Are you a Mormon?
UHHHHH - NO!
I am your typical, general, sort of fundamental type American Protestant. I believe the Bible is the ultimate authority in matters of religion and faith and accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Saviour.
One poster liked the Mormons to Muslims. Antoher one made a comment about my comment, inferring I was supporting Satanists.
GIVE IT A BREAK!
Mormons don’t support Sharia Law, they don’t stone people, they don’t cut off peoples’ heads and they are patriotic Americans. They support a strong faamily structure.
They may abstain from alcohol, but they will eat pork, dance, appreciate attractive women and like music and dancing. As to the alcohol, that’s fine - it leaves more for me to drink.
I simply can’t understand the animus some of my fellow Protestant Christians have towards Mormons. I don’t have an axe to grind with Jews, Catholic Christians, Orthodox Christians, Hindus or Buddhists or Zoroastrians or Sikhs either. They have their beliefs, I have mine and we respect each other. Why do the Mormons get a rougher time than the others?
You do not understand because you want to perceive the animus as directed to ward the people, whne in reality it is directed toward the ISM, which is anti-thetical to Christianity even as the LDS use His name in their title. I wonder, if you understood more of the heresies at the foundation of MormonISM, would you still want folks to support them as they lead souls to their heresies and away from the Jesus of The Bible? ... A luke warm professor would answer in the affirmative since Salvation in Jesus is a ‘whatever’ proposition.
Mormons don’t support Sharia Law,
Mormons have their own Sharia law and practiced it in Utah during the 1800s..Laws against women are still in place..
they don’t stone people,
But they do shoot them..
they don’t cut off peoples’ heads
Circleville Massacre
and they are patriotic Americans.
They are the only in-country group who declared war AGAINST America...
They support a strong faamily structure.
Not according to their doctrines...Separate planets...shunning...lost boys..
They may abstain from alcohol,
Their early leaders and members drank alcohol...Joey Smith had a bart...Briggy Young had a brewery anbd a monoply on alcohol production...
they will dance,
Their origional dances were held so that Briggy Young and his fellow adulterous leechers could meet new victims...other “wives” did not attend...
appreciate attractive women
and more “wives” and what are married men doing “appreciating attractive women” Jesus said that that was a sin...(Oh thats right Jesus was talking to Christians)
like music and dancing.
The early mormons were obsessed with secular entertainment...
GIVE IT A BREAK!
Mormons don’t support Sharia Law, they don’t stone people, they don’t cut off peoples’ heads and they are patriotic Americans.
In the heat of the Missouri “Mormon War” of 1838, Joseph Smith made the following claim,
“I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Alcoran [Koran] or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us—‘Joseph Smith or the Sword!’ ”[1]
It is most interesting that a self-proclaimed Christian prophet would liken himself to Mohammed, the founder of Islam. His own comparison invites us to take a closer look as well. And when we do, we find some striking—and troubling—parallels. Consider the following.
· Mohammed and Joseph Smith both had humble beginnings. Neither had formal religious connections or upbringing, and both were relatively uneducated. Both founded new religions by creating their own scriptures. In fact, followers of both prophets claim these scriptures are miracles since their authors were the most simple and uneducated of men.[2]
· Both prophets claim of having angel visitations, and of receiving divine revelation to restore pure religion to the earth again. Mohammed was told that both Jews and Christians had long since corrupted their scriptures and religion. In like manner, Joseph Smith was told that all of Christianity had become corrupt, and that consequently the Bible itself was no longer reliable. In both cases, this corruption required a complete restoration of both scripture and religion. Nothing which preceded either prophet could be relied upon any longer. Both prophets claim they were used of God to restore eternal truths which once existed on earth, but had been lost due to human corruption.
