Ex-Mormon Shares Secrets From the Church of Latter-day Saints

Christian Post ^ | 8/19/2013 | Tyler O'Neil

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A Christian professor and evangelist said that after 30 years in the Mormon Church, she came to a unique realization – the Bible is more accurate than the Book of Mormon, and God is bigger than the transcendent man worshipped by the "Latter day Saints" (LDS).

"I began to feel like somebody was pulling back the curtain in Oz," Lynn K. Wilder, associate professor of special education at Florida Gulf Coast University, former tenured professor at Brigham Young University, and author of Unveiling Grace: The Story of How We Found Our Way Out of The Mormon Church, told The Christian Post in a Monday interview. She contrasted the Mormon and Christian churches, unmasking LDS secrets – polygamy, racism, and a fundamental distrust in the Word and Power of God.

When Wilder and her husband, Mike, searched for a church home following their marriage, they found most churches "boring and out of touch," she said. She had also been reading the Old Testament thoroughly and became convinced that "these must be latter days," since Israel had returned to its homeland.

Mormon missionaries knocked on her door, spoke about the "latter days," and welcomed the Wilders into a close-knit community. "They take you in, they love on you, they began to supplant my biological family," Wilder explained. Joining the church gave her and her husband a higher status in the college and church communities. In 1999, Brigham Young University offered her a job.

Upon moving to Utah, however, the professor recounted new discoveries – the Mormon scriptures still preach racism and polygamy, despite LDS public denials. "The Bible doesn't teach that the mark of Cain was dark skin," she explained, "but the Book of Mormon does." She noted that the mark of Cain is in other Mormon scriptures, too, besides the Book of Mormon.

It wasn't until her son Micah left the Mormon Church, however, that Wilder considered questioning their doctrines, she said. Refusing to present him to the high council for excommunication, she and her husband sent him away, and he encouraged them to read the New Testament.

"Mormons believe that the Bible is often mistranslated and corrupt," the former BYU professor testified. Their scripture tells of a "great apostasy" following the death of the apostles, such that there was no true church until Joseph Smith founded Mormonism in 1830.

But when Wilder read the New Testament, she was mesmerized. "I became consumed with this God of love, the God of grace," she said, noting that Mormons believe in works-based salvation. According to the LDS church, your deeds get you into heaven, she explained, while "in Christianity, Christ did all the work on the cross."

The LDS church also teaches that Jesus failed to hold His church together, the professor noted. She quoted Joseph Smith's History of the Church, where the Mormon founder wrote, "I have more to boast of than any man had. I am the only man who has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam….Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it."

Wilder said she believed that God is strong enough to keep His church together and to preserve the message in the Bible. In Mormonism, however, God is not omniscient or omnipotent, "he is a man, basically, who is continuing to progress and I can be on that same journey," she said.

The former BYU professor explained that, according to LDS doctrine, the best Mormons will proceed to become gods like the creator. Women can only achieve this if they are married, and only apostates – those who reject the LDS church – will go to hell with Satan and his minions. Even Hitler and murderers, by contrast, will reach the bottom level of heaven, she said.

The ex-Mormon recalled that, when she turned to Jesus, she began to see signs of the personal Biblical God (the Mormon God is not personal, she alleged) touching many aspects of her life. Her book tells the story of a picture of Christ that survived a burning building, and of a Billy Graham sermon lodged deep in her memory.

Wilder testified that a buyer showed up at her house the day after she and her husband had decided to withdraw from the Mormon Church, and a college dean offered her a job for which she had never applied. "Christianity is wonderful because of God," she said. "He's created for all of us a new family, a new life, and the most amazing trust in Him because of what we watched Him do."

In addition to teaching, she and her husband run a ministry dedicated to "helping Mormons understand a bigger God, trust the Bible, and give a different Jesus a chance." She said they aim to reach the thousands of Mormons who left the LDS church – often to revert into Atheism or Agnosticism.

[Elsie]

Although i believe Joseph Smith was a false prophet, i also believe many other churches puts out false teaching.

There is no need to merely believe it, as lot's of his 'prophecies' can be clearly shown as false.

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You are correct that there are other groups that put out false teachings as well.

[Elsie]

You are correct that there are other groups that put out false teachings as well.

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If you have cable TV, there won’t be much on to watch.

