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Mormonism teaches the trillions of planets scattered throughout the cosmos are ruled by countless gods who once were human like us
They say that long ago on one of these planets to an unidentified God in 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 to Mormon teaching and death and resurrection
He proved himself worthy and was elevated to godhood as his father before him
Mormons believe that Elohim is their heavenly father and that he lives with his many goddess wives on a planet
near a mysterious star called Kola
Here the god of Mormonism and his wives through endless celestial sex produced billions of spirit children
To decide their destiny the head of the Mormon gods called a great heavenly council meeting
Both of Elohim's eldest sons were there
Lucifer and his brother Jesus a
Plan was presented to build planet Earth where the spirit children would be sent to take on mortal bodies and learn good from evil
Lucifer stood and made his bid for becoming savior of this new world
Warning the glory for himself. He planned to force everyone to become gods
Opposing the idea the Mormon Jesus suggested giving man his freedom of choice as on other planets
The vote that followed approved the proposal of the Mormon Jesus who would become savior of the planet Earth
enraged
Lucifer cunningly convinced one-third of the spirits destined for earth to fight with him and revolt
Thus
Lucifer became the devil and his followers the demons
Sent to this world they would forever be denied bodies of flesh and bone
Those who remain neutral in the battle were cursed to be born with black skin
This is the Mormon explanation for the Negro race
The spirits that fought most valiantly against Lucifer would be born into Mormon families on planet Earth
These would be the lighter skinned people or white and delights them as the Book of Mormon describes them
thousands of years later
Elohim in human form once again journeyed to earth from the star base colon
This time to have sex with the Virgin Mary in order to provide Jesus with a physical body
According to the Book of Mormon after his resurrection
Jesus came to the Americas to preach to the Indians who the Mormons believe 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 known as Lamanites had destroyed all of the white
Nephites in a number of great battles
The Nephites records were supposedly written on golden plates and buried by Moroni
the last living Nephite in the hill Cumorah
1400 years later a young treasure-seeker named Joseph Smith who was known for his tall tales
Claimed to have uncovered these same gold plates near his home in upstate, New York
He is now honored by Mormons as a prophet because he claimed to have had visions from the spirit world in which he was
From the spirit world in which he was commanded to organize the Mormon Church
Because all Christian creeds were an abomination
It was Joseph Smith who originated most of these peculiar doctrines which millions today believed to be true
By maintaining a rigid code of financial and moral requirements and through performing
Secret temple rituals for themselves and the dead the Latter-day Saints hoped 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 who were sealed in the eternal marriage ceremony expect to become polygamous gods in the celestial kingdom
Rule over other planets and spawn new families throughout eternity
The Mormons thank God for Joseph Smith who claimed that he had done more for us than any other man including Jesus Christ
The Mormons believe that he died as a martyr shed his blood for us so that we too may become gods
You
And in Romans 16 17 we find a
Principle as to why?
Sermons like these are are important to preach Romans 16 17 says this now
I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctor
Which you have learned and avoid them the Bible says that we are to mark them now mark
means to identify
mark means to you know call them out so that people know who you're talking about and
Avoid them for they are for they that are such
Serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own Valley and by good words and fair speeches
Deceive the hearts of the simple the Bible says for many
Deceivers are entered in to the world and the Bible's warning us that there are many many people out there
Whose goal is to deceive us and whose goal is to deceive everyone and they preach another gospel
They preach a false gospel the Book of Mormon teaches another gospel, and it says that it is another
Testament the thing is that Joseph Smith received it from an angel in heaven called Moroni now
it's a strange thing because
Galatians chapter 1 clearly tells us that if someone is coming to you with another gospel
then
We need to be aware of them. They need to be accursed according to the Bible
It says in Galatians chapter 1 verse 6 I
Marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel
Which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ
But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you
Let him be accursed
So if I was saying that these people need to be accursed they will bring another gospel
It also says it again in verse 9 just to make sure that he's being clear
He says in verse 9 as we said before so say I now again if any man preach any other gospel
Unto you then that ye have received let him be accursed
What do you believe that someone has to do to get to heaven? Oh?
They've got to do lots of things I suppose, but the first the first step is to have faith
They need to be baptized and they basically need to lead a good life
And so it's pretty much like faith plus works. You know that we get into heaven
Yes, yeah, it's not a you don't just get a free ticket by doing one thing
It's it's all the things that you do. There are many things that we need to do like living a good life and
Spending our days in the service of God
There are a few key things that we believe in our church that you need to do to be able to live with God again
First is to be baptized
as a member of the church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by someone holding God's authority to
perform that baptism the second is to repent of
your your wrongdoings
The last thing and the most important thing that we think
You need to do to return to God isn't to to endure to the end
To keep being a good person and to keep the promises that you make to God when you're baptized
And then once the resurrection occurs the Lord will then judge us based on our hearts and our actions on earth
So Mormons understand that we do differentiate from mainstream Christianity in this way and that Mormons believe
We are saved through the grace of Jesus Christ after all that we can do
But that did not matter to Jesus his gospel is for all who will forsake their old ways and
Make the changes they need to be saved in the kingdom of God
Zacchaeus of Jericho and Stanley of Hawaii
stand for all of us
They are examples of what we pray will be
experienced by all of us who decide to receive the Lord joyfully and
Follow where he leads
The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change
repent is its most frequent message and
Repenting means giving up all of our practices personal family ethnic and national
That are contrary to the commandments of God
the purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens and
That requires change
There is a unique gospel culture a set of values and
Expectations and practices common to all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
This gospel way of life comes from the plan of salvation
The commandments of God and the teachings of the living prophets
It is given expression in the way we raise our families and live our individual lives
The principles stated in the family proclamation are a beautiful expression of our gospel culture
All who have belonged to these cultures of sin
Must repent and change if they are to become the people of God
I testify that this is what our Lord and Savior would have us do
So that we may become what his gospel
Intends us to be
Because gospel means good news
That's it ain't good news. How could good news be that you have to repent of all your sins to be saved
That's not the good news
The good news is that you don't have to repent of all your sins to be saved and that Jesus paid for all your sins
On the cross was buried and then he rose again from the dead
If you had to repent of all your sins to be saved, guess what?
I would not be saved and I were you because none of us are perfect
None of us can change all our life and and and do works to be saved. That's another gospel
That's another testament and that is not what the Bible teaches at all
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
That is in Christ Jesus
For if Abraham were justified by works he hath were of the glory but not before God
So he's saying right there that Abraham was not justified by works if he had been justified by works
He would have had something to boast about or brag about or something. We're up to glory
But not before God he could have glory to his fellow man
But that kind of glorying isn't gonna hold up in God's eyes
Why because God is so much greater and holier than any of us
We can't glory to him about our own works
So it says here that if Abraham were justified by works he had were of the glory but not before God
For what sayeth the scripture
Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of dead but to him that worketh not
But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
So that right there states that the person who does not do works
but believes on Christ is
Justified by his faith because his faith is counted for righteousness. They'll teach that you can't go to heaven without works
That's a lie because the Bible says right here that to him that worketh not but believeth
It says that he saved his faith is counted for righteousness. He's justified
So this idea that says well faith is always accompanied by works
Is a fraud because Romans 4 5 talks about a guy who has the faith
But he doesn't have the works even as David also describe it the blessedness of the man unto whom God
impudeth righteousness
without works
Notice he says no works. It's without works him that worketh not
But thanks be to God Jesus Christ
Took all of our sins upon him he who knew no sin
Became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him
So all of Christ's righteousness is imputed unto us and all of our sins were imputed unto Christ
And he took our punishment for us as a substitute on the cross. This is the gospel
This is basic and God saw their works notice that they turn from their evil way
So here's what the Bible says when someone turns from their evil ways, that's not a bad thing
That's a good thing. But here's what I want you to understand God considers that works
God saw their
Works that they turn from their evil way and let me give you an example of what I just said notice and God repented you
See that and God
Repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not because God said he was gonna
destroy Nineveh
But when he saw that they turned from their evil way and they repented and he saw that work that they did then God
Repented and said I was gonna destroy you now. I'm not going to destroy you
So there's an example of God repenting and here's what I want you said not only does repent the word repent not mean just
By default that you must repent is referring to sin because we see here that God repented but God defines
Turning from your evil way as works
So if you say well, yeah, you got to put your faith in Jesus Christ
You got to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved
But you can't just keep living your life the way
You know you want to and you've got to turn from certain things and you got to quit doing certain things
You know or else you're not saved, you know, here's the problem with that. God would call that works
That right there says that when you turn from your evil way, that's your works
So if you believe that a person has to turn from their evil way and believe on Christ
Here's what you're saying. They have to believe on Christ and have works and
You know what? The Bible says salvation is without works
For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves
it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast and
Jonah 3 10 says turning from your sins or turning from your evil way is works
So that's why this is such an important doctrine. You see the devil wants to get you to trust your works to save you
All the way back to Cain and Abel
He's trusting his works instead of the blood of the Lamb all the way back to the Tower of Babel
They're trying to do their works to get them to heaven all throughout Galatians. He warns us
It's a false gospel when you think that you're justified by works all throughout Romans
He tells us we're not justified by works. I mean he warns us look trust Christ for salvation
Don't trust works, but look at Matthew 7 21
It says not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven
But he that do with the will of my father
Which is in heaven and I'm going to show you in just a moment what the will of the Father is
But look what he says next many will say to me in that day Lord Lord
Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name of cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works
And then will I profess unto them I never knew you
Depart from me that work iniquity so this right here shows
That the people who are going to be damned on Judgment Day who think they're saved, but really aren't
Are not people who lost their salvation. That's not possible. It's people who are trusting in what's the last word of verse 22?
