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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 6
    ...first "fallacy" of Mormonism is that it claims that the Church's teaching are the same as those of the early Church and that it is a restoration of that |L4=Response to claim: 82 - Mormons believe that "both Adam and Eve lost their purely 'spiritual state' and bec
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 9
    ...thor states that "Mormon high priests do not offer any sacrifices, so they are not following the Old Testament pattern" |L12=Response to claim: 141 - "Teachers" must be "mature Christians" that are "able to teach others" rather than teenagers
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  • The Bible/Biblical accuracy
    |L5=Question: Are the Biblical textual variants theologically significant? |L6=Question: What did early Christians think about alterations to the scriptures?
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  • The Bible/Scripture interpretation
    |L7=Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitic |L14=Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God's corporeality?
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  • Question: What is the best way to understand servitude in the Old and New Testaments?
    ===There is no scripture commanding servitude. There are a number that regulate its practice.===
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  • Events after the First Vision
    ...s''' descends from God to speak with Lehi—thus, Jesus and the Father are here both separate, and the role of Christ in giving instructions to the pr === I and the Father are One to Three Nephites ===
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  • Mormonism and Christianity/Criticisms of the Mormon view of Jesus Christ
    ...im that Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians. ...ion: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?
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  • Mormonism and doctrine/Repudiated concepts/Why were some doctrines later repudiated
    ...not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one talk...The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men" ...ndersen:Trial of Your Faith:Ensign:November 2012:The leaders of the Church are honest but imperfect men}}
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  • Jesus Christ/Accusations that Mormons aren't Christians/Evangelical arguments
    ...rk:M'Chesney:Antidote to Mormonism|pages=49}}<br><br>Some claim we are not Christians. They either do not know us at all or they misunderstand. In the Church eve |L=Jesus Christ/Accusations that Mormons aren't Christians/Evangelical arguments
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  • Times and Seasons/2/7
    ...days, and we (Latter Day Saints) who say, we are living in those days; why are we not in the enjoyment of these privileges, let us enquire [inquire], do w ...nksgiving for all Saints, and for a place of instruction for all those who are called to the work of the ministry in all their several callings and office
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  • Mormonism and Christianity/Grace and works/Mormon perspective
    |L1=Question: How do Mormons see the relationship between works and grace? |L2=Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Claims about priesthood ordination
    |S=Portions of this wiki response are based upon {{GLS-Paper-Snuffer-0}} The text here may have been expanded, re
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  • KJV translation errors in the Book of Mormon
    ...errors doing in the Book of Mormon? A purported ancient text? Errors which are unique to the 1769 edition that Joseph Smith owned?"<ref>Jeremy T. Runnells There are actually five separate questions that will almost certainly arise when conf
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  • Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names?
    ...the Classic Mayan and Olmec cities of two millennia ago, which is why they are known today under Spanish titles such as La Libertad and Tres Zapotes, Sant ...resent city names. These icons are not only rare (as noted above) but they are symbolic rather than phonetic. In other words, when archaeologists find an
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  • Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness?
    ===Not all religions claim that the truth of their beliefs are confirmed through a spiritual witness=== ...ngelical Christians have spent a great deal of time trying to prove to the Mormons that a spiritual witness should NOT be relied on to establish truth. Most m
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity
    Mormonism can be a controversial topic for many non-Mormon Christians, but I have come to the conclusion that no theology has ever managed to cap [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:2:Mormonism a mirror for other Christians
    ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Mormonism an exciting mirror for other Christians== ...ty should make it the most exciting conversational partner for traditional Christians for the twenty-first century. Studying Mormonism is like looking into a mir
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:3:Mormonism does justice to glory and majesty of Christ
    [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:4:Mormons don't know where to stop giving glory to Jesus
    ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: "Mormons are Christians who do not know where to stop"== In affirming the divinity of Jesus, Mormons are Christians who do not know where to stop. Thy answer the question of whether it is pos
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:5:Mormons, Nicea, and Plato
    ...ological arguments can look like a form of cheating when, in reality, they are trying to change the way the game is played. Mormonism is like an alternati ...world where everything is slightly but significantly skewed from what they are used to <ref name="webbBook">{{Periodical:Webb:Godbodied}}</ref>{{Rp|85}}</
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:6:Mormons retrieved early Christian beliefs rejected by creeds
    ==Mormons have "picked up" discarded beliefs of early Christians== ...is as if, as they follow the road orthodox theologians took to the creeds, Mormons pause to pick up the detritus that was jettisoned along the way. They recyc
