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Meeting the Challenge of a LDS Missionary

Recently I was visited by two missionaries from the LDS church. Among other things they charged me that they knew that the record of the Book of Mormon was true because it filled them with peace. I immediately reminded them that many things of life can give a peace but they are not true and the peace will not be lasting. They challenged me to pray and that the Holy Spirit would reveal to me whether or not Joseph Smith was a prophet of God or an Apostate from hell. This article is the answer to that challenge and the Truth of the Holy Spirit.

The first evidence of fallacy that is noticeable when reading the Book of Mormon is that the authority is self derived. This is evident because of the incessant use of the first person nominative case pronoun ‘I’. This is reminiscent of the five I will’s of Satan (Isaiah 14:12-15). Satan always speaks highly of himself. Jesus had seven I will’s but He did not speak of what He would do for Himself but what He would do for others. (read about them here)

Not a single book in the sixty-six books of accepted canon begins with the personal pronoun ‘I’. Most begin with the word ‘Now’. Indicating that the God that wrote these scriptures is the God of ‘Now’. He is the God who meets you where you are ‘Now’ to bring you into where He is. There is one book in the sixty-six books of accepted canon which contains the personal pronoun ‘I’ in the second verse. It does not refer to man it refers to God and He is not talking about Himself, instead He’s talking about His favorite thing to talk about. This is the beginning of the verse. (Malachi 1:2a I have loved you, saith the LORD…)

Almost every part of the Book of Mormon seeks to prove the credibility of the writers by human terms. A common tact is to justify the claims of the author by showing good works. Another attempt at establishing credibility throughout the book is filial honor. Honoring of parents is good but because a man’s parents tell him to write prophecy or historical record does not make it anymore true.

In the sixty-six books of accepted canon God’s prophets do not speak of their good works ever. They speak of the wise of the Prophet Isaiah who said, “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” (Isaiah 6:5) Credibility can never be established by the works of men but only by the Fruit of the Spirit.

The challenge is met. It is easily discerned through the Spirit of Truth that the Book of Mormon is a lie. By the words of the missionaries who issued the challenge to me, “A peace will come over you if you read the truth.” There was not peace in reading the Book of Mormon. There was only the feeling a deep mist like being deceived. There was only a heaviness as I read of prophets telling God what to do or writing that they were told not to write things but they did anyway as the false prophet Moroni . It is known by 2 Timothy 3:16 that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”.

There is no need to elaborate on the problems in Mormon doctrine. It is a waste of time to research the 50+ prophecies of Joseph Smith that were proved incorrect. It isn’t necessary to show that the witnesses who testified to having seen the golden plates on which the Book of Mormon was written almost all fell away from the very church that they testified of.

My friends the True Gospel is not complicated. It is so simple that even a child can understand it and so powerful that it could bring a grown warrior to his knees. It is simply this, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9). If the Spirit is giving you that peace right now and telling you that it is True then call 1-888-NEED-HIM or read the ABCs of Salvation here