Reason #136: God was once a man; man can become a god

Quotes from Current LDS Manuals on Nature of God Christians have long opposed the LDS teaching about the nature of God and man. The Bible consistently affirms that there is only one God, who has always existed as God. Yet Joseph Smith instituted the doctrine that God...

Review of When Mermaids Sing

The central plot of When Mermaids Sing by Mark Zvonkovic (IUniverse, 2008) focuses on the narrator, Larry, a man still finding himself. His own endeavors are side-stepped though, when his close friend and cousin, searching for many of the same things becomes...

Reason #135: Two questions for Temple-Endowed Mormons

In the LDS temple endowment ceremony, there are two issues that a faithful Mormon must deal with. First, why is the order of creation unlike that depicted in LDS Standard Works?  In the temple, the creation of plants comes BEFORE light and darkness.* Secondly,...

Reason #134: The Logic Required to Affirm LDS history

This article claims to have pinned down the date of Joseph Smith's supposed First Vision. It hinges on the account of an axe stuck in a stump. Read it and ask the same question I did: Is there any other reason for chopping wood in 1820 in March in upper New York...

Reason #133: Today’s Mormons Don’t Know The Church’s Past

I have read that a very high percentage of members of the LDS church today are first-generation. Recently I had the following experience with one of them: About two months ago I sat at a restaurant with a college student who had grown up Mormon as she recounted to me...