A post that was wrongfully deleted00:16 Feb 02 2006
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I felt as I was reading an overly opinionated article written by this "doctor" that he had an unresearched hate for the Mormon church and has wasting many days of his life just write an article that only makes him seem less of a doctor and more of a Baptist...He constantly disses on the Mormon Church and states things that are false...I am mormon so don't you think I would know a little bit about my church? Here is some things that he says, followed by my reaction:
"Restitution"... the "key word":
The key word for the Mormons is "restitution", the words of Peter in Act.3:21, "restitution of all things"... they claim this restitution, or restoration, began in 1820 with Smith: The restitution of divine truths with the Book of Mormons, restitution of the priesthood, of sacred temples... but they don't realize that Peter was talking about "Jesus Christ", who restored already everything with his death and resurrection almost 2,000 years ago... Peter was not talking about Smith!.
OK...And he knows exactly what Peter meant by this? Did he go back in time and ask Peter if he meant Jesus or Joseph Smith? The bible was written during a time when almost everything had to be written in code or it would be oppressed...How does he know this information? Opinion?
Joseph Smith was a "false prophet":
Smith thought he was living in the last days before Christ return, and prophesied Jesus Second coming for 1890, but he died in 1844, without witnessing the non-fulfillment of his prophecy.
In one of the books of Thessalonians, Paul prophesied that Jesus Second coming would be in the first century of his death...That prophecy never came true...Is Paul, writer of over 2/3 of the New Testament, a false prophet because he had a prophecy that didn't come true...If so, then you couldn't be a christian, They read and believe the New Testament...Paul even teaches about False Prophets and make an untrue prophecy...
The "Articles of Faith":
When they go to your home, they show you some of their "Articles of Faith", those appealing to a good Christian, but they are very deceptive: For example, the Article 1 says, "We believe in God, the eternal Father, and in his son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit"... but they don't say that they are 3 gods!... and they don't say that the Father is "eternal" only because he has no end, like any other men, but he had a beginning, so, he was actually "not eternal"... Article 8 says, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly"... but they don't explain to you that the "right translation" of Smith contains 1,475 verses changed from the real Bible.
We do belive in God, the eternal Father, and in his son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit...But it doesn't say that they aren't 3 gods...or all one God...The Bible states that God the father, Jesus the son, and the Holy Spirit, are all the same God...So we believe it...How exactly does Dr. Dominguez know that Joseph Smith changed verses and didn't translate them? Have you ever heard of Beowulf? If not, it is an ancient Anglo-Saxon epic written in ancient English...That poem has so many different translations, and not all of them are the same...So how can one say that something is translated incorrectly? And like I said before I will say again: "The bible was written during a time when almost everything had to be written in code or it would be oppressed." More opinion...
The "biggest deception":
The "biggest deception" of the Mormons is that their "Sacred Books" contradict each other, so, if you tell them that Mormonism teaches that there are many gods, they will show you the Book of Mormon teaching that there is only one God... and so forth...
THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND THAT IS WHAT WE BELIEVE!!!
The "family"... "polygamy"... "women":
This is another "contradiction" and "deception"of the Mormon Church:
- The "family", "is the most important unit of life", for the Mormons... however, there is polygamy!
-"Polygamy", is forbidden in the "Book of Mormons"; however, Smith, in his 132 revelation was ordered by God to have polygamy, as in the life of Solomon: So, Smith had 27 wives officially, and 60 unofficially, and the second great leader, Brigham Young, had 25 wives with 56 children, and proclaimed, "he who rejects the doctrine of polygamy shall be condemned"... and "the only men who become gods are those who enter polygamy"... however, a third "little Pope", Fielding, abolished officially polygamy in 1904.
... Today, polygamy is forbidden in the Mormon Church, but an estimated 30,000 fundamentalist Mormons have plural marriages in Utah.
- "Women", cannot become priests or church leaders, and cannot become gods... may be this is one reason why in the Mormon Church women have the highest rate of suicides in the nation, the highest percentage in mental institutions, and the highest percentage of divorces in the nation.
- The Church forbids contraceptives and abortion.
Polygamy is outdated in the Mormon church...And not only Mormons are polygamists...I know of more polygamists that are Agnostic than all zero of the mormon polygamists...The Holy Bible states that women cannot become priests or church leaders...And where is the statistic of Mormon suicides? My parents are divorced and both of them dislike the Mormon church...And most churches are against abortions...So why is that even written here?
The "Latter-day Saints":
The "Latter-day Saints" of the title of their Church, are the "Mormons", because all the churches and creeds before Smith are "abomination" into the Lord, as revealed to Smith by God the Father and Jesus Christ!.
- Any man can become God... "As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man can become", is one of the most famous aphorisms of the Mormons... but of course, only the Mormons can become God, if they are faithful to their Church!... and only "men", not "women".
- This concept of "every man is god", has been taken up by the New Age Movement, but using different methods to become god.
- The Mormons could build on earth a "Garden of Eden", and that's the idea of Utah, USA... but Utah is still not a Garden of Eden!.
We do not think that all other churches are wrong...We tolerate them...We take their verbal and sometimes physical abuse...There is only one God...So how can any man become God? And SLC, Utah...Is just a place where the persecuted Mormons made their pilgrimage to gain peace...
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