“The main problem is ... Who gave YOU, or Billy Graham for that matter, the job of deciding who is ... and who is not acceptable to Jesus Christ?”
We are directed by the word of God to judge the spirits to see whether they are true or not, and to be wary of wolves in sheep’s clothing, preaching a different gospel.
1Jn_4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Mat_7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Mat_24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Those who deny Jesus Christ are anti-Christ, and are enemies to God.
1Jn_2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Furthermore, we are even told by Paul that anyone who preaches a different Gospel is accursed, and to even say “Godspeed” to that individual is to bring upon their sin on yourself.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
2Jn 1:10-11 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: (11) For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
What does Mormonism teach? It denies that Jesus is the Christ of the Bible, instead perverting Him into a vacuous “elder brother” with no saving power. Mormons don’t even use the word the same way the Bible does. They have 6 different uses for it, and none of them are Biblical. They believe that Jesus Christ’s “atonement” was in the garden, and that this atonement only satisfies Adam’s sin, but the rest of us are in sin unless we confess Joseph Smith a prophet from God, get baptized by “one with authority,” learn secret handshakes, wear sacred underwear, and get married. That is why they perform baptisms and marry people by proxy as well. You cannot enter the celestial heaven to become a god without it, because you must live like god does, who they believe was once a mortal man, a sinner, who through being a good Mormon rose up to the highest heaven “raising himself up by his bootstraps,” and now lives eternally with a flesh and blood body having eternal celestial sex with his harem of countless wives. Those who do get married (and therefore cannot populate their own planets) are sorted into other layers of lesser heavens. That is, at least, unless their “living Prophet” decides to change things up. That happens frequently in the whacky world of Mormonism.
It’s also worth noting that Mormonism is not a rational religion. It is easily disprovable. The Book of Abraham, for example, was “translated” by Smith from papyri he purchased from a travelling Mummy salesman. This was back during a time in history where no one could call his bluff. His bluff was called in the 1960s when Egyptologists looked it over and declared, universally, that Smith was making up random stuff as he went along. The LDS does not discuss this, and when they do they lie about it.
This is, by any standard, be it religions or intellectual, an obvious fraudulent religion that is filthy in the sight of God. It denies Jesus Christ, and to claim that somehow God will save the Mormon is like saying God will save the Baha’i, who believe that Jesus Christ’s second coming happened a long time ago and was their religious leader who is now long dead. It is a statement made upon an absolute ignorance of what Mormonism teaches and has historically claimed to be.
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Mormons are not the only ones who collect ten percent taxes that is supposed to go to the nation of Israel and then keep it for them selves.
The early Christians did not collect or pay tithes, so some where along the line some one must have started preaching some other gospel and it really caught on.