~~  ALL Christian Churches Are Wrong!  ~~

This Church is the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth....
there is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, Page 670)

These two statements can be heard from Mormons, especially when witnessing. When I have called the toll free number to order a free video or a free Bible and had the LDS missionaries deliver it to my home, instead of them teaching me the six preset discussions, I witness to them. The last time I did this they actually said after we finished, "we are not really sure why you had us here".

We hear over and over again from the Mormons: "We never put down other churches", "Why do you attack us?", "We never do this to anyone!", "That's not Christian." or, "You are persecuting the Church!". LDS members interpret any disagreement or challenge with their beliefs as "persecution" or "bashing," and claim that their Church would never do such things!

REALLY !

Mormonism's revelation started with Joseph Smith inquiring in the grove which sect or denomination he should join ? God's answer to him ....

"I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: "they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof." (The Pearl of Great Price Joseph Smith History 1:19) This is the SUPPOSED voice of the Lord. All (not some) of the churches are wrong.

Why?  Because…

"Nothing less than a complete apostasy from the Christian religion would warrant the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." (Documentary History of the Church, Introduction, X1)

From its inception it in one broad swoop eliminated anything called Christian.

...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the `Christian’ churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation 3:282)."...orthodox Christian views of God are Pagan rather than Christian." (Mormon Doctrine of Deity by B.H. Roberts, p.116)

Are our views pagan.? Is not the worship of many gods and the teaching to become one the real paganism, that is Greek mythology and can be traced to Babylon.

"...the God whom the 'Christians' worship is a being of their own creation..." (Apostle Charles W. Penrose, JD 23:243)

Is not ones offspring their own creation ? This is one who will according to Mormon theology become a God on another world where his offspring will worship him as God. "Our spirits and the spirits of all the human family were begotten by Adam and born of Eve . . . I tell you, when you see your Father in heaven, you will see Adam; when you see your mother that bore your spirit, you will see mother Eve.’ (Manuscript Addresses of Brigham Young, Oct. 8, 1854)

‘When our father Adam came into the Garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is MICHAEL, the archangel, the ANCIENT OF DAYS! about whom holy men have written and spoken. HE is our FATHER and our GOD, and the Only God with whom WE have to do.’.. Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the Garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven." (Journal of Discourses, 1:50-51 1854)

Despite those who deny this today Brigham their president, Prophet /apostle said this, Some years ago I advanced a doctrine with regard to Adam being our Father and God. That will be a curse to many of the elders of Israel because of their folly with regard to it. They yet grovel in darkness and will. It is one of the most glorious revealments of the economy of heaven. (Manuscript Addresses of Brigham Young, Oct 8, `1861)

"How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me--namely that Adam is our father and God...Our Father Adam is the man who stands at the gate and holds the keys of everlasting life and salvation to all his children who have or who ever will come upon the earth." (Deseret News, June 18, 1873)

So here we have Adam a man being God, Now I ask you which really is pagan? Christianity that believes there is one God alone who created everything seen and unseen or Mormonism that teaches a creature is God & everyone can be a God.

"The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming God like himself; We are created . . . to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven." (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, page 93)

"In large part the worship of apostate Christendom is performed in ignorance, as much so as was the worship of the Athenians who bowed before the Unknown God, and to whom Paul said: "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you" (Mormon Doctrine, pg. 374).Was it Adam or another man that Paul declared to be God? How can one be God unless they were eternally God, since he is unchanging and infinite in his nature. To die means one is not God but just a creature , because the wages of sin is death. The Bible teaches that God is eternal Duet. 33:27 Ps.90:2 " From everlasting to everlasting you are God."

The founder of this new religion has said,

"We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. . . God himself; the Father of us all dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did, . . .You have go to learn how to be gods yourselves; . ." (Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, Vol. 5, pages 613-614, History of the Church, Vol. 6, pp. 305-06).