Works the people who are trusting in their works Jesus says to them I never knew you
Not I used to know you because you can't lose it
They never had it in the first place
Now look if you were to stand before God right now and God were to ask you why should I let you into heaven?
Would you say I've done many wonderful works?
Absolutely not no Bible-believing Christian
No one who understands that salvation is by grace or faith would ever say to God, but God
How can you not be letting me in when I've done so many wonderful works?
The only person who would say such a thing is one who thinks that their works have something to do with getting them into heaven
Well, I mean look what they're listing
We prophesied it. We've done preaching
We've done wonderful works. We've cast out devils in your name look are these people claiming the name of Jesus
Have they called Jesus Lord
Are they doing a lot of wonderful works in Jesus name so why in the world are they cast out?
Why are they not allowed into heaven because anyone who is trusting in their works is not
Saved the Bible says it's not of works lest any man should boast boasting like what?
Boasting like I've done many wonderful works
No, no flesh shall glory in his presence Jesus paid it all all to him
We owe sin had left the crimson stain. He washed it white as snow
We have nothing to boast of our salvation is by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible is teaching us
Crystal clear in this passage that if you go to hell he never knew you
And if you're trusting it works, even if you're saying I believe in Jesus
I'm doing in the name of Jesus, but you say well, I'm going to heaven because of my works
You're not saved. I mean, that's what the Bible teaches
The Lord is good a stronghold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him now
Let's look at the will of the father because a lot of people will get confused
They'll see the will of the father in verse 21 and say see you have to do the works
Well these people did the works
But go to John chapter 6. Let's see what the will of the father is and
This is the father's will which hath sent me that of all which he hath given me
I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day
Now watch another aspect of the father's will in verse 40
And this is the will of him that sent me that everyone would see it the son and believeth on him may have
Everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day
So what's the will of the father that people will see the Lord Jesus Christ?
Believe on him and be raised up at the last day
So the Mormons teach that there's different kingdoms in heaven and different like I guess levels of heavens
After they die, is there like different levels of heaven or because what if someone doesn't do all the stuff?
Well after after we die
We we go to certain areas instead of just going to a heaven or a hell which feels a little black and white to Mormons
Mormons actually believe that there are three different kingdoms that you can go to once the judgment has occurred
The top kingdom is the celestial kingdom, which has unimaginable glory
The middle kingdom is the terrestrial kingdom, which has some glory and then the bottom kingdom is the telestial kingdom
which has
Less glory have a look at first Corinthians chapter 15
This is where they get it from and verse number 39 all flesh is not the same flesh
but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and
Another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial
but the glory of the celestial is one and
The glory of the terrestrial is another
There is one glory of the Sun another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differth
From another
Star and glory so also is the resurrection of the dead it is sown in corruption
It is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory
It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power. It is sown in a natural body
It is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body
And so there you have it guys, you know, there's three different kingdoms of heaven
But where do they get that from, you know, because they they call it the celestial Kingdom
There's a terrestrial Kingdom and there's some other Kingdom as well that they believe but there's only two mentioned here
But they're not even kingdoms
just talking about bodies and there's a star and the moon and the stars and they all differ one from another and
It's talking about our body. We've got the flesh but when we get risen again at the rapture
We're gonna obviously have a spiritual body and it's gonna differ from the body
We've got right now, but it's not talking about different levels in heaven
But if you really want to get to the top Kingdom
Then you're gonna have to be a Mormon you're gonna have to be married in the in the temple
You're gonna have to wear their strange underwear and everything else to go there to get to the top Kingdom now
The only people they teach will actually go to outer darkness, which they call how well out of darkness
It's sort of like the Jehovah's Witness soul sleeve. They don't really believe they're gonna burn in fire forever, but the only people going there
Ex Mormons they leave the church and the Mormons they will try to teach you that
Everybody pretty much goes to heaven. Okay, so you believe that even people that don't
Hear about Jesus that they can still be saved. Yes
They believe like the lower two kingdoms of heaven that you can make it there without Jesus Christ at all
You know, you can just be a good person. You can be a Hindu a Muslim
You'll make it to their those lower kingdoms without Jesus Christ when the Bible teaches that there's only one way to heaven
There's only one heaven and there's a hell and to get it to heaven
There's only one way Jesus said I'm the way the truth and the life
No, man cometh unto the Father but by me and so there's only one way to heaven is through Jesus Christ
And so Jesus taught there's a heaven is a hell. There's no middle ground. There's no purgatory like the Catholics believe
There's no, you know two lower kingdoms of heaven like the Mormons believe there's heaven
There's hell and if you don't accept Jesus, you're gonna be burning the pits of hell forever. That's it
That's the only options one of the main things that the Mormons teach is that their Book of Mormon is another
Testament of Jesus Christ and so it says on the Book of Mormon that is another Testament, right? Yeah
It talks to the same things
From a different from different group people
Well, the funny thing is we don't need another Testament because Jesus Christ he shed his blood for the New Testament now
They claim that he Joseph Smith shed his blood for the Book of Mormon
Just like Jesus did for the New Testament
Listen to this. This is in the their doctrine and covenants, which they believe is scripture
It says in chapter number
135 in verse 1 to seal the testimony of this book
He's talking about the Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Mormon
We announced the martyrdom of Joseph Smith the prophet
Joseph Smith and his brother they're trying to escape and
His brother was shot dead and then Joseph Smith jumped out with a window and you know
They shot him while he was falling good shot
And then they also shot them when they're dead and so that's how they died, right?
Now jump down to verse number 28
It says so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall
He appear the second time without sin unto
salvation and and look in Hebrews chapter 10 now in verse number 10 by the which will we are sanctified
Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all
Notice it says once for all maybe underline that in the Bible once for all
We don't need Joseph Smith to die
For any other New Testament or another testament or his Book of Mormon or the Doctrine and Covenants or the pearl of great price
We don't need that it says once for all because he was the Lamb of God
They shed his blood for the New Testament of Jesus Christ and their book is not another testament of Jesus Christ
It's the testament of Joseph Smith who shed his blood for this corrupt book of Mormon. It's a corrupt book
It's not the gospel of Jesus Christ
It does not contain the gospel it claims to say this is the the gospel the everlasting gospel of Jesus yet
it changes the gospel it changes into a workplace salvation and
You
The Book of Mormon teaches that there's thousands of gods yay
Trillions of gods and that you could become your own God on your own planet now the Bible never teaches that at all
They say is that there's one God and that's it
So so Heavenly Father used to be a man like a sinful man like us. Yes
and
Like Heavenly Father used to be like the same as us before on a previous planet. All right. Yeah, so that
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ two separate beings and people
That were made in their image. So at some point we do believe that they existed
And
Listen this Orson Pratt the gods who dwell in the heaven have been redeemed from the grave in a world
Which existed before the foundation of this earth were laid they and the heavenly body. They now inhabit were once in a fallen state
This is basically teaching that God used to be a sinful guy who became a god
He's another world on another planet and they were exalted also from fallen men to celestial
Gods plural to inhabit their heaven forever and ever
We were begotten by our Father in heaven the but I mean, I can't even read this garbage nonsense
in the same article becoming like God
Becoming like God they said this and again, this is from their own website LDS org
Here's what they said human nature was at its core divine
God
was once as
one of us
Lorenzo snow the church's fifth president coined a well-known couplet
He said this as man now is God once was as God now is man may be
All human beings are children of loving heavenly parents and possess seeds of divinity within them
Joseph Smith said this God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man and since
Enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret
Joseph Smith also said this he said we have imagined and suppose that God was God from all eternity
I will refute that idea and take away the veil so that you may see and you know what Joseph Smith God was God from
All eternity the Bible says that he is the beginning in the end the Bible. He is the I am he is the self-existing one
He has always existed. He has no beginning
He has no end but the Mormons Church teaches
No
you know what God was once a man that got exalted to godhood and
One day you and I can even be exalted to godhood. That is heresy. That is a lie
You're become a god right in the in the next life. It depends how you
how you
Keep the commandment
And so do you believe that you can become a god and the next you know, I have your own
Like gospel that you can preach to another, you know planet later on in the future. I said
Yeah, we will so we we can become as gods. We God has promised us that
that will we if we adhere to his commandments and if we're obedient that we can become like he is as gods and
Princes and princesses and kings and queens and his kingdom if we do all the things that he's asked us to do in the scriptures
So then there would be thousands of dogs
Yeah, sure and would be creating our own worlds and doing many marvelous things
on the other side
And Isaiah chapter 14 Satan says that he will be like the Most High
He will be like God and the Mormons think that they will become a god
Well that following Satan in his footsteps just like he tried to make Eve
Believe that she could become a god in Genesis chapter number three because this doctrine of men
One day being exalted to the place of God comes from none other than Satan himself
In Genesis chapter 3 and verse 1. I'll just give you one example of this
We could go to other passages and look at it
But I'll just give you one example Genesis chapter 3 and verse 1 says this now the serpent who's the serpent?
