Download or read book Mormonism the Occult Behavior of Joseph Smith written by Crone Billy Crone and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mormonism the Occult Behavior of Joseph Smith written by Billy Crone and published by Get a Life Ministries. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Smith Jr. was born in 1805 in the state of Vermont, acquiring his father traits of being a gold digger and from his mother, superstition and involvement in witchcraft and the occult. During his younger years while trying to decide which denomination he should join he was told by "Jesus" that he should not join any of them because they were all abominations. As he continued his search, he received a burning in his bosom while receiving several visits from an angel Moroni, from which he was also given a set of golden plates. They were later translated in 1830 into the Book of Mormon and the Mormon church or The Church of Latter-Day Saints was established. Because Joseph Smith Jr. was a liar, a plagiarist, a racist, involved in witchcraft and the occult and had multiple relations with other church members wives, he was finally murdered by his own members in 1844. His life may have ended abruptly but the LDS church continued to grow and make money. As you read Mormonism & the Occult Behavior of Joseph Smith you will learn more from the following topics: Mormonism and Freemasonry Mormonism and the Native Americans Mormonism and Racism Mormonism and Joseph Smith the Martyr Mormonism and their Secret Handshakes, Symbols, and Undergarments Mormonism and the Baptism of the Dead Mormonism and Witchcraft You will find that after studying Mormonism & the Occult Behavior of Joseph Smith, these people are in great need of hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and be told that they need to run not walk and get out of this occultic religion as fast as they can. This study will give you the necessary tools needed to witness to a member of the LDS Church and open their eyes to the false teaching that they have been under. This is definitely a book you need to complete your library.

Download or read book Joseph Smith s Bainbridge N Y Court Trials written by Wesley P. Walters and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Founder of Mormonism written by Woodbridge Riley and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Mormonism and the Magic World View written by D. Michael Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in understanding how Mormons may have interpreted developments. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet.

Download or read book From Occult to Cult with Joseph Smith Jr written by Wesley P. Walters and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Answers to My Mormon Friends written by Thomas F. Heinze and published by Chick Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mormonism stands or falls on the life of its founder, Joseph Smith That's why you (and Mormons who read this book) will be amazed as you learn about Smith's personal life, starting with his early youth and progressing to his later years. This well-researched book also exposes serious problems with the doctrines Smith created, as well as facts you need to know about his abilities as a translator. Learn about Joseph Smith's brushes with the law. Read about how, in his younger days, he was found guilty of using occult practices to defraud people. Learn of a Mormon historian who concedes that Joseph Smith was the "village magician." See examples of doctrines Smith created that contradict the very Bible Mormons claim to believe. Learn of several of Smith's doctrines that contradict the Book of Mormon. See how some of his doctrines even contradict each other. Discover how Mormonism has been forced to change her doctrines over the years. Learn about the thousands of changes and corrections that have been made to the Book of Mormon. This easy-reading book provides powerful information to convince Mormons that their religion cannot be of God. It was written to be read by either Christians or Mormons, and includes a clear presentation of the gospel and an invitation to trust Christ alone for salvation.

Download or read book The Angel and the Sorcerer written by Peter Levenda and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Levenda’s research into Mormonism, Freemasonry, and esoteric societies over the past thirty years, this book is intended for an audience that is curious about Mormonism in light of the fact that at the beginning of 2012 there were two Mormons running for the GOP presidential nomination against two Roman Catholics. There has been much confusion in the media over various Mormon phenomena, such as the “magic underwear,” polygamy “Big Love” style, and much else. This book examines the beliefs and reveals the facts of Mormon ideas and practice, starting with its founder Joseph Smith Jr. who began his religious career with rituals of ceremonial magic and divination, and ended it with Freemasonry, the largest militia in the state of Illinois, a candidacy for US president, and assassination. Levenda also discussed the Mormons connection to Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and Watergate as well as the role of Mormons in contemporary Presidential elections. This is the fascinating story of a purely American religion, its occult origins, and the rise of Mormons in American politics.

Download or read book The First Vision The Joseph Smith Story written by Jim Whitefield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mormon Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) admits that it stands or falls on the validity or otherwise of Joseph Smith's claimed First Vision. This booklet examines each aspect of Smith's official account and compares it with historical evidence, including his own earlier versions of events, along with all Smith's other writings - to arrive at the only possible conclusion. Was the vision a first time, first hand, divine experience or was it made up as Smith went along and just part of an elaborate hoax? This work is made available in the interest of truth and integrity for those who want to know or share the truth which is supported by hard evidence. A PDF eBook version is also available (click on 'Author's Spotlight' for more details) which may be copied and shared (see copyright conditions). This booklet is also available to read free as an article at: www.themormondelusion.com. Click on 'The First Vision' tab on the side bar of the home page.

Download or read book Mormonism sifted or the question Was Joseph Smith sent by God examined being the substance of a lecture on 1 Thess v 21 etc written by Edward B. Hickman and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith written by Robert D. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled childhood. A difficult adolescence. How might these have affected the adult character of church founder Joseph Smith? Psychiatrist Robert D. Anderson explores the impact on young Joseph of his family's ten moves in sixteen years, their dire poverty, especially after his father's Chinese export venture failed, and his father's drinking. It is equally significant, writes Anderson, that Joseph's mother suffered bouts of depression. For instance, "for months" she "did not feel as though life was worth seeking" after two sisters died of tuberculosis and later when she buried two sons, Ephraim and Alvin. A typhoid epidemic nearly claimed her daughter Sophronia, and the same affliction left Joseph with a crippled leg, after which he was sent to live on the coast with an uncle. Such factors and others produced emotional wounds that emerged later in the prophet's life and writings, in particular, according to Anderson, in the Book of Mormon.

