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« on: November 12, 2010, 07:18:47 am »

Mormonism Exposed!
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Mormonism, known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah), was officially founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844). Smith claimed to have had a personal visit from God the Father at the age of 15, who introduced him to Christ Jesus who then supposedly told him not to join any church because they were all wrong and all the Christian church's doctrines 'were an abomination' (Joseph Smith -- History 19, Pearl of Great Price). After Smith's murder (most likely from the Freemasons as he had stole their secrets and incorporated them into his Mormon cult) in 1844, Brigham Young took the cult to Utah. The Mormon Church currently claims it ranks 5th among the largest 25 U.S. denominations. Many do not know that “Mormon Prophets” have long taught and believed that Jesus Christ Was Married and Practiced Polygamy see: http://www.bible-truth.org/LDSpolygamy.html  Among the many blasphemous quotes from Joseph Smith he said: 'God made Aaron to be the mouthpiece for the children of Israel, and He will make me to be God to you in His stead, and the elders to be mouth for me; and if you don't like it, you must lump it' (Documentary History of the Church, vol. 6, pp 319-320). While Brigham Young stated the following: I have not read the Bible for many years. I used to read and study it, but did not understand the spirit and meaning of it ...' (1854 Conference discourse, October 8 ). [Brigham Young obviously did not understand the Bible, and neither do any of the other Mormon prophets!]

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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2012, 09:03:33 pm »

All of this info needs to get out to the "evangelical right" voters ASAP - however, sadly, I kind of doubt they will read or watch them.

It seems like majority of Chrisitians nowdays do not have any idea that Mormonism is Satanism. 20-30 years ago, they had decent discernment to mark and expose this cult for what it is. Now? It seems like they have no problems with it, and on a couple of occasions when I commented to others that they believe Jesus and Lucifer were brothers, they responded, "Where did you hear this junk?!". It's as if they feel we should respect them.

B/w when I was a boy growing up in the 80's, and the current present day...alot of what was condemned then is NOW ACCEPTED. Whether it's "Christian Rock", secular public education agendas like evolution, megachurches, Mormonism, or whatever, we're at the stage now where the majority is calling evil good, and good evil.

*sigh* even our modern day pastors are acting like rebellious teenagers. Back in the 80's, even the typical Churchianity 501c3 pastor would behave in a decent manner.
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2013, 01:50:16 pm »

Apparently, Scott was interviewed in 2008 by Noah Hutchings' Southwest Radio Ministries on this topic. I went to the www.swrc.com site, but their 2008/2009 archives were deleted recently(a couple of months ago, it was up there).
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2013, 02:04:13 pm »

Apparently, Scott was interviewed in 2008 by Noah Hutchings' Southwest Radio Ministries on this topic. I went to the www.swrc.com site, but their 2008/2009 archives were deleted recently(a couple of months ago, it was up there).

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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2013, 02:23:29 pm »

Where did you here that at?


A couple of months ago I looked at the web site's archives - it went back to 2008, and saw a Scott Johnson interview exposing Mormonism. But when I went back to that site yesterday, the 2008/2009 archives were deleted.

I don't know for sure if it was THAT Scott Johnson(whose audios we listen to), but I was assuming it was. If the 2008 archives were still up there, then it would have been the first time listening to that as I wanted to.

It's not like Noah Hutchings interviews all of these heretics we see on TBN/MSM - he interviews a number of internet people(for the most part).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/correction-mormons-embrace-social-media-to-push-back-against-official-church-teachings/2014/09/16/db2b4cb4-3dc5-11e4-a430-b82a3e67b762_story.html
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CORRECTION: Mormons embrace social media to push back against official church teachings

BERKELEY, Calif. — It was a gathering that would have been unthinkable just five years ago.

On a cool summer evening, in a borrowed classroom overlooking San Francisco Bay, about 150 men and women gathered to screen a short documentary about a Mormon family whose 13-year-old son came out as gay.

The Montgomerys, who accepted their son and his news, were ostracized by church members, some of whom refused to accept Communion distributed by the young man in church. Like many conservative Christian denominations, the 15 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bans homosexual activity and considers it grounds for exclusion from Mormon rites, rituals and even the afterlife.

