If false, it is one of the most cunning, wicked, bold, deep-laid impositions ever planned upon the world, calculated to deceive and ruin millions who will sinc… We can’t, on one hand, criticize critics of the Bible who are ignorant of it, and then hypocritically engage in exactly the same behavior, can we? For more than 30 years, our creative professionals have designed public service and direct response messages for national nonprofit organizations such as the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Boy Scouts of America, National Hospice Foundation, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and The Salvation Army. Just read the book and you’ll see it for yourself. As it’s done in the past, the Mormon church appears to have sponsored an advertisement in the musical’s program aimed at reminding theater-goers about the actual Book of Mormon. And it’s what kept us all going until we were to the back cover. It is glaring: So glaring, in fact, the LdS Church even notes it (without calling it plagiarism) in their header summary of some chapters. To expose Mormon HeartSell and other forms of Mormon emotional manipulation so that you’re inoculated against them. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Inside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple. Within the Book of Mormon itself evidences are provided which attest to its truthfulness. . Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt wrote in 1851, “The Book of Mormon claims to be a divinely inspired record. 5. As it’s done in the past, the Mormon church appears to have sponsored an advertisement in the musical’s program aimed at reminding theater-goers about the actual Book of Mormon. Easy, just read the Book of Mormon from cover-to-cover to eliminate it. Book of Mormon Reading Challenge Schedule Here's a great chart that shows you how much to read each day in order to read the entire Book of Mormon starting on June 9th and finishing by August 7th. Further instructions encouraging this FEELING were given: “As the Spirit confirms to you that those you are teaching are receiving a witness of the Spirit, pause in the discussion and say, ‘Mr. The Book of Mormon states that man was created by the power of God’s word not procreated by spirit parents. ( Log Out / There are fascinating evidences with regard to these models, but I'd just like The Tony Award-winning musical opened on Tuesday at Salt Lake City’s George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater ― in the heart of the country’s largest Mormon population. The Book of Mormon is not on trial-the people of the world, including the members of the Church, are on trial as to what they will do with this second witness for Christ” In my study I found over 87 references to women. After all, ripping something out of context and then contorting it into something completely else isn’t unknown or unheard of in this world, is it? The book is its own proof. 8. The Book of Mormon shall stand as a testimony against the world, Ether 5:4. About 588–570 B.C.”, “The Messiah will be a light to the Gentiles and will free the prisoners—Israel will be gathered with power in the last days—Kings will be their nursing fathers—Compare Isaiah 49. If you prefer MeWe, the link is https://mewe.com/join/toybom, * A MeWe edition was also added later. 10. (Lds Church, “Book of Mormon Student Manual (Religion 121–122)”, Chapter 1: The Keystone of Our Religion). Post was not sent - check your email addresses! That is, you’re speaking out of ignorance. ), or just simply don’t make any sense (Shiz, anyone? As Michael Otterson, former Mormon church public affairs director, put it in a column on the church’s news outlet: “If we Mormons really do follow Jesus Christ in our lives and look to him as an example, then it’s hard for us to ignore the injunction to turn the other cheek.”. We call this uniquely powerful brand of creative “HeartSell”® – strategic emotional advertising that stimulates response.” So given all that, I can think of no better way to process and respond to this most hyped of all Latter Day Saint scripture – and the book that has always represented Joseph Smith’s prophetic credential than to read it for yourself. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. To Demystify the Book of Mormon. About 588–570 B.C.”. Despite all that, I instantly liked Joanna Brooks after seeing her on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart and reading the introduction to The Book of Mormon Girl Stories from an American Faith.. So how do you close this one? Pretty sure that’s in Mosiah somewhere.— Steven Jackson (@ We can Our unique strength is the ability to touch the hearts and minds of our audiences, evoking first feeling, then thought and, finally, action. The Lost Book of Mormon, is not a book I would otherwise have considered reading, as I'm not really interested in the subject, which is The Book of Mormon. Screenshot of a poll posted in a Mormon Debate group on Facebook on January 6th, 2020. Brown,” the missionaries were instructed to “TESTIFY” of the truthfulness of their message. So I group sourced the article that you’re about to read. To get support, encouragement, and make new friends while struggling, scraping, and scrapping to make it to the back cover. Part of HuffPost Comedy. The Book of Mormon makes a clear distinction between men and angels. Many Mormons are under the utter delusion that one only need to read the Book of Mormon to be utterly and completely persuaded that Joseph Smith was a true Prophet of God and that the Book of Mormon, Latter Day Saint Restorationism (not to mention their Mormon Denomination’s expression of the Restoration) must be true. And we realize that it may sound odd to say that the Bible disproves the Book of Mormon when so much of it is actually in the Book of Mormon, but it does. