Joseph Smith's First Vision at Age 14
Joseph Smith had his first vision at age 14. Allegedly, celestial
persons appeared to him: "My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to
know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No
sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak,
than I asked the personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the
sects was right — and which I should join. I was answered that I must join none
of them, for they were all wrong, and the personage who addressed me said that
all their creeds were an abomination in His sight: that those professors were
all corrupt . . ." (Joseph Smith, History
of the Church, vol. 1, p. 5-6).
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Mormon founder Joseph Smith's
predatory sex life detailed by Mormon historian Sandra Tanner.
Ms. Tanner is a great, great
granddaughter of Brigham Young.
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Joseph Smith boasted that he did more than Jesus to keep a church
together.
"God
is in the still small voice. In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of
the devil--all corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All
hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out
on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the
only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days
of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John,
Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I.
The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran
away from me . . . " (History
of the Church, vol. 6, p. 408-409). Click here to see this quote in
context.
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Joseph Smith made a false prophecy (one of several).
".
. . I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States
redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and
punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government
will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a
potsherd left . . . " (History
of the Church, vol. 5, p. 394). Click here to see this quote in
context.
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Joseph Smith said there are many gods.
"In
the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came
together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it…" (Journal of Discourses,
vol. 6, p. 5).
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Joseph Smith said the Trinity is three gods.
"I
have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate
and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct
personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages
and three Gods," (Teachings
of Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 370).
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Joseph Smith said 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 say, if you were to see him to-day, you would see him like
a man in form -- like yourselves, in all the person, image, and very form as a
man.... it is necessary that we should understand the character and being of
God, and how he came to be so; for 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, and will take away and do away the veil, so that you may
see.... and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself the Father of
us all, dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did." (Journal of Discourses,
v 6 p.3).
The above quotations
are also available in Español
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The Mormon’s – A PBS
Frontline Documentary:
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Video Series Comparing Jesus
Christ and Christianity with Joseph Smith and Mormonism
A Baptist point of view. If
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