Mormons are taught that abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco is essential for entrance into the celestial kingdom. If this is true, Joseph Smith must be a candidate for the terrestrial or telestial kingdom because he repeatedly violated the Word of Wisdom. An examination of early church sources in the original editions compared to the corresponding modern-day versions shows that the references to the drinking habits of early Mormon leaders have been purged from the original records. In other words, a great cover-up has been effected.
For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today (Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an audiobook and as an expanded-text E-book for Nook, Kindle and other reading devices.
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Just fell upon your blog.... I am encouraged to find daily more and more whose eyes have been opened to the truths of the lie of mormonism! Praise God!!
I was mormon for 19 plus year....
By God's grace I was born again in Nov of 2007!!!
Praise God I am out as well as my 10 children!!!!!1
Nothing short of a miracle!!!!
gloria
ps. please pray for my husband, as he remains entrenched in the cult.
Gloria, your story sounds so interesting. Have you ever published anything about it? Would you be interested in posting your own reasons for leaving? If so, please email me via the contact button. I'd love to share your story with others. --Latayne