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so “slow,” so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. Here’s how the Bonneville Communications website described HeartSell back in 2015 before it got exposed and they went underground with it: The now-defunct Bonneville Communications webpage that contained the above verbiage. Why If you read it with another person or two you can – actually must – encourage each other to stick with it despite all that, if you have any hope of “enduring to the end”. This includes some of the animals mentioned as well as plants, materials (raw and manufactured), culture(s), words used and more. If you want to see how the Book of Mormon does it, you’ll have to see it for yourself. Ask God if these things are not true, Moro. Join us, click here to put in an Add Request. Jaredite Barges anyone?). On the whole, though, there hasn’t been large-scale outcry from U.S. Mormons over a show they could rightfully find offensive. Mormons are very rightly skeptical about and suspicious of outsiders who refuse to read this book given the weight and value that they place on it. 4). Over and done! First staged in 2011, the play is a satirical examination of the beliefs and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Reading the Book of Mormon cover-to-cover gives you the right to do this. The Book of Mormon states clearly that Jesus Christ atoned for the sins of the world on the cross. Today is National Voter Registration Day! It’s a pretty simple answer. I suspect that you’ll find it just as interesting as I did. Its code of morals is unobjectionable—it is “smouched” from the New Testament and no credit given.” For The Book of Mormon, Parker is joined by his South Park co-creator Matt Stone. Right: Brigham Henry Roberts as an older man (circa 1920s), Church History Library, PH … 12. On the second point, most people who haven’t actually read the Book of Mormon typically don’t understand that the Book of Mormon doesn’t teach modern Mormonism. The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421. The book is its own proof. Summary and conclusion: I saved the best reason for last in that list on purpose: Gaining Street Cred with Mormons is by far the most important reason why an outsider to Mormonism – any outsider to Mormonism – should read the Book of Mormon. This is pretty cute and quite helpful. To discover things that can be used in debate settings. This is the #1 reason group to read the Book of Mormon cover-to-cover. 11. Some LDS members have balked at the musical’s depiction of their faith, pointing out the church’s humanitarian efforts and accomplishments. Left: the title page of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon, via the Joseph Smith Papers Project. If you have even a basic, working knowledge of the Bible these contradictions pop out at you all the time as you’re reading the Book of Mormon. I don’t think so. See Sloan, “The Anthon Transcripts and the Translation of the Book of Mormon: Studying It Out in the Mind of Joseph Smith,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 5.2 (1996): 57-81. Change ). To Experience the Book of Mormon directly for yourself without outside Mormon influence or pressure. 9. Read it. The Book of Mormon states that baptism isn’t an absolute requirement for salvation. So do you want a good sense of humor? I'm a lifelong Mormon, straight, male, and not a feminist. The name has been withheld here, but if you click on the image you can view the poll in its original context on Facebook. If you haven’t read it, you’re just criticizing what you don’t know and have never directly experienced. So this was sort of this conundrum that we like to talk about — we think what they believe is really, really ridiculous, and yet they seem like pretty happy people." It’s that simple. The Book of Mormon repeatedly condemns the type of secret oaths and combinations that are found in the current Latter-day Saint Temple Endowment ceremony in the strongest terms. (Jerry Benson, “The Mormon Testimony: ‘I Testify to You…’“ (caps in original)). But when Stan and his dad meet their new Mormon neighbors, they become fascinated with how genuinely nice they are. The Book of Mormon is an easy book to get frustrated with, get fed up with and quit on. (Page A-l) “Keep in mind how you want the family to FEEL… help them FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE GOSPEL.” (Page A-l, No. Such as the places where the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible (as mentioned above), modern Mormonism, the Book of Mormon itself (the internal contradictions are really something to behold! 86, 89. That has to count for something, doesn’t it? Because Mormons hype the Book of Mormon and its alleged power I would guess to the average non-Mormon they’re under the impression that it offers some kind of amazingly potent and life-changing transcendent experience if you will just pick it up and read its amazing, astounding transformative words. For example, a Book of Mormon reference to horses suggests that they may have been relatively uncommon, being limited only to Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Again, doubt me? And trust me, if you do, you will learn a lot and have a lot of fun getting through what is surely one of the worse pieces of English literature ever published. The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decided to have some fun with the opening of the irreverent “Book of Mormon” musical in Salt Lake City this week. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote that the Book of Mormon “should be considered the most remarkable and important religious text to be revealed since the writings of the New Testament were compiled nearly two millennia ago. Indeed, in its role of restoring plain and precious biblical truths that had been lost, while adding scores of new truths about Jesus Christ and preparing the way for the complete restoration of his gospel and the triumphant day of his millennial return, the Book of Mormon may be considered the most remarkable and important religious text ever given to the world” (Christ and the New Covenant [1997], 9–10). And that agenda is this, “Any Non-Mormon here in this group that hasn’t read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover is ignorant, unenlightened, probably bigoted, prejudiced, and most certainly biased and can, therefore, be ignored.”. This book must be either true or false. Experiencing this dreadfully boring, ridiculously absurd book requires a good sense of humor. The Book of Mormon says that God is eternal and unchanging. Probably no one explained this better than Mark Twain when speaking of the book he wrote: All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the “elect” have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. Pretty much everything you expect to see in a religious text. One critic of the LdS Church explained how HeartSell works using the Missionary curriculum of that particular time as a case study: In the Mormon Missionary handbook in the mid 1980’s, “The Uniform System for Teaching Families,” instructions were given to the missionary on how to “bring the people you teach to a knowledge and conviction of the truth” effectively. It is chloroform in print. For example: So if you strip away the baggage of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon origin story you’re left with a piece of Christian literature that’s more akin to a really bad version of “Pilgrim’s Progress” or “The Screwtape Letters” than “Dianetics”. . Even when it was tough and trying, right? 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