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	Mormonism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mormon theology teaches that god used to be a man on another planet, that he became a god by following the laws and ordinances of that god on that world, and that he brought one of his wives to this world with whom he produces spirit children who then inhabit human bodies at birth.
		Mormonism teaches that the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross itself (and receiving it by faith) is not sufficient to bring forgiveness of sins.
		The 8th article of faith from the Mormon Church states, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly." The interesting thing is that Joseph Smith allegedly corrected the Bible in what is called The Inspired Version, though it is not used by the LDS church.
	freegift77.com /mormonis.htm (2285 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mormonism
		Mormonism's first foreign mission was opened in the summer of 1837, when Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde, two of the "twelve apostles of the Church", were sent with other elders to England for that purpose.
		It is of importance to bear in mind that the opposition to the Mormons in the localities where they settled is, from the contradictory and divergent statements made by the Latter-Day Saints and the neighbours not of their belief, difficult of explanation.
		The violation by the Mormons of the monogamous law of Christianity and of the United States was brought to the attention of Congress, which prohibited under penalty of fine and imprisonment the perpetuation of the anti-Christian practice, refusing, however, to make the prohibition retroactive.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10570c.htm (3981 words)

	Mormonism Research Ministry - Welcome
		Mormons are gushing over comments made by the president of Fuller Seminary on November 14th in the Mormon Tabernacle.
		Seventy calls such a notion a "misconception." More...
		A careful study of the teachings that separate Mormonism from Christianity.
	www.mrm.org (374 words)

	Distinctive Beliefs of the Mormon Church
		Mormons try to attract new members by projecting an image of wholesome family life in their circles.
		Mormons maintain that the need for divine guidance is as great or greater in our modern, complex world as it was in the comparatively simple times of the Hebrews." Thus, revelation continues.
		Indeed, the faithful Mormon wife of a lukewarm Mormon man will leave him behind in an inferior place while she goes on and is sealed to a more devout Mormon gentleman.
	www.catholic.com /library/Distinctive_Beliefs_of_Mormon.asp (1905 words)

	Mormonism, Mormon, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
		Mormons are expected to participate in what is known as "temple work." This involves proxy baptism for deceased ancestors and "celestial marriage." Mormons believe that in addition to temporal marriages church members may be sealed to their families "for time and eternity" through a process known as celestial marriage.
		The rigor with which younger Mormon scholars have addressed the study of their own history in these journals is clear indication of the power of Mormonism to survive sustained criticism.
		The concluding portion, from Mormon, chapter 8, to the end of the volume, was engraved by Mormon's son Moroni, who, after finishing the record of his father's life, made an abridgment of the Jaredite record (as the Book of Ether) and later added the parts known as the Book of Moroni.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/mormon.htm (8537 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Residual Racism in Modern Mormonism
		Both Mormons and critics of Mormonism were surprised to read in the May 18, 1998 Los Angeles Times that Mormon Church leaders were seriously considering public repudiation of long standing Mormon doctrine on the spiritual inferiority of fls of African descent.
		Mormon leaders, however, claim direct, ongoing, day-by-day revelation to their prophets and apostles for the teaching and guidance of their church.
		Mormons today, if they acknowledge the doctrine was ever taught, like to dismiss it as a quirky opinion of Brigham Young, and not the doctrine of the Church.
	www.watchman.org /lds/residualracism.htm (2396 words)

	Reviews for The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
		A gathering of the Mormon Church's hierarchy in the early 1930s could have been mistaken for a family reunion, with 72 percent of them related through blood or marriage.
		Mormons believe it is their responsibility to save their dead ancestors, as well as themselves.
		But Quinn, a former Mormon, said that despite the theological underpinnings, kinship is not the primary criterion when a church president, revered by members as a prophet, makes the final call.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/hier2.htm (4629 words)

	Chapter 1 - History of Mormonism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The conference accepted this commendation as from the lips of tile Lord, whereupon the Prophet stated that the Lord had shown him that I should be ordained a Bishop, the Presiding Bishop stated that he had seen me in a blaze of glory acting as Bishop of the church.
		Joseph and others claim that when he had finished the translation he gave the plates and the Urim and Thummin to the angel who kindly called for them, but this story is contradicted by himself when he claimed to have them in 1835 to translate the Book of Abraham with, see his mother's history, p.
		His work is entitled "Two Thousand Changes in the Book of Mormon." The reader will notice his name "Lamoni," and the name of the city he resides in "Bountiful," are both names taken from the Book of Mormon, so this scholar ought to know what he is writing about.
	www.biblebelievers.net /Cults/Mormonism/FortyYears/kjcfor01.htm (6431 words)

	Mormonism
		Mormonism From the very beginning, mormonism has been administered from the President on down.
		Mormonism was created by Joseph Smith at the age of 23.
		During his reign as president of the Mormon church from 1847 until his death in 1877, Young exercised this authority to be sealed to seventy wives (although he cohabited with only about twenty seven) and realized vast amounts of property and wealth in Utah.
	mormonconspiracy.com /mormonism.html (530 words)

	Mormon News for WE 08Aug99: Elder Banks called to Presidency o (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In an article published in the LDS Church News, the First Presidency announced that Elder Ben B. Banks has been called to serve in the Presidency of the Seventy, succeeding Elder Joe J. Christensen.
		He was president of Ricks College when he was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1989.
		The other presidents of the Seventy are Elders L. Aldin Porter, Harold G. Hillam, Earl C. Tingey, D. Todd Christofferson, Marlin K. Jensen and David E. Sorensen.
	www.mormonstoday.com /990808/C1Banks01.shtml (196 words)