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:7:Mormons and creatio ex nihilo
    ==Mormons and ''creatio ex nihilo'' (creation out of nothing)== [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:8:Revelation vs historical guesswork about Jesus
    [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:9:Mormon trinitarian views are not polytheistic
    ==LDS trinitarian views are not polytheistic== ...ause...Latter-day Saints “believe they are infinitely more one than they are separate.” Indeed, they enjoy a transcendental unity of divine indwelling
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:10:Preexistent Jesus and a divinized humanity
    Mormons go so far as to insist that God was once a man just like us, which can soun [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:11:Do Mormons make too much of Jesus Christ
    ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Creedal Christians in effect say the LDS make "too much of Jesus Christ"== ...cy of faith. It puts creedal Christians in the odd position of saying that Mormons make too much of Jesus
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:12:Mormons are not Arians
    ==Mormons are not Arians== [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:13:Mormons reject Augustinian ideas about depravity and original sin
    ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Mormons reject the legacy of Augustine: especially of humanity's corruption due to [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:14:Joseph Smith could hold his own in early Christian debates
    ...lectualism built into Neo-Platonic thought. He would have sympathized with Christians who struggled to identify nature’s inherent goodness, but he would not ha [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:15:Christian beliefs do not need to have Neo-Platonic influence to be true
    [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]] [[Category:Interfaith issues/Sectarian anti-Mormons|Anti-Mormons: sectarian]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:16:Joseph Smith more coherent than Augustine on matter and the divine
    ==Augustine's views about matter are perhaps less coherent than Joseph Smith's== [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:17:Creedal Christians can learn from Mormon views about Jesus and creation
    ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: Creedal Christians can learn from LDS views about Jesus Christ and creation== ...l to what we are. These are the central questions of our time, and creedal Christians can answer them only in a self-critical and mutually beneficial dialogue wi
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:19:Vastness of Joseph Smith's theology - it is not pagan
    ...his confidence in Christ to its fullest possible expression....All things are possible not only for us but also for God, in that this universe does not e [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:20:Joseph Smith does not deny grace or claim to earn salvation
    ...ations of Smith’s theology need to be made at this point. First, Mormons are often charged with denying the efficacy of grace and thus making salvation [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:21:Joseph Smith's theosis does not supplant God or veer into polytheism
    ...God, a phrase that qualifies his alleged polytheism. Clearly, the faithful are meant to share in the divine power and glory, and thus they too will have m [[Category:Christians, Mormons are]]
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  • Question: What is the Adam-God Theory?
    ...r-day Saints do not believe Brigham's "Adam-God" teachings, critics accuse Mormons of either changing their teachings or rejecting teachings of prophets they ...with Elohim/God the Father") is not the doctrine of the Church. If there are any particles of truth to anything surrounding the Adam-God doctrine, one w
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe Jesus Christ was married?
    ===Mormons don't officially believe that Jesus was married=== ...(Some believe that He was married; others believe He wasn't. Most members are open to believe either way.)
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  • Question: Does the practice of baptism for the dead have ancient roots?
    ===There is considerable evidence that some early Christians and some Jewish groups performed proxy ordinance work for the salvation of ...they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
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  • Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
    ...my Mormon Doubts'' (n.p.: CES Letter Foundation, 2017), 75.</ref> If they are to receive spiritual experiences motivating/telling them to believe in the ...ans 5:21]</ref> how one can rationally believe their spiritual experiences are reliable guides to truth.
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  • Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of Christ's death on the cross?
    ...committed by Adam, and for the individual sins of all who believe, repent, are baptized by one having authority, and who receive the Holy Ghost by the lay ...as the Redeemer of the world, and that through His death and atonement we are redeemed."<ref>Collected Discourses (1892–1893), Vol. 3, 168.</ref>
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will one day 'supplant' God?
    Some Christians claim that the doctrine of human deification is unbiblical, false, and arro ...to emulate their Heavenly Father in every way. Throughout the eternities, Mormons believe, they will reverence and worship God the Father and Jesus Christ. T
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  • Question: Did Elder Dallin Oaks say that "so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind of being"?
    ...n his critical book ''One Nation Under Gods'' claims that Dallin Oaks told Mormons in 1995 "that so-called Christianity sees God as an entirely different kind * Like other Christians, we believe in a heaven or paradise and a hell following mortal life, but t
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  • Question: In the 1800s, did Latter-day Saints "glorify vengeance" through the singing of hymns?
