“A friendly study of all the world’s
religious scriptures is the sacred
duty of every person.”
~ Mahatma Ghandi
About The Founder…
"God placed Joseph Smith at the
head of this church...."
~ LDS "Apostle" Orson Pratt,
Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 375.
“Christ is the head of the church, his
body, of which he is the Savior.”
~ Ephesians 5:23 (Also 4:15)
About Discerning Truth…
"But, behold, I say unto you, that
you must study it out in your mind;
then you must ask me if it be right,
and if it is right I will cause that your
bosom shall burn within you;
therefore, you shall feel that it is
right."
~ LDS Doctrine and Covenants 9:8.
"The heart is deceitful above all
things, and beyond cure. Who can
understand it?"
~ Jeremiah 17:9
About God…
"We have imagined and supposed
that God was God from all eternity. I
will refute that idea. ...God himself
the Father of us all, dwelt on an
earth the same as Jesus Christ
himself did...."
~ Joseph Smith, Journal of
Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3, 1844.
"Before the mountains were born Or
you gave birth to the earth and the
world, Even from everlasting to
everlasting, You are God.”
~ Psalm 90:2
"GOD HIMSELF was once as we
are now, and IS AN EXALTED MAN,
and sits enthroned in yonder
heavens. That is the great secret."
~ Joseph Smith, Journal of
Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3, 1844.
"What is God? He is a material
organized intelligence, possessing
both body and parts. He is in the
form of a man, and is, in fact, of the
same species.... this being cannot
occupy two distinct places at once,
therefore He cannot be everywhere
present."
~ Joseph Smith, Jr., The Millennial
Star, vol. vi,
“’Am I only a God nearby’, declared
the LORD, ‘and not a God far away?
Can anyone hide in secret places so
that I cannot see them?’ declares the
LORD. ‘Do not I fill heaven and
earth?’”
~ Jeremiah 23:23-24 (NIVi)
"We were begotten by our Father in
Heaven; the person of our Father in
Heaven was begotten on a previous
heavenly world by His Father; and
again, He was begotten by a still
more ancient Father, and so on from
generation to generation, from one
heavenly world to another still more
ancient...."
~ Orson Pratt, The Seer, page 132, 1853.
“I am He. Before Me there was no
God formed, And there will be none
after Me.”
~ Isaiah 43:10
About Humanity…
“As man now is, God once was;
As God now is, man may be.”
~ Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of
the LDS Church
“If the Word became a man,
It was so men may become gods.”
~ Lorenzo Snow
"THE ONLY MEN WHO BECOME
GODS, even the sons of God, ARE
THOSE WHO ENTER INTO
POLYGAMY. ... I heard the revelation
on polygamy, and I believe it with all
my heart, and I know it is from
God...."
~ Brigham Young, Journal of
Discourses, Vol 11, p. 269, Aug. 19,
1866.
“Each man is to have his own wife,
and each woman is to have her own
husband.”
~ 1 Corinthians 7:2
About God’s Truth…
"And WHATSOEVER they
[Mormonism's leaders] shall speak
when moved upon by the Holy Ghost
SHALL BE SCRIPTURE, shall be the
will of the Lord, shall be the mind of
the Lord, SHALL BE THE WORD OF
THE LORD, SHALL BE THE VOICE
OF THE LORD, and the power of God
unto salvation."
~ LDS Doctrine & Covenants 68:4
“Do not go beyond what is written.”
~ 1 Corinthians 4:6
The Challenge…
"Take up the Bible, compare the
religion of the Latter-day Saints with
it, and see if it will stand the test."
~ Brigham Young, Journal of
Discourses, Vol. 16, p. 46, 1873.
“Challenge Accepted.”
~ Bruxy Cavey
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
~ Luke 17:21 (NIV)
Complimentary Beliefs
“A” is true.
“B” is true.
Contradictory Beliefs
“A” is true.
“Not A” is true.
“And it came to pass that after he
had smitten off the head of Shiz, that
Shiz raised up on his hands and fell;
and after that he had struggled for
breath, he died.”
~ Book of Mormon, Ether 15:31
“Don’t let anyone look down on
you because you are young, but
set an example for the believers
in speech, in life, in love, in faith
and in purity.”
~ 1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)
“Thou fool, that shall say: a Bible,
we have got a Bible, and we need no
more Bible.”
~ Book of Mormon, (2 Nephi 29:6)
“Do not go beyond what is
written.”
~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 (NIV)
"As I urged you when I went into
Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus
so that you may command certain
men not to teach false doctrines
any longer nor to devote
themselves to myths and endless
genealogies. These promote
controversies rather than God's
work - which is by faith."
~ 1 Timothy 1:3-4 (NIV)
"But, behold, I say unto you, that
you must study it out in your mind;
then you must ask me if it be right,
and if it is right I will cause that your
bosom shall burn within you;
therefore, you shall feel that it is
right."
~ LDS Doctrine and Covenants 9:8,
“Those who overcome I will
make a pillar in the temple of
my God. Never again will they
leave it.”
~ Revelation 3:12 (NIVi)
“Full salvation is attained by virtue of
knowledge, truth, righteousness, and all
true principles. Many conditions must
exist in order to make such salvation
available to men. Without continuous
revelation, the ministering of angels, the
working of miracles, the prevalence of
gifts of the spirit, there would be no
salvation. There is no salvation outside
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.”
~ Mormon Doctrine, 670
“For there is only one God and
one Mediator who can reconcile
God and people. He is the man
Christ Jesus.”
~ 1 Timothy 2:5 (NLT)
“He saved us, not because of
the righteous things we had
done, but because of his mercy.
He saved us through the
washing of rebirth and renewal
by the Holy Spirit.”
~ Titus 3:5 (NIV)
“If you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord, and believe in
your heart that God raised Him
from the dead, you will be
saved.”
~ Romans 10:9 (NASB)
"Then they asked him, `What
must we do to do the works
God requires?' Jesus
answered, `The work of God is
this: to believe in the one he
has sent.'"
~ John 6:28-29 (NIV)
“This is His commandment, that
we believe in the name of His
Son Jesus Christ, and love one
another, just as He commanded
us.”
~ 1 John 3:23 (NASB)
“For in Christ Jesus neither
circumcision nor
uncircumcision counts for
anything; the only thing that
counts is faith working [or
made effective] through love.”
~ Galatians 5:6 (NRSV)
“For you have not received a
spirit of slavery leading to fear
again, but you have received a
spirit of adoption as children by
which we cry out, ‘Abba!
Father!’ The Spirit Himself
testifies with our spirit that we
are children of God.”
~ Romans 8:15-16 (NASBi)