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Which one is correct? If you are an atheist pick none.
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Which one is correct? If you are an atheist pick none.
1 or more could be correct if God like messing around with people.
what a bizarre series of statements.
not sure where you are going with this
If God created them then they would be true.
Did Joseph Smith find the answer for this question back in 1820?
How so? I don't follow the logic. If God created a fake religion in order to mess with us that would make it untrue.
Did Joseph Smith find the answer for this question back in 1820?
I think he was too busy preaching racism and marrying 40 wives.
Troll post with no accuracy. Joseph was 14 when he received the first vision in 1820 and the scriptures that he translated by the power of God contain strong statements against racism and slavery, and Joseph Smith even ran a third party campaign for President of the United States on a strong anti-slavery platform. His life was a complete opposite of spreading racism. The temporary ban of the priesthood to those of black African descent came after his martyrdom by Brigham Young. I will first cover why it is so unfair and dishonest to claim Joseph spread racism, and then I will show even with the priesthood ban, that it likely was something else besides racism.
About a year earlier on December 25, 1832 while praying in regards to slavery around the world, he received the following revelation, which was later printed in newspapers in England in the 1850's and recorded in Doctrine and Covenants section 87:
1 Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls;
2 And the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place.
3 For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations.
4 And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.
This prophecy covers the Civil War, the two World Wars, and possibly the third world freeing themselves from European imperialism after the European powers were devastated in the aftermath of the World Wars and later the collapse of Communism after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Nearly two years earlier than this Christmas revelation above, the coming Civil War was hinted at on the revelation Joseph received on Jan. 2, 1831 and recorded in Doctrine and Covenants section 38:
29 Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land.
30 I tell you these things because of your prayers; wherefore, treasure up wisdom in your bosoms, lest the wickedness of men reveal these things unto you by their wickedness, in a manner which shall speak in your ears with a voice louder than that which shall shake the earth; but if ye are prepared ye shall not fear.
31 And that ye might escape the power of the enemy, and be gathered unto me a righteous people, without spot and blameless -
32 Wherefore, for this cause I gave unto you the commandment that ye should go to the Ohio; and there I will give unto you my law; and there you shall be endowed with power from on high; . . .
It was in Kirkland, Ohio that the first temple was built and the Saints received their first temple endowments.
On February 9, 1831 Joseph then received another revelation from the Lord that further hinted at the coming Civil War in D&C section 42:
64 And even now, let him that goeth to the east teach them that shall be converted to flee to the west, and this in consequence of that which is coming on the earth, and of secret combinations.
The Latter Day Saints avoided the Civil War in their exodus to the Rocky Mountains.
An interesting tidbit on the Christmas 1832 revelation. The LDS apostle Orson Hyde had been mocked by eastern papers after he gave a speech in 1850 that war was about to divide the nation. After the Civil War broke out in 1862 he wrote a "I told you so" letter to the editor of the Missouri Republican of Springfield. The following excerpt of this letter was printed in the Millennial Star on May 3, 1862:
"You have scarcely yet read the preface of your national trouble. Many nations will be drawn into the American maelstrom that now whirls through our land; and after many days, when the demon of war shall have exhausted his strength and madness upon American soil, by the destruction of all that can court or provoke opposition, he will remove his headquarters to the banks of the Rhine."
Millennial Star, 24 (3 May 1862):274-275, emphasis added.
Wrong, see above.
Not any more than yours.Your views are unfounded.
Not any more than yours.
My religion is the only correct one if you don't believe it sucks to be you. :shrug:
Ha ha ha ha ha, you show evidence to the contrary.Evidence?