It's Satan. I was very clear about that
He's the serpent the great dragon the Bible says now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
Which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman yay hath God said
He shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said unto the serpent
We may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God had said you shall not eat of it
Neither shall you touch it lest you die and the serpent said unto the woman he shall not surely die
Notice verse 5
For God doth know
This is Satan speaking
That in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as God's
Knowing good and evil see all the way from the Garden of Eden
Satan was teaching that hey, you could be like God
You could be a God
He was telling Eve if you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
You know ye shall be as God's and and that that doctrine is the same
Doctrine that the latter-day saints is why you know, we call them the latter-day Satanists teach
Why because it's a satanic doctrine that teaches that man can become like God
You know, I I envisioned when I read this story
I envisioned that the serpent showed up
You know with a short sleeve white shirt and a little a little sign on on his chest that says, you know
elder serpent and
He says hey ye shall be as God's
Because that's what they're telling you. That's what the Mormon Church is teaching today
They are teaching that you can become like God look at Isaiah 14 12
How art thou fallen from heaven Oh
Lucifer now, who's Lucifer? He's talking about safe
Our
Phone from heaven Oh Lucifer son of the morning
How art thou cut down to the ground which did weaken the nations for thou is said and I'm hard
I will ascended to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds
I will be like the most high yet thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit
Hear me now. He did not say that he wanted to replace God
That's what you're probably here priests
He wanted to replace God. Is that what it says in the passage? No, he said I will also
Sit in the side. He's every time to also in Jesus
He said in verse 13, I don't know it's all my throne above the sides of north
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides
He said I will send above the heights that I would be like the most high
He didn't say I'm gonna replace the most hot but he said I'll be a god, too
I'll be like him. I
Will also be in the position that he is now in
But what's the result verse 15?
God is telling Lucifer yet. Thou shalt be brought down to hell
And when the Mormons talk about Jesus, they're not talking about the Jesus of the Bible
Oh, no
The Jesus of the Bible has been given a name that is above any other name
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things on earth and things other the earth and that
Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father you see the Jesus of the Bible is
the
Savior of the world the only begotten of the Father
God in the flesh the Bible says God was manifest in the flesh the Bible says in Hebrews 1 8 but unto the son
He saith thy throne. Oh, God is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom
So Jesus is not God
Look if you would at Mark chapter 10 verse number 17 the Bible reads
And when one was gone forth into the way there came one running and kneeled to him and asked him good master
What shall I do that? I may inherit eternal life and Jesus said unto him why callest thou me good
There is none good, but one that is God. Let me ask you something
Is it possible for Jesus to be just a good teacher if he's not God?
No
Way why because there's only one that's good and that's God
Either Jesus here is either saying in verse 17 and 18
he's either saying one of two things Jesus is either saying I'm not good and
I'm not God or he is saying I am good and I'm God. I mean, that's the only house
Can you interpret that he says why are you calling me good? There's none good, but one and that's God
If Jesus Christ is not God then he's not good
And what kind of a blasphemous thing would it be to say Jesus isn't good. He's the Good Shepherd
He's good. In fact, he was perfect. In fact, he was God
You see the Jesus of the Bible is God incarnate God in the flesh
The Jesus of Mormonism is a God
Not the God not the one true only God but a God of many
Yeah, infinite
We do believe that there are many gods and there are many higher higher beings
Here's what Brigham Young said. This is a verbatim quote how many gods there are. He said, I don't know
but there was never a time when there were not gods and
Worlds and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are passing through
So did you add gods and worlds and I don't know how many there are
Listen to this. This is another Mormon apostle that came later on Orson Pratt
Here's what he said if we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles
We should find that there are more gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds
Whoa, man, that's a lot of gods I
Mean even a Hindu would probably this is this would floor them
I mean if we take a million worlds and count up all the particles
I mean is he talking subatomic or are we just talking molecules or what are we talking Orson help us out here?
He's saying that there are literally like a bazillion gods
I mean he's saying like a number like 10 to the whatever power. I mean you have to you have to use scientific notation
To count how many gods the Mormons believe in
the Bible says in isaiah 43 10 year my witnesses say it the Lord and
My servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he
Before me there was no god formed
Neither shall there be after me. I
Even I am the Lord and beside me. There is no Savior. Do you see that?
He said there was no God before me. There will never be any God after me
I am he there's none else and beside me. There is no Savior
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is not a different Savior. He's God manifest in the flesh and
So the Bible is real clear again and again that there's only one God and just in case you were confused
God even says let me just break this down to you before me
There was no other God and after me, there's never gonna be another God
It's just a bunch of garbage it's like oh there's all these other planets and other galaxies and other gods
Oh, it's like this is not Christianity my friend
Quit saying it. Oh, this is another he believes in Jesus
He don't even believe that there's one God
He's not even a monotheistic
You
Did you know that the Book of Mormon is a racist book and it teaches the more dark your skin is
That the more sinful you were in your previous life, yeah, we didn't even have a previous life
But that's what they believe they teach that the more dark skin the more sinful you are
Most religions believe in some sort of life after death, but Mormons also teach that before we were born
We all had previous lives where we lived as spirits on a heavenly world with their father a glorified man named Elohim
Jehovah
Who'd be born on earth as Jesus laid out his plan designed to bring the Father glory on
Contrast Lucifer's plan was crafted to bring himself glory a war broke out in heaven to decide the best path to Godhood
Some fought valiantly for Jehovah some sided with Lucifer others remained partially neutral
Eventually Jehovah's plan won the day
Lucifer became the devil and was banished to earth along with his followers who would become his demons
Satan
The spirits who did not fight valiantly for Jesus were still allowed to participate in his plan to become human
But as punishment they were to be born to a cursed line of descendants
The curse began on earth when Cain the son of Adam killed his brother Abel
After the murder, according to the historical claims of Mormonism, Cain was cursed with the black skin as punishment, a curse that would be passed down to all of his descendants. Joseph Fielding Smith stated
Because of Cain's wickedness he became the father of an inferior race
The mark which was placed on Cain and which his posterity inherited was the black skin
Second prophet of the Mormon Church Brigham Young had similar unsavory things to say regarding these supposed descendants of Cain
Some classes of the human family are black, uncouth, uncumbly, disagreeable, and low in their habits
Young also taught that it's wild and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind
The first man who committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren would be cursed
The Lord put a mark upon Cain which is the flat nose and black skin
Not only was it taught that dark skin was a curse, Young also taught that slavery was included as part of that curse
At least one woman we know of was meant to be forever bound to eternal servitude in the afterlife
This was the African American Mormon woman Jane Elizabeth Manning James
In 1894 she took part in a special ceremony prepared for her which was meant to guarantee her spot as servant of the Mormon founder Joseph Smith for all of eternity
Shall I tell you the law of God in regards to the African race?