    ===These hymns are a rather mild Christian apocalyptic, and do not "glorify vengeance" in any ...of supposed hymn-endorsed vengeance&mdash;and, as we have seen, even these are nothing of the sort.
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  • Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
    ...aims that the Church has only recently been asserting its Christian status are easily proven to be false=== ..., however, that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are not "Christian," and that they have only recently claimed to be so. A relat
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?
    ...ion: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a "different" Jesus than "mainstream" Christians?== ==="Mormon Beliefs About Jesus" versus "Christian Beliefs About Jesus": Mormons worship the Jesus Christ of the Bible===
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  • Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?
    ==Question: Why do Mormons use water instead of wine for their sacrament services?== ===Some early Christians used both water and wine in the sacrament===
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  • Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed?
    ==Question: Are Mormons polytheists because they don't accept the Nicene Creed?== ...in any reasonable sense of the term that does not also exclude most other Christians who deny the Modalist heresy===
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  • Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitical Priesthood was "changed" to the unique priesthood "after the order of Melchizedek" held by Jesus Christ?
    ==Question: Why do Mormons use the Aaronic Priesthood, since Hebrews 7 states that the Aaronic/Levitic ...Melchizedek Priesthood). They are distinguished from each other, in most Christians' eyes, as quite separate things.
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  • Question: What is "blood atonement"?
    ...t, the Son of God, is efficacious for the sins of all who believe, repent, are baptized by one having authority, and receive the Holy Ghost by the laying Omitted from quotations used by the anti-Mormons were restraining clauses such as follow from Brigham Young:
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  • Question: Is the Mormon doctrine of a "premortal existence" pagan, unchristian, or unbiblical, and therefore false?
    ===Some Christians present alternate interpretations of selected scriptures that fit with thei ...hile the teachings of sectarian critics may not answer these questions, we are fortunate to live in a time when the answers have been fully revealed by pr
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  • Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian:Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity
    [http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng "Are Mormons Christian?,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org: ...Greek philosophy.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng "Are Mormons Christian?,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org</ref>
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Quetzalcoatl was actually Jesus Christ?
    ...s association with a "feathered serpent" constitutes "snake worship," some Christians claim that this association is therefore inconsistent with worship of Jesus ...to the LDS, as even the critics agree that certain elements of the legend are consistent with the Book of Mormon teaching that Jesus Christ appeared in t
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  • Question: How did the mainstream Christian view that God created the universe out of nothing originate?
    ...teaches that God created the universe from nothing (''ex nihilo''), while Mormons teach that God organized the universe from pre-existing matter. The LDS God ...a novel idea that altered the beliefs and doctrines of the Jews and early Christians.
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  • Question: Is the Mormon temple garment simply "magic underwear"?
    Latter-day Saints are in good company with the early Christians, who used similar clothing as part of their worship. Other religions likew ...an un-Christian and unbiblical practice. (See [http://www.fairlds.org/Anti-Mormons/Street_Preachers.html here] for photos and videos of several anti-Mormon de
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  • Question: Do Mormon men believe that they will become "gods of their own planets" and rule over others?
    ===Mormons believe in human deification, but what this doctrine ''means'' or entails i It is claimed by some that Mormons believe that they can push themselves higher in a type of 'celestial peckin
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  • Question: Was the apostasy after Christ complete?
    ...a Restoration as taught by Joseph Smith. From the Evangelical perspective, Mormons "were the ones to initially separate their church from, in their view, ''ap ...ch organized by Christ did not persist to their day. The Latter-day Saints are not unique in this belief, nor can they be excluded from "Christianity" for
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  • Source:Gospel Topics:Are Mormons Christian?:Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians
    ...of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unequivocally affirm themselves to be Christians"== ...{{read more|url=http://www.lds.org/topics/christians?lang=eng}} <ref>"Are Mormons Christian?," ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org</ref>
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  • Question: Do Mormon beliefs or practices exclude them from being considered Christian?
    ===Latter-day Saints are not excluded from being considered Christans by belief or practice=== When critics make the claim that Latter-day Saints are not Christian, they typically will present a laundry list of doctrines and
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  • Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?
    ==Question: Do Mormons ignore the doctrine of grace at the expense of "works"?== ...a result most members of the Church do not expect to be saved, since they are not "good enough."
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?
    ==Question: Do Mormons believe that salvation is based upon works?== Evangelical Christians claim that salvation comes through "faith alone" (''sola fide'') and they a
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  • Question: Does the Bible alone contain all necessary or essential knowledge to assure salvation, thus making the Book of Mormon and modern prophets unnecessary?
