The difference between the Bible and Mormon writings:
"A truthful witness saves lives [the Bible], but a false witness is deceitful [the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants]." Proverbs 14:25
Spreading the truth brings light and life. Everything that is false brings darkness and death.
Move away from the thing that brings damnation into salvation.
"A false witness [the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants] will not go unpunished, and he [Joseph Smith and the like] who pours out lies will perish." Proverbs 19:9
Truth vs False
It's All In A Name
What is in a name? The first thought is that it's the identification of someone, some other creature, or something. A name is not to be confused with a title or position.
In reference to our Lord, the name in which we identify our Savior was very important to God. And so, our Lord and Savior was named, JESUS.
"It became evident why he was named "Jesus" (Luke 1:30-33), the Grecianized form of the Hebrew name meaning, "God Saves," and why he became recognized as "the Christ," the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew, "Messiah" meaning "the Anointed One." (Harpers Bible Dictionary, Miller, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1961, pg. 323)
In the Bible, when in reference to His identity before birth and after birth, the name is Jesus.
"She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21)
"You will be with child and give birth, to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus." (Luke 1:31)
"On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived." (Luke 2:21)
"When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required," (Luke 2:27)
Now, Christ is a title that was not put on the infant Jesus before his birth or during his infancy. Rather, it was added to His name sometime in His later life.
"Christ:" originally a title (Jesus the Christ) later used as part of the name (Jesus Christ.)" (Websters New World Dictionary, pg. 253)
Now, in Mormondom, the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants say something different.
"according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the son of God." (2 Nephi 25:19, BoM)
"Behold, Jesus Christ is the name which is given of the Father, and there is none other name given whereby man can be saved;" (D&C 18:23)
The Bible does not say His name shall be Jesus Christ, but Jesus. The BoM and the D&C are wrong.
The Heart
"the Lord hath said he dwelleth not in unholy temples, but in the hearts of the righteous doth he dwell;" (Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Alma 34:36)
"the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man's heart is an old sectarian notion, and is false. (D&C, Joseph Smith, 130:3)
Now, read it again. Did you see it? I did.
Splits the ole' brain in two doesn't it?
Joseph Smith wasn't too careful was he?
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Spiritual Substance
This post is in response to a comment made under the post, "Why Protestants Agree With Mormons Part Three."
To quote our Lord and Savior, "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." (John 4:23&24)
The work of God is spiritual, the goals of God are spiritual, the life of God is spiritual, God reveals all things spiritually for God is Spirit. "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words." (1 Corinthians 2:10-13)
"those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." (Romans 8:14)
Jesus Himself states that the substance of the flesh is nothing. "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe." (John 6:63&64) When we get hung up on the fleshy substance of things we do not have the Spirit within ourselves. "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians 2:14)
Although Christ had to come to earth in the flesh, it's the flesh that is of no concern to God. Life comes by the way of the Spirit and all things that are created are for His pleasure through the Spirit. With this in mind; "My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He holds victory in store for the upright." (Proverbs 2:1-7)
"The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children." (Romans 8:16)
It is my prayer that God will reveal the truth in the substance of His Spirit to all those earnestly seeking Spiritual substance.
