Why St. Paul would have expelled Mormon founder Joseph Smith

Many Christians have a neighbor, a co-worker, or perhaps a relative who’s a Mormon. Christians and Mormons in America share lots of the identical nationwide and group commitments, and usually attempt to be loving, variety, respectful and patriotic. 

Mormons imagine 4 books have been impressed by God: The Ebook of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Nice Worth, and the Bible. The founder and first prophet of Mormonism authored the three Mormon books. Joseph Smith (1805-1844) claimed he obtained golden plates from an angel named Moroniin 1827 containing data that was translated into the Ebook of Mormon. 

There are in fact many main discrepancies between the Bible and the three Mormon books. Mormonism rejects the Trinity, whereas additionally claiming that God was as soon as a person. As well as, Joseph Smith manufactured “another Jesus” (2 Cor. 11:4) who’s a created being. If truth be told, the “Jesus” of Mormonism doesn’t exist. This imaginary god is a counterfeit Christ that may assist nobody!

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Mormons basically place their soul into the arms of Joseph Smith by believing the renegade prophet’s newfangled doctrines. Mormons assume Smith’s writings have been impressed by God despite the fact that his revelations clearly contradict the Bible. And it wasn’t simply Joseph’s doctrine that was aberrant, however his insatiable urge for food for sexual immorality. 

Joseph Smith had as much as 40 wives, together with 10 youngsters and 11 ladies taken from residing husbands. Smith’s conduct was as deviant because the imprisoned cult chief and polygamist Warren Jeffs with his 78 wives. The second president of the Mormon group was Brigham Younger, who adopted Joseph’s licentious instance by having 56 wives. 

Nobody ought to maintain Mormons in the present day accountable for the sins of their founder, particularly because the Mormon church started prohibiting polygamy in 1890. However what Mormons are culpable for in the present day is selecting to give up their soul to the pernicious doctrines launched by a wolf in Mormon clothes.

Joseph Smith’s “first known affair was with a 16-year-old teenager named Fanny Alger who was living with Smith and his first wife Emma in their Kirtland, Ohio, home.” Smith “further cemented his reputation for fooling around by making moves on a then-married teenager, Zina D. Hunington, whom he asked on October 25, 1841 to become another one of his multiple wives. Smith informed her (using a line he also employed with Emma and others) that he was ordered to do so by a sword-wielding angel who was threatening to kill him if he disobeyed.” Joseph Smith’s “moves to seduce other men’s wives were so brazen and notorious that they led one distraught husband, Orson Pratt, to attempt suicide in Nauvoo, Illinois, on July 14, 1842.”

Think about the Apostle Paul participating in sexual sin with a number of single ladies, not to mention a bevy of married ladies and youngsters. Fortunately, the Holy Spirit would by no means have used an unrepentant, sexually immoral particular person to write down a single New Testomony letter, not to mention the 13 or 14 epistles written by Paul.

Whereas God by no means endorsed polygamy within the Previous Testomony, He did surprisingly enable it to happen at occasions. However, polygamists have been barred from management within the New Testomony church (see 1 Timothy 3:2; Titus 1:6). The underside line? The Apostle Paul would by no means have allowed a serial adulterer like Joseph Smith to function an elder in a New Testomony congregation. 

Think about if Joseph Smith belonged to the church in Corinth. Paul taught the Corinthian Christians tips on how to self-discipline anybody within the church who was sexually immoral and unrepentant: “Expel the wicked man from among you” (see 1 Corinthians 5:9-13). St. Paul would have made positive that Joseph Smith was kicked out of the congregation.

Examine the religious darkness inside Joseph Smith’s soul to the sunshine of the New Testomony which instructs believers to “keep the marriage bed pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral” (Hebrews 13:4). Joseph Smith’s egocentric agenda to seduce ladies opened his coronary heart to embrace many false and misleading doctrines, which in flip have lured hundreds of thousands of younger Mormons into religious deception. (See the insightful useful resource, “Ten Lies I Told as a Mormon Missionary.”) 

Paul wrote to the younger pastor Timothy, “Watch your life and doctrine closely” (1 Timothy 4:16). Joseph Smith’s life and doctrine have been diametrically against sexual purity and true doctrine. Christians, and particularly Christian leaders, are required to “abstain from sexual immorality” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Will you imagine the impressed and inerrant Phrase of God, or the fanciful opinions of a wayward prophet who slept round with dozens of ladies? 

Paul wrote, “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18). Any religious chief who intentionally and repeatedly devotes his physique to sexual sin invitations demonic enter into his ideas, writings and revelations.  

Mormon historian Richard Bushman says “the ‘signal feature’ of Smith’s life was ‘his sense of being guided by revelation.'” And since Joseph Smith’s life and doctrine violated Scripture so explicitly, he clearly was not getting his revelation from the Holy Spirit. As an alternative, a darkish angel seized upon an bold and sexually immoral younger man who grew to become an keen medium for “a different Gospel” (Galatians 1:6) and the launching of a brand new faith. 

In my CP op-ed, “Why a Former High Priest Left Mormonism,” Mike Wilder testified that after coming to religion in Christ, “I took off my Mormon garments I had been wearing for 30 years … and I put on a cross at that point … because in 30 years in the LDS church I never heard one sermon about the blood and the cross.”

In case you are a Mormon, be assured that God loves you, and the Holy Spirit can introduce you to the actual Jesus! Stick to the Bible, and fully disregard Joseph Smith’s deranged doctrines and fanatical tales. Fortunately, many former Mormons have met the actual Jesus and been born once more by the actual Gospel! (see John 3:1-18).