    ...ditional scripture (such as the [[Book_of_Mormon_basics |Book of Mormon]]) are unnecessary or even blasphemous. * ignores that the Biblical canon is not unanimous among Christians, and ignores non-canonical books which the Bible itself cites as being auth
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  • Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/General Questions
    |L=Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/General Questions |H=Response to "Difficult Questions for Mormons: General Questions"
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  • Question: Why do some New Testament phrases appear in the Book of Mormon?
    * This is a fairly trivial phrase; there are multiple examples in 19th century and modern works of the phrase "I have se And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, '''These''' are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and
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  • Question: How is Mormon belief compatible with Isaiah's statement that beside the Lord "there is no God?"
    ===These scriptures in Isaiah clearly are meant to assert the supremacy, authority, and superiority of Yahweh over no ...ead_and_the_Trinity|Godhead]] and belief in [[Deification of man|theosis]] are not compatible with multiple statements in Isaiah that "beside [the Lord] t
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  • Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") consider Jesus to be the brother of Satan?
    ==Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") consider Jesus to be the brother of Satan?== ...revere Satan, and are thus not true "[[Latter-day_Saints_aren't_Christians|Christians]]."
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that everyone else will be "damned"?
    ==Question: Do Mormons believe that everyone else will be "damned"?== ===Mormons believe that almost all people will receive a greater salvation than they a
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Prophets
    |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Prophets |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Questions About LDS Prophets"
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible)
    |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible) |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Questions About LDS Scripture (excluding the Bible)"
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About the Bible
    |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Questions About the Bible |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Questions About the Bible"
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  • Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous, General Questions
    |L=Countercult ministries/Tower to Truth Ministries/50 Questions to Ask Mormons/Miscellaneous, General Questions |H=Response to "50 Questions to Ask Mormons: Miscellaneous / General Questions"
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  • Question: Are Elohim and Jehovah the same deity?
    ==Question: Are Elohim and Jehovah the same deity?== ...#35 4:35]; [http://scriptures.lds.org/deut/6/4#4 6:4]) as proof that these are different titles for the same God. <ref> This article was originally derive
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  • Question: Was the priesthood held by Jesus priesthood not 'transferable' to members of the Church?
    ...on of these sources.</ref> Claims that the priesthood is not transferable are not supported by the Biblical text. Rather, the priesthood is a permanent ...ment 'yields a good sense' suggests that those who choose that translation are probably doing so for theological reasons, not grammatical or linguistic re
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Introduction
    ...ant portions of the Bible that Smith taught had been corrupted by Jews and Christians" |L5=Response to claim: xxv - Mormons abstain from alcohol and tobacco, as many other groups do, but also from ca
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise/Chapter 19
    ...nse to claims made in "Chapter 19: Are Mormons Christians? Are Non-Mormons Christians?" ...ade in Mormon America "Chapter 19: Are Mormons Christians? Are Non-Mormons Christians?"
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  • Question: If Mormons don't drink coffee and tea because it contains caffeine, then why do they consume other products which contain caffeine?
    ==Question: If Mormons don't drink coffee and tea because it contains caffeine, then why do they c ...Word of Wisdom itself gives no indication of the reasons these substances are to be avoided—it only states that they should be. While avoiding caffeine
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  • Question: What does the term "anti-Mormon" mean?
    ===Those who are "Anti-" some thing oppose and fight against that thing=== ...t "against" Mormons, but only write and act as they do because they "love" Mormons or Mormon investigators and want to bring them to the truth.
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  • Question: Are Mormons "anti-Christian" or "anti-another faith"?
    ==Question: Are Mormons "anti-Christian" or "anti-another faith"?== ===It makes no more sense for Mormons to be "anti-Christian" than it would for Pennsylvanians to be "anti-America
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  • Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
    ==Question: Did the "Cochranites" influence Joseph Smith or other Mormons to introduce plural marriage into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...they have distilled from longer lists of things Church leaders then denied are mentioned.<ref>Brian Hales, "[http://rationalfaiths.com/10620/ A Review of
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  • Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?
    ...want you to believe that we bear any animosity toward the Negro. "Darkies" are wonderful people, and they have their place in our church. ...he abysmal history of most of Christianity's dealings on race issues. They are obviously hoping their target audience will not notice that Latter-day Sain
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  • Question: What is "cognitive dissonance" and how does it relate to Mormonism?
