Is belonging to mormonism and being a
mormon a cult and not biblical according to the gospel.
Genesis
3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which
Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You
shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees
of the garden we may eat,
3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of
the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you
touch it, lest you die.'"
4 The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will
be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Apparently the Mormons teach the very same yee can become a God.
But what does the Bible say:-
Mark
12:28
One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing
that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the
greatest of all?"
29 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the
Lord our God, the Lord is one:
But as usual never ever take my word for it, see the many testimonies
below revealing the awful truth about belong to mormonism and being
a Mormon and Latter Day Saints, many false claims.
They push and claim to be the family orientated society, but this often
could not be futher from the truth ruining marriage:-
My wife
left me suddenly, with no warning, taking the children. Her
friends at church helped her escape, and she returned to Zion and
divorced me. A last-ditch attempt at reconciliation failed when she
said that her return
would be conditioned upon my returning to the faith. I realized that I
could
not do it, however much I wanted to keep my family. Of course she got
custody
of the children. She remarried four years later, her new husband a
faithful
priesthood holder whose wife had left the church. (How ironic, that a
church
which places such a high value on family ties actually destroys the
very thing
it claims to promote!)
[See below for more on the above testimony.]
But
the ultimate goal of the church, as stated publicly by its early
leaders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (but not mentioned so publicly
by more
recent Mormon leaders), is to establish the Mormon Kingdom of God in
America,
and to govern the world as God's appointed representatives. The church
is
already influential in the making of secular policy, as was proven not
so long
ago when the Equal Rights Amendment was defeated with decisive help
from the
Mormon church.
To
me, the possibility that the Mormon church might control America is a
frightening prospect.
I
realized that in order for me to defend Mormonism I would have to know
what its enemies were saying about it, so that I could be prepared with
the
proper facts. I had never been an avid student of the history of the
church,
although I had earned the highest grades in the third year high-school
seminary course in church history. I mean, what was there important to
know
about church history, beyond the story of how Joseph had his visions,
got the
plates, translated them, and how Satan had persecuted the Saints until
they
got to Utah? I was more interested in doctrine: the Truth, as taught by
the
prophets. The Truth, eternal and unchanging.
But
now I began to read church history, both the authentic histories
published by the church and the awful lies and distortions published by
its
enemies. How different they were! It was almost as if the authors in
each
camp were writing about different events. And the university library,
where I
spent a good deal of time, seemed to have more of the latter than the
former.
http://home.teleport.com/~packham/whylft.htm
I also started to question in my
mind the doctrine of baptism of the dead. Mormons believe that everyone
has a second chance of receiving salvation. Mormons spend a fortune on
tracing their dead relatives in order to be baptized on their behalf
and who can then respond to the message and become a Mormon in the
afterlife.
The end of the road for my membership finally came about through a work
colleague who was educated in Mormonism and was also a born again
Christian. He went about telling me about the flaws in Mormonism. He
told me that to be a Mormon I had to be a racist, as Mormonism believes
that black people are inferior to whites, until 1978 they were not
allowed to hold the Priesthood.
I finally
decided to leave after watching a television documentary, about
Mormonism. The program highlighted that Mormonism was not of God, that
the Book of Mormon was a fraud, that the Temple ceremonies are occultic
and the Joseph Smith was a liar, an adulterer and basically was a false
prophet.
The program
also highlighted the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the polygamy that
had gone on. I always believed up until that point that polygamy was
only practiced as a social security arrangement. After watching the
program I phoned my Bishop and told him to remove my name from
membership. My request was denied. I had to threaten the Church with
legal action, to have my name removed. They visited me for some time to
try to persuade me to return.
Mormons are not deceivers - they have been deceived themselves. They
are decent, good, kind people and I still love them very much; but
Mormonism is a second hand religion. There is no relationship with God.
Jesus said in John 10:10, "I have come that they may have life and have
to the full." Cults unfortunately try to get to God in another way and
that is not living life to the full, but being trapped in a cage of
legalism. Please don't be fooled. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth
and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).
There is no other way to be right with God. If you have been involved
in the Mormon Church in any way I urge you to investigate what I am
saying.
http://www.cephasministry.com/gail_former_mormon.html
(Above link no longer there, but see http://cephasministry.com/index_mormon_files.html)
It doesn't stop
there, here is another site sheding much needed light, truth on
mormonism:-
http://www.exmormon.org/stories.htm
http://www.mrm.org/multimedia/text/mcconkies-letter.html
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