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"CREATION: By: Kaufmann Kohler, Emil G. Hirsch The bringing into existence of the world by the act of God. Most Jewish philosophers find in (Gen. i. 1) creation ex nihilo (). The etymological meaning of the verb , however, is "to cut out and put into shape," and thus presupposes the use of...

Joseph Smith believed that "God," or "Gods," created our sun and solar system, including the earth, by pushing matter together. In the 19th century, astronomers believed, or assumed, that our sun would burn, produce heat and light, forever. They didn't know how the sun produced light and heat so...

Hello, my fellow disciples of Christ! I am here looking for answers and my heart is broken. At the beginning of August, I had a crisis of faith and started a course of abandoning the principles and doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I was born and raised in the Mormon...

What did Joseph Smith think of religious freedom? The King Follett sermon is his most famous sermon. In this sermon, we find: “But meddle not with any man for his religion: all governments ought to permit every man to enjoy his religion unmolested.” Did Joseph Smith practice religious freedom...

Jer 31:31-34 states the New Covenant as follows - 31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out...

This lady with the interesting name has written two children's books (one for girls, and one for boys) on the subject of 'heavenly mother', so this popular LDS YouTube channel interviews her on the topic. The video is pure LDS propaganda (as you'd expect), but even then I find it interesting...

Around 25 years ago, my local County Library had a section devoted to Mormon Journal of Discourses--mainly from sermons of Brigham Young. Then, before resigning my membership in the Mormon Church, I felt I had to really delve deep into what my former Mormon church taught and them pit that...

Watching this kind of manipulation in action is not only helpful in learning how to navigate such roadblocks put in the way to getting to the truth (on the Mormon religion, on the person of JS, on the BOM, on whatever), but also helps us to see why our Mormon friends on this website and...

James 2:10-12 Good News Translation (GNT) 10 Whoever breaks one commandment is guilty of breaking them all. 11 For the same one who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Even if you do not commit adultery, you have become a lawbreaker if you commit murder. 12 Speak...

LDS bishops asking such invasive questions in worthiness interviews that they actually give people specific ideas they wouldn't have otherwise had? LDS leaders revoking temple recommends for refusing to stop talking about your own divorce, in the context of trying to get help dealing with it...

The slipperiness of the LDS leadership is on display again, this time in a speech of Jeffrey Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, given to the Maxwell Institute at BYU, the Mormon religion's flagship university: This is one instance where I might not fully agree with the uploader...

It's kinda funny given how much the Mormon religion apparently prizes free will and freedom of religion that their leadership sometimes slips up and says things that are diametrically opposed to this publicly tolerant face. Apparently since the LDS religion means everything to their leader...

I was entertaining the idea that God may have spoken to the LDS leaders at different times. But then I found this. The LDS prophet Joseph Smith said he heard a voice that proclaimed the coming of Son of Man: Doctrine and Covenants 130: 14 I was once praying very earnestly to know the time of...

Just wanted to share this video I just found, which has in it a clip from John Dehlin's Mormon Stories podcast wherein he interviews Roger Hendrix, a man who has worn several hats within the LDS church and says that the God is essentially a story that people have invented, that Joseph Smith told...

As many of your already know, I am always on the lookout for intersections of the BOM/LDS and language (in their apologetics, pseudo-academic studies, etc.) due to my own background as a linguist, but I know there are also related disciplines from which the LDS religion likes to borrow in an...

So I found this interesting video when I was looking just now for a YouTube channel that I had heard about that is run by a young woman who had been born Mormon, converted to Islam, and then left Islam to become some kind of atheist or agnostic (she was featured on a podcast I listened to the...

Hi. I don't go out of my way to look at Mormon temple videos. I have seen them before thanks to YouTube's automatic play function, but I've never specifically searched for one. But today I was watching a video discussing the LDS practice of baptism for the dead from an atheist perspective, and...

Hi everyone, I didn't know where to post this but I have finally left the LDS church, I read the New Testament all the way through and I knew it wasn't the true church by the time I'd finished Luke. I've lost everyone, my friends, most of my family, I'm lucky my marriage is holding together...

This is a thought-provoking meditation on the parable of the lost sheep as it applies to those who have fallen away from the faith in Christianity, in comparison to the LDS leadership (as represented by Bruce R. McConkie and David A. Bednar) in their treatment of those who have fallen away from...

1. There are three heavens (D&C 76, Heaven and Hell chapter 5). Swedenborg divided the heavens into three: celestial, spiritual, and natural, with divisions so absolute that direct communication is generally not possible without divine help. Those of lower heavens in general...