Answers to My Mormon Friends

Thomas F. Heinze

Jan 2011 · Chick Publications

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

This books has some facts. However, the author should trust his readers enough to at least provide nominal context and counterpoints. As is, it reads like a cherry-picking straw-man hit job. While there are many valid and interesting criticisms of the LDS church, this book discusses very few of them. I put this on the same shelf as many short-sighted anti-christian polemics whose authors only experience is a cursory read of the Bible to find anachronisms and inconsistencies, and previous flawed rhetoric.

Well the most reliable source is the King James bible and God makes it clear that all teachings must be checked to see if it contradicts the bible or if it is in agreement. Example the Book of Mormon has to be in accordance with the King James bible in order to be accepted as the true word of God. In the Journal of discourses vol. II pg. 40 teaches that God was once a man who lived on this earth 🌎 but later he became a God. The Bible says in Matthew Chapter 6 vs 9 that God is Spirit. John chapter 1:1 confirms that Jesus and his father always existed before the universe was created, and that they both ruled heaven together with absolute authority, and that THE WORD(Jesus) IS GOD! the Bible explains that Jesus in the beginning Jesus was God, and then became a man to rescue mankind!

I know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is the only church here on earth that has the authority from our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, it was being restored by the Prophet Joseph Smith, I know that the Book of Mormon contains the mysteries of God, it teaches us what we must do to gain eternal life, it gives us peace here on earth by reading and pondering the messages it contains, God will answer our questions if we'll just humbly pray unto thee with a sincerity of our hearts (James 1:6) he will manifest it unto us through the Holy Spirit, I know that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ loves us soo much, Jesus Christ was once came to earth to atone all of us from our sins if we'll just obey his commandments, all mankind maybe saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel are 1st: Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, second: Repentance, 3rd : Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, 4rth: Laying on of hands for that gift of the Holy Ghost, lastly: Endure to the End....Whatever the persecutions arrived I know that all these things are true in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen 😌🙏