In Leadership Education, the philosophy I lean on to homeschool my kids, there is a very important concept called the “Core Book.”
Your core book is your measuring stick, your litmus test, to measure all truth claims against.
It protects you from being deceived.
This concept should sound really familiar — it’s the basis of every world religion.
Except apparently not for Mormons?
They might tell you the Book of Mormon is their Core Book, but their current doctrines contradict it in so many ways.
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I made it through ten mins of this video. Couldn’t do it.
“We don’t play by Protestant rules!”
Really?
It’s fascinating … and yet disgusting …
To openly declare that “we are not bound by the Bible!”
And pridefully assert, “we are based on what the Bible was based on.” Meaning they are based on prophecy and direct revelation.
But the problem with Mormon revelation is that it changes every generation.
Was this man 50 years ago a prophet if the current prophet contradicts him? They can’t both be prophets.
And no, God does not change his mind that much.
God is unchanging.
He’s not racist one day and not the next. He didn’t create the earth alone one day, and have help “organizing matter” the next. He doesn’t say polygamy is an abomination one day and the next say it’s required for the top heaven. He isn’t pro-cross symbol one day and then anti-cross the next.
He didn’t promote a certain name of his church one day and the next call that exact name a “victory for Satan.”
He didn’t say baptisms for the dead are a mockery one day and then say let’s baptize the entire human race the next.
He didn’t teach his prophets the wicked will go to hell one day, and invent a kingdom of glory for them the next.
He didn’t tell Isaiah He was unique and appear to Joseph Smith as a singular God one day, and then change His mind and be a double God the next.
He didn’t tell the women to covenant to their husbands one day, and then change that exact covenant to God the next.
He didn’t say negroes are the spawn of Cain and less valiant one day and then decide they’re perfectly normal the next.
He didn’t give blood oaths to his covenant people one day, and then decide it’s not necessary after all the next.
He doesn’t go to great lengths to preserve scripture one day, then call it obsolete the next.
If all we need is “revelation,” then why the hell do we have scriptures?
If we are just going to subvert them anyway?
What’s the purpose of truth if the truth your Grandparents had no longer applies to you?
No.
Truth is timeless.
God himself is timeless.
God is unchanging.
The only time He changes his ways or His laws are when His people refuse to accept Him as He is.
“But behold, the Jews were a stiff necked people; and they despised the words of plainness, and killed the prophets, and sought for things they could not understand. Wherefore, because of their blindness, which blindness came from looking beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God has taken away his plainness from them…” (Jacob 4:14)
(Is it just me or is there a whole lotta commonality between the LDS church and the Old Testament church?)
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