God is an exalted man, perfected, enthroned, and supreme." Mormon doctrine.p;250) "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man… I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form- like yourselves, in all the person, image and very form as a man… we have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that Idea, and will take away the veil, so that you may see. (J. Smith History of the Church vol.6 p.305)

Here then is eternal life… to know the only wise and true God. And you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods before you ... "(teachings of the prophet J. Smith p.346,347)

Yet they will actually say,

"... the time came when Paganism was engrafted into Christianity, and at last Christianity was converted into Paganism rather than converting the Pagans" (Journal of Discourses 22:44)."how many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were no Gods and worlds…(Brigham Young JD vol.7 p.333)

"To us speaking in the proper finite sense, these three are the only Gods we worship. But in addition there is an infinite number of holy personages, drawn from worlds without number, who have passed on to exaltation and are thus gods" (Mormon Doctrine, pp. 576-577).

Lets go on examining their attacks on the Christian church they claim to represent .

"But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century " (Journal of Discourses 18:172). "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They belong to Babylon." (George Q. Cannon, Gospel Truth, p.324)

"The Roman Catholic, Greek, and Protestant church, is the great corrupt, ecclesiastical power, represented by great Babylon...." (Orson Pratt, Orson Pratt, Writings of an Apostle, "Divine Authenticity," no.6, p.84).

"Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the "whore of Babylon" whom the lord denounces by the mouth.. ." (Pratt, The Seer, p.255) "Christians - those poor, miserable priests Brother Brigham was speaking about - some of them are the biggest whoremasters there are on the earth ..."(Journal of Discourses 5:89).

"Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the Church of the Lamb of God and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore whoso belongeth not to the church of the lamb of God belongeth to that great church; which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth." (The Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 14:10)

So they identify themselves as the only true church which came on the scene lately. Yet Jesus the architect of the Church said he would build it from the beginning and the gates of hell would not overcome. who are you going to believe?

"What does the Christian world know about God? Nothing...Why so far as the things of God are concerned, they are the veriest fools; they know neither God nor the things of God." (John Taylor, JI 13:225) Modern day apostle McConkie, "Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.177) He goes on to call everything that is not Mormon, "...the great apostate church as the anti-christ...This great antichrist...is the church of the devil." (Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine p.40) "We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense ... the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century" (Journal of Discourses 6:167).

But whose religion was invented in the 19th century? Not Christianity that has been here for almost 2,000 years but Mormonism and a host of others that were born from new revelation from angels. Despite the bible warns ahead of all this Gal.1:6-8, Mt.24:5,23

They say,

"Mormonism is Christianity; Christianity is Mormonism; they are one and the same, and they are not to be distinguished from each other in the minutest detail ... Mormons are true Christians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ and accepted by Peter, James, and John and all the ancient saints" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.513).

How can this be so when all the writings speak against other gods. The Bible says the ultimate evil is to call oneself God. Israel was strictly monotheistic Duet.6:4 stating there is only one God. I am and there is no others. Mormonism teaches that there are trillions of Gods.

The Mormon religion is pagan disguised as Christianity. The Mormon God was not there from before time but received his position by becoming a man and keeping the ordinances. Mormons need to understand there is no stairway to heaven, exaltation is a myth that will be disintegrated when Christ comes back. Jer.10:11 says the Gods that have not made the heavens or the earth they will perish. This means all the gods of Mormonism.

Isa. 45:18-22For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else,"

Let me ask you why is it fair for Joseph Smith and all his leaders  to say that all other churches are "corrupt", "Anti Christ", Babylon", call us every name in the book. Yet as Christians we can’t reply by saying Joseph Smith & others were in error and false teachers ? It’s obvious Mormons do not know the attitude of their own leaders, or they would not be criticizing Christians for telling them what we do. If we didn’t love them we would not speak out! It certainly would be easier to say nothing. But love without truth is hypocrisy, and truth without love is an empty message.

