Secrets Mormons Don't Want You To Know (14 page)
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Authors: Richard Benson,Cindy Benson
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Are you a Mormon?
If so, we pray that the facts in this book have shown you how dramatically (and often) the doctrines of your religion contradict the Bible. And we pray that you are now open to the possibility that the following verse from the Bible applies to you:
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
(2 Corinthians 4:4)
It’s true. The reason you have believed all these unbiblical Mormon doctrines and rejected the true gospel of salvation by faith alone in Jesus Christ is because Satan has blinded your mind.
But now you have seen the facts. Now you know that Joseph Smith was nothing more than a con man. And you are aware that many Mormon doctrines directly contradict God’s holy Word.
Knowing all this, we urge you to reject the Mormon religion, and all its false teachings. We pray that you will trust Jesus Christ for your salvation by accepting Him as your personal Lord and Saviour and receive His free gift of eternal life.
Are you a Christian?
If so, our prayer is that you are now more motivated and better equipped to share the gospel with these lost religious people.
And we pray that you will use this knowledge that God has given you to lovingly show Mormons the errors of their religion, and to present to them the true gospel of salvation by faith alone through Jesus Christ.
May God richly bless you.
Footnotes
1
) Bruce R. McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 319.
2
) Joseph Fielding Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
p. 372.
3
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine,
p. 576.
4
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine,
p. 317.
5
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, pp. 370-371.
6
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine,
p. 321; Joseph Smith,
Times and Seasons,
vol. 5, pp. 613-614;
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 2, p. 345, and vol. 7, p. 333.
7
) Joseph Smith,
History of the Church,
vol. 6, pp. 473-479.
8
) John A. Widtsoe,
Discourses of Brigham Young
, p. 22.
9
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 576-577.
10
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, p. 346.
11
) Smith,
History of the Church
, vol. 6, pp. 473-479.
12
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 6, p. 5.
13
) Ibid., vol. 2, p. 345.
14
) Orson Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 23.
15
) Pratt,
The Seer,
p. 37.
16
) Lorenzo Snow,
Millennial Star,
vol. 54, p. 404.
17
) Spencer W. Kimball,
The Miracle of Forgiveness,
p. 3.
18
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 3, p. 93.
19
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, p. 346.
20
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 10, p. 223.
21
) Spencer W. Kimball,
Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball,
p. 31.
22
) Charles W. Penrose, Millennial Star, vol. 23, p. 180.
23
) Kimball,
Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball
, p. 153.
24
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
pp. 346-347.
25
) Ibid.
,
pp. 345-346.
26
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 1, p. 123.
27
) Milton R. Hunter,
The Gospel Through the Ages,
pp. 104, 115.
28
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
pp. 345-346.
29
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 643.
30
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 7, p. 333.
31
) Joseph Fielding Smith,
Doctrines of Salvation
, vol. 1, p. 10.
32
) Spencer W. Kimball, Salt Lake Tribune, April 3, 1977.
33
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 318-319.
34
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 1, p. 123.
35
) Hunter,
The Gospel Through the Age
s, pp. 104,115.
36
) Ibid.
,
p. 120.
37
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 517, 844.
38
) Pratt,
The Seer
, pp. 37, 39.
39
) Pearl of Great Price, Abraham 3:2-3, 9.
40
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 169.
41
) Pearl of Great Price, Abraham 4:1.
42
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
pp. 371-372.
43
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, p. 354.
44
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine,
p. 516.
45
) Hunter,
The Gospel Through the Ages,
p. 120.
46
) Dr. Douglas E. Brinley, Professor of Church History at BYU, from his address entitled “The Importance of Fathers and Mothers,” given at the 2001 BYU Families Under Fire Conference.
47
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 6, p. 120.
48
) Ibid., vol. 11, p. 286.
49
) James E. Talmage,
Articles of Faith,
p. 430.
50
) Doctrines and Covenants 130:22-23.
51
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 318-319.
52
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 2, p. 40.
53
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine,
p. 318.
54
) Talmage,
Articles of Faith,
p. 43.
55
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 2, pp. 343-344.
56
) Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 172.
57
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 589.
58
) John J. Stewart,
Brigham Young and His Wives
, p. 41.
