Posted on 07/21/2013 11:21:16 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore
In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. He followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an area authority overseeing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout Europe
When fellow believers in Sweden first began coming to him with information from the Internet that contradicted the churchs history and teachings, he dismissed it as anti-Mormon propaganda, the whisperings of Lucifer. He asked his superiors for help in responding to the members doubts, and when they seemed to only sidestep the questions, Mr. Mattsson began his own investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This is what the LDS has done, stolen the Christian faith's message, rewritten it via the work of con men with fiction that changed the very nature of Christ himself and then proclaim themselves the “Restored” Christian faith.
In turn they send out thousands of very well trained “salesmen” in the guise of “missionaries” in hope of trapping the weakened souls into the cult.
Except for a few other cults that try and usurp the Christian faith, often with much less success, no other religious group does this, pretend to be anything other than what they are. Jews are Jews, Buddhist are Buddhist etc...
God never has, in the entire history of man, called a time out in the battle of the heavens simple because we could not get our act together down here. Indeed often it is turning our back on God more and more during our struggles on this earth that drives our secular world deeper into the abyss.
We must multitask, our enemies are many, here in this world, and beyond...
I agree. I question the intelligence AND sanity of someone who joins the LDS church. The guys in the really high-up-there positions (i.e., Romney) only stay because of the outward positive face Mormons have regarding their honesty and family values plus the power they get to wield in their own little world.
From the article: Is it true that Smith took dozens of wives, some as young as 14 and some already wed to other Mormon leaders, to the great pain of his first wife, Emma? About that last question, Mr. Mattsson said, That was kind of shocking. Mr. Mattsson said he sought the help of the churchs highest authorities. He said a senior apostle came to Sweden at his request and told a meeting of Mormons that he had a manuscript in his briefcase that, once it was published, would prove all the doubters wrong. But Mr. Mattsson said the promised text never appeared, and when he asked the apostle about it, he was told it was impertinent to ask. (Mr. Mattsson refused to identify the apostle, but others said it was Elder L. Tom Perry, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Elder Perry, now 91, confirmed through a church spokesman that he did visit a branch in Sweden with skeptical members, but said he recalled satisfying their questions with a letter written by the churchs history department.) That encounter is what really set off Mr. Mattssons doubts. He began reading everything he could. He listened to the Mormon Stories podcasts. And he read Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, a biography by Richard Lyman Bushman, a historian at Columbia University and a prominent Mormon. Mr. Bushman said in a telephone interview: You would be amazed at the number of Mormons who dont think Joseph Smith practiced polygamy. It just wasnt talked about. It was never mentioned in church periodicals. That was policy.
Joseph Fielding Smith was a "prophet" of the Mormon Church...in the late 1950s into the early 60s, he wrote a 5-volume question-and-answer style series entitled Doctrines of Salvation.
I've read all 5 volumes. Volume 3 was published in 1979 by the Deseret Book Co. -- a company DIRECTLY owned by THE Official Mormon Church.
In chapter 40, Joseph Fielding Smith takes on question related to the earliest polygamy practiced by Joseph Smith and the earliest Mormons...the chapter was entitled "Plural marriage in the early days"
In his response to a topical question on that matter, Joseph Fielding Smith says:
"According to the teachings and practice in the Church when a man and woman are married in the temple, and the wife dies, the man is at LIBERTY to MARRY ANOTHER wife for time and for ALL eternity." (Vol. 3, p. 162)
So, from a Mormon perspective, what does that mean to them?
It means thus:
Not quite...
"...my wife-to-be said she wouldn't marry me unless we had a religion we shared..."
(Around the 0:55 timeline.)
The question is, do you believe Brigham Young to have been a false Prophet?Do ANY of you "damned " SLC mormons reading this, who has gotten any information from your church, that old B.Y. was:1. Speaking the very words of GOD2. Drunk3. On peyote4. REALLY upset at SOMEone5. Or just running his mouth as a man: a mere mortal, prone to the slings and arrows that beset us all or do you6. just accept the FACT that you are, truly, damned for not following your Scripture found in D&C 132:58-66?
HMMMmmm...
To Whom It May Concern:
Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy
I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.
One case has been reported, in which the parties allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken down without delay.
Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.
There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.
WILFORD WOODRUFF
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
President Lorenzo Snow offered the following:
I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 24th, 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.
The vote to sustain the foregoing motion was unanimous.
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890.
Hebrews 11:35-40
35. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37. They were stoned ; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated-- 38. the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. |
~ Wilford Woodruff, 4th LDS President
D&C 49:18-19 versus D&C 89:12-13
17, The day and hour of Christs coming will remain unknown until He comes; 814, Men must repent, believe the gospel, and obey the ordinances to gain salvation; 1516, Marriage is ordained of God; 1721, The eating of meat is approved; 2228, Zion will flourish and the Lamanites blossom as the rose before the Second Coming.
1 Hearken unto my word, my servants Sidney, and Parley, and Leman; for behold, verily I say unto you, that I give unto you a commandment that you shall go and apreach my gospel which ye have received, even as ye have received it, unto the Shakers.
2 Behold, I say unto you, that they desire to know the truth in part, but not all, for they are not aright before me and must needs repent.
