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Thanks for your concern, MHG

Believe it or not, I don’t feel at all entitled to a place in God’s kingdom based upon my own righteousness. You are not going to find me boasting about how “good” I am. I feel entirely inadequate and identify well with the publican who beat upon his breast not looking towards heaven saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. (Luke 18:13)

My only hope comes because of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for me and all mankind. He paid the price of my sins and I hope that through His mercies I may be cleansed of my sin. I am entirely in Jesus’ debt.

I don’t see any place for pride in the life of a follower of Christ. The true Christians are the meek, the poor in spirit, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers.

We know from Malachi the fate of the proud:

“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” (Malachi 4:1)

My only hope comes because of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for me and all mankind. He paid the price of my sins
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How did He do that ???

I am perplexed that you think you can align humility with the assertions of your Joseph Smith! To contradict the Bible in so many areas as Smith did yet have the benefit of doubt from you, this man must have some demonic empowerment to hold you in such darkness! And this is not something you can sweep aside with the specious assertion that you believe the Bible 'as far as it is translated correctly'. Joseph Smith taught absolute contradictions to what the entire Bible teaches! He didn't just change the fundamental position in the pre-1837 Book of Mormon by rewriting that for the 1837 edition, he tried to rewrite the entire King James Bible and add prophecy of his 'coming forth in these latter days' (see the 800+ words Smith added to the Book of Genesis, in the Joseph Smith Translation of the King James Bible, available from the RLDS and online). He even added to and subtracted from the Book of The Revelation! And there's a clear curse connected to such foolishness.

To be ignorant of the truth which the Word of God declares is one thing, but to see the contradictions (on the nature of God the Father Almighty and Jesus and angels and Salvation, etc) and yet choose to believe the lies of Smith and later LDS teachers repeating and affirming the contradictions is quite another thing.