Two big reasons I talk about Mormonism.

By Pastor Doug

One – I love the Mormon people.
Two – Right now around 53,000 full time Mormon missionaries are trying to convince people the Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on earth and that the Bible is corrupt and untrustworthy.

Right now these dedicated and sincere young men and women want people to believe the cities of Moronihah, Zarahemla, Antiparah or Gimgimno were real. (Forgive me for this but Gimgimno reminds me of a song in the Mary Poppins movie). They want you to believe that the Bible has suffered a loss of many plain and precious parts. (See 1 Nephi 13:28-29.) Mormons forever downplay the Bible, while in the meantime archeology continues to back the Bible’s stories and cities.

I don’t believe everyday Mormons are deliberately trying to do away with the Bible, but it is obvious Muslims are. Case in point, in 1999 Muslim caretakers of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem asked permission from the Israeli government to construct an emergency exit to one of their mosques on the Temple Mount. Once permission was obtained, they instead of digging a small exit made a huge entrance to the building. And instead of digging carefully and looking for artifacts they used bull dozers and dumped the dirt in the landfill. Their motivation was to remove any possible connection between the Temple Mount and the Jews.

Muslims want to remove any visible artifact that would confirm that a Jewish Temple ever existed on the Mount. However, their hateful effort to remove evidence of Jewish presence actually revealed evidence proving Jewish occupation on those very grounds and the reality of two Jewish Temples just like the Bible says.

The dirt in the landfill discarded from the Mount contained arrowheads of the Babylonian army of King Nebuchadnezzar. He destroyed the First Temple in 587 B.C., and another arrowhead that had the marks of being shot by a catapult was found. This instrument of war was used only by the armies of the Roman general Titus who destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD.

Wow! The reality of the Bible keeps popping its head out of the dirt proving its writings true, while the Book of Mormon, with all its 5,000 changes can’t even find the shard of a broken pot. Friends, we can trust the Bible for history, and we can also trust it to learn about the Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. I’m hoping the words of the Apostle Paul will ring true to those who are being fed the Book of Mormon fantasy. He says don’t “…give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.” 1 Timothy 1:4