FACT 18: This is blog pimping.
Mormonism is a cult. Jesus is not Satan’s brother. Adam was not a good Mormon who got his own world with his wife Eve. Remember: DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST!
Like their beliefs or not, there is one fact that stands out: Mormons do not try to remove your head for not believing as they do or for not submitting to their system.
Joel Osteen’s version of Christianity, I’m guessing (just a bit), would neither acknowledge nor comport with the central, foundational truth and assurance encapsulated in Ephesians 2:8-9.
As for me:
The mountain meadows massacre displayed an ‘infidelic’ attitude to anyone passing through their territory.
To actually amass a separate standing army, and in effect, threaten war with the U.S. government, again, displays their ‘infidelic’ attitude.
Since the last written passages in the bible are from John’s hand, warning that no editing or redacting occur, i consider both the Jehovah’s Witless AND the mormons to be doggerel aberrations and cults.
It just wouldn’t be a LDS thread withoutcha!
Only three?
Version Number When Published Brief Description |
Age/Year | Evil Power | Pillar of Light or Fire |
Number of Personages |
Father | Son | Question: Join What Sect |
Remarks |
Official Version,
Mormon scripture,
Pearl of Great Price
p. 47, 48, 1974 Ed. |
Age 14 1820 |
Yes | Yes Light |
2 | Yes | Yes | Join None | Lucy, Hyrum, Samuel, Sopronia Join Presbyterian Church 1820 |
Paper by Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons March, April 1842 |
Same as item 1 above | |||||||
Letter from Joseph Smith
to John Wentworth, editor Chicago Democrat
1841 account Published March 1,1842 |
None given | No | No | 2 | ? | ? | No question, told all incorrect |
Joseph Smith's First Vision by Milton V. Backman Jr. Bookcraft, Appendix D. Ensign, Jan.1985, p. 16 |
Both looked the Same They spoke |
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Dictated by Joseph Smith,
in hand of James Mulholland, 1838
|
Same as item 1 above, first known account of the official version. |
Ensign,
Jan. 1985 p. 14
|
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Joseph Smith's diary of 1835, Recorded by
Warren Cowdery
Nov. 9, 1835, conversation of Joseph Smith with Joshua
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Joseph, about 14 | No Tongue seemed swollen; heard someone; at first couldn't pray |
Yes Fire |
One, and then another like unto the first | ? | ? | No question, told sins are forgiven, Jesus Christ is the Son of God |
Joseph Smith's First Vision
by Milton V. Backman Jr. Bookcraft, Appendix B
|
Second spoke. | ||||||||
Saw many angels | ||||||||
Messenger & Advocate
by Oliver Cowdery supervised by
Joseph Smith
Feb. 1835
p. 77-79;
Also see Dec. 1834 p. 43
|
Joseph 17 1823 |
No | Yes | 1 |
No | No | No question told sin are forgiven | Note on pg. 78 that the revival was in 1823 (NOT 1820) so this must be the First Vision. |
Messenger from God | ||||||||
Dictated by Joseph Smith
to F. G. Williams Summer to Nov. 1832
|
Joseph 14 or 16 | No | Yes | 1 | No | Yes | No question, told "None doeth good", sins forgiven |
Joseph Smith's First Vision
by Milton V. Backman Jr. Bookcraft, Appendix A
|
Saw Lord (Jesus) he "spoke" | ||||||||
Written by Joseph Smith, 1832 diary | Joseph 15 | No | Yes | 1 | No | Yes | No question, told sins forgiven all do no good |
Ensign,
Dec. 1984 pgs. 24-26
Jan. 1985 pg. 11
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Saw the Lord Jesus Christ (said He was crucified) | ||||||||
Early Church leaders
B. Young,
G. A. Smith,
J. Taylor
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Joseph 15 | No | No | 1 | No | No | Join None | Journal of Discourses, 2:171; 18:239; 13:77,78; 20:167; 12:333,334 |
Saw an angel, and asked the angel |
Fact: I think Jim wanted the religious attacks to stop.