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Don't get me wrong, I do not believe the Book of Mormon is the word of God, but Mormons do and the Book of Mormon is so full of historical and medical impossibilities.
For instance there are horses, asses, elephants, etc. landing on the West Coast of Central America around the year 2,250 B.C. Anyone knowing history would see what's wrong with this picture.
There is a battle where two men remain alive, Coriantumr and Shiz. Coriantumr managed to cut off the head of Shiz and then "Shiz raised upon his hands and fell; and after that he struggled for breath, he died" (Ether 15:31). How can a person with no head raise up on his hands, fall and then struggle to breath before dying? Don't need a doctor to find out what's wrong here.
Some families of a man Nephi and his brother Laman rebelled against God, who cursed them and made their skin black (II Nephi 5:21). Mormons believe that the American Indians are the descendants of Laman. This would make all Indians dark-skinned Israelites instead of Mongolians as all anthropologists claim.
Anyway, I just
wanted to show how the Book of Mormon agrees with the passages of the Bible
that totally discredit the Mormon doctrines.
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| God has a body of flesh and bone. (Doctrine & Covenants 130:22) | God does not have a body of flesh and bone. (Alma 18:26-28) | God is a Spirit (John 4:24).
A spirit hath not flesh and bones (Luke 24:39). You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and 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 4:22-24). |
| God evolved from mortal man. He is a finite man who has been evolving and changing to become God and now is man-God in heaven with a body of flesh and bone. God was once a child and mortal and rose step by step in the scale of progress (Journal of Discourse, volume 1, page 121). | For do we not read that
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever and in him there is no variableness
neither shadow of changing? And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves
a god who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have
ye imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not a God of miracles. But
behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, ... and it is the same
God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them
.. And behold I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be
God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles ( Mormon 9:9-11,
19).
For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity (Moroni 8:18). |
I the Lord do not change.
(Malachi 3:6)
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images to look like mortal man ... They exchanged the truth of God for a lie (Romans 1:22-23, 25). |
| God was a glorified exalted man. (Gospel Through the Ages, Milton Hunter, p. 104) | God is not an exalted man (Moroni 8:18). | God is not a man...(Numbers
23:19)
I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim. For I am God, and not man-- the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath. (Hosea 11:9) |
| There are literally millions of gods: father gods, mother gods, grandfather gods, grandmother gods, great grandparent gods, aunts and uncles gods and so on. God is one of many gods (Mormon Doctrine, Bruce R. McConkie, pp. 576-577). | God is the only true God
(Alma 18:26-28).
...for there is one God and one shepherd over all the earth. (1 Nephi 13:41) |
I am He: before Me there
was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me (Isaiah 43:10).
I am the first, and I am the last; and beside Me there is no God (Isaiah 44:6). Is there any God beside me? |
| Salvation is earned through the Mormon testimony and by good works and by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel (Third Article of Faith). | ...And the way is prepared
from the fall of man, and salvation is free. (2 Nephi 2:4)
Now Aaron began to open the scriptures unto them concerning the coming of Christ, and also concerning the resurrection of the dead, and that there could be no redemption for mankind save it were through the death and sufferings of Christ, and the atonement of his blood. (Alma 21:9) An now, my son, I have told you this that ye may learn wisdom, that ye may learn of me that there is no other way or means whereby man can be saved, only in and through Christ. (Alma 38:9) Yea, heavy destruction awaiteth this people, and it surely cometh unto this people, and nothing can save this people save it be repentence and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ ...(Helaman 13:6) ...for behold, by me redemption cometh, and in me is the law of Moses fulfilled (3 Nephi 9:17) |
Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house (Acts 16:31).
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God -- not works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9). Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth (Romans 10:4). Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5). He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life (John 3:36). |
| Man can become a god if he learns how (Times and Seasons, volume 5, page 613; Mormon Doctrine by Bruce R. McConkie, page 321). All worthy men and women can become gods and goddess (The Church News, September 9, 1989). | Behold great and marvelous
are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries
of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all of his ways.
(Jacob 4:8)
... and by faith, they become the sons of God. (Moroni 7:26) |
God Himself doesn't know
of any other gods, how could the Mormons know of millions? The great lie
of Satan from the beginning was that man may become a god (Genesis 3:1-5;
Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:1-10).
Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one (Isaiah 44:8). I am the Lord, and there is no oher, apart from me there is no God (Isaiah 44:8). Surely God is with you, there is no other; there is no other god (Isaiah 45:14). There is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me (Isaiah 45:21). Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other (Isaiah 45:22). |
| Baptism by proxy for the dead is a major activity. "The Saints are ... redeeming their (unbaptized) dead from the grasp of Satan" (Morgan, Plan of Salvation, p.8) | This life is the time to
prepare to meet God (Alma 34:32)
Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God ... if ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath wihdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked. (Alma 34:33-35) |
The wages of sin is death
(Romans 6:23).
And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9) |
| God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Ghost are 3 separate gods. | ...God himself
shall come down...and shall redeem his people...And because he dwelleth
in flesh he shall be called the Son of God,...The Father, because he was
conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus
becomng the Father and Son--And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal
Father of heaven and earth (Mosiah 15:1-4)
And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name; for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one ... And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one. (3 Nephi 11: 27,36) ...and ye shall even as I am, and I am even as the Father; and the Father and I are one; (3 Nephi 28:10) Know ye that ye must come unto repentence, or ye cannot be saved ... unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are one God,...(Mormon 7:3,7) ...Behold, I am Jesus Christ, I am the Father and the Son ... (Ether 3:14) |
Trinity is a word not found
in Scripture, but used to express the doctrine of the unity of God as subsisting
in three distinct Persons. This word is derived from the Gr. trias, first
used by Theophilus (A.D. 168-183), or from the Lat. trinitas, first used
by Tertullian (A.D. 220), to express this doctrine. The propositions involved
in the doctrine are these: 1. That God is one, and that there is but one
God (Deut. 6:4; 1 Kings 8:60; Isa. 44:6; Mark 12:29, 32; John 10:30). 2.
That the Father is a distinct divine Person (hypostasis, subsistentia,
persona, suppositum intellectuale), distinct from the Son and the Holy
Spirit. 3. That Jesus Christ was truly God, and yet was a Person distinct
from the Father and the Holy Spirit. 4. That the Holy Spirit is also a
distinct divine Person.
[the Godhead, God the Father/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit]. The word TRINITY is not mentioned
in the Bible but it is taught througout the Bible, it means "three in the
unity of one".
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