    ...ly, most fair-minded people realize that—just as in any religion—there are intelligent, well-informed people who become or remain members of the Churc ...re "rational" and which are "false" or "irrational." In doing so, the dice are loaded from the start since it's the critics' epistemological assumptions t
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  • Question: Is there a YouTube cartoon which was "banned by the Mormon church"?
    The non-denomination National Council of Christians and Jews wrote: ...ppears to us to be a basically unfair and untruthful presentation of what Mormons really believe and practice.
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  • Polyandry and Joseph Smith: sealings to women with living husbands
    ...d not anticipate having faithful family to whom they could be sealed. The Mormons' anticipation of an imminent end to the world may have heightened the sense There are [[Was Apostle Orson Hyde sent on a mission to dedicate Israel so that Josep
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  • Mormonism and the nature of God/Early beliefs
    |S=Some evangelical Christians attempt to show that the LDS idea of deification is unbiblical, unchristian |L1=Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
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  • Times and Seasons/2/16
    ...ty of the saints, and prefer the prosperity of Zion to your chief joy, and are willing to suffer affliction with the people of God, then we can hail you w ...t High, but there are others, and we presume an overwhelming majority, who are honorable and virtuous
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  • Times and Seasons/2/17
    We are happy to say that this building is progressing in a manner which does honor ...d representations of that animal, and do great credit to the mechanics who are engaged in carving the same. It is intended to overlay them with gold, and
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  • Times and Seasons/2/19
    ...heir mights, for a great work remains to be accomplished, and the laborers are but few. If the Lord's people be a willing people in the day of his power, "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people,
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  • Times and Seasons/2/20
    ...as lively stones are built up a spiritual house, and holy priesthood." We are told in John's Gospel, xv. 16, that Christ ordained his apostles; and of co ...riests of the lower order of priesthood, then teachers, and deacons, which are appendages to that priesthood. All these officers combined, form that spiri
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  • Times and Seasons/2/21
    His sudden demise is a faithful monitor, to us who remain, that "in life we are in the midst of death;" it therefore, becomes us to be always ready, for in ...ion, and of becoming more perfectly acquainted with those principles which are necessary to be acted upon, in order that they may become highly useful in
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  • Times and Seasons/2/23
    ...hailed him as a companion to the Oriental Continent; but my hopes of that are fled. I shall go alone, or find some other person in all probability to go ...d; it fills the mind with wonder astonishment, and admiration: How welcome are the rays of the morning light, after the shades of darkness have clothed th
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  • Times and Seasons/3/3
    ...ability shall outlast them all, or in other words continue when all others are overthrown, and their names in a measure faded into oblivion. ...e in the latter-days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are: (As for thee, O King, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what s
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  • Times and Seasons/3/10
    ...many great ones, which were near unto it; and the Lord said unto me, these are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is n ...st. And it is given unto thee, to know the set time of all the stars, that are set to give light, until thou come near unto the throne of God.
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  • Times and Seasons/3/11
    |L9=NAUVOO AND THE MORMONS. ...gathering of the Saints, and tend to ameliorate the condition of those who are strugling [struggling] with poverty, and distress, in this day when the usu
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  • Times and Seasons/3/14
    |L11=THE MORMONS IN BOSTON AND VICINITY. |L12=THE MORMONS-JOE SMITH, THE PROPHET.
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  • Times and Seasons/3/16
    ...colored beast"-"anti-Christ"-"the man of sin," &c. Indeed, her principles are so abominably wicked, and so manifestly corrupt, that the thinking mind is ...d their priesthood and ordinances from the mother church. If the Catholics are false, then Protestantism has no foundation. Luther derived his authority f
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  • Times and Seasons/3/18
    ...ctrines of the established orthodox churches. I replied as follows:-"There are so many different kinds of orthodox doctrines, all differing one from the o ...You receive a salary from a home institution, and by that institution you are directed to remain here whether the people will hear or not; whereas the Sa
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  • Times and Seasons/4/8
    ...hear record of better things, and place me in the front ranks of those who are known to do good for the sake of goodness, and show all liars, hypocrites; ...ries the sacrifice of human life. The nations and tribes of the negro race are very numerous, and the interior of their country has scarcely, if ever
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  • Times and Seasons/4/9
    |L10=What Do The Mormons Believe. ...he industrious bee, it has gathered honey from every flower, and its pages are now read with interest by a large, and respectable number of subscribers.
