Category: Mormon Theology
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Mormon Claims Answered
By Marvin W. Cowan Utah Lighthouse Ministry would like to thank Marvin Cowan for graciously allowing us to post his book, Mormon Claims Answered, on our website. Note: Mormon Claims Answered is also available in Spanish and Russian translations. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATED BOOK TITLES INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 – ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Introduction
By Marvin W. Cowan The title of this book, Mormon Claims Answered, sums up its message and its purpose. Since its inception, Mormonism has claimed that all other churches are universally apostate (heretical) and that the LDS church alone is the “only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” (Doctrine &…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Joseph Smith’s Consent Needed to Enter Heaven
Brigham Young teaches that although all people will be “saved” (resurrected), only those who obtain Joseph Smith’s consent can then attain the highest degree of exaltation, in the celestial kingdom. As printed in Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, pp. 288-90 (typescript)[Bold in quotations is added for emphasis and does not appear in originals.] [page 282]…
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Brigham Young Sermon: Blacks and the Priesthood
Brigham Young explains the curse of Cain and how black people are relegated to being the “servant of servants” and are prohibited from holding the LDS priesthood until “all the other descendants of Adam have . . . enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood . . .” As printed in: Journal of Discourses, vol. 7,…
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The Gods of Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly referred to as the Mormon Church) now claims to have 9,000,000 members and proclaims itself to be the only true church. Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie emphatically declared: This Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of…
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Two Hours With Brigham Young
An interview with Brigham Young by the famous journalist, Horace Greeley Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Daily Tribune and famous for the phrase, “Go West, young man,” did just that, stopping in Salt Lake City for several days to “study” the Mormons while on his way to the west coast. This took the…
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Embarrassing Doctrine
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner It has recently been brought to our attention that President Ezra Taft Benson, the current prophet of the Mormon Church, has strongly defended a doctrine which has been denied by some Mormons who are either not well informed on church doctrine or are so ashamed of the teaching that they…
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Current Mormon Temple Ceremony Now Available
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner As we were working on our new book, Evolution of the Mormon Temple Ceremony: 1842-1990, we had a very unexpected thing happen: we were offered a transcript and a tape of the new 1990 revision of the “endowment ceremony.” We, therefore, decided to publish it in our new book together…
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Major Problems of Mormonism (book release news)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner We are pleased to announce the completion of our new book, Major Problems of Mormonism. Although our most comprehensive work, Mormonism—Shadow or Reality? has proved to be very effective in bringing many Mormons to the truth, it contains more material than some people wish to read. In addition, we have…
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Another Gospel?
The LDS teaching that full salvation involves our exaltation to godhood (just like Heavenly Father) is different from Jesus’ claim that salvation consists simply and wholly in accepting his sacrifice for us. Mormonism is indeed another gospel.