Darrell | February 12, 2010
Post Author: Darrell Brigham City, Utah’s Living Hope Ministries has produced several great videos on Mormonism, including DNA vs. The Book of Mormon and The Bible vs. The Book of Mormon. If you are looking for some material to share with an LDS neighbor or friend, I would highly recommend both of these videos. Thanks to a post on Jessica’s [...]
Darrell | February 10, 2010
Post Author: Darrell In my last post I discussed how an actual infinite number of things is incoherent. How does this apply to the universe, time, and Mormonism? The Mormon Church denies creation ex nihilo, choosing instead to teach creation ex materia, the position that God organized the universe from pre-existing matter. In fact, Mormonism takes this position even [...]
Darrell | February 8, 2010
Post Author: Darrell In short, no. The story of Hilbert’s Hotel helps to demonstrate this fact. It goes like this… Let’s say we have a hotel that has an infinite number of rooms and an infinite number of guests; as a result, the hotel is full. If a prospective guest walks in and asks for a room, can he check in? [...]
Darrell | January 7, 2010
Post Author: Darrell I recently had a conversation with Seth over on Markcares’s blog regarding God’s foreknowledge. Seth believes that man’s freedom is incompatible with God’s foreknowledge. As a result, he believes that God cannot know the future. Here are a couple of his comments. A being is not “free” unless capable of acting otherwise [...]
Darrell | December 28, 2009
Post Author: Darrell The LDS Church teaches that Baptism is required for entrance into The Celestial Kingdom (Heaven). They often cite Christ’s conversation with Nicodemus in John chapter 3 as evidence to support their position. However, a closer look at this conversation does not in fact support the Mormon view. Let’s go through this conversation verse by [...]
Darrell | December 6, 2009
Post Author: Darrell Boys in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church) are ordained to the office of Deacon at the age of 12. This office is the most junior in the Aaronic or lesser Priesthood and is followed by the office of Teacher and the office of Priest. Young [...]
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 | October 10, 2009
Post Author: Darrell In my last post, I discussed one of the areas where Joseph Smith plagiarized and changed verses from The Bible. Let’s take a look at another example. Chapter 12 of 2 Nephi in The Book of Mormon is taken directly from Isaiah chapter 2. However, there are a few areas where Smith made changes. Verses 8 & [...]
Darrell | September 20, 2009
Post Author: Darrell God has given believers of Jesus Christ the promise of “a peace which passes all understanding” (Phil 4:7). What a wonderful promise! This peace does not come from anything the world can give us. Rather, it comes from having a relationship with Christ, being forgiven, and knowing that our salvation is assured. [...]
Darrell | May 19, 2009
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints claims to be the only church on earth to contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Other churches are said to have a portion of truth but to be lacking in it’s fullness. In an Ensign article Boyd K. Packer explained the Church’s position on this issue by comparing the gospel preached by non-Mormons to using [...]
