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Category Archives: Mormonism
Did the First Vision of Joseph Smith Happen 200 Years Ago?
Some Mormons believe that yesterday—March 26, 2020—marked the 200-year anniversary of the First Vision, in which Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son in the woods near his home. If the First Vision had taken place in the spring … Continue reading
Did Moses Literally See the Face of God?
Exodus 33:11 says that the Lord spoke “face to face” with Moses, but Exodus 33:20 says that Moses could not see the Lord’s face. Is this a contradiction? Two preliminary observations may be helpful. First, we should notice that Exodus … Continue reading
Joseph Smith and the Many Wives of David and Solomon: Authorized or Abominable?
In all of the debate over Joseph Smith’s teachings and practices regarding polygamy, little attention seems to have been given to an explicit contradiction in his scriptural revelations. This contradiction concerns what the Lord thought of David and Solomon having … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism
Tagged Book of Mormon, David, Joseph Smith, plural marriage, polygamy, Solomon
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Don’t Know Much about Book of Mormon Geography
On January 29, 2019 (yesterday as of the time of this writing), the LDS Church published an article online entitled “Book of Mormon Geography,” another installment in its series of innocuously titled “Gospel Topics” essays. Begun in 2013, this series … Continue reading
Leaving IRR but Not Leaving Mormonism Alone!
Last month, I announced that the Institute for Religious Research, where I have worked since 2008, was facing a deep financial crisis that made its future after the spring of next year very doubtful. Since that announcement, a few people … Continue reading
Posted in Christian apologists, Mormonism
Tagged Institute for Religious Research, Joel Groat
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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part Two: Responding to Mormon Misrepresentations of the Trinity
In Part One of this response to LDS apologist Ronald Kimmons’s flow chart on the Trinity, I summarized his argument and replied to red herrings or misdirections included in that chart that are not germane to the issue of whether … Continue reading
Posted in Mormonism, Trinity
Tagged analogies, heresy, incomprehensibility, Latter-day Saints, modalism, theological method
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Are You Smarter than a Trinitarian? Part One: Responding to Mormon Misdirection on the Trinity
Ronald Kimmons is a Latter-day Saint businessman with political ambitions, a self-described “digital marketing professional, linguist, and smartypants” who has also spent a lot of time answering questions on the popular Q&A website Quora. According to his Quora profile, Kimmons, … Continue reading
Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and Christology, Mormonism, Trinity, Unitarianism
Tagged heresy, Latter-day Saints
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Answers to Mormon Answers on Moroni 8:18
August 18 is observed annually with the message “We Agree with Moroni 8:18” by evangelical Christians who seek to share the biblical faith with Latter-day Saints. Moroni 8:18, a verse near the end of the Book of Mormon, states: For … Continue reading
And Don’t Call Us Mormons: The LDS Church and Language Control
Earlier today the website Mormon Newsroom issued an “Official Statement” from Russell Nelson, the President and Prophet of the LDS Church: The Lord has impressed upon my mind the importance of the name He has revealed for His Church, even … Continue reading
Yea, Verily, Yea: The Word Yea and the Book of Mormon’s Imitation of the King James Version
Yesterday I posted a short article here summarizing the first three articles on IRR’s website in a new series entitled “Moroni’s New Testament.” In those articles, I showed that the author of the writings attributed to Moroni in the … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Studies, Mormonism
Tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, King James Version, KJV
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