Biblical Reasons Ministry
The Mormon Miracle Pageant
The Mormon Miracle Pageant is a play held each year in June on a hillside adjacent to the LDS temple in Manti, Utah. Please continue to pray for the Christians who witness to LDS each year.
In 2011: June 16-18 and 21-25, 2011
Mormons come from far and wide, even from foreign countries, to witness The Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti, Utah. Little do many of them know, however, what Mormonism really teaches. That's the Christian's opportunity to present them with information and the gospel.
A neutral site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Miracle_Pageant, with a picture of Evangelical Christians witnessing to attendees at the Mormon Miracle Pageant 1999, prior to the nightly performance on the south lawn of temple hill.
A con site:
http://www.helpingmormons.org/mormon_miracle_pageant.htm
"You will find a glossy coated description of the Manti Pageant from the LDS church's point of view. Later you can read an honest description of the Christians reaching out to those in attendance."
A pro site:
"On eight evenings in June, a cast of over 500 depict with dance, music and drama, on a stage larger than a football field, some of the most compelling and dramatic scenes from {ed. alleged} ancient American history. Witness for yourself an epic struggle of good and evil and characters you will never forget: Captain Moroni, Ammon, King Lamoni, Mormon, Samuel the Lamanite and others."
"As you sit under a canopy of stars --the beautiful Manti Temple rising before you -- you can look to the east and see the beauty of the hills much as it was when these ancient people {ed. allegedly} lived and died. For the first time, the visit of the resurrected Christ to these ancient people will be portrayed in The Mormon Miracle Pageant. You will see Him appear to the people at the end of the terrible destruction that accompanied His crucifixion. You will see Him heal the sick and comfort their children. You will learn how the record of this sacred visit was written and preserved for our time."
A few pictures from Manti, 2005 and 2006
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How Many Gods Are There?
If you say that you only worship one God, but don’t deny the existence of other Gods, you are a polytheist and not a monotheist.
Does it Matter?
What does God say of Himself?
“Monotheism is the belief in the existence of one god, as distinguished from polytheism, the belief in more than one god, and atheism, the absence of belief in any god.” - wikipedia/monotheism
“Polytheism is the belief of multiple deities also usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own mythologies and rituals.” - wikipedia/polytheism
When it comes to defining whether a religion is monotheistic or polytheistic, the adherents’ means of worship does not help the decision. Discussing the nature of said God is no help either. The only thing that matters is the answer to the question: how many are there?
Historic, biblical Christianity adheres to the belief that there exists only one True, Living and Most High God, from everlasting to everlasting, from forever to forever, from vanishing point to vanishing point, the only God. Not the only God “for us,” but the only one.
What Does God Say of Himself?
Isaiah 43:10
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah 44:6, 8
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isaiah 45:5
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me.
In Mormonism, however, there is a pantheon of gods.
The founder of the LDS (Mormon) religion, Joseph Smith, stated:
“Here, then, is eternal life—
to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods
yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have
done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from
a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to
exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able
to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit
enthroned in everlasting power.”
Read: History of the Church,
Vol. 6, p. 302-317
Scanned copy. Achieving a Celestial Marriage, Church Education System, Department of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah 1976, 1992, pg. 132 - Doctrines of Salvation, Vol.2, p.48
God has a God?
President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Our Father in heaven according to the
Prophet, had a Father, and since there has been a condition of this kind
through all eternity, each Father had a Father." (Doctrines of Salvation
2:47)
"I know that God is a being with body, parts and passions...Man was born of woman; Christ, the Savior, was born of woman; and God, the Father was born of woman" Church News, 19 Sept, 1936, p.2 - President Joseph F. Smith
Who do you believe?
The LDS Church?
Or God?
www.youtube.com/user/
MormonDoctrinedotnet
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33 Years Later
Still No Apology?
Was it just His Opinion?
You Decide
(Thanks to MRM.org for the two images above)
LDS Scripture
Book of Mormon
1 Nephi 11:13 (Mary)
"... she was exceedingly fair and white."
1 Nephi 12:23 (Prophecy of Lamanites after Christ) "...became a dark, and loathsome,
and a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of abominations."
1 Nephi 13:15 (Gentiles) "...they were white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people before they were slain."
2 Nephi 5:21 "...a sore cursing... as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."
2 Nephi 30:6 (Prophecy to Lamanites) "... scales of darkness shall begin to fall... they shall be a white and delightsome people." (Changed to pure and delightsome in 1981)
Jacob 3:5 (Lamanites cursed) "...whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins..."
Jacob 3:8-9 "...their skins will be whiter than yours... revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins ..."
Alma 3:6 "...skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion..."
Alma 3:8 (Cursed) "...that their seed might be distinguished from the seed of their brethren... that they might not mix..."
Alma 3:9"...whosoever did mingle his seed with that of the Lamanites did bring the same curse upon his seed."
Alma 3:14 (Lamanites cursed) "... set a mark on them that they and their seed may be separated from thee and thy seed..."
3 Nephi 2:14-16 "...Lamanites who had united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites; And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites... became exceedingly fair..."
3 Nephi 19:25, 30 (Disciples) "... they were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus; and behold the whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness... nothing upon earth so white as the whiteness thereof... they were white, even as Jesus."
Mormon 5:15 (Prophecy about Lamanites) "...shall become a dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people, beyond the description of that which ever hath been amongst us..."
Pearl of Great Price
Moses 7:8 "...a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan..."
Moses 7:12 "...Enoch continued to call upon all the people, save it were (except) the people of Canaan, to repent..."
Moses 7:22 "...for the seed of Cain were black and had not place among them."
Abraham 1:21 "...king of Egypt (Pharaoh) was a descendant from the loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth."
Abraham 1:27 "...Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood..."
Mormon Testimonies Turned to Christ
Updated 4.10
Why Mormonism?
Mormon Temples
Secret or Sacred?
What Happens In There?
The Mormon Miracle Pageant
That’s my King! (S M Lockridge) – free video
"Jesus' blood on the altar was the ultimate payment. He made us worthy permanently. When Jesus died on the cross the veil covering the Holy of Holies tore in half. The mercy seat lay exposed to mankind. There is no veil, anymore, between God and man. Jesus ripped it down. But Mormonism has hung up a new one." -Kathleen Baldwin
To the questioning Mormon. God loves you and has a
wonderful plan for your life. Visit Testimonies Turned to Christ at
the top of this section to understand that you're not alone.
"It
wasn’t until one day that when I was flat on my back for days, and crying
out to Him, that I realized how all along He had been trying to get my
attention, and the only way to get it was to make me stop dead in my tracks,
flat on my back, and focus on Him and what it was that He was trying to tell
me all along. In
James 4:8 (a) we read: 'Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.' In
James 4:10 we read: 'Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will
lift you up.'" He Gave You Jesus
- by Justjo "Counterfeit, fake, bogus,
imitation, forgery, fraud, copy.... We all recognize these words, as well as
understand their meaning. There are many counterfeits out there. If they were
easy to detect, they would not be called counterfeits. God gave us these
wonderful books in the Bible to test these counterfeits. This is where we find
our markers to detect them. The Holy Spirit does not contradict Gods word...."
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