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To: Richard from IL

Many of the sources you cite would have been just as disgusted with Joseph Smith’s creeds.

Joseph Smith did not have a creed!


21 posted on 12/25/2008 10:17:15 PM PST by restornu (Gardeners have roots and Cowboys have boots!: smile)
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To: restornu

Thanks for the post. Who would have thought that turning the other cheek would be required because of free, Americans who all believe they are “real” Christians?


28 posted on 12/25/2008 11:22:28 PM PST by freeplancer (McCain Voters Catch the Lobsters-Obama Voters Eat Them)
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To: restornu

The LDS have creeds but they use different terms for it which amount to the same thing. Ezra Taft Benson’s “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet” is an example of this.


37 posted on 12/26/2008 2:44:51 AM PST by Richard from IL
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To: restornu
Joseph Smith did not have a creed!

Creeds, No.

Screwball, blasphemous and heretical beliefs, Yes. In abundance!

Here's a list of some Joseph Smith's warped teachings:

  1. That Jesus and Satan are brothers

  2. That God had incestuous sexual relations with His daughter, Mary, impregnating her with Jesus

  3. That Christian pastors are "dimwitted hirelings of Satan"

  4. Of sacred scriptures based on pagan works such as prayers to Egyptian gods for dead spirits – which were supposedly translated using occult devices such as peep stones

  5. That God is a polygamous celestial stud married to our Heavenly Mother, whose name is so sacred we are not to say it out loud

  6. Of Kolob and of other worlds named Planet Oblish and Planet Enish-go-on-dosh ruled by a governing power through the medium of Kli-flos-is-es, or Hah-ko-kau-beam

  7. Of prominent display of Satanic symbols such as pentagrams, baphomets, earth stones, and saturn stones on his churches' religious buildings and literature

  8. Of portraying Satan as the god of this world and having him teach church doctrine in the Mormon temple ceremony

  9. Of the wearing a fig leaf apron in temple ceremonies to symbolize Satan’s power and priesthoods

  10. Of offering prayers to the devil in the temple ceremony – Oh God, hear the words of my mouth – and of praising him in the sacred rites by chanting Hebrew words whose translation is Marvelous Lucifer

  11. That husbands can resurrect their wives from the grave

  12. Of having special grips and clasps in order to tell ghosts from angels and the devil

  13. Of practicing baptism for the dead

  14. Of wearing magic underwear to protect from physical harm – with symbols so sacred that they must be cut out and buried and the garment burned when it wears out

  15. That the Ten Lost Tribes and the apostle John will be discovered living in cement houses in a tropical land adjacent to the North Pole separated by a high mountain range

  16. That men about six feet tall, dressed like Quakers, will be discovered dwelling on the moon where they live for about 1,000 years

  17. That science will prove the earth has knobs on each end

  18. That he was commanded by God to retranslate the Bible because the existing translations contained errors – eventually devising an Inspired Revision completed in 1833 – which was rejected by his church who still uses the King James Version

  19. That his followers are not saved by grace, but instead are burdened by a complex series of rules and regulations which determine their progression as gods of their own planets and the ultimate size and quality of their harem of goddess wives

  20. That he was greater than Jesus


61 posted on 12/26/2008 8:08:15 AM PST by Zakeet (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators)
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To: restornu; Richard from IL
Joseph Smith did not have a creed!

Not a creed, just a screed.

159 posted on 12/26/2008 5:13:15 PM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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