If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty under the law of God is death on the spot
This will always be so
Mormon prophet George Albert Smith said
Intermarriage of the Negro and white races, a concept which is heretofore been most repugnant to most normal-minded people
There is a growing tendency toward the breaking down of race barriers in the matter of intermarriage between whites and blacks
But it does not have the sanction of the church and is contrary to church doctrine
We must not intermarry with the Negro
Why? If I were to marry a Negro woman and have children by her, my children would be cursed
If there's one drop of Negro blood in my children, they receive the curse
Cain was cursed with a dark skin
He became the father of the Negroes and the spirits who are not worthy to receive the priesthood are brought through his lineage
Negroes in this life are denied the priesthood
Under no circumstances can they hold this authority from the Almighty
The gospel message of salvation is not carried affirmatively to them
Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned
Second LDS president Brigham Young expounded upon the Book of Mormon teaching in this 1859 statement referring to Native Americans
You may inquire of the intelligent of the world
Whether they can tell why the aborigines of this country are dark, loathsome, ignorant, and sunken into the depths of degradation
When the Lord has a people, he makes covenants with them and gives them to them promises
Then if they transgress his law and break his covenants, he will put a mark upon them, as in the case of the Lamanites
So what is it teaching? It's teaching racism
It's teaching that it's better to be a white person
The Bible never teaches that
It never teaches that it's better to be white or it's better to be black or better to be Asian or anything
It doesn't matter what race we're from, the Bible teaches
But the Book of Mormon teaches racism
Because I was just reading this verse in Jacob 3a that says
O my brethren, I fear unless you shall repent of your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours
When you shall be brought with them before the throne of God
I just found that that was quite racist
You know, saying that unless you repent of your sins that their skins are going to be whiter
That's the word of God
It's not the word of man, it's not the word by man, that's the word of God
I was just reading it and it says in 2 Nephi 5 verse 21
And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity
For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto flint
Wherefore, as they were white and exceed in fear and delight soon
That they might not be enticing unto my people
The Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them
So it's teaching that, you know, in your past life
If the brown of your skin is, the more sinful you were sort of in the past life
At one stage the Lamanites, which were the baddies if you want to put it that way
They were given a curse and a mark
And the mark was the color of the skin
Because the Book of Mormon is a racist book that teaches that the whiter you are the more godly you are
And it even talks about in the Book of Mormon people when they started getting right with God they kept getting whiter
And then other people when they sinned against God they got darker and darker
I mean that is what is taught in the Book of Mormon folks
And as people these days as they keep commandments
In my lifetime I have seen American Indians who have become Mormons if you like
And lived the commandments and their skin over their lifetime has actually lightened
Without going from black to white in one day or red to white
Yeah but gradually just get whiter and whiter
Not because they haven't been outside either I suppose
In the book of 3rd Nephi and the book of Moron it says in verse number 14
And it came to pass that those Lamanites who had united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites
And their curse was taken from them and their skin became white like unto the Nephites
And their young men and their daughters became exceeding fair and they were numbered among the Nephites
And were called Nephites and thus ended the 13th year
So it says that these people that they got right and it says their skin became white like unto the Nephites
And their curse disappeared
There is a curse that came upon people and they were white but God put a curse upon them
And their skin became blackless
So what is that talking about?
Laman had other ideas and he was against God and didn't believe in him
And so he took his family and went off into another part of the land that they had been promised
And so from that point on thus began the war between the ongoing war between the Lamanites and the Nephites
Even after Laman and Nephite died their families and their prosperity kept fighting
And so God put a cursing upon the Lamanites because of their wickedness
It was a mark to spot the difference between the righteous and the wicked
But at that time that you were just reading from the Lamanites were a wicked people
And that's why God cursed them
And I guess the curse and the mark that they were given was a blackness
And that's what we believe, that's where we believe the Native American Indians originated
So that mark of Cain or the blackness of skin, would that not be teaching racism then?
Darker skinned people were more sinful than white people?
At the time, I mean I don't think racism even existed back then
I just think it was a pure wickedness versus righteousness
But yeah definitely there was a difference in skin colour
And there was an association with the darkness of skin being evil
And the lightness of skin being pure
I mean anyone can take that how they would like it
If you haven't read the Book of Mormon or if you're kind of just taking it at a glimpse
It would appear that way, definitely, racism
Because I know Brigham Young, I read a quote from him
And he said, because I know black people were not allowed to become a priest until the 1970s
And Brigham Young actually said that darker skinned people cannot mingle with the church
Now I've got it written down, do you want to say it?
No, I believe it
I don't know, it seems like there's a lot of, does that offend you?
Yeah, no, not at all
Yeah, I definitely acknowledge that
And honestly, when I found that out when I was a teenager
When I came to understand it more, black people weren't allowed to participate in some church things
And then priesthood activity
Up until not even that long ago, I questioned why
And it was a question that not just something that I asked out loud to my church leaders or to my parents
It was something that I had to ask God about
And so we don't claim, I don't think anyone in this church, even the prophet himself, claims to know why God
Didn't allow black people to participate in some church activities and have the priesthood
And I opened it up and it said that if you rebel against God, your skin's going to get darker
And that if you're living for God, you're going to be white
And that white people are better, I mean that's what the Mormonism teaches
And they still believe that book to this day
And it's funny, a lot of the people that we're door-knocking around here
They're Mormons, and what color skin do they have?
They're not white, because most of them are islanders
Most of them are maybe from New Zealand and the Maldives
And they are not white, they are brown skinned people
And their own book that they read is telling them that they are more sinful than white people
Because of the color of their skin
That's not what the Bible teaches
The Bible teaches that we all come from one blood
It doesn't matter what color skin we have
And you know what I think about the Super Book of Mormon?
You know what I think? This book should just be ripped in half
You know when you throw that thing away, it's a piece of junk
That's what the Book of Mormon is, it's worthless, it should be in the trash
Just like the Catholic Bible, just like the Quran, just like all the other Bibles
The Book of Mormon is not the true word of God, it should be in the trash with the rest of them
There's only one Bible and it's called the King James Bible
We are all of one blood, we are all his children through faith which is in Christ Jesus
We don't believe that there should be a different church for different nationality
And the Mormon Church said whites only, for a long time
He said God is not a respecter of persons
And you will be cut down and uprooted if you do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
And anyone red, yellow, black and white who believes on Christ is one of his chosen people
You are the chosen one, you are the holy nation
You are the peculiar people if you believe on Christ
He's the God of all flesh, he's the God of all the earth
And the Bible says when we get to heaven in Revelation 7
There will be people there of every nation, every tribe, every language, every kindred and every tongue will be represented in heaven
It's not an elite group for a certain family
It's open to everybody, who so ever will let them take the water of life freely
But you know, listen to me very carefully
Any belief system that has its roots in racism needs to be rejected, period
So here I am outside the Freemason Temple in Brisbane
Freemasonry and Mormonism have a lot in common
They're both secret societies, they both worship the same God, Lucifer
They have a lot of symbolism, that's the same like this compass outside this temple
Joseph Smith was a Freemason
And he had started a lodge in the early 1800's in Illinois
His father was a Freemason and also his brother
I was reading that Joseph Smith was a Freemason
I know he personally was involved as a Freemason
And I don't know particularly what their beliefs are
In the evening I received the first degree in Freemasonry at the Nauvoo Lodge
Assembled by my general business office
I was with the Masonic Lodge and rose to the sublime degree
Did you say, well what's the big deal about that?
Well, let's start out by just looking at the 33 degrees of Freemasonry
So in Freemasonry, their little club for grown up little boys
They give themselves all these titles and they reach these different degrees or different levels of Freemasonry
There are 33 in total
Degree number one, entered apprentice
Degree number two, fellow craft
Degree number three, master mason
Degree number four, master traveler
Degree number five, perfect master
Degree number six, master of the brazen serpent
19th degree
If you get into Freemasonry, when you get to the 19th degree you will become Grand Pontiff
You know what Pontiff means? Priest
Grand Priest
Grand Pontiff, listen to what this degree teaches
This degree proclaims the spiritual unity of all who believe in God
And cherish the hope of immortality
No matter what religious leader they follow
Or what creed they profess
It's concerned primarily with the perennial conflict between light and darkness
Good and evil, God and Savior
Did you hear that?