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  • Times and Seasons/5/11
    ...ency at the next election; and as the Latter Day Saints, (sometimes called Mormons, who now constitute a numerous class in the school politic of this vast rep ...ice, I must go into it free and unfettered, with no guarantees but such as are to be drawn from my whole life, character and conduct.
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  • Times and Seasons/5/16
    ...esspasses, [trespasses] even so I the Lord forgive you; nevertheless there are those among you who have sinned exceedingly; yea, even all of you have sinn ...ips, every man according to his wants and his needs, inasmuch as his wants are just: and all this for the benefit of the church of the living God, that ev
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  • Times and Seasons/5/17
    ...ought to be sufficient, for children soon become men and women. Yes, they are they that must follow us, and perform the duties which, not only appertain ...nt out the events that shall take place in our day and age: of these there are many, both in the Old and New Testament. They speak plainly of great things
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  • Times and Seasons/5/22
    ...us; for though our brethren in Zion, indulge in feelings towards us, which are not according to the requirements of the new covenant; yet, we have the sat ...or humility and great faith lest we be ashamed in his presence. Our hearts are greatly grieved at the spirit which is breathed, both in your letter, and t
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  • Times and Seasons/5/23
    ...se, adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints, who are or can be called saints. ...all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill. And again hot drinks are not for the body, or belly.
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  • Times and Seasons/5/24
    ...he voice of the church; and if an elder, or a high priest be present, they are to take the lead in managing the business; but if not, such as have the hig ...nd again, those in debt, should in all cases pay their debts; and the rich are in no wise to cast out the poor, or leave them behind, for it is said that
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  • Times and Seasons/4/11
    ...he industrious bee, it has gathered honey from every flower, and its pages are now read with interest by a large, and respectable number of subscribers. ...on; to do it not, is destruction; and that more speedy and awful than many are aware of. If the saints would do this with all their might and means; Nauvo
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  • Times and Seasons/4/2
    |L6=MORMONS, OR LATTER DAY SAINTS |L8=THE MORMONS
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  • Times and Seasons/4/14
    ...that a state has nothing to do with religion, and that all forms of faith are equally right, or equally wrong; having for its founders two miserable men, ...tely published in the STAR, in the fifth lecture on faith; and those views are not the results of human ingenuity or fanciful theory, but what the Lord ha
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  • Times and Seasons/4/15
    ...eard, and he will answer their prayers with vengeance. The cries of misery are wafted on every gale, while confusion, distress and mourning, pervades ever ...urrounded with the groans and sighs of an agonizing multitude of pretended christians, in the most excruciating agony of both body and mind, while from the thron
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  • Times and Seasons/4/18
    ...use people feared their political influence. And what was said against the Mormons was only to justify the mob in the eyes of the world for the course they ha ...nd vicinity. Houses are going up in every direction in the city, and farms are being enclosed without. "The wilderness will" soon "blossom as the rose."
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  • Times and Seasons/4/23
    ...fore the world was made, the same which knoweth all things, for all things are present before mine eyes: I am the same which spake and the world was made, But behold, verily, verily I say unto you, that mine eyes are upon you; I am in your midst and ye cannot see me, but the day soon cometh
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  • Question: Do the temple endowment's similarities to Masonic rites have ancient roots?
    ...(see D&C 88:41, 130:7)...According to latter-day revelation, heavenly eyes are said to represent one who is filled with 'light and knowledge' (D&C 77:4). ...comparisons between the life of Jesus Christ and the life of the bee. Some Christians even saw the bee as a symbol of the soul of man.<ref>Hilda M. Ransome, ''Th
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  • Question: Is the Latter-day Saint conception of testimony from the Holy Ghost threatened by neuroscience or psychology?
    ...tions of [our] fathers, which lead [us] away into a belief of things which are not so.”<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/a ...ang=eng Ether 3:16]</ref> yet when the spirit and body are connected, they are intimately and intricately intertwined in a continuum from more flesh to mo
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  • Differences in First Vision accounts
    = What differences are there between Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account and later accounts? ...a specific death that seemed to be associated with it. In addition, there are newspaper articles talking of large-scale revival activity in the larger re
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  • Reference templates/FARMS Review/Volume 19
    ...A Response To Michael:FARMS Review:2007|L]]||[[Template:Bokovoy:Ye Really Are Gods A Response To Michael:FARMS Review:2007:Short|S]] ...ARMS Review:2007|L]]||[[Template:Coutts:Disarray Revisited Review Of Early Christians In Disarray:FARMS Review:2007:Short|S]]
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