Reason #30: Questionable Biblical Interpretation

Why must uniquely- LDS Biblical interpretation be rejected? Because a supposedly Biblical doctrine that is based on possibly-plausible possible exceptions to other historical doctrines is not a firm enough foundation on which  believers in the rest of the Bible...

Reason #29: The Mormon Gossip Circuit

Reason #29 is from guest blogger Michelle Scott (no relation) Privacy, to me, is very important. In Mormonism, there is virtually no privacy whatsoever. Hypothetically, if a Mormon member was to enter a Starbucks (strongly opposed because of their particularly...

Reason #28: Gods

Mormons frequently point to Psalm 82:6, quoted by Jesus in John 10:34-35, to say that the Bible teaches that men are gods, or at least can become gods.  Taken alone, these two scriptures could possibly be construed to have that meaning (although the...

Reason #26: Geography

Much has been made about how Joseph Smith just used or adapted Bible names to create the names in the Book of Mormon.  But recently I came across this fascinating map — in which the place names in the Book of Mormon are compared to the place names of Joseph...

Reason #25: A different Jesus

Most of the arguments asserting that the Jesus of Mormonism is not the Biblical Jesus have to do with where His past diverges from the Biblical record — a Mormon “prehistory” that is finite, beginning with his “birth” to one of God the...