The spiritual unity of all who believe in God
No matter what religious leader they follow
Meaning that you can follow Buddha
You can follow Jesus
You can follow Muhammad
As long as you just believe in God
Let me tell you something
There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved
Than the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the light
No man cometh unto the Father but by me
And the Bible says
Whosoever denieth the Son
Meaning Jesus, the Son of God, the same hath not the Father
But he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also
If you're worshipping a God
And you're not believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
It's a false God
Because no man cometh unto the Father but by Jesus
And if you deny Jesus
You don't have the Father
You have another Father
You have another false God
And so this teaching is an ecumenical new world order
One world government
One world religion
Let's all join together
The spiritual unity of all religions
It's wicked
The Bible says come out from among them
And be ye separate saith the Lord
And touch not the unclean thing
And I'll receive you
And you'll be my sons and daughters
Sayeth the Lord
Twentieth degree
Master ad vitam
Twenty-fourth degree
Brother of the forest
This degree teaches us
That a mutual belief in a supreme power
Should bind all men together
In a worldwide brotherhood
Now listen to me
I don't believe in a supreme power
I believe in Jesus
Not a supreme power
The supreme power
Jesus said all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth
And there's none other name under heaven
Given among men whereby we must be saved
It's the name of Jesus that brings salvation
And without that name
You're not even in the ballpark
But he said the universal brotherhood
Of all men know the Bible teaches
That our brothers and sisters are those who believe in Christ
Because the Bible says
That you're all the children of God
By faith in Christ Jesus
The Bible says
But as many as received him
To them gave you power to become the sons of God
Even to them that believe on his name
If you don't believe in the name of Jesus
You're not a child of God
You become a child of God by believing in Jesus
And so we are not brothers and sisters
With all human beings who just believe in a supreme being
That's false
Because you know who considers himself a supreme power
Is the devil
He's called the prince of the power of the air
And he considers himself to be the god of this world
25th degree master of achievement
30th degree grand inspector
It's like inspector gadget or what
31st degree knight aspirant
32nd degree sublime prince of the royal secret
33rd degree sovereign grand inspector general
Freemasonry is a secret society
Where they worship Lucifer
The same god as Mormonism
Because they're like a secret society
And they worship who they call god
Which is Lucifer
You know in the Bible Lucifer
That's who they worship
I'm pure and virtuous and wholesome and innocent
How can you say anything bad about me?
Sir you need to be born again
I am born again
Now did you just say that you're Lucifer?
I am Lucifer
Okay define Lucifer for me
Pure virtuous wholesome innocent individual
That's out there
Lucifer is?
Yeah
Say that again
Lucifer is a pure holy
Virtuous
Now see the Lucifer that god created
That's the same one
Oh man this is great
I'm going to put this on the internet
Oh god bless you brother
Because that's exactly what the Shriners and Masons teach
Is that Lucifer
Lucifer is light
Okay get out of here
See this is what a Mason
Confesses
Is that Lucifer is light
How many of you knew that the Mormons were started
By Joseph Smith a Freemason
His father was a Freemason
His brother Hyrum was a Freemason
It was in their family
He created a huge lodge
They had all this influence
And the rise of the Mormon Church
And the rise of Masonry in that area
It went hand in hand
Attended the dedication of the Masonic Temple
Which was attended by about five people
Which was attended by about five hundred fifty members
Of the Masonic fraternity
From various parts of the world
The procession was formed at Henry Miller's house
And was accompanied by the Nauvoo Brass Band to the hall
The dedicatory ceremonies
Were performed by the worshipful master Hyrum Smith
Elder Erastus Snow
Delivered an able Masonic address
Dr. Goldforth and I also addressed the assembly
All the visiting Masons
Were furnished a dinner at the Masonic Hall
At the expense of the Nauvoo Lodge
The building is admitted
To be the most substantial
And best finished Masonic lodge
In the western states
Elder Amasa M. Lehman
Preached in the Masonic Hall
The seventies from the first
To the eighth quorums
Met in their hall
Elder Zira Pulsipher preached
Elder George A. Smith
Preached to the high priests
Three persons were ordained high priests
He, Hyrum Smith and J.C. Bennett
Being high Masons
Went into the house to perform some ceremonies
Which the others were not entitled to witness
You know they also have
The Mormons actually have a series of handshakes
To get into heaven
If you don't know what I'm talking about
You can watch the entire ritual
I met two guys when I was working in Utah
That were in Mormonism
And they had a lapel camera
And a camera on their watch
And a belt camera
And they went through the whole process
And they exposed it
And these videos are freely available on the internet
Showing how it's all Masonry
It's the same symbols, the same terminology
The same secret words to get into the inner veil
And then you get in there and you just sit around
And this is what they teach
How do you get to heaven?
You have to know a secret handshake
There are people that literally believe that
That's what they're trusting in
They chuckle at you when you come to the door
With the gospel of Jesus Christ
Because they think
I know the handshakes and you don't
But they don't know God
And on that day
They will regret it
On that day it will be sorry for them
Because they will go to hell
They will burn forever
Because they've rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ
A 19th century book
Claims to reveal the secret handshakes
The grip of the entered apprentice
Is made by pressing the thumb against the top
Of the first knuckle joint of the fellow craft
Is taken as an ordinary handshake
And the mason presses the top of his thumb
Against the space between the first and second hand
Mason firmly grasps the right hand of the fellow mason
The thumbs of both hands are interlaced
This grip is also called the strong grip
Or the lion's paw
The lord then gives the first token of the Aaronic priesthood
And asks
What is that?
The first token of the Aaronic priesthood
Has it a name?
It has
Will you keep it to me?
I will through the veil
The person then gives through the veil
The name of this token
Which is the new name received in temple today
The lord then gives the first token of the Melchizedek priesthood
Or a sign of the nail
And asks
What is that?
The first token of the Melchizedek priesthood
Or a sign of the nail
Has it a name?
It has
Will you give it to me?
I will through the veil
The person then gives the name of this token
Which is the son
Meaning the son of God
The lord then gives the second token of the Melchizedek priesthood
The patriarchal grip
Or a sure sign of the nail
And asks
What is that?
The second token of the Melchizedek priesthood
The patriarchal grip
Or a sure sign of the nail
Has it a name?
It has
Will you give it to me?
I cannot
I have not yet received it
For this purpose I shall come
To converse with the lord through the veil
You shall receive it through the veil
It is received as left arms are placed upon right shoulders through the veil
The lord then gives the name of this token
And asks
What is that?
The second token of the Melchizedek priesthood
The patriarchal grip
Or a sure sign of the nail
Has it a name?
It has
Will you give it to me?
I will through the veil
The person then repeats back to the lord the name of this token
As it is received
Whereupon the lord said
That he is a crude
The person is again brought to this point
And the worker gives three
White Marshall brother O'Reilly
It gives me enormous pleasure
To invest you with this color of jewelry
As a deputy grand master
of the White Marshall
I think most works for a grand maleficar
He served this grand lodge
extremely well in the last couple of years
To my knowledge, he might have a close connection
And I know that I can take over
Thank you
The sisters will unveil their faces
And the brothers and sisters in the circle
Will return their seat
O'Reilly, hear the words of my mouth
And by the way, this is from LDS Living
So this is written by a Mormon
They're actually proud of this
It's called Mormons and Masons
Five fascinating connections
by Jamie Armstrong
It says this
Why did Joseph Smith become a Freemason?
Because Joseph Smith was a Freemason
What is the relationship between the Masonic lodge rites
and the LDS temple ordinances?
Here are five fascinating facts
about the Mormons and Masons
And like I said, I'm not going to read all of them
Let me read a few
The first five Latter-day prophets were Freemasons
So Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor
Wilfur Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow
The first five main leaders, main prophets
of the Latter-day Saints were all Masons
And all were members of the Masonic fraternity
Here's another thing that connects them
Mormonism and Masonry use several of the same symbols
like the All-Seeing Eye, the hand clasp
Holiness to the Lord, and bees
Thirdly, there are similarities between the Masonic
and the temple ordinances
Because the Masons, they have these special handshakes
that they do in secret temple rituals
Well, you know what?
The Mormons have the exact same thing
They have secret handshakes
They have secret special underwear they wear
that they're never supposed to take off
You know, or whatever
They've got all sorts of weird
And it's actually, you know, Mormonism
it seems like it's just, you know
is highly connected and a spinoff
of the Freemasons, which are Satan worshipping
Satan worshipping secret society
Let me just explain something to you
You know, just real quickly
The Bible says men love darkness rather than light
because their deeds are evil
Anything that's a secret society, just mark it down
It's evil
The secret of Masonry is to keep a secret
I mean, why do you have secrets?