Download or read book Joseph Smith Jesus and Satanic Opposition written by Douglas J. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Mormon theology in new ways from a scholarly non-Mormon perspective. Bringing Jesus and Satan into relationship with Joseph Smith the founding prophet, Douglas Davies shows how the Mormon 'Plan of Salvation' can be equated with mainstream Christianity's doctrine of the Trinity as a driving force of the faith. Exploring how Jesus has been understood by Mormons, his many Mormon identities are described in this book: he is the Jehovah of the Bible, our Elder Brother and Father, probably also a husband, he visited the dead and is also the antagonist of Satan-Lucifer. This book offers a way into the Mormon 'problem of evil' understood as apostasy, from pre-mortal times to today. Three images reveal the wider problem of evil in Mormonism: Jesus' pre-mortal encounter with Lucifer in a heavenly council deciding on the Plan of Salvation, Jesus Christ's great suffering-engagement with evil in Gethsemane, and Joseph Smith's First Vision of the divine when he was almost destroyed by an evil force. Douglas Davies, well-known for his previous accounts of Mormon life and thought, shows how renewed Mormon interest in theological questions of belief can be understood against the background of Mormon church-organization and its growing presence on the world-stage of Christianity.

Download or read book VOLUME II THE CREATION OF MORMONISM JOSEPH SMITH JR IN THE 1820S written by JOHN J HAMMOND and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of an epic, multi-volume work entitled The Quest for the New Jerusalem: A Mormon Generational Saga, which combines family, Mormon, and American history, focusing upon how the author’s ancestors were affected by their conversion to the Mormon religion. In Volume I, four of the author’s ancestral families—the Carters, Hammonds, Knowltons, and Spencer’s—and the ancestors of Mormon Church founders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, are followed from the time they enter the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England in the 1600s down to the early 1800s. Their private lives are described, as well as how they are affected by such events and situations as King Philip’s War, the Salem Witch Trials, the institution of black slavery, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution. Toward the end of Volume I, the focus is upon Joseph Smith and his family, including their move from Vermont to western New York, their religious and “magic world views,” the latter involving astrology, ritual magic, and treasure-seer and treasure-digging activities. Volume II takes up the narrative at about the year 1820, and involves a detailed, comprehensive, and critical look at the events in the life of Joseph Smith, Jr., during the decade in which he purportedly was visited by numerous heavenly messengers, received the “golden plates,” translated the writing on the plates to produce the Book of Mormon, received priesthood authority from other heavenly messengers, published the Book of Mormon, and organized the Mormon/LDS Church. Making use of the most recent historical research, the author tackles the controversial issues surrounding the First Vision (the supposed appearance to Joseph Jr. of God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ in 1820), the Second Vision (1823 to 1827) which produced the Book of Mormon, and the Third Vision (late 1820s or early 1830s) which involved the “restoration” of priesthood authority. The author looks at original sources/documents and also compares the perspectives of major loyal Mormon, non-Mormon, and ex-Mormon scholars on these controversial questions. There is a discussion of the serious lack of congruence between how Joseph Smith, Jr., described these events “officially” after 1837, and what was being said by the Smith family, their neighbors, early Mormon converts, and by newspaper accounts during the 1820s and early 1830s. There is, for example, no mention of a First Vision for at least twelve years after it supposedly occurred, and there are several conflicting versions of it by Joseph Jr. in the 1830s, once he started talking about it. Primary focus, however, is upon what the author collectively calls the Second Vision, which purportedly involved multiple visitations by an angel/spirit between 1823 and 1827. It was from this heavenly messenger that Joseph Jr. obtained “golden plates,” and the Book of Mormon was, he maintained, a “translation” by him of the ancient American writings on these plates. There is a thorough examination of the complex and contentious issues surrounding the origin of the Book of Mormon, and several chapters look closely at the evidence regarding its “authenticity”—the question whether it was written by Joseph Jr. or by ancient American prophets/scribes. The author also thoroughly discusses the “testimony” in the Book of Mormon of the Three Witnesses and Eight Witnesses, and offers an alternative narrative regarding what really transpired with Joseph Jr. during the 1820s. Later in Volume II several chapters look at how Mormon Church organization went through a significant evolution during its earliest years, moving against the American democratic grain toward an increasingly centralized, authoritarian structure. There is a detailed look at Joseph Jr.’s claims regarding a “restoration” of priesthood authority during the late 1820s and early 1830s, and the considerable controver

Download or read book Joseph Smith the Prophet teacher written by Brigham Henry Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon 2d ed written by David Persuitte and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as a growing interest in millennialism at the turn of this century has rejuvenated religious debate and questions concerning the fate of the world, so did Mormonism develop from millennial enthusiasm early in the nineteenth century. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and a provocative, even controversial figure in history, declared that he had been given the authority to restore the true church in the latter days. The primary source of Smith's latter-day revelation is The Book of Mormon, and to fully understand his role as the founder of the Mormon faith, one must also understand The Book of Mormon and how it came to be. Unfortunately, the literature about Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon is permeated with contradiction and controversy. In the first edition of this impressive work, David Persuitte provided a significant amount of revealing biographical information about Smith that resolved many of the controversies concerning his character. He also presented an extensive comparative analysis positing that the probable conceptual source for The Book of Mormon was a book entitled View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America, which was written by an early New England minister named Ethan Smith. Now in an expanded and revised second edition incorporating many new findings relating to the origin of The Book of Mormon, Mr. Persuitte's book continues to shed much new light on the path Joseph Smith took toward founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Download or read book Mormonism in All Ages written by Jonathan Baldwin Turner and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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