I believe that Mormons have put the Christ back into Christianity.
Non-LDS Christianity, believe that those who may be good people but who do not believe as they do will get damned with an acetylene torch burning on them for eternity.
This is neither justice or mercy ... and neither is their dark-age view of Jesus Christ.
Through revelations by Jesus Christ himself to the Prophet Joseph Smith, Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) have learned what Paul ment in 1 Cor 15:29 as well as his descriptions of a 3rd Heaven as well as the resurection being in the glory of the Sun, Moon and Stars.
Jesus Christ is once again speaking to manking ... and has shown that he is Just and Merciful ... instead of the antiquated, viewpoints that were forced on Christianity by Pagan Monarchs such as Constanitie and political intrigue through the dark ages.
Rejoice oh Earth .... Christ has set his hand again to establish his church in preparation for his second coming!
Christ never left Christianity that he should need to be restored to it.
Moreover, the notion that Christianity teaches good people go to hell for not being in the club is as childish and ridiculous as the idea that heaven is an eternity of harp playing on fluffy white clouds.
Who taught you there is even one “good man?” That’s not the message of the Bible.
10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17And the way of peace have they not known: 18There is no fear of God before their eyes. (Romans 3:10-18)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Romans 5:12)
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalm 51:5)
If “goodness” were a prerequisite for entrance to Heaven, only dogs would go there.
“I believe that Mormons have put the Christ back into Christianity.”
No, mormons have attempted to re-define Jesus and to put a counterfeit Christ into Christianity.
Mormonism’s validity rests solely on whether Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God....and he was lacking.
1. He lived a life of sin - serial adulterer and treasure seeker
2. He failed to make accurate predictions of future events
3. There’s no factual basis to back his claims
4. His story about the 1st vision changed numerous times
I’m sorry you have been duped into believing the lies of that con artist. I’ll pray that you come to believe in the true, biblical Christianity.
When was it that Christ stopped talking to His bride?
People who go to hell go there on their own accord.
If just being “good” were enough, there would have been no need for the Cross.
When you say the Christ showed Himself to Smith which version are you speaking of the 1st, the 2nd or possibly the 14th?
An oft repeated myth.
"Christ himself uttered these words during the First Vision “... and all of their Creeds are an abomination to me ....”
JS wrote the First Vision® ambiguously enough to permit others to come to that conclusion.
The narrative (1st vision, [pick a version]) is ambiguous, it does not clearly state that God and Jesus, came down, nor does he claim to have heard the name of Jesus, just "this is my beloved son..." (That IS NOT "confessing" Jesus). It's implied through the use of descriptive language. But at no time does the personage (spirit) state absolutely that it was Jesus who was going to "speak" to JS. It's an assumption on the part of mormons to believe that Christ spoke to him. JS never recorded that he was speaking to God or that Jesus was speaking to him.
The use of the word "Personages" is in no way an adequate description of God and Jesus, I don't care how you try to spin that.
1 John:
4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
4:3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
4:4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
4:5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
4:6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
First off, the warning about testing the spirits and the fact those false prophets would be known by their worldliness. Well, JS was quite worldly. He was a lecher, a thief, a con-man, etc. Many of the things JS did while he was the "prophet" were the behaviors that are in direct contradiction of a Godly man. There were a lot of "convenient" "revelations" that "permitted" him a great deal of latitude.
Secondly, the "personages" description and the failure of the spirits to clearly identify and confess Jesus during the purported 1st vision.
Wishing something to be true doesn't make it true.
The mormons HAVE to believe JS was telling the truth or the whole, vile, scam comes crashing down around their heads. The Bible stands on its own, the BoM not so. The D&C, nothing but a collection of heresies and blasphemies.
You DO?
Why?
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Or even HERE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 13251–57, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.