Top 10 Amazing Facts of MormonismSource: Top 10 Amazing Facts of Mormonism
1. Mormons can become gods and goddesses.
2. Goddesses will spend eternity in full submission to their god-husband.
3. Mormon women will give birth “forever and ever” to spirit-babies.
4. Mormon men can have multiple wives in heaven—eternal polygamy.
5. Heavenly Father is an exalted man who lives with his goddess wife, Heavenly Mother, on a planet near the great star Kolob.
6. American Indians are descendants of the wicked Lamanites, who were Israelites that God cursed with dark skin.
7. God the Father had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus, who is the half brother of Lucifer.
8. All Christian churches are an abomination.
9. Mormons need 4 secret handshakes to get into the Celestial heaven.
10. Joseph Smith revealed that the actual Garden of Eden is in Jackson County, Missouri
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Related:
Dr. Walter Martin - Dialogue on the Doorstep with a Mormon 1984
www.youtube.com (a classic)
Debate: “Is Mormonism Christian?” Walter Martin vs Van Hale.
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2 comments:
Clearly, Common Sense alone ought to be sufficient in directing one away from this tragic cult.
1. Mormons can become gods and goddesses.
Correct.
2. Goddesses will spend eternity in full submission to their god-husband.
False. The actual temple stuff says that the woman is to "hearken" to the husband "AS he hearkens to the Father (God)." This basically means that if the man if full of crap, she doesn't have to go along. It also puts the woman in a position of judgment over the man. Constantly evaluating him to see if he is correct and righteous or not. Nowhere in ANY Mormon source does it talk about this "full submission" that you are speaking of.
3. Mormon women will give birth “forever and ever” to spirit-babies.
Correction. Mormon men AND women.
And nowhere in Mormon doctrine does it outline how this is done. There is no Mormon doctrine of "eternal pregnancy." Some purely speculative folk-doctrine may claim this, but it's not something I, or any other Mormon is obligated to believe.
4. Mormon men can have multiple wives in heaven—eternal polygamy.
True. Which only makes sense.
After all, suppose a man loses his first wife in a car accident. Then he remarries. He loves both women. Would you suggest he ought to decide which one to dump in the afterlife?
Secondly, nothing in Mormon belief convinces me that this option will not also be open to women - having more than one husband.
5. Heavenly Father is an exalted man who lives with his goddess wife, Heavenly Mother, on a planet near the great star Kolob.
Yeah. So what?
6. American Indians are descendants of the wicked Lamanites, who were Israelites that God cursed with dark skin.
Actually, the Lamanites are repeatedly referred to in the Book of Mormon as being more righteous than the Nephites.
Secondly, after the initial author Nephi draws his own conclusions about skin color being linked with a curse, you never hear it again in the entire Book of Mormon. Combined with the repeated instances of Lamanite righteousness in the rest of the book, I conclude that the book does NOT teach that skin color has anything to do with moral character.
Third, there is no evidence that the skin color distinction between Nephites and Lamanites persisted beyond the first few generations. In fact, textual evidence actually seems to favor the conclusion that BOTH Lamanites and Nephites were dark-skinned by the time you reach the Book of Mosiah.
Fourth, most of early Mormon racial doctrines like "Mark of Cain" and "Curse of Ham" were actually ideas that we BORROWED from our racist American Protestant neighbors.
7. God the Father had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus, who is the half brother of Lucifer.
Not a Mormon doctrine. Pure speculation on the part of certain individuals. But no longer believed by that many modern Mormons.
But even so. Honestly, it's no more creepy than the Protestant idea that God somehow artificially-inseminated Mary through mystic spirit power.
Frankly, you guys are just as creepy as we are on this score.
8. All Christian churches are an abomination.
Nope. Their CREEDS are an abomination. Not the churches themselves.
And frankly, if you look at "Five-Point Calvinism"... yeah, that's a pretty crappy theology alright.
Quite "abominable."
9. Mormons need 4 secret handshakes to get into the Celestial heaven.
The temple symbols are merely outward symbols of an inward commitment. You might as well criticize Jesus for breaking bread and drinking wine at the Last Supper.
Symbols are a part of Christian worship, and always have been until modern blue-jean Evangelicalism hijacked the whole thing.
10. Joseph Smith revealed that the actual Garden of Eden is in Jackson County, Missouri
Yeah. So what?
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