From: thewayofthemaster | Jul 30, 2011
"Are you a good person?" animation produced by Cedric Hohnstadt from www.cedricstudio.com
Additional animators include Michael Foster & Chance Dodd
Mr. Nice Guy........................Kirk Cameron
Narrator.............................David Jeremiah
Criminal/ Judge.....Emeal ("E.Z.") Zwayne
Woman..............................Rachel Proctor
Based on Hell's Best Kept Secret by Ray Comfort
So I have come to the understanding that some people are upset with some of my videos and comments that I have made on my blog or youtube. It is hard to give a full idea of what I believe about the Mormon faith and over comments so I have decide to write a blog about some of the comments I have gotten and what I think of them.
First I want to say that I am a bible believing Christian who has been call by God to come and serve at a small church in Utah. When I started Bible College I felt God calling me to study the Mormon faith have done so for the past 5 years.
This started even before I became a Christian when I was looking for God and was talking to some Mormon missionaries who could not even get the first vision right, as I learned later. But even from the beginning I knew there was something wrong. But as I started to read more and understand more of how the LDS church started, things got more and stranger in what was happen in this church.
Like the 9 versions of Joseph Smiths 1st vision.
· 1827 — Account of Joseph Smith, Sr., and Joseph Smith, Jr., given to Willard Chase, as related in his 1833 affidavit.
· 1827 — Account by Martin Harris given to Rev. John Clark, as published in his book Gleanings by the Way, printed in 1842, pp. 222-229.
· 1830 — Interview of Joseph Smith by Peter Bauder, recounted by Bauder in his book The Kingdom and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, printed in 1834, pp. 36-38.
· 1832 — Earliest known attempt at an ‘official’ recounting of the ‘First Vision, from History, 1832, Joseph Smith Letterbook 1, pp.2,3, in the handwriting of Joseph Smith.
· 1834-35 — Oliver Cowdery, with Joseph Smith’s help, published the first history of Mormonism in the LDS periodical Messenger and Advocate, Kirtland, Ohio, Dec. 1834, vol.1, no.3
· 1835 — Account given by Joseph Smith to Joshua the Jewish minister, Joseph Smith Diary, Nov. 9, 1835.
· 1835 — Account given by Joseph Smith to Erastus Holmes on November 14, 1835, originally published in the Deseret News of Saturday May 29, 1852.
· 1838 — This account became the official version, now part of Mormon Scripture in the Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith — History, 1:7-20. Though written in 1838, it was not published until 1842 in Times and Season, March 15, 1842, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 727-728, 748-749, 753.
· 1844 — Account in An Original History of the Religious Denominations at Present Existing in the United States, edited by Daniel Rupp. Joseph Smith wrote the chapter on Mormonism.
· 1859 — Interview with Martin Harris, Tiffany’s Monthly, 1859, New York: Published by Joel Tiffany, vol. v.—12, pp. 163-170.
Say what you want but if God and Jesus came to me, that part of the story I would never change!!!
We can also look to see that the book of Mormon talks about God being God from all eternity but then Joseph Smith changing that we He started to clam that we could become gods.
· “For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity” (The Book of Mormon, Moroni 8:18).
· “We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see. These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are simple. It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did, and I will show it from the Bible” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345-346. Italics in original. See also Gospel Principles, 1997, p. 305).
So Which one is it? Was God always God from all eternity or was God a man?
What about the Adam God Doctrine?
· Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is MICHAEL, the Archangel, the ANCIENT OF DAYS! about whom holy men have written and spoken—HE is our FATHER and our GOD, and the only God with whom WE have to do” (Brigham Young, April 9, 1852, Journal of Discourses 1:50).
· “We warn you against the dissemination of doctrines which are not according to the scriptures and which are alleged to have been taught by some of the General Authorities of past generations. Such, for instance, is the Adam-God theory. We denounce that theory and hope that everyone will be cautioned against this and other kinds of false doctrine” (Spencer W. Kimball, “Adam-God Theory Denounced,” Church News, October 9, 1976, p. 11).
So was Brigham Young a false teacher?
This is why I clam that Mormons today do not know what their faith believes is because it changes from day to day. but here is something, the bible is always the same.
Also I have a issue with Joseph Smith and how arrogant he was with his faith.
· “I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I” (Joseph Smith, May 26, 1844, History of the Church 6:408-409).
This statement in itself is blasphemy
I could go on but what would be the point. People are going to read this and say I right or wrong and I am ok with ether. The point that I am trying to make is that I believe in the bible and I have a heart for the people who live in the Mormon faith. I LOVE MORMONS. But the issue is, they are not Christians. We do not believe the same thing; we do not have the same God. I fear for their eternality because the Bible is clear that if you do not accept Jesus, the Jesus of the bible, one will not go to heaven. Please don’t think that I am mean or hateful, I am just trying to spread the Word of God.
Until Next Time…
Just like Paul, I have come to and understanding that we must give all things over to God. I have been studying Romans 6 today and I have just been so blessed by what it says, I just need to write this.
Just like Paul when Jesus came to him, Paul gave his life to God. Being a Jew, Paul knew God but he did not know God. Through Jesus Paul became one of the best preachers in the world and it’s because he gave it all to God.
Romans 6 talks about how we have a new life in Christ and how we should live each moment for God because of the grace that He has shown us and is still showing us. Start now by giving your life to Christ and Live each moment for Him.
It is a bloodbath, cruel and barbaric. Each year, the idyllic and peaceful setting
of the village of Taiji in southern Japan is shattered by almost unspeakable
cruelty as incredible pain and ultimate death is inflicted on defenseless dolphins.
- Paul Watson, president and founder
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
The annual slaughter of dolphins at Taiji was virtually unknown until the film and photographs that Sea Shepherd released in October 2003 made headlines around the world. This was followed by the arrest of Sea Shepherd activists Allison Lance and Alex Cornelissen for cutting the nets and releasing 15 dolphins. They were held in jail for four weeks before being released. Subsequently, the fishermen erected barricades to hide their bloody slaughter from cameras.
One of the members of that 2003 Sea Shepherd crew was Ric O’Barry. He returned in 2004 and every year after, to do what he could to oppose the killing. Louis Psihoyos partnered up with Ric O’Barry to find a way around the barricades and the result was the making of The Cove, the academy award-winning film that has embarrassed Japanese society before international audiences. Sea Shepherd is honored to be featured in the movie. We are pleased that it has been widely watched and brought the world's attention to this issue.
In 2007, we returned with surfing legend Dave Rastovich and actresses Hayden Pantierre and Isobel Lucas to confront the dolphin killers and once again we were able to shine the international media spotlight on the horrors at Taiji.
It has been a long, hard fight, and thanks to Ric O’Barry, Dave Rastovich, Allison Lance, Alex Cornelissen, Louis Psihoyos, and so many others, we are making steady progress towards our goal of ending the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. We will continue with campaigns to pressure Japan to end this cruel and destructive slaughter of dolphins. Because our opposition is proud and stubborn it may take years and persistence, but determination will win the day eventually for the dolphins at Taiji. Starting in September 2010, we have positioned a crew there at the Cove to monitor and report on the situation. Read the reports and support our efforts!
• Sea Shepherd in Taiji
• Cove Guardian Reports
• The Ruthless Killing
• The Toxic Bureaucracy
• What You Can Do
• Worldwide Protest
The Japanese fishermen are indiscriminate. They kill any species that approaches the coast. Sea Shepherd crew have witnessed the killing of:
This is not a complete list. They kill any species that approaches the coast including those listed above and Risso dolphins.
*Killing pilot whales violates Japan's treaty obligations to
the International Whaling Commission.
