Religion Series Mormons Part 2

Alright here we go part two. First thing that I would like to mention in this post is that everything in italics will be from the website www.mormon.org which is the main mormon website And everything that is in bold is from the institute for religious research at the website www.irr.org .

 So for part two what I have to share is basic beliefs of the mormons a little bit about what they have on the site about the book of mormon and some failed prophecies that were made.

So for the basic beliefs I will go straight to their website.

Basic Beliefs

God is our Heavenly Father. He loves us and wants us to return to him.

Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is out Saviour. He redeems us from death by providing the Resurrection. He saves us from sin as we repent.

Through the atonement of Jesus Christ, we can return to live with God if we keep His commandments.

The first principles and ordinances of the gospel are faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. I would like to mention here that Jesus mentioned in the new testament that the most important principle was to love God first then love others and last love yourself.

The priesthood authority of God exists in His church today, just as it did in the original Church. Im not quite sure what that is exactly suppose to mean. They isent any elaborating on any of these little points on the website.

The Bible and the Book of Mormon are the word of God.

God reveals his will to prophets today, just as He did anciently.

There are a few more basic beliefs but you get the jist of it right? If you do want to check out the whole thing which isent too long go on over the the website.

So now on to the Book of Mormon itself. What exactly do they put on their website about it? Not too much...

They do not tell you exactly how they got the book of mormon. The first sentence in fact is just tooting it's own horn. So to speak. The Book of Mormon is another witness that Jesus Christ really lived, that he was and is God's son.

They go on explaining if you can call it that what the book of mormon is but not giving how they can prove that.

Now for the failed prophecies I will share just one here but I will give the link for the many.

Prophecy #1 - The coming of the Lord

President Smith then stated that the meeting had been called, because God had commanded it; and it was made knwn to him by vision and by the Holy Spirit ...it was the will of God that they should be ordained to the minsitry and go forth to prune the vineyard for the last time, for the coming of the Lord, which was nigh-even fifty years should wind up the scene. (history of the church, Vol.2, page 182)

This prophecy was spoken by Joseph Smith in 1835, and recorded by Oliver Cowdery. The fifty-six years were passed by 1891.

So there is the first failed prophecy on the website. Here is the link for it so you can take a look at the others. http://www.irr.org/mit/jsfalpro.html" title="http://www.irr.org/mit/jsfalpro.html" target="_blank"http://www.irr.org/mit/jsfalp...  That is all I have for this topic on the mormons. I have entirley too much info to share on this blog in full so go to the websites to check it out.