Members of the Latter Day Saints really really love genealogy, in fact it's tied very tightly to one of their practices
3 As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, 4 nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. (1 Timothy 1:3-4)
This love of genealogy is tied to their practice of "Baptism of the Dead" where they baptize a living person and that baptism gets transferred to a dead person and voilà! that dead person is saved.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment (Hebrews 9:27)
The doctrine of baptism for the dead was first given to the Mormon church by Joseph Smith in 1836 and is found in his Doctrine and Covenants but not in the Book of Mormon., and I'm not sure if it's covered in The Pearl of Great Price
5 Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. 6 Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar. (Proverbs 30:5-6)
That sure looks like a photo of a young Jim Carrey from his 1970's Saturday Night Live days! :)
ReplyDeleteJust one of the many doctrines which prove that Mormons are NOT Christians. The WWUTT video gives more doctrinal proof of the same thing. They are unsaved and lost as long as they do not accept the TRUE Christ and God of the Bible. Yet way too many Christians think Mormons are just another Christian denomination.
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