Darrell | May 30, 2010
Post Author: Darrell The nature of the Mormon Godhead bears some similarity to the Arian heresy of the early Christian church. Arius taught that God the Father and Jesus Christ are two separate beings distinct in nature, with Christ being a subordinate God. In similar respects, Mormonism teaches that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and [...]
Darrell | May 28, 2010
Post Author: Darrell In its short 180 year life, the Mormon Church has had a curious relationship with traditional Christianity. A quick look through Mormon history will demonstrate that the LDS Church has a long history of degrading Christian teachings. As a result, it is somewhat odd to find modern day LDS leaders referring to their [...]
Darrell | March 26, 2010
Post Author: Darrell I recently did a couple of posts regarding the incoherence of an actual infinite and how, as a result, the eternality of matter as taught in Mormonism is impossible. These posts can be found here and here. I want to address another way of analyzing the concept of ”eternal matter” as taught in the Mormon [...]
Darrell | March 10, 2010
Post Author: Darrell Some religious organizations emphasize that knowledge of truth is obtained through an experience. For example, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church) proclaims to be the only true church of Jesus Christ on the earth today, and they encourage those researching the church to gain a Testimony (belief/knowledge) of the truthfulness of [...]
Darrell | March 3, 2010
Post Author: Darrell Romans 4:4-5 are two absolutely beautiful verses of scripture, for they put the gospel message into thirty-five short words. The King James Version reads as follows. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that [...]
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 [...]
