Ex-Mormons For Jesus

05/29/2026

“…it was much more fruitful for people to treat me like a disciple rather than trying to evangelize me and tell me how wrong I was. When I felt like I was an outsider it was a battle. When I felt welcomed it was a conversation…”

Carey shares her faith in the Lord Jesus with such grace and thoughtfulness.

Carey Griffel has a Masters of Biblical Studies with Redemption Seminary and is passionate about teaching about the Bible from a biblical theology perspective with a healthy dose of creative thinking thrown in to the mix.

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05/27/2026

The Caldwell Temple will be a big one, built on a 19.2-acre site at the southwest corner of W. Orchard Ave. and S. Florida Ave. in Canyon County, Idaho. Plans call for an 82,000-square-foot, multistory temple, including a meetinghouse and an accompanying ancillary building.

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05/21/2026

05/13/2026

The Second Anointing for Dummies!

Credit to Kurt Armann! ♥️

04/22/2026

Cary's Column
Guilty as Charged

If anyone would like a straightforward and succinct reason why Mormonism is considered to be heretical in God's eyes -- what we would call a non-Christian "cult" -- this is for you. And it is not just one reason that Mormonism is classified as a cult -- it is at least five distinct reasons. Like a criminal charged with five separate crimes, each separate crime sufficient to condemn him, our LDS friends have latched onto a religion that is heretical according to the Bible for each of these five reasons:

First, Mormonism is a cult because it professes that a plurality of Gods exists. This belief is drawn from the framework of their belief of an "Eternal Progression" of gods begetting gods throughout eternity. In their respected LDS textbook, Mormon Doctrine, under the heading, "Plurality of Gods," the claim is made:
"...there is an infinite number of holy personages, drawn from worlds without number, who have passed onto exaltation and are thus gods."
The biblical response to this is very straightforward, as God Himself proclaimed, "I am the First and I am the Last: Besides Me there is no God... For I am God, and there is no other, I am God, and there is none like Me" (Isaiah 44:6, 46:8-9).
No church can be God's "true church" while professing that other Gods exist. For this reason alone, Mormonism is guilty as charged.

The second reason that Mormonism is a cult is that it professes that God was a man who earned godhood. As their founder "prophet" Joseph Smith exclaimed, "God was once as we are now, and is an exalted man... I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea... He was once a man like us" (History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 305.)
It is the Bible that Joseph Smith would have to refute. God is the self-existent, incomprehensible God Who has been God "from everlasting" (Psalm 90:2). literally from the days of eternity past. Joseph Smith made God out to be a subordinate and progressive being, part of their "Eternal Progression" from which our God supposedly came to be.
The doctrine of God is the foundation of any religious system. If a doctrine of God is corrupt, the whole system collapses. The Mormon church is guilty as charged -- big time -- from that point alone.

Third, Mormonism is a cult because it professes that men can become gods. As one of their past prophets, Lorenzo Snow, in 1840, has so boldly proclaimed, "As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be."
However, God has made it clear, "Before Me, there was no god formed, neither shall there be after Me" (Isaiah 43:10).
The same crime that got Lucifer cast out of heaven - "I will be like the Most High" (Isaiah 14:14) - is the same crime that the LDS Church is guilty of advocating to its parishioners. Guilty as charged.

The fourth reason Mormonism is a cult is that it teaches a false identity of Jesus Christ. They hold to a belief that Jesus was a literal offspring of God the Father, "the first Spirit-Child born to God the Father in the pre-existence."
The Jesus of the Bible, on the other hand, was co-existent with the Father "from everlasting," literally "from eternity past" (Micah 5:2).
It is not this writer who claims Mormonism guilty as charged for such false teaching; it is the Bible that does so. "For if he who comes preaches another Jesus ...such are false apostles" (2 Corinthians 11:4,13).

Finally, the fifth reason that Mormonism is a non Christian cult is that it preaches a different gospel. The LDS Third Article of Faith states that people are "saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel." However, the true biblical gospel is not a set of laws and ordinances. In fact, it has nothing to do with what we do except to receive Christ as our Lord and Saviour. The true biblical Gospel is what Christ did. The Bible actually defines the Gospel that "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day..." (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

Why does this make Mormonism a cult? Because the Bible is very straightforward about such a heresy. Anyone preaching a "different gospel" than the biblical Gospel that Paul preached is guilty as charged and sentenced to be under God's divine curse (Galatians 2:6-9).

Please see my past articles, "The Gospel Lost," "What's Wrong With This Picture," "Believing in His Name," and "Fathom God," for my in-depth writing on the above heresies.

From the Ex-Mormons for Jesus newsletter, March/April 2026

04/22/2026

From Char's Desk ☎️

This month I would like to share with our readers some of the incoming calls and notes we received since the beginning of this year:

Please accept my modest donation and thank you for your newsletter. Do keep up this great work. R. A.

Thank you for all you do in this ministry. It was a pleasure talking with you. (She has a daughter that just became a Mormon). A.W.

Hello and happy February to you! In times like these, it is so wonderful to know you are there in Orange. Thank you for all you do to reach others for Christ, our Redeemer. Many blessings. S.T.

Happy 2026! Enclosed is our January gift! God bless you and EMFJ in 2026.What a wonderful ministry! Because He lives! Luv ya, J & T

Hello to all. So many blessings are being sent your way. We are so thankful for your ministry and what you do for others. May God continue to bless and keep you. S.

Thank you so much for sending me your book. And thankyou for your prayers for my daughter. You are doing an amazing thing -- sharing the truth with Mormons. I am praying for you and Ex-Mormons for Jesus - Love and Miss you - hope all is well. The ex-Mormon wanted your book but she can't seem to read it as she says Mormons are evil. A friend of mine here (also) asked to read it and her daughter, who is a missionary, is reading it. May the Lord bless and keep you. J.M.

Thank you for sending your newsletter. I am always inspired by what is said in them. I continue to spread the word about your ministry and what you are doing. God' s blessings. S.T.

A former Momron man called the Center. He is married to a strong Mormon woman. They have 2 daughters, both raised Mormon. I shared many things with him and then asked him if he could bring his wife into the center. He doesn't think she would come but you never know. R.

From the Ex-Mormons for Jesus newsletter, March/April 2026

04/15/2026

"Now the false teachings of Christianity state that God is the Creator of all of us, not only of the physical body but also the spiritual intelligence body that occupies our body now. They say further that we had no existence as individuals until God called us into being. But Bonnie, this is false."
– Alvin R. Dyer, "The Challenge" (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1962), 143

Correction: Alvin R. Dyer was ordained an apostle in 1967 and later called as a counselor to President David O. McKay in the First Presidency, though he was never a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.