Briefly, here's my review of
the Book of Mormon:
"We invite all
men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts
the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal Father, in
the name of Christ if the book is true."
-From
"Introduction to the Book of Mormon"
The
Book of Mormon
(Mormon, an alleged ancient historian-prophet) - written on metal
plates - was given to Mormon's son, Moroni, who added to them and
buried them and later revealed their whereabouts to Joseph Smith in the
early 1800s, considered a prophet by the Mormons.
I began to
recognize error immediately, starting with the introduction that makes
reference to Mormon's son Moroni (who appeared to Joseph Smith) as now
a "glorified, resurrected being..." What? Has that mortal man, if he
even existed, already received his reward when the Bible clearly
reveals the righteous, including Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the
Prophets, are asleep and await the resurrection and inheritance God
offers His people?
Hebrews
11
13 These all
died in faith, not having received the promises..39 And all these,
having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the
promise, 40 God having provided something better for us, that they
should not be made perfect apart from us.
Jesus clearly
stated, "No man has ascended to Heaven" (John 3:13) and Peter testified
that King David is still "dead and buried... David did not ascend into
the heavens" (Acts 2:29, 34).
Paul and John
also reveal that we receive our crown and reward at the return of Jesus
Christ and our resurrection:
2
Timothy
Finally, there
is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but
also to all who have loved His appearing.
Revelation
22
12 “And
behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every
one according to his work.
The same
"Introduction to the Book of Mormon" claims that the "Lamanites"
(supposedly Israelites who allegedly came from Jerusalem) are the
"principal ancestors of the American Indians." That's an illegitimate claim
if there ever was one! Not a single American Indian tribe, First
Tribes, First Americans, Native Americans - whatever you choose to call
them ( I call them Beringian immigrants) - bear any of the biblical
birthmarks of fulfilled prophecy.
The birthmarks
of fulfilled biblical prophecies include, as the Jerusalem-based Brit Am Israel
organization teaches:
According to
the Bible ten out of the twelve tribes of Israel split away (1 Kings
12:19), formed their own kingdom of "Israel" (1 Kings 12:20) and were
exiled by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:18). They forget their identity
(Hosea 1:9, 7:8; Isaiah 49:21) and became the Lost Ten Tribes. In the
future they will re-unite with the Jews (Ezekiel 37; Isaiah 11:13;
Jeremiah 3:18) of "Judah", but until then they have a role of their own
to fulfill. They were destined to be situated at the continental
extremities of the earth such as North America, the British Isles,
Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa
(Deuteronomy 33:13; Isaiah 24:16, 26:15, 41:8-9, 49:6), to be the
richest (Genesis 27:28, 49:25; Deuteronomy 33:13-16; Hosea 2:8), and
most powerful (Numbers 24:8-7; Micah 5:7-9) nations on earth and to
control major international strategic bases (Genesis 22:16-17, 24:60).
All of these points together with numerous others show that descendants
of the Lost
Ten Tribes can only be found amongst Western Nations,
especially the English-speaking
ones.
Is the Book of
Mormon
greater than the 10 Commandments? God had Moses write them on stone
tablets, not gold plates. And the hidden metal plates collection
supposedly included the biblical lots, the Urim and the Thummim, that
are strictly to be used only by a priest from the Tribe of Levi (Ezra
2:63) - not by any other tribe:
Exodus
28
30 And you
shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and
they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the LORD. So
Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart
before the LORD continually.
Deuteronomy
33:8
And of Levi he
said: “Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one, Whom You
tested at Massah, And with whom You contended at the waters of
Meribah...
"The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord's Kingdom once again
established on the earth preparatory to the second coming of the
Messiah." - "Introduction"
The Bible
nowhere refers to the "Church of Jesus Christ," but it does make
reference twelve times to the Church
of God. Furthermore, it appears they consider Joseph Smith
the Elijah who was to come.
Speaking of
Jesus Christ, "we shall dwell with him eternally in the heavens" - "The
Testimony of Three Witnesses"
As Jesus
Christ plainly taught, "the meek shall inherit the Earth." Other
Scriptures prove the New Jerusalem will be established on Earth.
"And the honor
be to God the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, which is
one God." - "The Testimony of Three Witnesses"
Sounds like
they're promoting the pagan trinity doctrine of demons, doesn't it?
"..all mankind
were in a lost and in a fallen state" - 1 Nephi 10:6.
Alma 3:26
teaches eternal happiness or misery; Alma 40:15 teaches a state of
happiness and a state of misery (before the resurrection, when the
Bible says the dead know nothing and the dead are asleep) and they
promote the immortal soul lie of the serpent: "The soul could never
die" (Alma 42:9), when Ezekiel says twice that "the soul that sins shall die"
(Ezekiel 18:4, 20) and Jesus warned of both body and soul getting
destroyed (Matt.10:28).
Born Again and Heaven and
Hell
I did not read
much of the Book of Mormon, but what I did read was enough to recognize
that it contradicts the Word of God; what I did read was sufficient to
see that it is not Scripture, that it is a lie, a book of the dead:
Isaiah
8:20
20 To the law
and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it
is because there is no light in them.
Galatians
1
8...if we, or
an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have
preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now
I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you
have received, let him be accursed.
The
Book of Mormon,
a false gospel and spurious scripture, amounts to a mishmash of
stories, like a confused child or schizophrenic person would tell,
mixing truth with error; The Book
of Mormon
is a spoof from Satan - a demonic comedy - an abomination.
My hope and
prayer is that Mormons will burn their book, return to the basics, get
back to the Faith once delivered to Jerusalem, and go by the Book - the
Holy Bible.
Isaiah
55:7-9
7 Let the
wicked forsake his
way,
And the
unrighteous man his
thoughts;
Let him return
to the LORD,
And He will
have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will
abundantly pardon.
8 "For My thoughts are not
your
thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," says the
LORD.
9 "For as the
heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than
your
ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
