DNA and The Book of Mormon Explained full-length video

FAIR MORMON ^ | Published on Feb 18, 2013

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Miraculous claims surrounding the coming forth of the Book of Mormon are an evidence of the prophetic calling of Joseph Smith. Critics intent on discrediting the Restoration point to DNA studies on indigenous American peoples in an attempt to expose Joseph, the Book of Mormon, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as frauds. Claiming that scientific evidence excludes any possibility that Middle Eastern or ancient Jewish travelers came to the Americas in antiquity, such critics attempt to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of Latter-day Saints and those of other faiths concerning the authenticity of the Book of Mormon as an ancient religious text.

Are these studies credible? Do the data actually show what the critics claim? Do they discredit the Book of Mormon, or is there biological and other scientific evidence that supports the claims that it is indeed an ancient record of a people that once inhabited the Americas?

The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR) interviews scholars and scientists to answer these important questions and reveals the faith-affirming truth that not only are the critics' conclusions and methods flawed, but that there is credible scientific evidence in favor of the Book of Mormon as an ancient religious text.

[Elsie]

Now that I think of it Joseph Smith said I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

Oh???

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You people do NOTHING without OK from on high!

[Jeff Head]

Thanks Elsie, for spreading my testimony about the nature of God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost to so many threads and to so many people.

Please...keep it up.

My Witness for Jesus Christ

[jimt]

Are you running the THREE MINUTES' HATE today ? Please be careful - that frothing at the mouth can drip into your prayer book.

[jimt]

Ah, I see Elsie is helping. Where’s Colofornian ? He/she/it is usually leading the vitriol.

[Tennessee Nana]

Resty what religion was or is your husband ???

did he become a Mormon too ???

[Tennessee Nana]

Elsie you must be hitting on some big stuff ...

the self decorated generals are out on the front lines..

[restornu]

No I don’t expect anything from them they have been ill manner since the beginning just think of meeting some in person having dual personalities nice as long as you agree.

There have been a few who on their own have talked with the missionaries invited them in and were converted by the Holy Spirit.

They freep mailed me after their conversions to tell me what many here have said is wrong and glad they did not listen to them.

I wasn’t expecting that nor new this was going on.

Of course there have been those who said they on FR agree these folks, so I guest this is sort of like the gathering the wheat from the chaff.

[svcw]

Really?
Those who have accepted Jesus Christ of the Bible have publicly proclaimed their Salvation on FR, many of whom have been freed from mormonISM.
I do not recall any FRers, publicly proclaim conversation to mormonISM, I just find that interesting.

[BlueDragon]

"...Show me the Jewish indians.

We're glad you asked

Posher For Kassover

[Elsie]

Thanks Elsie, for spreading my testimony about the nature of God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost to so many threads and to so many people.

You are welcome!

People NEED to hear what Mormonism is all about.

[Elsie]

Aren't we up to four YET?

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The gruesome be headings of some 40 Ute corpses in 1850, heads stacked in boxes,

and hung by their long hair from the eves of buildings at Fort Utah,

 has long been ignored, “You didn’t see the Indians beheading the Mormons.”

 

-- Historian Robert Carter

[Elsie]

He/she/it is usually leading the vitriol.

It's a slow day...

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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]

Libertarian Party member since 1984,

HMMMmmm...

Yet you get upset when someone posts FACTS about Mormonism.

You SURE you be a libertarian?

Maybe just a CONtrarian...

[Elsie]

HELPING??

I got a GOLD in MORMON facts.

Wanna show what I've posted as

wrong?

I'll wait.

[Elsie]

the self decorated generals are out on the front lines..

The Olympics are over, so what ELSE would arm chair athletes do?

[Elsie]

They have pre-canned posts with 4000 quotes in them (from utterly dubious sources) that you’re supposed to refute in seconds.

Izzat so?

I'll wait for ANY refutation.

Although the LURKERS might give up on you folks when they continue to see how you react to MORMON data being posted.

[Elsie]

And when the insults, vitriol and anti-Christian behavior isn’t enough, they’ll flat out lie.

Please; the missionaires are young.

They'll learn better manners.

Wanna point out a LIE?

[Elsie]

CTR and highfive!