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Letter to Reformation Rumblings from
a Mormon reader who writes:
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�The Mormon Church is a rapidly
growing religious movement in the
world.
Not everyone is
going to join this Church, but many will. You and
your Website will not stop this
Church from growing and making positive
changes in the
world. God is my judge, not you or your ignorant
Website.�
�Mormon
reader.
A. If you think Joseph Smith was God�s prophet, you need to explain his
prophecy that a Mormon Temple and �New Jerusalem� would be built
�in the
western boundaries of the State of Missouri� (Joseph Smith,
Doctrine and Covenants 84:2-5 & 31). His
Temple was not built in Missouri.
It�s in
Utah. If Smith had lived under the old Law of Moses, he would have
been stoned to death for issuing a false prophecy in the name of
God.
�But a prophet who presumes
to speak in my name
anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet
who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to
death�
(Deut.
18:20).
Smith also falsely prophesied that during the course of the Civil
War in
America, worldwide hostilities would be poured out upon all
nations;
famine, plague, and earthquakes would come from God, and all
nations
come to an end (Joseph Smith, Doctrine and
Covenants 87). On another
occasion, he claimed
that Deity appeared to him in the Spring of 1820,
and one of them said to him, �This is My Beloved Son, Hear
Him!�
(Writings of Joseph Smith 2:19).
Smith taught that God was once as
we are (Joseph Smith, Journal of
Discourses, 1855, VI, 5),
that God was not God from all eternity (Ibid., pp. 3-4),
that we,
ourselves, can become Gods (Ibid., pp. 3-4), and
that God and Jesus
have glorified flesh and bone
bodies (Ibid., pp. 3-4).
Need I say more about
this cult
founder?
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To
connect to my Web site, click on www.mindspring.com/~renewal
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Until next time, take care and God
bless.
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