But those in the room — mostly Mormons ranging from babes in arms to the elderly with canes — thought differently. They wanted to learn how to support their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender brethren in their local wards, or congregations.

“The phrase ‘gay Mormon’ was not part of our vocabulary prior to 2011,” said the evening’s organizer, Mitch Mayne, before the event. “And if we did say it, it was fringe and full of stereotypes, like we were all hiding in the closet and full of self-loathing or we were out of the church entirely and putting on body glitter and Speedos.”

That has since changed — as demonstrated by the standing-room-only crowd that included more than a half-dozen local Mormon officials. Today, many people who identify as both Mormon and LGBT are gaining acceptance within the wider LDS church and culture.

Many credit Mayne, 43, with fostering this change when he became the first publicly gay Mormon executive secretary — a leadership position in service of a bishop — in 2011, a post he held for more than two years in a church that has an all-volunteer, all-male clergy.

The first tool in Mayne’s arsenal? Social media — Facebook, Twitter and the popular blog he started to chronicle his experience as both gay and Mormon.

“Social media has enabled us to coalesce and create informed allies inside the Mormon faith and build the recognition that how we respond to LGBT individuals is everyone’s concern,” Mayne said after the event. “I have great faith in Mormons. They really want this change.”

LGBT Mormons are not the only minority group to harness social media and the Internet. Several other factions have taken to Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere to push back against church norms and a culture they consider unfair, outdated, and, at times, hateful:

* In late-August, Ordain Women organized a Twitter campaign with the hashtag ?equalinfaith. People posted pictures or messages supporting gender equality in the church, including opening the priesthood to women.

* When Kate Kelly was excommunicated from the LDS church earlier this year for her feminist activism, supporters organized a Facebook campaign asking people to wear black ribbons to church as a sign of dissent.

* In 2012, more than 1,500 Mormon women participated in the first “Wear Pants to Church Day,” organized via Facebook. Men were encouraged to wear purple in support. This year’s event is poised to be even larger, organizers say.

These campaigns seem to be prompting responses from the church, if not outright change. In August, the church surveyed about 1,000 randomly selected members to assess their views on a number of subjects, including “the roles, responsibilities or therapy of females in the church.” Two years ago, stung by the backlash from its support of California’s Proposition 8 that banned gay marriage, the church launched a new website exploring the relationship between its LGBT members and the broader church.

“We are starting to see a significant disconnect between what the church is telling people to believe about same-sex marriage and homosexuality and what people actually believe and accept,” said John Gustav-Wrathall, a senior vice president of Affirmation, an independent organization that supports LGBT Mormons and their families.

“I think the Internet has a lot to do with that. LDS people are putting their stories out there, and that is influencing people’s perception.”

Mayne agrees.

“For (church leaders) to put up the website is phenomenal,” he said. “Yes, it has some problems, but the fact that we are even addressing the issue and using the term ‘gay,’ I cannot stress how impactful that is. If you look at the web there is gay Mormon stuff everywhere, and five years ago that wasn’t the case.”

Church officials say their doctrine is guided only by revelation and Scripture, not by popular opinion. “There has been no change whatever in the Church belief that homosexual sex is sinful,” LDS spokesman Eric Hawkins wrote in response to emailed questions. “What has changed — with Church encouragement — is how to respond to those who struggle to stay in the Church and at the same time maintain that doctrinal position.”

Mormons attitudes toward social media are certainly in flux. Last year, Elder M. Russell Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church’s second-highest presiding body, warned church members of the persuasive powers of the Internet.

Yet in August, Elder David A. Bednar, also a member of the Quorum, suggested Mormons take to social media “to sweep the Earth as with a flood.”

Feminist Mormons have been among the most active on social media. Nancy Ross, head of Ordain Women’s social media team, said there are at least a dozen multi-author blogs written by and for feminist Mormons and at least as many Facebook groups. Facebook, she said, is where the seeds of change get planted at the local, one-on-one level.

“That is one of the huge things we do on Facebook, is offer a variety of counterarguments when someone says something offensive about women in the church,” she said. “Within two hours, someone is going to have 30 or 40 responses on how to counter that.”

