And he said unto me, Behold, the virgin which thou seest, is the mother of God, after the manner of the flesh.(1 Nephi 11:18) Joe Smith makes the same mistake that the Catholics do in declaring Mary is the mother of God. Mary is not the mother of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Modern Mormon scribes have rewritten the verse to read "mother of the Son of God".
And the angel said unto me, behold the Lamb of God, yea, even the Eternal Father!(1 Nephi 11:21) Again, Joe Smith shows his ignorance of who God is. He is saying that the Son is the Father. Again, modern Mormon scribes came to Joe's rescue and changed the verse to read "Son of the Eternal Father".
Do you trust Joe??
2007-05-01 10:23:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, I do not trust him. I do not believe that he wrote the Book of Mormon under Holy Spirit. He was not inspired of God.
2007-05-01 10:41:59 · answer #1 · answered by mrs sexy pants 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For clarification, The son, The father, and the Holy Spirit are one and the same. Merely different aspects of the same being.
For example you are the child of you parents, a sibling to your brothers/sisters and either now or in the future a parent to your children. Does this make you three completely separate individuals? No. It means that you have three different aspects of your single identity.
The same with God. He is the Son (Jesus was the mortal form God took when he descended Heaven and came down to earth). He is the Father (for God only allowed a small part of himself to take mortal form) and he is the Holy Spirit.
I don't know about mormons, but in the Catholic community it is blasphemy to alter any of the original words written in the first bible. All copies of the bible and all reprints must be written exactly was it was written the first time.
So if you are reading an altered manuscript. . . .How can you trust what you are reading????
2007-05-01 17:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by AthenaGenesis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Seek knowledge.
Catholic belief is that all of us, Mary included, need a Redeemer because of our fallen nature and that no one can attain Heaven without His Blood. We are saved from our fallen nature by His grace alone through faith that worketh in charity. Mary, though, because God knew how she would use the free will He gave to her, was saved, by His grace, from having a fallen nature at the moment of her conception. She was redeemed from her mother's womb, an act planned from Genesis 3 so that she could act as the New Eve and so that Christ could be born of vessel even more pure than the Ark of the Covenant. Christ would not have been born from that which is impure! God knew of Mary's will to serve even before she was conceived. He knew she would say yes to Him, and He saved her at her first moment.
Three things in the Bible lead some Protestants to believe that Mary was not ever-virgin: the reference to Jesus' "brothers", the use of the word "until" in Matthew 1:25, and the reference to Jesus as Mary's "firstborn."
Jesus could well have had step-brothers, as Church Tradition and early Church writings tell us that Joseph was an older man when Mary, a consecrated virgin, was betrothed to him so that he could act as her protector when she got to be of age enough to "defile the Temple" (though she could not, in fact defile the Temple). Please read the Protoevangelium of St. James, dated to ca A.D. 125, which, in chapter 9, clearly states that St. Joseph had other children from a former marriage. Though this document was rejected by the Church as being a part of infallible Scripture, it is very early evidence of the belief, held as possisble from the beginning of the Church, that Jesus had "brothers" because his earthly father, Joseph, had children when he married Mary, a consecrated virgin. Also see the apocryphal document, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, yet another early source which proves that many of the earliest Christians believed in Mary's consecrated virginity, that Joseph was an aged man when he married her, and that she was kept free from sin.
Yet another poser: why, in the name of all that's Holy, would Jesus give Mary to John to care for if He had all these brothers and sisters around? John 19:26-27 reads, "When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, He saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith He to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home."
Some Protestants say that the use of the word "firstborn" indicates that Mary had other children, but they are simply being ignorant of Jewish law, Pidyon ha-Ben in particular. Pidyon ha-Ben is the "Redemption of the Firstborn," who were to have been consecrated to God and serve as priests and Temple workers. The "firstborn" is the male child that "opens the womb". If the child that "opens the womb" is a female child, there is no "firstborn" for the family because the child that "opened the womb" is not a masculine child. If no more children are born after the firstborn, the firstborn still has the status and title of "firstborn."
Mary remained both sinless and a virgin her entire life.
2007-05-02 15:31:56 · answer #3 · answered by Isabella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Book of Mormon is a pretentious mess of drivel, unworthy of serious consideration by anybody with the intelligence of a gnat. It makes numerous references to events related in the old testament which are now known to be fictitious.
2007-05-01 17:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why bother looking at it in the first place?
Just read the story of how Mr Smith wrote it in the first place. (Twice!)
Or the facts around the book of Abraham.
This guy was the L Ron Hubbard of his day.
2007-05-01 17:33:06 · answer #5 · answered by Simon T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where's the mistake? Or are you saying that Jesus isn't God? If so, then your problem is with all of Christianity, not just Mormons.
2007-05-02 09:47:18 · answer #6 · answered by Faeldaz M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right, Mary cannot be the mother of God. God cannot have a mother! Which proves that Jesus is not God.
But, this is for "fireball." Jesus instructed his disciples to go from house to house...
2007-05-01 17:34:34 · answer #7 · answered by aseptic technique 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ever hear of the Mountain Meadows Massacre??? Look it up and you will see what Mormons are really like...NO Never trust JOE.
2007-05-01 17:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
An error in the book of Mormon. That's like saying George Bush is a little stupid.
2007-05-01 17:27:30 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Meat 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I feel sorry for those who trust Joe!
2007-05-01 17:31:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