Normally our seminary receives the latest editions of New Horizons magazine before the articles are posted online, but this month is different. And to my surprise the theme for the June 2010 issue is Mormonism.
Here are two articles that appear online:
“Mormonism and the Gospel”, by Jody O. Morris
“The Book of Mormon: Fact or Fiction”, by Norman De Jong
Click here to read.
The following was first published around 1990 in tract form. An Examination of Common LDS Beliefs About the Bible “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.” So says the 8th Article of Faith of the Church of Jesus
No matter how hard you try to cross your t’s and dot your i’s, if someone wants to muddy the waters, they can find a way to do it. And so it is yet again. Below you will find all the correspondence that went back and forth between myself and Dr. Hamblin since he contacted me on March 17th as
It is funny how things work here. One of the assignments in my current GGBTS class is to write a review of two debates shown in class. After interviewing the students as to where their ministries are and where they think they will be going in the future, I decided a debate on Mormonism, and a debate on Islam, would
The Council of the Gods At this point Smith goes into a fascinating discussion of Genesis 1:1 and how this passage supports his theology, but we move past this to remain focused upon ascertaining the what of his theology more than the how at this point. Oh, ye lawyers, ye doctors, and ye priests, who have persecuted me, I want
Student Manual The LDS Church also offers various courses in religion and doctrine, and publishes manuals to go along with these courses. One such manual, Doctrines of the Gospel, is meant for the Religion 231 and 232 classes. Early on (Chapter 3) it addresses the nature of God from the LDS viewpoint. We should no longer be surprised that as
Are you an Aaronic priest? Possibly you are a Latter- day Saint who believes the priesthood was restored by Joseph Smith in 1829 and that you have been ordained as an Aaronic priest. Possibly you believe that Hebrews 5:4 applies to you: “And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.”
The absence of the concept of a plurality of gods from the earlier accounts of the First Vision leads us to an important point in our examination of LDS doctrinal material: Joseph Smith’s development of what is today orthodox LDS belief concerning God. We are again faced with a factor that complicates our task, in that it is almost self-evident
Mormonism is not Christianity. It is fundamentally different. While it differs in hundreds of minor details, what is most important to us is that it differs in the most definitional and fundamentalaspects from the Christian faith. Christianity worships one God. Christianity knows that there is one God who has eternally been God and is the Creator of all things exhaustively.
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