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SALVATION
Mormonism declares that salvation is of works, their 3rd Article of Faith states,
We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
Salvation is on different tiers depending on how many works you have accomplished at the Temple. For instance, the Bible shows that salvation is by grace alone and that the works we do after being saved are those that God has prepared for us. - Ephesians 2:8-10.

FULLNESS

Mormons show in the first paragraph of the Introduction to the Book of Mormon that the Bible contains "the fullness of the everlasting gospel." They then go on to title the Book of Mormon as "another Testament of Jesus Christ." As the Bible contains the fullness and is everlasting, anything added must be false. The Book of Mormon must therefore be 'another' in the sense of different to and not as well as.

JERUSALEM OR BETHLEHEM?
The Book of Mormon declares that Jesus was born at Jerusalem, which is explained as being an area not the town. The Bible gives great prophetic significance to Bethlehem being where King David came from and being the 'House of Bread.' Micah also prophesied that Jesus would be born here 700 years before the event took place. God could not make a mistake about the birthplace of His Son.

EARLY MORMONS
Early Mormons did not want to call themselves Christians. They were delighted to be different to Christianity and all the churches, which they thought were apostate. - Journal of Discourses, Vol.6, p.167. [These words were spoken by John Taylor, 3rd President of the Church].

GOD ONCE A MAN
Mormons teach that God was once a man.

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! ... I am going to tell you how God became to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, that you may see."


- Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp.344/5 compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith.
Their belief in one God who was once a man and not a Trinity is not only denied by the Bible but also by their own Book of Mormon as can be seen by the following texts amongst others.

Moroni 8:18 - For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to eternity.
2 Nephi 26:12 - ... Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God. He is not then just one of his many sons.
Mormon 9:9 - For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and in him there is no variableness nei-ther shadow of changing.
They also go on to teach that men can become gods, another teaching that is at odds with the Bible.
"Here the eternal life… and you have to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you."


- Journal of Discourses, Joseph Smith, 1844, Vol.6, p.4.

BAPTISE THE DEAD
Mormons baptise for the dead which is a practice carried on by the pagans in Corinth. This was never part of Christian salvation.

BOOK OF ABRAHAM
The Book of Abraham is one of the Scriptures of the Mormon Church. Joseph Smith claimed that he translated it from the Lord and Mormons accept it as from God. Historical sources within and without the Church that have examined the original Egyptian document have shown it was a fake and does not contain 'Scripture' at all. If this one part of the Scriptures of Mormonism is unreliable how much more?
More details on this issue and all other matters concerning cults, occult and new age spirituality are available at the Reachout Trust website http://www.reachoutturst.org




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