Darrell | September 3, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Post Author: Darrell The Sunday before last some friends and I attended services at a local Ward of the Mormon Church. This is the first time I have attended the LDS Church since leaving it for Christianity a few years ago. For any Mormons reading this, please know that we were very [...]
Darrell | October 27, 2009
Post Author: Darrell In the most recent LDS General Conference, Jeffrey R. Holland gave an impassioned talk regarding The Book Of Mormon. As defense for the truthfulness of The Book Of Mormon, Holland cites the fact that he has yet to hear of any acceptable explanation for its origin aside from God. First of all, I vehemently [...]
Darrell | February 21, 2009
The Book Of Mormon is called “Another Testament of Jesus Christ” by the LDS Church. The Title Page in the Book Of Mormon says specifically… “The Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ”. I was reading some material earlier this morning and something about this title hit me hard… the word TESTAMENT. Why do they [...]
Darrell | January 17, 2009
One of the teachings of Mormonism is that one should use reverence in prayer to Heavenly Father. It is taught that when you pray you should not use the language of our day. Rather you should always use Thee, Thou, Thine and Thus. If you address God in common language (you, me, them, us, etc.) [...]
Darrell | December 27, 2008
This is a very important question to consider. How repentance works in the life of an individual is determined by what they believe repentance to be. Depending on it’s definition and application, it can either free one from bondage or be a legalistic tool which enslaves. The LDS Church defines “True Repentance” as a step by step process which ends [...]
Darrell | December 9, 2008
As a continuation to Post 1, I would like to discuss another principle that is used in the Bibliographical Test. This principle involves looking at the time span between the original manuscript in question and the oldest surviving copy. The principle behind this is, obviously, the shorter the time span, the more reliable the copy is [...]
Darrell | December 6, 2008
The 8th Article of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints states “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God”. Notice the caveat for the Bible of “so far as [...]
