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To: ODDITHER

There is nothing in the Book of Mormon that contradicts the bible.

You, sir, are following a delusion. I found this on the net:

Mormonism is based on the belief that extraterrestrial humanoids from a distant star called “Kolob,” came to this earth and visited a young 14 year old boy named Joseph Smith, resulting in teachings that are very different, far, far removed from orthodox Christianity.

Mormonism teaches that trillions of planets scattered throughout the cosmos are ruled by countless gods who once were humans like us. They say long ago on one of these planets, to an unidentified god and one of his goddess wives, a spirit child named “elohim” was conceived. This spirit child was later born to human parents who gave him a physical body.

Through obedience, he proved himself worthy and was elevated to godhood as his father before him. Mormon’s believe that “elohim” is their heavenly father, and that he lives with his many goddess wives on a planet near a mysterious star called “Kolob.” Here, the god of Mormonism and his goddess wives through endless celestial sex produce billions of spirit children.

To decide these children’s destiny, the gods called a great heavenly council meeting. Both “elohim’s” oldest sons were there, Lucifer and his brother Jesus. A plan was presented to make the planet earth where spirit children could take on mortal bodies and learn good and evil. Lucifer stood up and made his bid fro becoming savior of this new world. Wanting the glory for himself, he planned to force everyone to become gods. Opposing this idea, the Mormon Jesus proposed giving freedom of choice, as on other planets. The vote that followed approved the plan of the Mormon Jesus, he, not Lucifer, would become savior of the planet earth.

Enraged, Lucifer cunningly convinced 1/3 of the spirits destined for earth to fight with him in revolt. Thus Lucifer became the devil and his followers the demons. They were to be sent to earth where they would forever be denied bodies of flesh and bone. Those who remained neutral in the battle were cursed with black skin. This is the Mormon explanation for the Negro race.

Spirits that fought most valiantly against Lucifer were to be born into Mormon families of planet earth. These would be the lighter skinned people.

Early Mormon “prophets” taught that “elohim” and one of his goddess wives came to earth as Adam and Eve to start the human race. Thousands of years later, “elohim” came to earth in human form from the star base, Kolob. This time to have sex with the virgin Mary in order to provide the Mormon Jesus with a physical body.

Mormon Apostle, Orson Pratt, taught that after Jesus grew to manhood, he took at least three wives, Mary (?), Martha, and Mary Magdalene. Through these wives, the Mormon Jesus, through whom Joseph Smith claimed direct descent, supposedly fathered a number of children before he was crucified.

According to the book of Mormon, after his resurrection Jesus came to the Americas to preach to the Indians – who are really Israelites. Thus the Jesus of Mormonism established his church in the Americas as he had in Palestine.

By the year 421 AD, the dark skinned Indian Israelites, called Lamanites, had destroyed all the white Nephites in a number of great battles. The Nephite’s records were supposedly written on golden plates and buried at the hill Cumorah by the last living Nephite, Moroni.

1400 years later, a young treasure seeker named Joseph Smith, who was known for his tall tales, claimed to have uncovered these same golden plates near his home in upstate New York.

He is now honored by Mormons as a prophet. He claims to have been given a vision of the spirit world, in which he was commanded to organize the Mormon Church. All Christian churches, he was told, were an abomination. It was Joseph Smith who originated the peculiar doctrines in which millions today believe to be true.

By maintaining a rigid code of financial and moral requirements, and by performing secret temple rituals with themselves and the dead, the “Latter Day Saints” hope to prove their worthiness and thus become gods.

The Mormons teach that everyone must stand at the final judgment before Joseph Smith, the Mormon Jesus, and “elohim.” Those Mormons sealed in eternal marriage ceremonies expect to become polygamous gods in the celestial kingdom where they will rule over the planets and spawn new children throughout eternity.

The Mormons thank “god” for Joseph Smith, who claimed he had done more for us than any other man, including Jesus Christ. The Mormons believe that Smith died as a martyr, he shed his blood for us, so that we too may become gods.


11 posted on 09/15/2007 4:49:40 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: sasportas

This is about solutions to some of the road blocks in being able to read the DDS and you all you folks can do is fault fine!

Yikes

You should go and pray to the Heavenly Father to elevate your thoughts; backbiting isn’t from the Lord.


14 posted on 09/15/2007 5:20:02 PM PDT by restornu (No one is perfect but you can always strive to be honest in all of your dealings!)
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To: sasportas

And they are just as correct about the ‘truth’ as the Bible is.

(I am not a Mormon, or LDS, but was raised a Methodist. I believe in the Bible. To each his own. Can you disprove Joseph Smith’s writings? Or the Bible’s?

How could a camel pass through the eye of a needle????


22 posted on 09/15/2007 6:36:45 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (((Wi arr mi kidz faling skool ?)))
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To: sasportas
You, sir, are following a delusion. I found this on the net: . . .

You found all that on the Internet? Well, then, it must be true, right?

25 posted on 09/15/2007 7:35:18 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: sasportas

Funny how some would rather believe the Internet, than members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I shake my head at times, the beliefs that some sites says that we believe, I’ve never heard of...


73 posted on 09/16/2007 5:34:33 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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