All The Reasons We Won't Return to Mormonism
Reason #22: Compartmentalized gods
One of the difficulties involved in leaving Mormonism is that you leave a view of the Godhead that is very compartmentalized. Mormonism's depiction of what it says is the completely separate nature of God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit -- these are easy...
Reason #21: Multiple Versions of the First Vision of Joseph Smith
At the Nauvoo Christian Visitors Center in Nauvoo, Illinois, a nine-square quilt hangs that depicts each of nine different versions of that first vision. Edmond C. Gruss and Lane A. Thuet have identified eleven versions. Richard Abanes, in his...
Reason #20: Problems with Joseph Smith's “First Vision”
Joseph Smith's own accounts of the first vision must be viewed with some reservations. No mention of his "First Vision" "”which supposedly took place in 1820"”was ever made in print, until twenty years later when Orson Pratt, a longtime friend of Joseph Smith,...
Reason #19: The Inordinate LDS View of Joseph Smith
Brigham Young once stated that Joseph"'s consent was required for a person to be able to enter into the celestial kingdom of heaven, because Joseph was now reigning there, like God. He also said that Joseph "was a god to us" and that he himself was "an apostle of...
Reason #18: LDS Resistance to Appraisal
"The callow chestnut of Mormonism that says if you want to know about Fords, then you don't ask a Chevrolet dealer, and if you want to know about Mormonism, then don't ask a non-Mormon, is both wrong and lacks critical judgment. Groups like Consumer Reports prove...
Reason #17: The Organization of the LDS Church
Many unwary church-goers have become Mormons after accepting the lie told them by Mormons: that the Latter-day Saint Church is organized just like Christ"'s church as described in Ephesians 4:11. Since this verse mentions apostles, prophets, and (in some versions)...