Mormon Church?

Question

Why do people that know the history of the Morman church still continue in it?
The history is terribly fabricated by a man that was not a prophet and has sinned by "adding" to the Bible which we are told no to do.

CJ

If you believed we should not "limit" ourselves to one book then when does that stop? What if I said God spoke to me last night and I wanted to write a new Bible and lived through all my limbs being cut off to say it was true. Then I would be a godly prophet? What in the "world" are you basing your beliefs on? And you are saying that "Do not add to the Bible" is only about revelation, then you are saying it is okay to add to the Bible? Your theology is terribly flawed. I am a born again Christian believing in the doctrines of Grace and my aunt and uncle are actually mormons. I go so far to say that the actually mormon and catholic churches are satanic as they are not worshiping our Lord alone but idols with him. Jesus is the only way people. Why add to the Bible.

I want to add that I do not have to believe that Joseph Smith alone wrote the book of mormon. I do not discount the hand of satan involved in anything that draws people away from the true God.

Please read my new answer post.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that Mormons are really nice people for the most part. That is part of the dilusion that Satan uses to convince people that they are right...emotion. I think Mormons are really good people who are caught up in all of the culture of being a Mormon.

If you really think about it, everyone wants to be a part of something. They are all searching to find that thing that fills the vacuum in their soul. The vacuum is God shaped and Mormans have something that almost fits. It's like forcing the wrong piece of a puzzle somewhere where it does not belong. Sure, the gap is filled, but it doesn't look right. If someone is okay with overlooking the flaws, then it works.

I think people want so badly to fill that longing that they will jam that puzzle piece in until it fits and ignore the fact that it obviously does not belong there.

Answer 2

I am a Mormon and continue it because:

The holy ghost confrims that it is true.

There are 2 churchs that claim to carry the Holy Melchezidic and Aronic preisthoods. Did you know that? Look up the preisthoods and athority in the bible.

It there was a true church what wopuld christ call it?

How do you know the bible is true?


They are the Catholic and Mormon church.

Who really knows the past considering it was 150 years ago? Where you alive? I was not.

Have you check out the church and prayed and tryed living the commandments or are you to afraid of change?
There is so much biblical evidence leading up to the coming of the restoration that it is not even funny.

I suggest you do your research and be non judgemental whats your opinion count to 14 million?

www.lds.org

Answer 3

Horray! I'm Mormon!
Whether you believe the history is fabricated is up to you. To believe it, you would have to believe that God can and does speak to men. Joseph Smith suffered a whole lot because he wouldn't deny his "fabrication." Why would he continue to suffer when he could just deny it and make everything better, unless of course it was true. Which I believe it was.
And really, if you know any history about the bible, you wouldn't say that about the bible. Revelation, which is where you're getting this "adding to the book" idea, was written before many of the other books in the NT. John was talking about the book of Revelation, not the bible. The bible cannon wasn't even compiled until many years later.
Besides, what's wrong with God speaking more to man? Why silence him and limit his power to one book?

Answer 4

The reason I continue is because I DO know the history, I believe the Bible is the word of God, as well as the Book of Mormon, which I HAVE read, unlike you, I am thinking.

Revelation 22:18 says that no MAN is to add to the book of REVELATION. It says nothing about GOD adding to His own words. And the Book of Mormon does not contradict the Bible in any way. In fact, they go together like hand in glove. So, if you believed that God wanted you to write more scripture, it would have to comply with the Bible.

"Below is the Book of Mormon Challenge, an assignment that Professor Hugh Nibley at BYU sometimes gave to students in a required class on the Book of Mormon. Though it is several decades old, it still offers a challenge worth pondering. (Recently discovered evidences for Book of Mormon authenticity should be consulted for some real excitement.) The following text is taken from the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol. 8, Ch. 11, pp. 221-2:

"Since Joseph Smith was younger than most of you and not nearly so experienced or well-educated as any of you at the time he copyrighted the Book of Mormon, it should not be too much to ask you to hand in by the end of the semester (which will give you more time than he had) a paper of, say, five to six hundred pages in length. Call it a sacred book if you will, and give it the form of a history. Tell of a community of wandering Jews in ancient times; have all sorts of characters in your story, and involve them in all sorts of public and private vicissitudes; give them names--hundreds of them--pretending that they are real Hebrew and Egyptian names of circa 600 b.c.; be lavish with cultural and technical details--manners and customs, arts and industries, political and religious institutions, rites, and traditions, include long and complicated military and economic histories; have your narrative cover a thousand years without any large gaps; keep a number of interrelated local histories going at once; feel free to introduce religious controversy and philosophical discussion, but always in a plausible setting; observe the appropriate literary conventions and explain the derivation and transmission of your varied historical materials.

