So in my brother’s last conversation on Mormon.org he was given a link to an article about prayer when he asked for some evidence on Mormonism from non-Mormon sources. I asked him to see this article so he forwarded the link. It’s a vastly wicked article so pray before you read it. http://lds.org/new-era/2003/08/recognizing-answers-to-prayer?lang=eng&query=answers+prayer
I feel one of the first things he mentions need to be addressed immediately, then I will move in to the thick of it.
“Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to Succeed gloriously."
What does he mean by succeed gloriously? From what I can gather here, he is talking about worldly success because he says “… did not put us on earth to fail, but to succeed gloriously”
Jesus tells us in Matthew’s gospel “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” 6:24 but more than that Jesus tell us about the difficulty it will be in following him in Matt 7:13-14 “"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide [is] the gate and broad [is] the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because [fn] narrow [is] the gate and difficult [is] the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” No where in this verse or any other gospels does Jesus say He came to give us success, but on the contrary Jesus promised those who follow Him, would be faced with difficulties, persecution and storms.
We are here because it is a part of God’s ultimate plan to reveal His glory, not our success. We were created for His good pleasure.
This whole Article is fraud; first the Mormon has given us Mormon resources about prayer when we asked for something outside of Mormonism. Second some of these ‘Book of Mormon’ quotes are direct copies of verses found in the Gospel. For example “According to your faith shall it be done unto you” from their book D&C 8:10-11, this is found word for word in the KJV of Matthew 9:29 where Jesus is speaking to a blind man who asked for sight, not someone who was praying about a book, or a prophet, the Context has been manipulated, and we know it has been manipulated because in the Book of Mormon we see 13 chapters copied word for word from the book of Isaiah into their book of 2 Nephi, this includes the added text from the KJV translators that was added in the 16th and 17th century, long after the Golden plates containing the Book or Mormon were supposedly written.
Just after the Author of this article misquotes the bible, he quotes Joseph Smith. This holds a lot of weight to Mormons, but like I mentioned earlier, our request was for outside sources. Since we did not get outside sources we are left to examine this, being Joseph Smith and his false prophecy. What do I mean by false prophecy? To Start let us examine Doctrine’s and Covenants(D&C) 84:1-5 where Joseph Smith prophesied that the New Jerusalem and Temple would be built in Zion, Missouri during his generation… needless to say this didn’t happen, and according to Deuteronomy 18:20-22 “'But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.” Well one thing this page has helped us confirm is that Joseph Smith is a False Prophet, not from God. And if we apply what we know we can come to the conclusion that the Book or Mormon is false because:
1. We know that Joseph Smith is a false prophet
2. The Book of Mormon was revealed to/ through Joseph Smith
3. The book of Mormon cannot be trusted because :
a. We cannot rely on our heart because “thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord… Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord…The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:5-9
b. Joseph Smith, being a false prophet, has revealed a false doctrine.
c. The Book of Mormon is plagiarized from the kjv bible including translator added words that appear italicized
So this article neither gave us proof or prayer insight. How can I take the writings from this article and quoted scripture and asks in my heart if they are true when outside evidence has already proven that method to be bad, and internal Mormon evidence has shown Joseph smith to be a false prophet who wrote these false doctrines? Can I pray for truth to be revealed in something already proven false? No, I can’t do that, that’s illogical, 2+2=4 but I’ll pray in my heart it actually equals 5? That makes no sense, But that’s okay, because our Lord and Savior Jesus THE Christ has already given us an ultimate guide to prayer. “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Your Name. Your Kingdom Come. Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven, Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” Matthew 6:8-13
A Good example the Lord shows us in testing a teaching can be found in Acts 17:11 “These were more Fair-minded [or noble] than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so”
In this Paul and Silas are sharing the gospel with the Jews in Berea. We are told that the Jews prayed in their hearts for the book to be true… NO! they searched the scriptures, looking for proof of what they heard was true or not, and they are called NOBLE For doing so! Take everything to the word, testing all things with the True, everlasting word of God. Everything, that means what I or other Christian’s write too, see if there is truth in it.
Did you know that the Bible talks about what the Mormon Cult does? Check out Galatians 1:8-10 with me “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ”… So that must mean the Angel Moroni is indeed a fallen angel.
Next week I will write on how the Mormon’s please men with the polytheism of Mormonism… that’s right, polytheism.
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