· Both prophets created new scripture which borrowed heavily from the Bible, but with a substantially new “spin.” In his Koran, Mohammed appropriates a number of Biblical themes and characters—but he changes the complete sense of many passages, claiming to “correct” the Bible. In so doing he changes many doctrines, introducing his own in their place. In like manner, Joseph Smith created the Book of Mormon, much of which is plagiarized directly from the King James Bible. Interestingly, the Book of Mormon claims that this same Bible has been substantially corrupted and is therefore unreliable. In addition, Joseph Smith went so far as to actually create his own version of the Bible itself, the “Inspired Version,” in which he both adds and deletes significant portions of text, claiming he is “correcting” it. In so doing he also changes many doctrines, introducing his own in their place.
· As a part of their new scriptural “spin,” both prophets saw themselves as prophesied in scripture, and both saw themselves as a continuation of a long line of Biblical prophets. Mohammed saw himself as a continuation of the ministry of Moses and Jesus. Joseph Smith saw himself as a successor to Enoch, Melchizedek, Joseph and Moses. Joseph Smith actually wrote himself into his own version of the Bible—by name.
· Both prophets held up their own scripture as superior to the Bible. Mohammed claimed that the Koran was a perfect copy of the original which was in heaven. The Koran is therefore held to be absolutely perfect, far superior to the Bible and superceding it. In like manner, Joseph Smith also made the following claim. “I told the Brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding its precepts, than by any other book.”[3]
· Despite their claim that the Bible was corrupt, both prophets admonished their followers to adhere to its teachings. An obvious contradiction, this led to selective acceptance of some portions and wholesale rejection of others. As a result, the Bible is accepted by both groups of followers only to the extent that it agrees with their prophet’s own superior revelation.
· Both Mohammed and Joseph Smith taught that true salvation was to be found only in their respective religions. Those who would not accept their message were considered “infidels,” pagans or Gentiles. In so doing, both prophets became the enemy of genuine Christianity, and have led many people away from the Christ of the Bible.
· Both prophets encountered fierce opposition to their new religions and had to flee from town to town because of threats on their lives. Both retaliated to this opposition by forming their own militias. Both ultimately set up their own towns as model societies.
· Both Mohammed and Joseph Smith left unclear instructions about their successors. The majority of Mohammed’s followers, Sunni Muslims, believe they were to elect their new leader, whereas the minority, Shiite Muslims, believe Mohammed’s son was to be their next leader. Similarly, the majority of Joseph Smith’s followers, Mormons, believed their next prophet should have been the existing leader of their quorum of twelve apostles, whereas the minority, RLDS, believed Joseph Smith’s own son should have been their next prophet. Differences on this issue, and many others, have created substantial tension between these rival groups of each prophet.
· Mohammed taught that Jesus was just another of a long line of human prophets, of which he was the last. He taught that he was superior to Christ and superceded Him. In comparison, Joseph Smith also made the following claim.
“I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him, but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.”[4]
Endnotes
[1] Joseph Smith made this statement at the conclusion of a speech in the public square at Far West, Missouri on October 14, 1838. This particular quote is documented in Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, second edition, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), p. 230–231. Fawn Brodie’s footnote regarding this speech contains valuable information, and follows. “Except where noted, all the details of this chapter [16] are taken from the History of the [Mormon] Church. This speech, however, was not recorded there, and the report given here is based upon the accounts of seven men. See the affidavits of T.B. Marsh, Orson Hyde, George M. Hinkle, John Corrill, W.W. Phelps, Samson Avard, and Reed Peck in Correspondence, Orders, etc., pp. 57–9, 97–129. The Marsh and Hyde account, which was made on October 24, is particularly important. Part of it was reproduced in History of the [Mormon] Church, Vol. III, p. 167. See also the Peck manuscript, p. 80. Joseph himself barely mentioned the speech in his history; see Vol. III, p. 162.”
You've been here 10 years and STILL don't know?
They may abstain from alcohol, but they will eat pork, dance, appreciate attractive women and like music and dancing. As to the alcohol, that’s fine - it leaves more for me to drink.
| The Official Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © 2006 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Rights and use information. Privacy policy. |