Mormon Reformation [Posting of 95 Theses on Mormon Church Doors]

Mormon Reformation ^ | 2013 | Martin Luther-day Saint

[Colofornian]

In 1517, Martin Luther posted a list of 95 Theses on his church's doors. His actions exposed the corruption of the Catholic Church and started what came to be known as the Protestant Reformation.

Between the hours of 9 PM Saturday, February 16 and 9 AM Sunday, February 17, 2013, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others will post this list of 95 LDS Theses onto the doors of LDS churches around the world.

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The purpose of this event is two-fold:

1. Educate the membership on hidden and revised aspects of Church doctrine and history.

2. Influence Church leaders to officially address topics that have long been dodged and dismissed.

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95 LDS THESES

SNIP

[mnehring]

Really, wasn't that hard. (removed names)

S. C. also i was a stealth ninja and just barely made it out of the 2nd meeting house and then a state trooper drove by

J. G. Wore all black, don't want to end up on the local sheriff's wall.

L. L. Close call with police. I acted like I belonged there.

L. L. I went to the a cody Mural Historical church. It was fun. Wore my super sleuthing ninja clothes. ;)

M. C. Boise, Idaho. Cole Rd. (next to the temple, had to wait while parents picked up kids from a youth activity), Northview St. (cop drove by while I was walking between doors), Goddard Rd., Mitchell St. (had to wait while the building lockup guy finished his building walk-thru), North Maple Grove Rd. Also, posted on my facebook timeline, where I will probably get a s***storm of angry Mormons come tomorrow morning.

R. W. Bummer. Under patrol.

I also noticed that several of the participants are supporters and members of the LGBT community who are doing this to take on the church that opposes gay marriage. For example,

D. T. This is ridiculous. Someone is paying tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, only to get suspended from BYU (Brigham Young University) for holding hands with another man.

...and before you go with 'that's it', that is just a couple of minutes of scanning without even getting to the 'load more' at the bottom.

So what kind of witness is that which has to sneak around like a ninja and avoid the police?

[svcw]

No, I wont say that.
I would like to know why homosexuals are so agitated with mormons over homosexual issues as the SLC lds are not that upset with same sex marriage or homosexuals.
And I am very leery that homosexuals would be stealth, they always seem to want everyone know what they are doing and thinking at any given moment.
Well, I really didn’t think these people were all that serious about what they did “in the stealth mode”.
However, I can understand why you might be upset, and as I stated before Paul preached people rioted.
Sometimes people just need to be more forceful when calling out false teachings and prophets.
Others are more calm, we all have our talents.
Remember John the Baptist lost his head, Jesus hugged and whipped people both, Steven was highly compassionate, Peter and Paul caused a lot of trouble.

[boatbums]

I’m more concerned about Radical Muslims than Mormons..

A genuine Christian would be concerned about ALL false religions that condemn a soul to eternal hell. Jesus said to preach the gospel to everyone.

[Alex Murphy]

The missionary that came to my door was one of the most attractive girls I’d seen in a while.

You might want to get your eyes checked.

[svcw]

A Girl? hum?

[Elsie]

....we can’t have this if we’re gonna do a complete Mormon-hating job, excuse me, MormonISM-hating job.

Ah...

You gots a little bitty complaint so you throw it all out.

Typical MORMON response to those who point out that MORMONism is a HERESY.

[Elsie]

and why I should give a damn???

Uh...

---because it illustrates how deceived the members of TCOJCOLDS are?

[Elsie]

Don’t you realize that the Mormons, excuse me, I mean, Mormonism has come to sap our precious bodily fluids?

Why not; since it DOES suck out all evidence of logic in it's victims.

[Elsie]

Yes. I live in daily fear of Mormons, er...Mormonism....

The Ute indians of UTAH don't.

[Elsie]

Telling Mormons to stop being Mormons because you don’t believe in their religion is more your problem than it is theirs.

ThANk you Ma'am!

We go door to door for a year or more; telling Christians that their religion is bogus.

[Elsie]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the comment was made in jest.

Like THIS one?

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 132

51–57, 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.

54 And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and ^acleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be ^bdestroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law.

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.

56 And again, verily I say, let mine handmaid ^aforgive my servant Joseph his trespasses; and then shall she be forgiven her trespasses, wherein she has trespassed against me; and I, the Lord thy God, will bless her, and multiply her, and make her heart to ^brejoice.

[Elsie]

Hee hee!

“C”; you’ve REALLY riled up the hornet’s nest today!

[Elsie]

Actions are far more important of a witness than words. Your actions testify to who has sent you.

Speaking of WORDS...

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"Now the way he translated was he put the urim and thummim into his hat and Darkned his Eyes than he would take a sentance and it would apper in Brite Roman Letters. Then he would tell the writer and he would write it. Then that would go away the next sentance would Come and so on. But if it was not Spelt rite it would not go away till it was rite, so we see it was marvelous. Thus was the hol [whole] translated."

