The horrendous fallacies of Mormonism....

This article lists just a few of the ways the Mormon Church is "off the mark" when it comes to Scripture. For instance, Mormonism's Joseph Smith was supposedly contacted by the angel "Moroni" who gave him the plates which resulted in the "Book of Mormon"....

Truth is, there is no angel named Moroni in the BIBLE! All angels mentioned in the Bible have the TITLE of ELOHIM ("El") within their own names: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel....

Beliefs of the Mormon faith include the following:

• According to the Book of Abraham the earth was created near the planet Kolob (God's home planet) which is supposedly at the center of our Galaxy. The earth was created near Kolob over a period of 6000 years (six "days" in Kolob time), and then moved to its present position in our solar system. (Only one problem here: The Book of Abraham was never canonized, which means despite the warnings in the Bible to refrain from "adding to or subtracting from Scripture" the Mormon religion is built on nonbiblical sources.)
• God is a man with a physical body. (According to Scripture, God is Spirit - John 4:24. Can GOD be born, suffer or die?)
• The Father and the Son are two separate Gods. (Ditto the above! The Son was a man with a divine qnoma/spirit.)
• Satan and "Jesus" are brothers. (Where in Scripture can we find this?)
• "If it had not been for Joseph Smith and the restoration, there would be no salvation. There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." (Doctrines of Salvation vol. 2 pp. 1-350) (So, where does Yeshua fit into the picture?)
• MAN can be a god. (Since Yeshua walked the earth, when have we seen another man who could walk on water, raise the dead, turn water into wine, heal the lepers, stop the winds and calm the seas....not to mention He was with YHWH in the beginning and created the heavens and the earth. What man is able to do this?)
• Men who are "good" enough to go to heaven will get their own planet to populate through physical sex, and that women who are "good" enough will be called by their husbands to join them on these pleasure planets....(This kind of nonsense could only have been concocted by the mind of man, because, for one thing, Scripture tells us in the afterlife we will be "like the angels" - who are neither male nor female, and therefore, sex will be nonexistent!)
  
  Matthew 22: 30. For in the resurrection of the dead, men do not marry women, nor are women given to husbands. Rather, they are as the Messengers of Elohim in Heaven.
• "Jesus" came to America a few hundred years after the Cross. Everyone who accepts this doctrine are Christians; those that don't are non-Christians, and those that couldn't make up their mind back then, well - God made them black....(Where in the entire Bible is this substantiated? Where is America mentioned? Where in the Gospel accounts do we see Yeshua ever leaving Israel?)
• A complete apostasy has occurred leaving Christendom in chaos. (Now THAT we can agree on!)

One of the comments on a Mormon website says about the Book of Mormon: "Like the Bible, it's an ancient witness for Jesus Christ. Both books have changed my life for good."

They might have changed this person's life; but the bottom line is, the "Book of Mormon" did NOT come from God because the Bible commands us not to add to, or subtract from His Torah (first five Books) or from the Book of Revelation.

Deuteronomy 4:2 2 In order to obey the mitzvot (commands) of ADONAI your God which I am giving you, do not add to what I am saying, and do not subtract from it.

Revelation 22: 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

The Bible is the ONLY Word that man is supposed to follow. The Torah shows us how to live; it contains all YHWH's "do's and dont's, yet it seems most people have never understood that concept. He walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and told them how to live; yet they decided to listen to the serpent instead. He brought the captive Hebrews out of Egypt, revealing Himself in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night - and for forty years He even gave them food to eat for which they didn't have to lift a finger while they were concentrating on learning His ways - yet they continuously rebelled.

He sent His only "Son" Yeshua (Hebrew for "YHWH is Salvation"), so that mankind could learn from God face-to-face. Yeshua showed YHWH's people who God is and how to properly obey and worship Him, and then He offered Himself as our final SIN sacrifice. Today, all we have to do to gain eternal life is to believe in YHWH and in Yeshua's Sacrifice, repent, and live our lives in a set-apart manner according to His Divine Instructions in Righteousness (Torah).

But still today - thousands of years later - mankind continues to rebel against God. Right now we are in the end times; which can be likened to "as in the days of Noah" when God decided to flood the earth to destroy all but one righteous family. Decadence and "tolerance" are today's "buzzwords." Anyone who attempts to live a "godly" life is maligned, ridiculed and scoffed. Various "religions" abound. Christianity alone has nearly 40,000 different "denominations"....Which one did Yeshua bring?

Despite Torah's warnings to let God's people know they are to stay away from idols, other gods and paganism, along comes Joseph Smith Jr. (on April 6th, 1830 in Palmyra, New York) and tells the world he had visitations from the spirit world where he discovered he was supposed to start a brand new religion that not only contradicted, but added to the Torah, as well as the rest of the Bible!

Smith ended up writing more than 60 false prophecies, as well as scores of verifiably false historical and archaeological statements that comprised the Book of Mormon and, what's more, he claimed to have discovered the Mormon writings written around 600 A.D. in "King James" style, no less! (Ironically, that's approximately the same time Islam was born, as well!)

Here's something else: YHWH says if you are a prophet, every single word uttered in His Name will be accurate:

Deuteronomy 18:20 "The prophet who shall speak a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die."

If Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Hosea, and other "OT" prophets, had spoken ONE single inaccurate word from YHWH, they would have been killed and their writings destroyed. Mr. Smith, upon whose writings the Mormon church was founded, is a false prophet because - if nothing else! - his Book of Mormon "added to" Scripture.

A friend of The Refiner's Fire who is a former Mormon wrote the following:

One thing though on salvation and Mormonism is that they believe nearly everyone is "saved" only some more than others. Only Mormons go to the highest levels in heaven, and then only those who are married in the temple attain the most highest celestial glory in the afterlife. Everyone else goes to either the middle or the lower kingdoms i.e., terrestrial or celestial.

One of those is ruled by Jesus Christ (Yeshua) the other is ruled by the Holy Ghost. God rules supreme in the Celestial paradise, home to only worthy Latter Day Saints and those who accepted the "gospel" in proxy after death. The only ones in Mormonism who are not saved are the sons of perdition. That would be the Judas Iscariots of the world (i.e., those who had a testimony of JC, but denied the truth thereof. They are considered banished eternally, and will be cast into outer darkness.

Even thieves, murderers, robbers, etc., will go to the lowest level in heaven when they die, according to Mormon teachings. So even the 9/11 terrorists would be in the lowest level according to this theological thinking.

One can only ask: Where in the BIBLE can the basic Mormon "beliefs" be substantiated?