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So Close!. ...And Yet So Far?. Part 5: "Nice Commercials! What Are You Selling?". “A friendly study of all the world’s religious scriptures is the sacred duty of every person.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi. About The Founder…. "God placed Joseph Smith at the head of this church...."

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  1. So Close! ...And Yet So Far? Part 5: "Nice Commercials! What Are You Selling?"

  2. “A friendly study of all the world’s religious scriptures is the sacred duty of every person.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi

  3. About The Founder…

  4. "God placed Joseph Smith at the head of this church...." ~ LDS "Apostle" Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 375. 

  5. “Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.” ~ Ephesians 5:23 (Also 4:15)

  6. About Discerning Truth…

  7. "But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right." ~ LDS Doctrine and Covenants 9:8.

  8. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"   ~ Jeremiah 17:9

  9. About God…

  10. "We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea. ...God himself the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did...." ~ Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3, 1844.

  11. "Before the mountains were born Or you gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” ~ Psalm 90:2

  12. "GOD HIMSELF was once as we are now, and IS AN EXALTED MAN, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret." • ~ Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3, 1844.

  13. "What is God? He is a material organized intelligence, possessing both body and parts. He is in the form of a man, and is, in fact, of the same species.... this being cannot occupy two distinct places at once, therefore He cannot be everywhere present." ~ Joseph Smith, Jr., The Millennial Star, vol. vi,

  14. “’Am I only a God nearby’, declared the LORD, ‘and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?’ declares the LORD. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’” ~ Jeremiah 23:23-24 (NIVi)

  15. "We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by a still more ancient Father, and so on from generation to generation, from one heavenly world to another still more ancient...." • ~ Orson Pratt, The Seer, page 132, 1853.

  16. “I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.” ~ Isaiah 43:10

  17. About Humanity…

  18. “As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be.” ~ Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the LDS Church

  19. “If the Word became a man, • It was so men may become gods.” • ~ Lorenzo Snow

  20. "THE ONLY MEN WHO BECOME GODS, even the sons of God, ARE THOSE WHO ENTER INTO POLYGAMY. ... I heard the revelation on polygamy, and I believe it with all my heart, and I know it is from God...." ~ Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol 11, p. 269, Aug. 19, 1866. 

  21. “Each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.” ~ 1 Corinthians 7:2

  22. About God’s Truth…

  23. "And WHATSOEVER they [Mormonism's leaders] shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost SHALL BE SCRIPTURE, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, SHALL BE THE WORD OF THE LORD, SHALL BE THE VOICE OF THE LORD, and the power of God unto salvation." ~ LDS Doctrine & Covenants 68:4

  24. “Do not go beyond what is written.” ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6

  25. The Challenge…

  26. "Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test." ~ Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 16, p. 46, 1873. 

  27. “Challenge Accepted.” • ~ Bruxy Cavey

  28. “The kingdom of God is within you.” ~ Luke 17:21 (NIV)

  29. Complimentary BeliefsContradictory Beliefs “A” is true. “A” is true. “B” is true. “Not A” is true.

  30. Belief Truth

  31. “And it came to pass that after he had smitten off the head of Shiz, that Shiz raised up on his hands and fell; and after that he had struggled for breath, he died.” ~ Book of Mormon, Ether 15:31

  32. “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.” ~ 1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)

  33. “Thou fool, that shall say: a Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible.” ~ Book of Mormon, (2 Nephi 29:6)

  34. “Do not go beyond what is written.” ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 (NIV)

  35. "As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work - which is by faith." ~ 1 Timothy 1:3-4 (NIV)

  36. "But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right." ~ LDS Doctrine and Covenants 9:8,

  37. “Those who overcome I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it.” ~ Revelation 3:12 (NIVi)

  38. “Full salvation is attained by virtue of knowledge, truth, righteousness, and all true principles. Many conditions must exist in order to make such salvation available to men. Without continuous revelation, the ministering of angels, the working of miracles, the prevalence of gifts of the spirit, there would be no salvation. There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” ~ Mormon Doctrine, 670

  39. “For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and people. He is the man Christ Jesus.” ~ 1 Timothy 2:5 (NLT)

  40. “He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” ~ Titus 3:5 (NIV)

  41. “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” ~ Romans 10:9 (NASB)

  42. "Then they asked him, `What must we do to do the works God requires?' Jesus answered, `The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.'" ~ John 6:28-29 (NIV)

  43. “This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.” ~ 1 John 3:23 (NASB)

  44. “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working [or made effective] through love.” ~ Galatians 5:6 (NRSV)

  45. “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as children by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.” ~ Romans 8:15-16 (NASBi)

  46. So Close! ...And Yet So Far? Part 5: "Nice Commercials! What Are You Selling?"

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