---Joseph Knight's journal.

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"In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us."
(History of the RLDS Church, 8 vols.

(Independence, Missouri: Herald House,1951),

"Last Testimony of Sister Emma [Smith Bidamon]," 3:356.

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"I, as well as all of my father's family, Smith's wife, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris, were present during the translation. . . . He [Joseph Smith] did not use the plates in translation."
---(David Whitmer,

as published in the "Kansas City Journal," June 5, 1881,

and reprinted in the RLDS "Journal of History", vol. 8, (1910), pp. 299-300.

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In an 1885 interview, Zenas H. Gurley, then the editor of the RLDS Saints Herald, asked Whitmer if Joseph had used his "Peep stone" to do the translation. Whitmer replied:

"... he used a stone called a "Seers stone," the "Interpreters" having been taken away from him because of transgression. The "Interpreters" were taken from Joseph after he allowed Martin Harris to carry away the 116 pages of Ms [manuscript] of the Book of Mormon as a punishment, but he was allowed to go on and translate by use of a "Seers stone" which he had, and which he placed in a hat into which he buried his face, stating to me and others that the original character appeared upon parchment and under it the translation in English."

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"Martin Harris related an incident that occurred during the time that he wrote that portion of the translation of the Book of Mormon which he was favored to write direct from the mouth of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He said that the Prophet possessed a seer stone, by which he was enabled to translate as well as from the Urim and Thummim, and for convenience he then used the seer stone, Martin explained the translation as follows: By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet and written by Martin and when finished he would say 'Written,' and if correctly written that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected, so that the translation was just as it was engraven on the plates, precisely in the language then used."
(Edward Stevenson, "One of the Three Witnesses,"

reprinted from Deseret News, 30 Nov. 1881

in Millennial Star, 44 (6 Feb. 1882): 86-87.)

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In 1879, Michael Morse, Emma Smith's brother-in-law, stated:

 

 "When Joseph was translating the Book of Mormon [I] had occasion more than once to go into his immediate presence, and saw him engaged at his work of translation. The mode of procedure consisted in Joseph's placing the Seer Stone in the crown of a hat, then putting his face into the hat, so as to entirely cover his face, resting his elbows upon his knees, and then dictating word after word, while the scribes Emma, John Whitmer, O. Cowdery, or some other wrote it down."
(W.W. Blair interview with Michael Morse,

Saints Herald, vol. 26, no. 12

June 15, 1879,  pp. 190-91.)

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Joseph Smith's brother William also testified to the "face in the hat" version:

 

"The manner in which this was done was by looking into the Urim and Thummim, which was placed in a hat to exclude the light, (the plates lying near by covered up), and reading off the translation, which appeared in the stone by the power of God"

("A New Witness for Christ in America,"

Francis W. Kirkham, 2:417.)

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"The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret was the same manner as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, while the book of plates were at the same time hid in the woods."

---Isaac Hale (Emma Smith's father's) affidavit, 1834.

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[Elsie]

Personal attacks are out of line.

Not for us MORMONs and those who enable us!!!

--MormonDude(Read the FOLLOWING...)

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

...whoever’s operatives they were would probably be advised to do the Christian thing and go back today and repair any damage they may have caused.

O...
K...

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Whatever HAPPENED to Emma???

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Eliza was a devout Mormon.

At age 38, she became Joseph Smith's 14th plural wife (in addition to Smith's lawful wife, Emma).

In 1842, after learning Eliza was pregnant, Emma Smith beat Eliza with a broomstick and

knocked her down a flight of stairs, causing Eliza to miscarry Smith's baby.

Wow!!

I guess ol' Emma got VAPORIZED by GOD!!!

We know that multiply him thing sure didn't work out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.

 

 

 

 

[Elsie]

So what kind of witness is that which has to sneak around like a ninja and avoid the police?

I'm glad you asked that question!

I'm a MORMON ...

 

 

 

http://www.affirmation.org/

[Elsie]

I had 6 JW’s on my property last week and they were all women.

[svcw]

hum? Now that you say that, I do not recall any JWs that aren’t just women and children.
All very nice, and really nervous if you tell them you are recovering from TB.
My neighbor in Boulder Creek, CA (we were very isolated) stripped naked when he saw them coming and answered the door, yet they keep coming back to “visit” him. He thought it because he was a nice looking guy.
Oh, well.
One of my mormon cousins (a girl) was sent to NYC, all she really wanted to do was be a show girl. So, well anyway she was in more shows than the doors knocked on.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

So do the other religions that door to door and street proselytize, like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Evangelical and Pentecostal and Baptist and Methodist Christians. Do they trouble you as well?

[Elsie]

So do the other religions that door to door and street proselytize, like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Evangelical and Pentecostal and Baptist and Methodist Christians. Do they trouble you as well?

Quick!

Dilute your exposing of MORMON heresy and run around wasting time with these other things I've drug across your path.