"Above all, do not ever contradict yourself! For now we come to the really hard part of this little assignment. You and I know that you are making this all up--we have our little joke--but just the same you are going to be required to have your paper published when you finish it, not as fiction or romance, but as a true history! After you have handed it in you may make no changes in it (in this class we always use the first edition of the Book of Mormon); what is more, you are to invite any and all scholars to read and criticize your work freely, explaining to them that it is a sacred book on a par with the Bible. If they seem over-skeptical, you might tell them that you translated the book from original records by the aid of the Urim and Thummim--they will love that! Further to allay their misgivings, you might tell them that the original manuscript was on golden plates, and that you got the plates from an angel. Now go to work and good luck!

"To date no student has carried out this assignment, which, of course, was not meant seriously. But why not? If anybody could write the Book of Mormon, as we have been so often assured, it is high time that somebody, some devoted and learned minister of the gospel, let us say, performed the invaluable public service of showing the world that it can be done."


BTW, emma, the LDS church has more converts than those BIC (born in the covenant). It's not hard at all to join our church. One only has to believe.

Answer 5

We weren't told not to add to the Bible. We were told not to add to or take away from the prophecy in the book of revelations. There is a difference.

THE REVELATION
OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE 22:18-19
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

The Bible is made up of 66 SEPERATE books, if the verses in revelations is talking about adding or taking away from the Bible & not just the Book of Revelation the Bible would be made up of only the Book of Revelations & everything else that was compiled in the Bible is blasphemous.

Answer 6

I keep hearing people saying how false we are, and how we contradict the rest of the christian world.

Well, let me be blunt. Every one of you hardly know what we are teaching, and we feel too that all of you contradict wht the Bible teaches.

Here are verses that tell exactly what you people are like.

3 ......many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.

4 But thus saith the Lord God: O fools, they shall have a Bible; and it shall proceed forth from the Jews, mine ancient covenant people. And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they receive from them? Yea, what do the Gentiles mean? Do they remember the travails, and the labors, and the pains of the Jews, and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth salvation unto the Gentiles?

5 O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have hated them, and have not sought to recover them.
...............
6 Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save it were by the Jews?
7 Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and ....... I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?
8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another.......

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 29:3 - 8)

Answer 7

That's your opinion...and that's fine, you are of course entitled to it.
I will tell you why I know the gospel is true: because I have asked my Heavenly Father and have received countless confirming answers to my prayers, the gospel is true.
I know with all my heart, might, and mind that Joseph Smith was and is a true prophet of God, that he saw and spoke with God our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon was truly translated by Joseph through the power of God. I know the gospel was restored again to the earth, never to be taken away until Christ comes again in His glory to rule and reign over the whole earth. That is my testimony.

I cannot make any person "know" what I know or even believe what I believe, nor would I want to make anyone. I believe if ANY person sincerely read the Book of Mormon and prayed to our Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, for answers they would come to understand the gospel and know of the truthfulness of it.

Answer 8

I go to church because of persicution from both sides. My parrents are mormon so they force me to go sometimes. Sometimes they bribe me so I will go. Some things in the Mormon King James Bible are hard not to believe? And most of all because they still worship Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

Actually there are thousands of journal entries and news articles on the church history (by members and nonmembers) outside of just the founder's - unless you're into vast conspiracy theories, that's not something easily fabricated.

Answer 10

i dont have a vast knowledge CJ, but i think that they have as much right to believe that their "prophet" was exactly that, as you do to believe the opposite. And as i understand it, it is very very difficult to become mormon in that you are born into it - therefore of course the offspring will seek to continue what they believe to be true to please their parents - and to continue what they have been taught.
just my opinion and quite possibly wrong!
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