How confusing it is for Muslims who hear the name Jesus Christ and assume from their fake bible, 'The Holy Koran' and the fake history of Islam that they know who and what Jesus Christ is. It is like placing a mote between the person and truth. But at least the atmosphere is clear across the mote, the Gospel may be heard. How much more confusing it is for the Mormons who hear the name Jesus Christ and assume from their fake bible, "The Book of Mormon" and other fake holy books, that they know who and what Jesus Christ is. For the Mormons it is like placing a mote between the Mormon person and truth, covering the area with a deep, dense fog, and blasting loud music into the atmosphere, so sophisticated the illusion created by Joseph Smith and gang and the delusion accepted by the birth Mormons. The fog is the fact that the name of the Mormon's cult is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" and that that cult does not "reject" the Bible. Why, they have to know Jesus Christ, his name is in the title of their "church" and they don't reject the Bible. The dense fog is the illusion that the "cultic corporation" that is Mormonism is a Church. The word "church" has history and etymology, the concept the word denotes has meaning, and the cult of mormonism meets none of the criteria, definition, history, recognition and agreement needed to call it, A Church. Just as surely as you can't have a Hindu "Church" or a Buddhist "Church" or a Satanist "Church" you can't have a mormon Church. But the name Church is in the title of the Cult's official organization, it must be a Church!
Mormons and Muslims have been taught not just to reject the truth, but to reject the framework through which Truth may be spoken. They have been taught that the sects of Christianity all hold a false framework for the comprehension of Church, Christ and God, and it is only through the self-constructed framework, created by these cults whereby truth may be comprehended.
It is our job to explain the difference between the so-called "channelled texts" of single prophets, teachers, and cult leaders, like Mohammed and Joseph Smith and the rich history of the "the writtings" as God revealed himself to man across thousands of years, as man was capable of understanding what God was saying. The revelation of God over time to humanity is very important to grasp. Why? The many books composing the Bible are that witness of God revealing himself over time, in the history of man as man became more capable of understanding. Those many sacred writings are not the witness of a single person's imagination or cunning, but true history (though not in the western-modern model of history) that is contained in the Christian "scriptures." These "writings - scriptures" are the many books of Jewish and Christian tradition composed by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, from many different "traditions" that we know under one cover as "The Bible."
Sadly many biblical fundamentalists and biblical literalist do not grasp the nature, the reality and meaning of The Bible and enter the debate with cultists, Mormons and Muslims, only partially armed, holding only an aspect of the revelation and the healing contained in the complete and whole Apostolic Tradition. So what is the Bible? And Why is it different than the Koran or the Book of Mormon? Here is a short and wonderful survey of the Holy Scriptures, offered by Father Thomas Hopko, the former head of Saint Vladimir's Seminary. Father Tom is explaining the importance of understanding what the "scriptures" are, in connection to the debate with Doctrine of Darwinism, but what he relates fits as well, or better in the debate with "sola scripturist", Biblical Literalists and Christian Fundamentalist, Mormons and Muslims. It is a wonderful "survey" of the tradition of holy scripture, a romp through the history of the Bible. If you are not an Orthodox Christian here is much to be learned in this hour video.
Here is a audio of the same lecture - you can down load to Ipod.
http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko/darwin_and_christianity_-_part_6
So do not mistake this; this is not an anti-mormon page, it is a mormon expose' and a witness of the REAL and TRUE Jesus Christ and his Church, his Body that has real presence in the world. It is a challenge to the false dehumanizing, family destroying, enslaving disciplines and worship provided by cults, and the true, human creating worship and LIFE in Christ. It is an expose' of false traditions of men, and the witness of the Tradition of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, a witness that remains upon the earth unaltered to this very day. It is an expose' of fake holy books that have required massive re-editing and changes in the short history of Mormonism, and the witness of the Tradition of the many books of true scripture, which collectively tell but one story in Jesus Christ, composed and formed over thousands of years, from the oldest oral traditions, which became written traditions, which became lived traditions IN Christ. It is the examination of Mormonism via the facts of their own history, linked to a short lesson about foundational, ancient apostolic Christianity, the Christianity that gave the world The Bible. It is foremost a witness of the True and Living Jesus Christ, available to all who sincerely call upon His name.
If we grasped the true story from Father Hopko's romp through the history and meaning of "the writings" "the Holy Scriptures" "The Bible" then we must now look at how the sacred books of Mormonism came to be, and compare the two.
The following video tells the story of Joseph Smith's forgery known as "The Lost Book of Abraham" which today is still claimed as "real scripture" part of the "sacred revelation of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." It exposes the fraud in Joseph Smith's false claim of knowledge of Egyptian language.
Testimony of a recovering Mormon, the great-great grand daughter of Brigham Young. Co-founder of Lighthouse Ministries of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Church is not an idea it is a place. The part of the Church that exists upon the earth is not a paradise but a battlefield. To find the True Christ one must step upon the battlefield. This video Father Thomas Hopko gives a short, direct way to come to know God in Jesus Christ, how to know that the God you have discovered isn't just a figment of your imagination or a religious sickness or delusion. I recommend listening to this short lecture several times and then trying the method he explains. If you doubt God's existence, or that the Jesus Christ of the New Testament and Apostolic Tradition is real, I suggest beginning by praying, "To Whom it may concern. If anything in this video is false do not let it harm me. If anything in this video is true, let me understand it. If a REAL Christ exists, let me discover where he may be found."
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