As a moderator of the Facebook page for Feminist Mormon Housewives, the oldest and most popular blog written by feminist Mormons, Jerilyn Hassell Pool has seen the effectiveness of social media firsthand.

A cradle Mormon, Pool has had moments where she’s considered leaving the church. But being able to voice her opinions online and connect with those who share them has kept her in the fold.

“I feel if I stay and continue to raise awareness and raise my voice, I am making my church a better place,” she said. “I am raising the collective conscience of other people on social media, and that makes me feel less complicit in perpetuating these gender stereotypes.”

At the Berkeley meeting, people seemed to be looking for a way to do the same thing with regards to LGBT Mormons. One man, a baby on his lap for most of the evening, asked how he could show LGBT Mormons in his ward that he, a straight man, was supportive. A young woman asked what she could do to reach out to LGBT Mormons who might be in the closet.

Part of the answer to both was “get online.” ‘’The Internet has broken the bonds of silence,” Mayne told the crowd. “Those people and their families are no longer adrift.”
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« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2014, 07:36:54 am »

Mormons grappling with their history  Cheesy

Leaders within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking more openly about Mormonism's controversial history and teachings.

Even as Mitt Romney's presidential bid drew the national spotlight to Mormonism in 2012, leaders of the nearly 180-year-old religion expressed concern about its future.

"We've never had a period of -- I'll call it apostasy -- like we're having now," Marlin Jensen, an official Mormon historian, told a group of Mormon students in Logan, Utah, according to a Reuters report. In response to one student's question, Jensen admitted that Mormons are leaving the faith "in droves." Truth hurts doesn't it!!!!

Although the LDS church counts nearly 15 million members worldwide, estimates of the religion's overseas retention rate are as low as 25 percent. Only half of the Mormons in the United States are active members, according to Reuters, and some sociologists report only 5 million active members worldwide. Additionally, young Mormons, especially, have begun to question the faith of their fathers.

"The problem for Mormonism is with the use of the Internet and with the persistence of many, many groups that have been very straightforward in promoting what Mormonism really stands for," said R. Philip Roberts, director for international theological education with Global Ministries Foundation in Tennessee who also teaches adjunctively at Truett-McConnell College in Georgia. "They're losing the battle."

LDS leaders have for decades held a posture of silence and secrecy concerning questionable aspects of Mormonism's history, theology and practices, said Roberts, former director of the North American Mission Board's interfaith witness department and former president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

"Mormonism has everything to hide because they pretend to be a Christian organization," Roberts said, noting that Mormons often use Christian terms while infusing them with unbiblical meanings.

But now, forced to address criticism widely available on the Internet, LDS leaders have begun -- and only begun --to open up about controversial aspects of their faith. In recent articles posted on the LDS website (www.lds.org), leaders have admitted to Mormonism's historically positive stance toward polygamy and the historical inaccuracy of some of its own scriptures.

Mormonism and polygamy

"Polygamy was a notorious doctrine and practice of the LDS since the time of Joseph Smith," Tal Davis, who has served with NAMB's interfaith witness department, writes in an article posted on the webpage of Marketfaith Ministries, an online worldview ministry with which he now works.

Smith had as many as 40 wives, including a 14-year-old girl and a woman married to another man. Although historians have known about Smith's polygamy for more than a century, LDS leaders have until recently hesitated to admit this reality in a straightforward manner, Davis told Baptist Press.

Mormons aligned with LDS headquarters in Salt Lake City currently promote monogamy alone, in keeping with a canonized "declaration" of LDS President Wilford Woodruff in 1890 to achieve Utah statehood. But in their most recent statement on polygamy, LDS leaders never condemn polygamy, Davis said. Instead, they affirm that God has, in times past, commanded His people to practice polygamy. Smith himself claimed to have received a revelation from God that endorsed polygamy and condemned any who opposed its practice.

But LDS leaders also claim that God commanded biblical characters to practice polygamy. According to NAMB-certified apologist Rob Phillips, director of communications for the Missouri Baptist Convention, this claim is contrary to Scripture.

"It is clear that God's ideal is monogamous, lifelong marriage between a man and a woman," Phillips wrote in a Nov. 12 article on Baptist Press. Additionally, he noted, various passages of Scripture denounce polygamy or warn readers of "the danger of taking multiple wives."