The Bible says that Jesus is the light
and we're meant to light the world
We're not meant to hide in darkness
and, you know, try to hide what we believe
or hide what we do in the temples
or anything like that
But you guys do
Just like the Freemasons
They also hide everything they believe
and they are a secret society
just like your guys' church
at the end of the day
It's exactly the same
because that's what Joseph Smith taught
and Brigham Young
and then you guys do the same thing
as the Freemasons
You can't see that there's any correlation between the two
You know, I would encourage you to actually
why don't you look up these articles
why don't you look up what your Mormon Church actually teaches
and you'll find that everything I said is what they believe
and it's not what the Bible teaches
and you need to make a decision and decide
are you going to go with Joseph Smith
or are you going to go with the Lord Jesus Christ
Joseph Smith, the Virgin Mary
So, so far we've seen some pretty crazy things
that the Mormons believe
but we don't have time to show you all the things
such as baptism for the dead
the secret temple underwear that they wear
Joseph Smith being a witch
the golden plates that don't even exist
and not being able to drink hot drinks
and the four different accounts of Smith's first vision
they don't even line up
and there's just so many other things as well
and it's not Christianity at all
it's a satanic cult
and we're just going to end with some more Mormon madness
Obviously the early Mormons practiced polygamy
now you guys, you don't do that now do you?
No
Yeah, because obviously Joseph Smith had multiple wives
Oh he did, yes
But so obviously it would be okay if the government didn't condemn it right?
No, if the government didn't condemn it
I mean we still couldn't practice it
it would have to be approved
it would have to come from the top of the church down
and historically when it was practiced in the early, at this distance
so in the early 1800s
you had to, as far as I remember, you had to have
there's a few things, you had to have the financial ability
to support the extra persons and families
you had to have the approval of the head of the church
and you had to have permission of the first wife
so that would rule out most of them
For the elderly, my wife, it may seem the same one day
well, as long as I'm the head one, I don't care
someone can do the cleaning, you can do the washing
and I'll go to the movies
But the mainstream Mormon church does not represent
all of those who call themselves Mormon
There are many so-called Mormon fundamentalists
who also consider Joseph Smith their founding prophet
and they hold fast to his teachings
which include the requirement of polygamy
to enter the celestial kingdom
The mainstream LDS church, however, has abandoned
the practice of polygamy
though it still teaches that plural marriage
is a principle that will be practiced in heaven
Mainstream Mormons do not consider the fundamentalists
to be true Mormons because of their polygamous lifestyle
Likewise, the fundamentalist Mormons consider
the mainstream LDS church to be illegitimate
precisely because it abandoned the practice of plural marriage
a practice which had been established as an eternal principle
and a requirement for all who would become gods
in the celestial kingdom
Joseph Smith married his first wife, Emma, in 1827
in upstate New York
In the first years of their marriage, he published
the Book of Mormon, founded the Mormon church
and declared himself to be a prophet of God
By 1843, the Mormon church was based in Nauvoo, Illinois
Around this time, and much to the dismay of his wife, Emma
Joseph wrote down a revelation that he claimed was from God
which stated that polygamy was necessary to enter eternal life
and to become gods
Three early LDS leaders, each of whom were polygamists
Among them, these men had more than 100 wives
In fact, the top 15 leaders of the Mormon church at that time
were polygamists
Many of their sermons and declarations are recorded
in a set of volumes known as the Journal of Discourses
Included in their sermons are statements that affirm
Joseph Smith's teaching about the absolute necessity of polygamy
The only men who become gods, even sons of God
are those who enter into polygamy
Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives
and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned
Brigham Young
And Brigham Young was notorious for this
When they got to Salt Lake, they would go to the men and say
It's your right, it's your duty, you need to live it
They'd pressure the man to live polygamy
It was rampant in Salt Lake
This doctrine of plural marriage is one of the most important doctrines
ever revealed to man in any age of the world
Without it, we never could be exalted to associate with and become gods
Apostle Joseph F. Smith
The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away with
You might as well deny Mormonism and turn away from it
as to oppose the plurality of wives
Apostle Heber C. Kimball
It was called the new and everlasting covenant
And what does everlasting mean?
That it should be lived forever
God the Father had the plurality of wives
Apostle Orson Pratt
It was openly taught that God and Jesus both were polygamous
Not just married, but polygamous
When increasing pressure from the federal government
resulted in many arrests and threats to dismantle the Mormon Church's holdings
the Church finally conceded
and in 1890 declared that they would cease the practice of polygamy
in a statement known as the Manifesto
In as much as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage
I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws
Wilford Woodruff
And that's why the fundamentalist Mormon people broke away from the mainstream church
so that they could continue living the law that they believed was given by God
The fundamentalist groups, they felt like when the church in 1890 gave up plural marriage
that they were giving up the very basic foundation of their church
and they were wrong
So they had to spin off from that group to keep that going
The LDS Church's abandonment of polygamy is what gave rise to Mormon fundamentalism
which continues to thrive today
Yet section 132 still remains a part of both fundamentalist and mainstream LDS scriptures
which means that once again there is a disparity between the mainstream Mormon Church's written doctrine
and their actual practice
This puts modern day Mormons in an awkward position
On one hand, they're taught to revere their early polygamist leaders
Yet on the other, they're deeply offended by the polygamy of today's Mormon fundamentalists
Joseph Smith was a polygamist
The early leaders of the church were polygamists
The first seven LDS prophets were polygamists
All of them were breaking the law
Many were in hiding and some were even arrested
All for their practice of polygamy
Most of the church leaders today are descended from pioneer Mormons that all practice polygamy
But that's embarrassing for the church
I think they fear it will hurt their missionary endeavors
And the church today wants it both ways
They want to have Joseph Smith a prophet of God
but they want the ability to reject any of his doctrines that don't fit comfortably in today's world
It seems like an odd position to me
Either he was what he claimed to be or he isn't
I don't see a middle ground here
Gordon Hinckley even had an interview where he condemned polygamy
When I hear statements like that, first of all I just have to wonder where they're coming from
Just like they brainwashed their membership, they're brainwashing the world because polygamy started with them
Joseph Smith, their prophet, said if you don't live polygamy, you do not get exalted in heaven
The Mormons need to own up to it
Polygamy is alive and well in the United States today because of Joseph Smith
It was doctrinally driven that if any man was to reach godhood, he had to practice polygamy
The church today denying polygamy puts them in this funny position of denying what is really their doctrine
But it's hid from the convert
The founder of Mormonism claimed polygamy as a doctrine of God
If in fact it is not a doctrine, then Joseph Smith is not a prophet of God
And my father, he got most of his wives by bribing other men with his daughters
I was one of the ones that refused to fall into that and I chose my own husband
And married and had a very loving relationship for 15 years
Until I lost them through this blood atonement process
Blood atonement teaches that there are some sins that God cannot forgive by the works of Calvary
And therefore the sinner must have his own blood spilled
This blasphemous doctrine not only diminishes the power and the purpose of Christ's blood
But glorifies the atoning power of the blood of the Mormon sinner
While steadfastly observed by Mormon fundamentalists
This anti-Christian principle originated with Joseph Smith and was furthered by later Mormon prophets
This troublesome doctrine of blood atonement blemishes the wholesome public image required by Mormonism's leaders
Today the brethren in Salt Lake City still grapple over the predicament they find themselves in
When having to both affirm and deny blood atonement
For example, the late Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie in his book Mormon Doctrine
Denied that the church ever practiced or taught blood atonement
Yet on the same page stated that because the blood of Christ is not sufficient to forgive certain sins
The Mormon God requires man to have his own blood spilled
On the 27th of June we were carrying on our life as usual
And happened to be the 144th anniversary of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith
My half brothers came into our office and murdered my husband
