The true onus of proof is on the Reformers. Why take on reform only to stop short, retaining some foolish traditions when Gutenberg offered complete liberty?
Was the time not yet ripe for a full Restoration?
The questions that need answering are:
1. Why must God be in the form of a Trinity?
2. Why can’t God have a physical body?
3. Why can’t God speak in our day by way of prophets?
4. Why isn’t there one united Church of Jesus Christ (see Ephesians 4)?
The LDS claim that they rest on continuing revelation, but as shown their beliefs are solidly Biblical and not beyond the apprehension of those willing to read with their own minds and understand.
Let the Spirit be your guide and not men. God’s Holy Word is clear. To pretend that LDS belief is unBiblical is a lie. You may interpret it differently, but that is your opinion and choice.
Ironically, Acts 20:28-30 discusses the Church of Jesus Christ. The wolves are often erroneously attributed as the LDS, et. al. If that were so then the LDS were/are the Church of Jesus Christ as Paul is talking to the faithful of Ephesus:
Acts 20:28-30 (New International Version)
28Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.[a] Be shepherds of the church of God,[b] which he bought with his own blood. 29I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
Footnotes:
1. Acts 20:28 Traditionally bishops
2. Acts 20:28 Many manuscripts of the Lord
Acts 20:28-30 (Young’s Literal Translation)
28`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
29for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
30and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
NB: that the “wolves” are within the flock and rise up among the men (Priesthood?) of the flock to mislead them. Therefore for Paul’s warning to be true the LDS would have to be within the Church of Jesus Christ. They cannot be both.
So if Acts 20 is referring to the true church and the LDS it is a warning to the LDS to beware of those whose pride/blasphemy will lead the flock astray.
If the LDS are not the true church then Paul’s reference is not to them at all, but to and against the members of the true church. Which is it?
Because that is the form the whole of scripture indicates.
2. Why can’t God have a physical body?
Jesus said God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must do so in spirit and in Truth. God also said He is not a man.
3. Why can’t God speak in our day by way of prophets?
Never said He can't - however those who claim such inspiration MUST be held accountable to the definition of Deuteronomy.
4. Why isn’t there one united Church of Jesus Christ (see Ephesians 4)?
There is a body of Christ - unified in our common faith in Jesus, yet diverse as the parts of a body. BTW, the mormon church is no more unified by YOUR definition than Christianity.
The LDS claim that they rest on continuing revelation, but as shown their beliefs are solidly Biblical and not beyond the apprehension of those willing to read with their own minds and understand.
You have failed epically to show that their beliefs are 'solidly biblical' - on the contrary they are solidly anti-biblical.
To pretend that LDS belief is unBiblical is a lie.
There, fixed it for you.
If that were so then the LDS were/are the Church of Jesus Christ as Paul is talking to the faithful of Ephesus:
"savage wolves will come in among you" In order to come IN one must first be OUTSIDE. Reading comprehension is not that hard 10.
So if Acts 20 is referring to the true church and the LDS it is a warning to the LDS to beware of those whose pride/blasphemy will lead the flock astray.
Like smith who claimed to have done more than even Jesus Himself - gotcha.
If the LDS are not the true church then Paul’s reference is not to them at all, but to and against the members of the true church. Which is it?
Paul's reference are to those OUTSIDE who come IN later. Please stop embarrassing yourself by such lame interpretations.