3 Wherefore, I send you, my servants Sidney and Parley, to preach the gospel unto them.
4 And my servant Leman shall be ordained unto this work, that he may reason with them, not according to that which he has received of them, but according to that which shall be ataught him by you my servants; and by so doing I will bless him, otherwise he shall not prosper.
5 Thus saith the Lord; for I am God, and have asent mine bOnly Begotten Son into the world for the credemption of the world, and have decreed that he that receiveth him shall be saved, and he that receiveth him not shall be ddamned
6 And they have done unto the aSon of Man even as they listed; and he has taken his power on the bright hand of his cglory, and now reigneth in the heavens, and will reign till he descends on the earth to put all enemies dunder his feet, which time is nigh at hand
7 I, the Lord God, have spoken it; but the hour and the aday no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor shall they know until he comes.
8 Wherefore, I will that all men shall repent, for all are under asin, except those which I have breserved unto myself, choly men that ye know not of.
9 Wherefore, I say unto you that I have sent unto you mine everlasting acovenant, even that which was from the beginning.
10 And that which I have promised I have so fulfilled, and the anations of the earth shall bbow to it; and, if not of themselves, they shall come down, for that which is now exalted of itself shall be laid clow of power.
11 Wherefore, I give unto you a commandment that ye ago among this people, and say unto them, like unto mine apostle of old, whose name was bPeter:
12 aBelieve on the name of the Lord Jesus, who was on the earth, and is to come, the beginning and the end;
13 aRepent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, according to the holy commandment, for the remission of sins;
14 And whoso doeth this shall receive the agift of the Holy Ghost, by the laying on of the bhands of the elders of the church.
15 And again, verily I say unto you, that whoso aforbiddeth to marry is not ordained of God, for bmarriage is ordained of God unto man.
16 Wherefore, it is lawful that he should have one awife, and they twain shall be bone flesh, and all this that the cearth might answer the end of its creation;
17 And that it might be filled with the measure of man, according to his acreation bbefore the world was made.
18 And whoso aforbiddeth to babstain from cmeats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God;
19 For, behold, the abeasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth, is bordained for the use of man for food and for craiment, and that he might have in abundance.
20 But it is not given that one man should apossess that which is above another, wherefore the bworld lieth in csin.
21 And wo be unto man that asheddeth blood or that bwasteth cflesh and hath no need.
22 And again, verily I say unto you, that the Son of Man acometh not in the form of a woman, neither of a man traveling on the earth.
23 Wherefore, be not adeceived, but continue in steadfastness, blooking forth for the heavens to be cshaken, and the earth to tremble and to reel to and fro as a drunken man, and for the dvalleys to be exalted, and for the emountains to be made low, and for the rough places to become smoothand all this when the angel shall sound his ftrumpet.
24 But before the great day of the Lord shall come, aJacob shall flourish in the wilderness, and the Lamanites shall bblossom as the rose.
25 Zion shall aflourish upon the bhills and rejoice upon the mountains, and shall be assembled together unto the place which I have appointed.
26 Behold, I say unto you, go forth as I have commanded you; repent of all your sins; aask and ye shall receive; knock and it shall be opened unto you.
27 Behold, I will go before you and be your arearward; and I will be in your bmidst, and you shall not be cconfounded.
28 Behold, I am Jesus Christ, and I come aquickly. Even so. Amen.
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NOW just who I gonna play with today?
Our MORMON posters seem to be cowering in the corner somewhere!
Perhaps you meant to type: Political Parties.
I didn’t do it, Sir!
It wasn’t my fault!
I’m not a mod!
I was just reporting that someone got banned!
But he’s probably still lurking anyway, so have at ‘im!
How many times can I post my tagline???
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS SECTION 132
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. |
Charming jacket! Ursula is looking lovely today.
Excellent concealment of her many lethal weapons, too.
You didn’t last long, did you.
Yet in another YouTube video which Elsie linked, it was his daughter's influence. It sounds like Beck is taking after his hero Joseph Smith with multiple versions of the same story.
If indeed it was his wife's sexual blackmail that forced Beck into the Mormon Church, the Beck family should have read 1 Corinthians 7:1-5. Paul makes it clear that one marriage partner may not unilaterally withhold sexual favors from the other. To do so is sin.
I have not been able to find the quote I was looking for. I know it was on his radio show because I can remember exactly where I was when I heard the quote - there are no TVs at that intersection. Besides I have only seen his TV show a couple of times - my first exposure to it included one of Beck's maudlin, teary-eyed discussions. It disgusted me and I have only seen his show since then when someone else was watching it and I entered the room. I would sometimes listen to his radio show on my way to work because he had the morning time slot and there wasn't anything else on at that time.
I don't remember the exact context in which Beck made the statement about not being able to refute Mormonism. I thought it was before or during his conversion process but the investigation could have occurred afterwards, I guess. Who needs evidence when your daughter has a burning in the bosom or you get a coincidental phone call or your wife is sexually blackmailing you or whatever? I just remember saying aloud in total disbelief "Really?".
He just stumbled into the wrong site.
One post was enough to have him escorted out of here. Would that all the trolls were that easily unmasked and given the boot.
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