At the same time there were three other consecutive deaths going on
My brother-in-law Duane and his eight-year-old daughter Jenny was with him and they also killed her
Our names were on the list to be atoned for
My father believed that we were traitors to God's cause
And that our blood must be shed to atone for the sin of turning against light and knowledge as he supposed
Blood atonement is if you have charity enough for someone to save them
The shedding of their blood is the only way that they can atone for certain sins
People really thought they were doing a favor in my great-grandfather's day
To shed the blood, save their soul, and it's still taking place today
My great-grandfather John D. Lee was one of the Mormon men who were called avenging angels
Or destroying angels
It was their duty, their obligation to cut the throats
Shed the blood of people who were apostate Mormons who were guilty of speaking against them
The authorities
Jesus shed his blood as an infinite sacrifice
But there are some sins that the blood of Jesus cannot atone for
And therefore it requires the shedding of that man's blood to atone
For adultery, for apostasy, for marriage to a negro, for not receiving the gospel, for lying
For any of the other offenses, they'd have to have their own blood shed to have forgiveness of sin
To put it simply, my father's beliefs stem directly from Mormonism
Not one thing is different than what the early Mormon doctrine is
The original doctrine that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young taught is exactly what I believe
I'm now at present baptizing people and I have five apostles now
And we're out teaching and preaching the gospel
Trying to get the Mormons into the original doctrine that Brigham and Joseph had it set on
And I refuse to give it up
I've been cast out of the Mormon Church because of it
That's the reason why today people are still killing each other
Shedding their blood so they can have forgiveness of sin
And it comes directly from Joseph Smith and from Brigham Young
There's been 27 murders since 1972
My uncle, my sister, my brother Arthur
My brother committed suicide which is a direct consequence of all of this
I would just like you to know that if anything happens to me ever or to my children
I will personally, I believe the Mormon Church in general will be responsible
Because the very doctrine of blood atonement stems from Mormonism
There is not a man or woman who violates the covenants made with their God
That will not be required to pay the debt
The blood of Christ will never wipe that out
Your own blood must atone for it
Now take a person in this congregation who has knowledge with regard to being saved in the kingdom of our God and our Father
And being exalted, one who knows and understands the principles of external life
And sees the beauty and excellency of the eternities before him
Compared with the vain and foolish things of the world
And suppose that he is overtaken in a gross fault
That he has committed a sin that he knows will deprive him of that exaltation which he desires
And that he cannot attain to it without the shedding of his blood
And also knows that by having his blood shed he will atone for that sin
And be saved and exalted with the Gods
Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife and put a javelin through both of them
You would be justified and they would atone for their sins and be received into the kingdom of God
I would at once do so in such a case and under such circumstances
I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart
And I would do it with clean hands
This is our loving neighbor as ourselves
If he needs help, help him
And if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved
Spill it
Any of you who understand the principles of eternity
If you have sinned a sin requiring the shedding of blood
Except the sin unto death
Would not be satisfied nor rest until your blood should be spilled
That you might gain that salvation you desire
That is the way to love mankind
President Brigham Young
We may talk of men being redeemed by the efficacy of his blood
But the truth is that that blood has no efficacy to wash away our sins
That must depend on our own action
Elder Amasa M. Lyman
But even earlier than that I had, President Hinckley had given us this challenge in 2005
To read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year
And so I took that challenge and got through it in my regular Book of Mormon
And so I decided to read it again in this little brown 1830
And it is available like a desert book or something
And I think it's around
And that's really where the differences started happening
And so then these changes in the Book of Mormon that surfaced as I started reading through the 1830
Kind of illustrate even more that maybe this was the kind of thinking that Joseph Smith had back in the 1829-1830 timeframe
And I think we have a few of these for the audience as well
The first one is in 1 Nephi chapter 11 verse 1825
It says, Behold the virgin which thou seest is the mother of God
After the manner of the flesh
Today that same scripture reads
That behold the virgin is the mother of the son of God
Instead of mother of God
And there's a huge difference, doctrinal difference in that
Yeah, I'd say that's a huge doctrinal difference
But it's repeated a couple of more times
In 1 Nephi chapter 11 21
It says, Behold the lamb of God, even the eternal father
Today it's been changed to read, Yea, even the son of the eternal father
In 1 Nephi 11 32 it says, And I looked and beheld the lamb of God that he was taken by the people
Yea, the everlasting God was judged of the world
And now it says, Yea, the son of the everlasting God was judged of the world
And then the last one here is in 1 Nephi 13 40
It says, These last records shall make known to all kindreds, tongues and people that the lamb of God is the eternal father
And the savior of the world
And today it reads, These last records shall make known to all kindreds and tongues and people that the lamb of God is the son of the eternal father and the savior of the world
Now I realize this isn't quite true Christianity as you're saying
Because it's, is that somewhat called modalism or something
True, but it certainly isn't Mormonism
It isn't Mormonism and so the doctrine was changed
And the Book of Mormon was changed to I guess make it more agreeable to what current Mormon doctrine is
Do you have any idea who made the changes and when they were made?
Joseph Smith changed them probably about between 1835 and 1838
It was in 1838 that we have the Pearl of Great Price version of his first vision
Where he said he saw God the father and Jesus Christ in 1838
So I think the consensus is, and I probably should have checked that more carefully
Exactly when he made the changes, but it was somewhere between that later 1830 time frame
So while you were reading the Book of Mormon according to what Mr. Hinckley suggested that you do
These stuck out, jumped out of the page at you while you were doing the reading
I had just read the regular Book of Mormon and so to read that Jesus was the everlasting father did stand out
And it was in 1 Nephi, so you get through 1 Nephi you read that quite a bit
Everybody starts the Book of Mormon over and over again
He's not talking about the biblical version of the Trinity but it certainly isn't the Mormon doctrine of three gods in the Godhead
And see the interesting thing is Doris you'd have to understand being an LDS person for all my life, all these many years
I actually wasn't looking to challenge my testimony of the gospel or the Mormon church
I had no idea that I was moving eventually to a Christian look at things
So my whole concept, this was just mind boggling for me
I didn't realize that it wasn't Mormon and it maybe wasn't true Christianity either
It was what they now call modalism or some other kind of a concept of God
The only thing I knew is that I had been raised and taught that the Book of Mormon was the word of God, word for word
That it was trustworthy and that he had translated it by the power of God
And that he couldn't move from one word to the next word or phrase until it was right
And then he could move on, that's what I'd always been taught
So to read these conflicts and these problems just turned my life upside down
I was having a hard time dealing with them
And the thing is again back to the logical look at it, it's not open to interpretation
I mean the Book of Mormon got changed
It did
I became more and more convinced that Joseph Smith was not telling the truth
About 1820 the Book of Mormon got changed so that it made things more clear
I just couldn't trust it anymore
And the whole issue with the Book of Mormon is that it is supposed to be the most perfect book that had ever been given to man
And that you would get closer to God than any other book on the planet if you would read it
And yet it's filled with thousands of changes
Some of them are just punctuation and grammar but still, doesn't God have good grammar?
Well I always thought it was, utlm.org has identified like 3900 changes in the Book of Mormon
And a lot of them as you say are punctuation
And I was always willing to give the printer's problems or anything else that kind of benefit
You know the benefit of the doubt is, are, was, were, which and who and those kinds of grammatical
And that probably makes up most of the 3900
But there were some serious doctrinal changes that occurred
So therefore their founding prophet Joseph Smith, he wrote this fraudulent document called the Book of Abraham
Okay
Now this fraudulent document the Book of Abraham is found in modern day Mormon scriptures
Because they have a scripture called the Pearl of Great Price, who's ever heard of that?
