35 D&C 42:18</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">36 Ether 15:31</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">37 Mosiah 7:27</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">38 Joseph Smith-History 1:17-19</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">39 Mosiah 16:15</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">29. Mormons are taught that there is plurality of gods, and that – indeed – they can become gods!40</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">However, the Book of Mormon plainly tells us that there is only ONE God!41 Yet another contradiction?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">30. The LDS Church mounts a huge genealogy program and encourages all members to baptize their dead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This is based on the belief that dead people can repent and come to salvation. The Book of Mormon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">contradicts this and says that this life is the time “for men to prepare to meet God.”42</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">31. As above, Mormons are taught that there are three separate gods in the Godhead. BUT, 3 Nephi 11:27 in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the Book of Mormon has “Jesus” quoting the gospel of John - even though John’s gospel was not</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">written until 50 some years after the events supposedly happening in the Book of Mormon. In any</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">event, “Jesus” says that He and the Father are one! Explain these two contradictions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">32. For decades, the LDS church taught that white skin was a sign of divine favor and that dark skin (either</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Native Americans or Africans) was a sign of a curse from God, either for sins in this life or for sins in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the pre-existent state.43 It was further taught that if Lamanites (Native Americans) would repent and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">become LDS, their skin would become white. Many hundreds of Native peoples have – unfortunately –</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">become Mormons over the years. Yet no one’s skin has ever turned color. Because of this quandary, a</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">change was made (one of THOUSANDS) in the Book of Mormon. In the older Book of Mormon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">editions, its says that the Indians “shall be a white and delightsome people.”44 However, in recent</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">editions since the early eighties, the phrase was changed to “pure and delightsome people.” If the Book</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of Mormon was correct before, why was it changed? Smith supposedly translated it with the “gift and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">power of God.”45 How COULD there be errors?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">43 Mormons are taught that all souls lived in a pre-existent state in heaven. Until the 1970’s, they were taught</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The above article is about our legal issue with Snow College.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">If you read the responses of people it is pretty sad. They pretty much</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">seem to think religion does not belong on a State College Campus.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Maybe some Christians should give their view points.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Here's the real problem. The policies discriminate against all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">religious clubs. This discrimination does not affect the LDS Club in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">any way because they have huge facilities, huge parking lots, out-door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">pavilions all right across the street from the school.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> The policies </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really affect all the other religious clubs that do not have the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">abundant funding of the LDS Church. So in reality the policies make</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">having a religious club almost impossible making this a one religion</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">campus--LDS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We were AMAZED this weekend as we met</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with Pastor Cha (Korean Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church, in Layton,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Utah) to discover that he and three other Korean Church Elders had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">translated the entire Mormon Scrapbook into the Korean language.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> They </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">are concerned for the Christian community in Korea because there is no</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">information in the Korean language warning them of the deceptions of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mormonism. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We have tentatively agreed upon a plan whereby The Mormon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Scrapbook in Korean will be offered as a printed book and as a digital</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">download in the near future. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This is a huge answer to prayer as we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">recognize the need to expose the false doctrines of Mormonism in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">countries outside of the USA where the LDS Church is growing by leaps</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and bounds. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Pray with us as we work toward offering The Mormon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Scrapbook not only in English and Korean but also in Spanish and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Portuguese. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We believe these evangelistic tools will challenge</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mormonism all around the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> The Mormon Scrapbook is available on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mormon-Scrapbook-Daniel-Thompson/dp/096713837X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346559186&sr=8-1&keywords=the+mormon+scrapbook">Amazon</a> and if you order it from GospelTruth4U you will also get a free</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">DVD.</span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> This week the 2012/13 </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Snow College</span></b> school year begins and we kick-off our Christian club </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with a flurry of activities. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">With the arrival of the new freshmen we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">started up the Solid Rock Internet Cafe once again. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Cafe is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">nothing more than a tool to draw students into our ministry house so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that we can build relationships and eventually share the truths of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">God's Word with them. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We also have our first Club social with free </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">smoothies and table games again with the intent of building new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">relationships. Then comes "Club Rush" which is an opportunity to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">promote our Christian Club on campus and advertise our events and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Bible studies. Followed by our annual Solid Rock Retreat to Wyoming.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Any students that we are able to connect with are invited to join us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for this retreat.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Yes, there is spiritual opposition in all things--we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">can almost schedule an internet or computer glitch with the beginning </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of the new school year. And, once again, the Prince and Power of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Cyberspace has attacked again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It is crucial that we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">connect with the handful of Christian students that attend Snow</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">College each year and introduce them to the community of Christians in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Ephraim. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Snow College is ruled by Mormons and it can be a lonely and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dangerous place for an isolated Christian.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Again PRAY FOR US that God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">would draw those who are Christians into our ministry so that we can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">once again have a strong presence on campus.</span>
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