"This is precisely where we have an opportunity to urge our Mormon friends to revisit the Bible, which LDS theology and practice relegate to a back seat behind the Book of Mormon and other church documents," Phillips wrote.

Historicity of Mormon scripture

Recent skepticism about Mormonism also has centered on the historicity of "The Book of Abraham," a section of The Pearl of Great Price, which is one of Mormonism's scriptures.

According to LDS lore, Smith translated The Book of Abraham from an Egyptian papyrus that he bought in the 1840s. For many years, the original Egyptian document was lost but was rediscovered in a museum in the 1960s.

Mormon leaders, in a recent statement on the LDS website, admitted what scholars have claimed since the rediscovery of the Egyptian document -- that Smith's translation in no way resembles what the original Egyptian text says.

Instead of repudiating Smith's Book of Abraham, however, the LDS statement says that the Egyptian document wasn't the textual basis for Smith's translation. Rather, "the physical artifacts provided an occasion for meditation, reflection, and revelation. They catalyzed a process whereby God gave to Joseph Smith a revelation about the life of Abraham, even if that revelation did not directly correlate to the characters on the papyri," the LDS statement says.

The statement also asserts that The Book of Abraham presents valuable doctrine and "clarifies several teachings that are obscure in the Bible," such as the belief that Jesus Christ "led other spirits in organizing the earth" out of preexisting matter.

'An enormous opportunity'

Roberts said LDS leaders are failing in their attempt to squelch criticism and retain members. But this situation creates an "enormous opportunity" for Southern Baptists "to share the real truth and the real Gospel of Jesus Christ."

"It is important that Mormons hear the truth," Roberts said, "and they need to hear it not from another counterfeit religion, but from people who know the truth."

To learn more about Mormonism, Southern Baptists can read "Mormonism Unmasked," which Philips and Davis coauthored with Sandra Tanner. They can find other resources about Mormonism on www.marketfaith.org, www.oncedelivered.net or on NAMB's apologetics website, www.4Truth.net.

http://www.bpnews.net/43783/mormons-grappling-with-their-history
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« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2014, 08:09:11 am »

And looks like we're seeing a falling away in these other "religions" as well...

Jehovah's Witnesses - membership declining

Mormonism - even their own members are starting to see their true colors

Islam - the biggest enemies against Israel(and JMHO, but I think they'll get wiped out as things escalate, and then the Antichrist will put the final nail in the coffin on them)

Catholicism - Pope Francis is causing a division, even "conservative" Catholics don't like him.

And now look at aspects of Churchianity...

Southern Baptist Convention - membership has been declining in recent years(and now they're opening themselves up to the sodomy agenda)

The other "Protestant" denominations are in split b/c of the sodomy agenda being embraced.(among many other things)

Did everyone see bro Byan's expose on Jack Hyles? Hyles has been a very big, negative influence on the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement(ie-with all the heresies he's brought in like "easy believism, sinner's prayer, etc). If anything, he's done alot of harm by indoctrinating satanic supersoldiers over the long haul(ie-Steven Anderson and his minions). Even his children have come out railing against Christianity.

And pretty much these Babel buildings by and large have sold their respective flocks a false bill of "puppy dogs and rainbows" goods.

The rapture of the true born-again believers is right around the corner.
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2015, 08:00:37 pm »

Instead, they affirm that God has, in times past, commanded His people to practice polygamy.

When on earth did this happen?
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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2015, 09:06:06 pm »

When on earth did this happen?

Here's the paragraph it came from(in the most recent article above)...

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Mormons aligned with LDS headquarters in Salt Lake City currently promote monogamy alone, in keeping with a canonized "declaration" of LDS President Wilford Woodruff in 1890 to achieve Utah statehood. But in their most recent statement on polygamy, LDS leaders never condemn polygamy, Davis said. Instead, they affirm that God has, in times past, commanded His people to practice polygamy. Smith himself claimed to have received a revelation from God that endorsed polygamy and condemned any who opposed its practice.

I think they're talking about Mormon's (false)doctrine here.
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2015, 02:29:36 pm »

http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonID=81915235255
Mormons Worship the Jesus of the Da Vinci Code
8/19/2015 (WED)

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