59
) Pearl of Great Price, Abraham 2:22-24.
60
) Hunter,
Gospel Through the Ages,
p. 120; Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 172;
McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 750-751.
61
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 547, 742;
Journal of Discourses
,
vol. 8, p. 115.
62
) Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 158.
63
) Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 158.
64
) Devotional address at Brigham Young University by Bruce R. McConkie on March 2, 1982. http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6843
65
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 1, p. 51.
66
) Ibid., vol. 8, p. 115.
67
) Smith,
Doctrines of Salvation
, vol. 1, p. 18.
68
) Ibid., p. 19.
69
) Book of Mormon, Alma 7:10.
70
) Doctrines and Covenants 130:3.
71
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 71.
72
) 3 Nephi 11:1,3,5,7,8,9,10,12.
73
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 319.
74
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, p. 190.
75
) Book of Mormon, Alma 7:10.
76
) Family Home Evening, 1972, pp. 125-126. Quoted from Mormon website: www.4mormon.org/mormon-Jesus-begotten.php
77
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 1, pp. 50-51.
78
) Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 158.
79
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 11, p. 122.
80
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 2, p. 210.
81
) Ibid.
82
) Ibid.
,
vol. 4, p. 259.
83
) Ibid.
,
vol. 2, p. 82.
84
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 2. p. 210; vol. 4. pp. 259-260; vol. 1, p. 346.
85
) Pratt,
The Seer
, p. 172.
86
) Ibid.
87
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 2, p. 210.
88
)
Journal of Discourses,
vol. 1, p. 346.
89
) Kimball,
The Miracle of Forgiveness
, p. 167.
90
) Book of Mormon, Alma 11:37.
91
) Articles of Faith #3.
92
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 6, p. 163.
93
) Hunter,
The Gospel Through the Ages,
p. 51.
94
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 129.
95
) Bernard P. Brockbank,
The Ensign
, May 1977, p. 26.
96
) Gordon B. Hinckley,
LDS Church News
, week ending June 20, 1998, p. 7.
97
) Gordon B. Hinckley, 172nd General Conference, April, 2002.
98
) Hunter,
The Gospel Through the Ages
, p. 15.
99
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 750, 192.
100
) Smith,
Answers to Gospel Questions,
vol. 3, p. 207.
101
) Smith,
Doctrines of Salvation
, vol. 1, p. 38.
102
) Encyclopedia of Mormonism, vol. 2, p. 649.
103
) Smith,
Teachings of The Prophet Joseph Smith
, pp. 149-150.
104
) Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 30:1.
105
) Articles of Faith #3 and #4.
106
) Kimball,
The Miracle of Forgiveness
, p. 6.
107
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 331, 334.
108
) Ibid., pp. 669-671.
109
) Joseph Fielding Smith,
The Way to Perfection,
p. 206.
110
) Hunter,
Gospel Through the Ages,
p. 119.
111
) Kimball,
The Miracle of Forgiveness,
p. 208.
112
) Ibid., p. 736.
113
) Talmage,
Articles of Faith,
p. 478.
114
) Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 25:23.
115
) Kimball,
The Miracle of Forgiveness,
p. 207.
116
) Doctrine and Covenants 76:52.
117
) Article of Faith #3.
118
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, p. 119.
119
) LDS pamphlet
What the Mormons Think of Christ,
p. 32.
120
) Kimball,
The Miracle of Forgiveness,
p. 206.
121
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 669, 671.
122
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, pp. 669-671.
123
) Smith,
Doctrines of Salvation,
vol. 1, p. 134-135.
124
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 4, p. 53.
125
) Ibid., p. 53.
126
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 3, p. 247.
127
) Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 219-220.
128
)
Journal of Discourses
, vol. 4, pp. 49, 51.
129
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 92.
130
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 92.
131
) Article of Faith #8.
132
) Orson Pratt,
The Bible Alone, An Insufficient Guide
, pp. 44-47.
133
) Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
, p. 327.
134
) Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 28:29
135
) Ibid., 2 Nephi 29:3, 6,10.
136
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 83.
137
) Smith,
History of the Church,
vol. 4, p. 461.
138
) McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine
, p. 9.
