Gospel to Mormons Christian Ministry

02/16/2020

Let's talk priesthood! What role does the priesthood play in the restored Gospel and what do you know about how it was delivered to man, first Moses, then Jesus, then Joseph Smith? Discuss!

01/27/2020

It will be interesting to see how this goes. She might have a case if the church didn't have so much money. There is clearly a deliberate effort to hide many embarrassing issues but the church can now point to their little known gospel topics essays and say that they've addressed them.

SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – An arm of the Mormon church is asking a federal court in Utah to dismiss a complaint filed by a former church member who alleges she and other church members were misled by the church teachings regarding the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain...

07/16/2018

What is the relationship like between New Covenant peoples of God and the sabbath?

05/21/2018

LDS friends, what is the law of the Spirit of life and what is the law of sin and death in the following New Testament passage?

Romans 8:1-3
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

10/02/2017

A good friend of mine, who is LDS, wrote this as an explanation for eternal progression. I am not advocating the Book of Mormon as equal to the Bible by sharing this. His description was so thorough yet succinct. I hope you will all be blessed by considering it.

This entire framework for a Christ who:

1) is a contingent being who earned a Godhood, following the same pattern of his father who was also a contingent God,

2) assumes a role as an eternal subordinate of a suzerain chain of eternal grandfathers,

3) and wears a mantle of bestowing an exclusive power, the ultimate ends of which allows a special eternal elite to have spirit children in heaven and continue the patriarchal colonization of worlds for eternity, and

4) operates under a cosmic order of priesthood that assumes polygamy as a divine and necessary element of eternal patriarchy

Is NOT the God of the NT or the BOM. This is the product of the Mormon speculative tradition of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and others. It’s a product of hermetic mysticism, priestcraft and a willful misreading of scripture.

Whether or not you are familiar with the passionate campaign of Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff to marry their adaptations of Nauvoo-era esoteric priesthood to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, this stuff is utterly ridiculous. It assumes a God who’s passion is to bind you with punitive oaths and marry you to a punitive ritual and to a system of custodial management.

It IS NOT the passion of the Jesus that appears in the Canonical Gospels or the plain and precious record in 3rd Nephi.

It’s garbage. It’s the stuff that Moroni warns us about.

It’s the stuff that caused Joseph Smith to lament the failures of his leadership when he became introspective and remorseful in Nauvoo.

It’s the stuff that came of Masonic and Hermetic fetishes. Polygamy and polyandry disguised as salvific ordinances.

It is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ that we get in the BOM or the NT.

It cannot sustain or explain itself.

Adopt and accept it, follow it at the cost of the Gospel in 3rd Nephi 11, if you want a succinct standard to keep as a measuring stick.

07/16/2017

I remember reading a very sad article in the ensign a few years ago. It was written by Stephen Robinson. He was recounting a crisis of faith experienced by his wife. She was feeling the incredible weight of the journey toward exaltation and was near a breakdown. He was able to talk her down by reminding her of her testimony in the church. This did little to rescue the article from the depressing stigma to which it started in my estimation. This made me recall the notoriously high su***de rate in the state of Utah. I felt horrible for my LDS friends. I want you to know the Christy of Romans 8:1-3! Repent from your incomplete works my friends and come to the completed work of Christ at the foot of the cross and be saved from eternal damnation!

07/08/2017

LDS friends, have you ever read Colossians 2:20-23 and compared it to the Word of Wisdom? What have you come up with? Is it at odds with Mormon teachings?