Category: Revelations
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Doctrine and Covenants, Section 132
Date: July 12, 1843Place: Nauvoo, IllinoisRevelation to: Joseph Smith 1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the…
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The Stolen Manuscript: The Lost 116 Pages of the Book of Mormon (The Golden Bible, excerpt)
[An excerpt from the book, The Golden Bible by Rev. M. T. Lamb, 1887, pp. 118-126] K. The Stolen Manuscript. Strangely enough we find inserted in the middle of the Book of Mormon, pages 141-143 [Book of Mormon, pp. 143-145 in the 1981 edition] a little book entitled the “Book of Mormon,” or “Words of Mormon.” It is…
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Mormon Doctrine Altered
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Unfortunately, most members of the Mormon Church are completely oblivious to the serious changes that have been made by church leaders since the days of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Dr. Hugh Nibley is proclaimed by many to be one of the greatest defenders the Mormon Church has ever known.…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 5
Marvin W. Cowan More LDS Scripture & Revelation “We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.” 9th Article of Faith by Joseph Smith Mormon Apostle Bruce McConkie wrote, By the standard…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 7
Marvin W. Cowan The Church “We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, etc.” 6th Article of Faith by Joseph Smith The above statement has led many people to conclude that Mormonism is based upon the teachings of the Bible. However, a careful examination of…
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Temple Ritual Altered
Mormon Leaders Delete Some of the “Most Sacred” Parts of Ceremony By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In response to Fawn M. Brodie’s book, No Man Knows My History, the noted Mormon apologist Hugh Nibley declared: Yet of all churches in the world only this one has not found it necessary to readjust any part of…
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Satanic Verses and Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Joseph Smith was certainly not the first to claim revelations or to bring forth a new book purporting to be scripture. For instance, the story of the coming forth of the Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam, bears some interesting parallels to Joseph Smith’s account of the origin of the…
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Blood Atonement Chosen
After being sentenced to die for murder, Ronald Lafferty chose death by firing squad because he believed the blood atonement doctrine required his own blood to be literally spilled.
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 3
Changes in the Revelations Mormon Apostle John A. Widtsoe dogmatically stated: “The Doctrine and Covenants is a compilation of the revelations received by Joseph Smith . . . “The book itself is a witness for the truth of the Prophet’s claims. . . . Enemies of the Church have rather carefully avoided the discussion of this book. They have been afraid…
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The Changing World of Mormonism: Chapter 15
The Arm of Flesh In Jeremiah 17:5 we read: “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm. . . .” This Scripture means that we are not to put our trust in any man, but that we are to rely only upon God and put our trust in…