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Let’s be clear on how Mormons feel about Christians.

Why the big fuss, just look up the Pearl of Great price

God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith Jr. in Palmyra, NY, in 1823 as an answer to prayer.

"19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”

20 He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home. And as I leaned up to the fireplace, mother inquired what the matter was. I replied, “Never mind, all is well—I am well enough off.” I then said to my mother, “I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true.”

It seems as though the adversary was aware, at a very early period of my life, that I was destined to prove a disturber and an annoyer of his kingdom; else why should the powers of darkness combine against me? Why the opposition and persecution that arose against me, almost in my infancy?"

Now does that have the sufficient shock value you were looking for?

Oh, you mean the corrupted and co-opted PoGP?

Yeah, funny. I was talking with a Mormon and they brought up the PoGP wanting to know if I understood it’s meaning or if I was even aware of it.

I told I know about the PoGP. What Christian doesn’t. It’s one of the 3 great parables.

He was immediately incensed and demanded to know what I was talking about.

Not knowing any better, at the time, I informed him about the great parables and that all Christians are familiar with it and it is in Mathew 13.

I don’t recall his exact words but, he basically went on a rant about me and everyone else being against Mormons and the PoGP “Is Not in the Bible!!!”

Perplexed I opened my Bible and sure enough the 3 great parables were still there, intact.

So, not sure what your intent is in posting that passage from a book that is in a every sense “plagiarism” and you are lucky the Marvin Gaye family doesn’t sue LDS for that reason alone.

Joe was on a payote high when he had this “vision” btw...

Why the big fuss, just look up the Pearl of Great price

Why?

Did the missionaries hand THAT out and ask their targets to pray about it's veracity?

Kolob is a star or planet described in Mormon scripture.

Reference to Kolob is found in the Book of Abraham.

"If You Could Hie to Kolob", the hymn

Kolob as the inspiration for Kobol in Battlestar Galactica

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob

Figure	Joseph Smith Explanation^[52]	Explanation by non-Mormon and Mormon Egyptologists (quotes are from Deveria)^[25]^[43]^[53]
1	Kolob, signifying the first creation, nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God. First in government, the last pertaining to the measurement of time. The measurement according to celestial time, which celestial time signifies one day to a cubit. One day in Kolob is equal to a thousand years according to the measurement of this earth, which is called by the Egyptians Jah-oh-eh.	"The spirit of the four elements (according to Champollion), or rather of the four winds, or the four cardinal points; the soul of the terrestrial world. This god is always represented with four rams' heads, and his image has certainly been altered here. — They have also evidently made a very clumsy attempt at copying the double human head of the god figured above, fig. 2, instead of the four rams' heads. The word Jah-oh-eh has nothing Egyptian in it; it resembles the Hebrew word [redacted] badly transcribed." (emphasis in original) The name hieroglyph above the central figure is Chnm-Re, the Egyptian "First Creator" god who organized everything out of the primordial chaos.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Abraham

It's not your fault, SP, but one cannot find the Book of Abraham by following the SLC created link you just posted.

I did mange to track it down using Mormon sources though...

Pearl of Great Price

The kingdom of God on earth is likened to a “pearl of great price” (Matt. 13:45–46).

The Pearl of Great Price is also the name given to one of four volumes of scripture called the “standard works” of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first edition of the Pearl of Great Price was published in 1851 and contained some material that is now in the Doctrine and Covenants. Editions published since 1902 contain (1) excerpts from Joseph Smith’s translation of Genesis, called the book of Moses, and of Matthew 24, called Joseph Smith—Matthew; (2) Joseph Smith’s translation of some Egyptian papyrus that he obtained in 1835, called the book of Abraham; (3) an excerpt from Joseph Smith’s history of the Church that he wrote in 1838, called Joseph Smith—History; and (4) the Articles of Faith, thirteen statements of belief and doctrine.