	Changing World Chapter 16
		The Mormon leaders claim that those who hold the priesthood in the Mormon church are the only ones who have the authority to administer the ordinances of the gospel.
		The Mormon church claims that on May 15, 1829, John the Baptist conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.
		Since the introduction to this revelation states that it was given in 1830, Mormon writers use it in their attempt to prove the restoration of the priesthood.
	www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/changech16.htm (2663 words)

	Excerpt: The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power (20th century)
		In Mormon terms the LDS church is not "a commercial rather than a religious institution," but the LDS church is commercial because it is religious.
		That had to be an impressive record for the Mormon wage-earners in the stakes that year, for the lowest rate of tithe paying during that quarter-century was 20 percent of total stake population in 1915.
		Fifth, duplication of all the social and cultural structures of the outside world so that Mormon culture was outwardly similar to mainstream society, at the same time the internal dynamics of Mormon culture were alien to the larger society it mimicked.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/hier2.htm (11340 words)

	Jerry Stokes Glossary of Mormon Terms
		Modern Mormons are using DNA to enhance their research but are saying this same science should not be trusted as it applies to the Book of Mormon.
		Mormonism, Mormons* Unofficial terms for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members; members prefer to use the official name of the Church and to be referred to as Latter-day Saints.
		“The Seventy are also called to preach the gospel, and to be especial witnesses unto the Gentiles and in all the world—thus differing from other officers in the church in the duties of their calling.
	churches.net /churches/utmiss/Glossary/Glossary.html (12471 words)

	Summit Ministries: Resources: Essays
		But given the fact that many today deny that the Mormon church is truly a Christian church (but rather classify it as a pseudo-Christian religion), several well-educated Mormons have taken it upon themselves to defend this claim.
		Mormon doctrine asserts that all human beings have always existed as raw intelligences prior to their existence as the spirit offspring of God.
		Mormon doctrine leads to a denial of the virgin conception[10] of Christ.
	www.summit.org /resource/essay/show_essay.php?essay_id=123 (3473 words)

	Five questions challenging the Book of Mormon
		Brigham H. Roberts is revered in Mormon history as one of the Mormon Church's greatest theologians and historians.
		Roberts was a General Authority, member of the Mormon Church's First Council of the Seventy, a group which is second only to the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
		Millions of Mormons base their faith in Mormonism upon this book which is no more than the invention of Joseph Smith.
	www.bibletopics.com /biblestudy/138.htm (1527 words)

	Ellen E. Dickinson's 1885 New Light on Mormonism, Part 1)
		She is an Eastern lady, whose interest in the subject of Mormonism grows out of her belief that a purely imaginative romance written by her mother's uncle, the Rev. Solomon Spaulding, was the foundation of the famous Book of Mormon, and so was the real source of the Mormon Church.
		When after the downfall of Mormonism its final history comes to be written, the subject will prove one of the most dramatic and picturesque that have ever engaged the pen.
		Her leading purpose seems to be to show that the Book of Mormon had its literary origin in an historical romance written by Solomon Spaulding, but never published by him, and never intended to serve the purpose to which it has been perverted.
	www.solomonspalding.com /docs2/1885DicB.htm (8275 words)

	A Comparison of the LDS Articles of Faith with the Bible
		According to Mormonism, it is only through apostolic succession that proper authority is given to LDS prophets and apostles.
		Luke 10:1 mentions the appointment of seventy (seventy-two in some Biblical manuscripts) disciples by Jesus to prepare the way for His ministry on His way to Jerusalem.
		According to the Mormon church the ‘prophecy' and ‘revelation' of the church President (currently Gordon B. Hinkley) is to be treated as holy writ, even if it conflicts with the ‘prophecy' and ‘revelation' of former church leaders.
	www.concernedchristians.org /nocomparison_dc4.php (783 words)

	Smith History Vault: Mather's 1880 Early Days (excerpts)
		By 1833 the few Mormons who had moved thither were so persecuted that they went into Clay county, and thence, in 1838, into Caldweil county, naming their settlement "Far West." The main body of the Mormons, however, remained in Kirtland from 1831 till they were forced to join their Western brethren in 1838.
		It is recorded in the Book of Mormon that after the prize was won and delivered to the Prophet by angles, his eyes were opened and he saw legions of devils contending against a celestial host to keep the golden Bible hid.
		The Mormon exodus from Harpersville was by the way of the old State road north of Binghamton to Ithaca, and from there they journeyed toward Palmyra by water on Cayuga Lake.
	www.olivercowdery.com /smithhome/1880Math.htm (17654 words)

	MORMON CENTRAL - JOSEPH SMITH - LDS TEMPLES - BOOK OF MORMON - MORMONISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Presently there are eight Quorums of the Seventy.
		Seventy - Members of the First and Second Quorums are General Authorities.
		Note: Those ordained to offices higher than a deacon can officiate in any of the duties of lower offices when called upon.
	www.xmission.com /~research/central/respri1.htm (275 words)

	mormonism.htm
		Tom Jones was singing "The Green Green Grass of Home" on my car radio as I swung into Idaho's maximum security prison parking lot.
		I was to testify on the Mormon doctrine of blood atonement.
		Wood had confessed to the grizzly murder of an eleven-year-old girl-who he had abducted while she collecting for her paper route.
	www.mazeministry.com /mormonism/mormonism.htm (318 words)

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