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Is Mormonism Christian? Unmasking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Is Mormonism Christian? Unmasking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Dr . Tal Davis Email : josephtaldavis @ gmail.com MarketFaith Ministries www.marketfaith.org. LDS World Church Statistics. Total Membership (2012) 14,782,473 Converts Baptized (2012) 2 72,330.

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Is Mormonism Christian? Unmasking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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  1. Is Mormonism Christian? Unmasking the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints Dr. Tal Davis Email: josephtaldavis@ gmail.com MarketFaith Ministries www.marketfaith.org

  2. LDS World Church Statistics • Total Membership (2012) 14,782,473 • Converts Baptized (2012) 272,330

  3. LDS World Church Statistics • Congregations: (2012) 29,014

  4. LDS World Church Statistics • Full-time Missionaries (2012): 58,990 Missions: 347

  5. LDS World Church Statistics Temples (2012): 141

  6. Church Statistics (2012) United States: Members: 6,321,416 Congregations: 13,742Temples: 68 Missions: 103

  7. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  8. Joseph Smith, Jr. Born December 23, 1805 Grew Up In Palmyra, NY

  9. Joseph sought wisdom as to which church to join

  10. Joseph Smith’s “First Vision”- Fall 1820

  11. Claims Heavenly Father and Jesus appeared to him

  12. 1823- Sept. 21- Joseph’s “Second Vision” of Angel Moroni

  13. 1823-Sept 23- Joseph shown Golden Plates at Hill Cumorah 1827- Sept. 22- Smith obtained plates & began translation of The Book of Mormon

  14. June 1829- Book of Mormon translation completed • March 1830-First edition published in Palmyra NY

  15. 1830- April 6- “Church of Christ” restored with six members in Fayette NY

  16. 1831- Mormons migrated to Kirtland, Ohio & Independence, Missouri 1838-“Mormon War” in Missouri

  17. 1840- Mormons move to Nauvoo, Illinois

  18. June 27- Joseph Smith assassinated in Carthage, Ill.

  19. 1846-47- • Brigham Young leads westward trek to Utah • Founded settlement in Salt Lake City, Utah

  20. Sept. 1890- Pres. Wilford Woodruff proclaimed “Manifesto” suspending Plural Marriage • 1978- Pres. Spencer W. Kimball announced revelation allowing black males to receive LDS priesthoods

  21. Understanding Mormon Authority and Scripture

  22. The Four Standard Works • King James Bible • “As far as it is translated correctly”

  23. The Book Of Mormon • Claims to be “Another Testament of Jesus Christ” • Smith claimed to translate from golden plates in “Reformed Egyptian”

  24. Book of Mormon Timeline 600BC – AD400

  25. Jesus Appears in the New World

  26. Two Additional Mormon Scriptures • The Doctrine and Covenants • The Pearl of Great Price

  27. President Thomas S. Monson • Living Prophet, Seer, and Revelator.

  28. Beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  29. LDS Beliefs About God • An exalted man of flesh and bone • Has a physical body • Has a wife (or wives) • Heavenly Father did not create world from nothing but organized earth out of pre-existent matter

  30. There Are Countless Other Gods In The Universe • Our Heavenly Father Has A Father, Grandfather, etc.

  31. LDS Beliefs about God • Men may become gods • Men are “Gods in embryo” • Women May Become wives Of Gods

  32. Beliefs about the Holy Ghost “The Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.” [Doctrine and Covenants 130:22]

  33. LDS Beliefs about Jesus • “Jehovah” in the Pre-mortal Estate • The “Firstborn Son of God” • “Only-begotten” in the flesh

  34. The Mormon Plan of SalvationUnconditional or “General” Redemption • Jesus “Atoned” for Adam’s “Necessary Fall” in Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross • Jesus raised from the dead to restore immortality lost in the fall for all humanity

  35. The Mormon Plan of SalvationConditional or “Individual” Redemption

  36. Steps to Exaltation • 1. Faith

  37. 2. Repentance

  38. 3. Baptism By Immersion in the LDS Church by Aaronic Priesthood

  39. 4. Laying On Of Hands by a Member of the Melchizedek Priesthood in Order to Receive the Holy Ghost

  40. 5. Ordination as a Aaronic Priest and Melchizedek Priest (Men only)

  41. 6. Receiving the Temple Endowments (Men & Women)

  42. 7. Celestial (Temple) Marriage for Time and Eternity

  43. 8. Temple Works (Baptism and ordinances for the dead)

  44. 9. Observing the “Word of Wisdom”

  45. 10. Sustain The Prophet

  46. 11. Tithing

  47. 12. Weekly Sacrament Meetings

  48. 13. Obedience

  49. Life After Death • Paradise for baptized Mormons • Spirit Prison for all others where missionaries preach Mormon gospel

  50. Three Kingdoms Of Glory 1. Celestial Kingdom (Worthy Mormons) 2. Terrestrial Kingdom (Honorable people) 3. Telestial Kingdom (The ungodly, wicked, and filthy) Perdition (Hell) (For Satan, his angels and apostates)

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