So in this modern Mormon scripture the Pearl of Great Price there's a chapter or a section called the Book of Abraham
Now this is where the Book of Abraham came from
This guy was traveling through America selling ancient Egyptian artifacts
He's just kind of a junk dealer or a guy who's just trying to rip people off and sell people old stuff
And tell them that it's this really cool stuff or whatever
So he sells Joseph Smith just some random parchment or whatever it was, papyrus, I don't remember the details of it
But it was some kind of a document with just some random hieroglyphics on it
Now this is before hieroglyphics had been deciphered
This is before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone which allowed Egyptologists to be able to decipher hieroglyphics
So he gets this hieroglyphic document and he just makes up what it says
So he says, oh I'm going to translate this
So he translates this random document and says it's the Book of Abraham
Well it turns out that the Rosetta Stones discovered, they end up deciphering it
And it was just some random Egyptian dude's last will and testament where he's just giving stuff to his kids
And it had nothing to do with Abraham whatsoever
And this is why people are leaving the Mormon church by the droves every day
Because anybody with an internet connection can figure out that Mormonism is a fraud in about 5 or 10 minutes
That's why they have to tell their people don't go on the internet
But anyway, you know, they basically are leaving by the droves because you can just look at the Book of Abraham
You can look at the facsimile of what Joseph Smith supposedly translated
You can decipher it, it's got nothing to do with Abraham, it's a fraud
And there's so many things like that
The sad thing is though that they're not leaving the Mormon church and becoming Bible believing Christians
They're mainly becoming agnostics and atheists
So getting them saved is a real challenge
Getting them to leave the Mormon church isn't as hard
Because they just need to see a few of these basic pieces of evidence
My family has been raised in the Mormon church
Not all of the family members have stayed in the church
There's no force to keep members in the church
We believe that people have their own agency to choose
And so it's up to people to make their own choose
And you don't get those children that make different decisions to you
You don't criticise them over it
That's up to them to make their own call on it
Hey this is Pastor Logan Robertson from Pillar Baptist Church in Australia
I'd just like to thank you for watching this documentary about the Mormons
And how what they believe does not line up with the word of God
The Book of Mormon teaches a lot of strange doctrines
It teaches that you have to do good works to get to heaven
Now if you had to do good works to get to heaven
None of us would be saved because none of us are good enough
Because in Romans chapter 3 verse 23 the Bible reads
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God
So it says that everyone in the world is a sinner
You've sinned, you've sinned, the whole world has sinned
And the Bible says in Romans chapter 6 verse 23
For the wages of sin is death
And so just like when we work a job we get paid wages and we get paid money
Well the payment or the wage for our sin according to the Bible is death
And everyone deserves to die because of their sins the Bible says
And once we die there's a second death
The Bible talks about it in Revelation
It says that there's a second death
It's like a spiritual death that we die
We die a physical death then a spiritual death
In Revelation chapter 21 verse number 8
It says
But the fearful and the unbelieving and the abominable
And murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters
And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth for fire and brimstone
Which is the second death
And so the second death is where we get placed after we die
If we have committed sin
And a list of sins that we've committed will send us to hell
It says that the liars are going to hell
It says murderers are going to hell
And it says the fearful are going to hell
So it doesn't matter what we've done whether we've murdered or we've lied
We're going to go to hell because of our sins
We have to pay for our sins
Now that sounds like bad news and it is
Because everyone's going to go to hell because of their sin
The word gospel in the bible simply means the good news
And the good news is found in Romans chapter 5 verse 8
The bible reads
But God commendeth his love toward us
And that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us
And so the good news is that we don't have to pay for our sins in hell
We can go to heaven and it says the way to get to heaven is by Jesus Christ
Because you have to understand that 2000 years ago
Jesus Christ himself came from heaven
He became flesh
And he lived a sinless life that we cannot do
Because I can't live a sinless life, neither can you
And Jesus Christ lived that sinless life that we can't do
Because he was 100% man but he was 100% God as well
We believe in the trinity
The bible says in 1 John chapter 5 verse 7
That there's three that bear record in heaven
The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost
And these three are one
So there's one God but it's made up of three persons
The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
We have to believe that there's one God
Not thousands of gods like the Mormons believe
And so Jesus Christ, God in the flesh
He lived a sinless life, he did a lot of miracles
He raised people from the dead
And at the end of his life
The bible says that he was rejected by the people that he came to save
It says he came unto his own
But his own received him not
And once they arrest him
They spat upon him
They bed him up
They whipped him 39 times on his back
They put that crown of thorns and crushed that upon his hand
And they mocked the King of Kings
They mocked the Lord of Lords
They put on royal garments upon him
And they were mocking him
And they made him carry his own cross to Calvary
And once he was nailed on the cross
It was like all the sins I've done were placed upon Jesus
All the sins you have done were placed upon Jesus
Like he had done them
The bible says that his body was buried in the tomb
And his soul descended to hell for three days and three nights
Jesus said in Matthew chapter number 12
As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly
So shall the Son of Man be three days
And three nights in the heart of the earth
But after three days and three nights
He rose again from the dead
Over and seeing, conquering death
Proving that he was God in the flesh
And he left our sins in hell
So that we do not have to pay for them
And he died for everyone in the world
The bible says that he is a propitiation for our sins
But not for our sins only
But also for the sins of the whole world
So it doesn't matter what color you are
God doesn't care whether you come from China
Or Africa
Or America
Or England
Or Russia
South America or Australia
It doesn't matter where you're from
God loves you
It doesn't matter what color skin you've got
Because the bible says we all come from one blood
We've all got red blood
And he died for you
He died for me
He died for the whole world
But there's one thing that you have to do to be saved
It says in the book of Acts chapter 16 verse number 30
Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Which is a great question
What must I do?
And they said in verse number 31
And they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
And thou shalt be saved in thy house
Thy house just means that if your household believes on Jesus
That they'll be saved as well
But notice it says how to be saved
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
It doesn't say believe and go to the Mormon church
It doesn't say believe and go to the temple
It doesn't say believe and put on strange underwear
Or repent of your sins
Or be baptized
Or be baptized for the dead
Or do good works
It says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
The most famous verse in the Bible
John chapter 3 verse 16
So once you believe on Christ
You get everlasting life according to the Bible
Now the word believe
It's like our word faith
And we find that in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 and 9
It says
It's the gift of God
Not of works lest any man should boast
So the Bible compares faith with believe
Because they mean the same thing
Another word that we would use would be the word trust
Because if I was going to jump out of an airplane
I had a parachute on
I believe that parachute is going to open
But after I jump out what am I doing?
I'm trusting that parachute for me
That I don't physically die when I hit the ground
That's what we're doing with Jesus
We're putting our faith on him
We're trusting in him
That he paid for our sins on the cross
Was buried and then he rose again from the dead
What we're doing is we're relying on him
Not relying on ourselves
What we're doing is we're depending on him
Not depending on ourselves to get to heaven
And our good works or our way of life
Or anything like that
It's just by trusting in Jesus that we're saved
And the Bible actually says
In Romans chapter 6 verse 23
It says
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
So once we're saved
The Bible says that we get everlasting life
The moment we believe
We get born again
We have everlasting life
Now everlasting means it lasts forever
It will never end
Now if Jesus took that off you for any reason
Then it was never everlasting
But we know it says in Titus chapter 1 verse 2
In hope of eternal life
Which God that cannot lie
Promised before the world begun
So Jesus promised us everlasting life
And it says that God that cannot lie
So God's not going to lie to you in John chapter 3 verse 16
When he says you get everlasting life
That's what he means
It's everlasting
He can never take it off you
It says in Romans chapter 6 that it was a gift from God
God is the one that paid for that gift
Just like when I was a kid
And I got birthday presents, Christmas presents
From my parents
They paid for them
They worked for that money
And brought me a gift
Same thing with the gift of eternal life
God went out and he came to earth
As a man
He lived a sinless life
He died on the cross
And he shed his blood
For the gift of everlasting life
Once you receive that
You can never lose it
The Bible says that you become a son of God
Now it doesn't say that you become a God
Like the Mormons teach
But it says you become a son of God
Or you become a child or a daughter of God
And just like I've got five children
No matter what they do
They'll always be my children
Even if they grew up and said something very bad
Or they did bad things
They're still my children
Just the same with us and God
Once we're his child
We're always his child
I would never put my son in a bonfire
To discipline him
Same with God
He's not going to put us in hell
Which is a big bonfire
To punish us
The Bible says that he will punish us on this earth
But he's never going to send us to hell
Because we've got everlasting life
No matter what we do
We are saved
And everlasting means forever
And so I'm praying that you believed what I just told you
From the Bible
Don't believe it just because I said it
Believe it because it's from the word of God
And if you truly believe that
If you believe you've sinned before
If you believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins
You believe he was buried and that he rose again
And you believe that he gives you everlasting life
And is the only one God
And Jesus died on the cross for your sins
Was buried and rose again
You can be saved today
Just by simply trusting that
If you believe that
We're just going to word a quick prayer
And you can just repeat after me
Because the Bible says in Romans chapter 10
That whosoever shall call upon
The name of the Lord shall be saved
And so we just have to ask for that gift
Now if you don't believe that
Don't pray
Because it doesn't
Just asking for a gift if you don't believe it
That doesn't mean that you will receive it
You have to trust in Jesus
Put all your faith on him
And then ask for that gift
If you truly believe it
We'll just say a quick prayer right now
Dear Jesus
I know I've sinned
But I'm trusting you
I believe you died
And rose again
Please save me now
And take me to heaven when I die
I'm only trusting you Jesus
Amen
So thank you for watching
And have a good day
So that's a secret right?
It's not secret
It's sacred
Oh sacred yeah
Oh ok it's totally different right
If you join the church
And get baptized
After one year become an elder
When you're allowed to go in there
Temple recommend
Was Joseph Smith a Freemason?
Was he?
I don't know I'm asking you
You know what? I don't think so
But was he?
I couldn't care less
I don't know
That Black people are more sinful
Did you know that?
No that's what it says in the second need time
It says that
Doc!
Woah sorry mate
You don't want him to know that?
You don't want them to know that the Book of Mormon teaches racism.
The thing is you guys always just lie about everything.
But why do you guys hide everything?
Have a good weekend.
So you won't answer nothing.
I mean we film people that have said everything already anyway.
It's Mormons here. We've been trying to get interviews.
They just don't want to talk to us. They keep lying to us.
So we're just going to rock in because the sign at the start said,
Visitors Welcome.
Do you believe that you can become a god, Ryan?
Can you become a god or not?
Well, we're all trying to progress towards that, aren't we?
We're becoming more like a heavenly father.
How do you become a god?
By doing the best that we can.
Do you believe that you can become a god?
The church of the later day Satans.
We believe in Satan.
We believe in Satan. I mean, he's our brother.