 

 

 

 

If there isn’t much on to watch, you will answer your door whenever someone rings.

 

 

 

 

If you open your door, you will see mormons.

 

 

 

 

If you talk to mormons, they will trick you into “praying about whether something is true”.

 

 

 

 

If you rely on your feelings, you may become a mormon.

 

 

 

 

If you become a mormon, you will have to wear magic underwear!

 

 

 

 

If you wear magic underwear, people will immediately label you as a cultist.

DON’T be a cultist!
Get DirectTV.

[Elsie]

If you are good, Santa God brings you presents.

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Malachi 3:10

"test me therefore, and see if I will not POUR YOU OUT a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it".

[Elsie]

His religion wasn't one of them.

Oh?

Do you REALLY want a man with such poor discernment to be the Leader of the Free World?

[Elsie]

I'm sure millions evangelicals stayed home or passed over the presidential portion of the ballot.

Ain't the NRC wise!!??

They were warned; but NOOOOoooo!

[Elsie]

My concern is the state of the Country,

We've n oticed.

It's just too bad you've not found the SOLUTION to the 'state of the country'!

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2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,

then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.

[wardaddy]

I agree with you about not fretting so much about Mormons...which I view as a cult...but many here are really big on this

But you are buying the narrative...I assume you are Catholic Vincent and want to blame me...Prod Praise types

Voters did not turn out for Romney for several reasons:

He let Obama walk all over him last few critical weeks

and he was not very conservative

had he been a fire walking Barry Goldwater 1960 or Ronaldus Magnus 1976 and a DEVOUT MORMON

most anyone including those here who hate Mormons (or worry about their souls as they put it..lol) would still have got off their butts and voted for him...stinky nose holding notwithstanding

blaming this generic label Evangelicals is the media and GOPe narrative

Romney was a poor candidate like McCain but McCain had an inspirational running mate

[Elsie]

The Prosperity Gospel teaches that the rewards of life are a blessing which means that God blesses rich atheists.

Oh?

The PG does NOT predate THIS; does it??

Matthew 5:45
... you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

as well as...

Psalm 73:3-12

 

3 For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.
5 They are immune to the trouble common to men; they do not suffer as other men do.
6 Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.
7 Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.
8 They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.
9 They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
10 Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.
11 They say, “How does God know what we do? Is the sovereign one aware of what goes on?”
12 Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

[Elsie]

I shudda read ahead!

[Elsie]

Here in Indianapolis; we’ve ARRESTED Santa!!

http://www.wthr.com/story/23131041/2013/08/14/impd-officer-arrested-for-dui

[Elsie]

He denounced the Church before he was thirty years old, that was 40 years ago.

I know someone like that!

[Elsie]

If you talk Bible with him today you better talk chapter and verse, that is to say if you want to prove a point it had better be there in plain words.

I assume he's NOT Catholic!

[Elsie]

Ah...

Good ol’ Indiana boy!

(We’ve a woman in our church who went to his in the early days...)

[shotgun]

That one always gets me. God sends an angel of light upon you and commands you not to speak of this and you immediately disobey a direct commandment. And then you are rewarded for your disobedience by translating his new visions of church and religion into writings that create a mega-corporate religion!

[Elsie]

God sends an angel of light upon you ...

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KJV

Galatians 1:6-9

6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7. Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

 

ANYBODY???

Like this fine looking fellow???

 

2 Corinthians 11:12-15

12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

 

Like THESE guys??

 

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/js_h/1/19#19

17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!

 

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Ephesians 2:1-2

1. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

[shotgun]

Mormon member of the “high priesthood” means very little since they denote their boys as church elders.

[svcw]

Interesting that you find worrying/praying about a person’s soul is a laughing matter.
How very odd.

[shotgun]

Another one of Satan’s tricks is his ability to recite scripture for his own purposes.

[wardaddy]

Yes

I am Satan III...Big and Little are already taken...you’ve found me out....I’ve tried to keep it a secret around here

The vitriol towards Mormons here goes a bit more than worrying about their souls...I mean really...you have a funny way of showing you care.

I said I view them as a cult...sorry that didn’t satisfy you

[zerosix]

I wasn’t speaking of the Mormon’s “Aaronic Priesthood,” which of course, beings at age 12, but this guy was a longtime member of the “Melchezedik Priesthood,” thus not a 12 or 13 yr old, he was in his late 40s.