Today there appears to have been a change of attitude from the LDS church toward other Churches outside their restoration movement. Instead of putting the churches down as they once have they now have a new ploy.

They now hide the fact that they started from Joseph Smith when he was searching for which church he should join, he was answered from God;

"I was answered that I must join none of them (Christian Churches), for they were all wrong...that all their creeds were an abomination in His sight" (Joseph Smith History 1:19).

When I had a representative from the Institute of Religion of the Mormon Church when asked about this quote he was offended that I brought out such a negative statement especially at the beginning of my program.

Has anything changed since they want to be accepted as Christians? Has any of these remarks or revelation knowledge been retracted? Has there ever been an open apology? The answer to these questions is a big NO!

No quotes of this nature have been eliminated, their policy still is the same under the surface. Their stance on anything called Christian outside their own Church is...

"The gates of Hell have prevailed and will continue to prevail over the Catholic Mother of harlots, and over all her Protestant Daughters; .... the apostate Catholic church, with all her popes and bishops, together with all her harlot daughters shall be hurled down to Hell.... (Orson Pratt, Pamphlets by Orson Pratt, Page 112)  

This Church is the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth .... there is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, Page 670)

George Q. Cannon claims there are only two churches; the Mormon church and Babylon (Gospel Truths, pg. 324).

The Christian world, so called, are heathens as to their knowledge of the salvation of God' (Journal of Discourses 8:171)

We find that L. A. and Orange county are the fastest growing areas of Mormon growth. Although I would think that Hawaii could very well see an explosion of Mormonism very soon. Since they in the midst of mainstreaming their image , trying to be accepted as just another Christian denomination (but a more true one?). They are still not accepting our believes or practices ,yet they want us to soften and accept theirs. A Mormon will still divorce someone who becomes a born again believer different than any other cult group.

Maybe you have noticed their change of advertisements on TV, Instead of putting the book of Mormon next to the bible as another testament they now just advertise the Bible so they can come to your house as being representatives of Christianity. Recently the LDS Church has carried its bait and switch campaign to new heights. The New television ads offer listeners a free copy of a King James Bible. This too will be hand-delivered simply by calling a toll-free number.

But their view of the Bible is certainly nothing more than a facade ,a LDS smoke screen, exposing their anti Christ stance. Mormon leaders have made it clear OVER and OVER that the Bible is inferior to the other books included in the LDS "standard works."

13th LDS President Ezra Taft Benson wrote, "All scripture is not of equal value. The book that is the 'keystone of our religion' and that will get a man 'nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book' needs to be studied constantly" (A Witness and Warning, pg.vii).

I remember asking numerous times for Mormons to justify their teachings from the Bible , at the time not knowing their view of it cannot be trusted.

LDS Apologist Hugh Nibley noted, "Nephi's view of the New Testament, then, rests on two basic propositions. Proposition number one is that the Bible has come down to the world in a mutilated form" Pratt wrote, "What shall we say then, concerning the Bible's being a sufficient guide? Can we rely upon it in its present known corrupted state, as being a faithful record of God's word?

We all know that but a few of the inspired writings have descended to our times, With all their trashing of sacred scripture I consider the LDS Church as participating in the height of hypocrisy by deceitfully offering the Bible in its ads. Something they put down.

However some of their bibles are a combination of the book of Mormon with it. While this may not be actually adding to the text it certainly is adding to the word giving one the impression that they are both compatible,  which they are not ! Giving these books to people they visit is an easy way to deceive them since most are naive to the contradictions.

If they were compatible then J. Smith would not have made his own translation. When Christians point out the curses in the book of Rev. for anyone who changes it, the Mormon replies but that is for that book only not the others. Yet Prov. 30:6 Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar." This was written long before the book of Revelation and it means any of his words.

So we need to ask if these curses would be in effect if anyone had dared to alter just the Book of Revelation in any way. Their reply is, this would obviously be so.

In the Joseph Smith Translation: he had added to, or subtracted from the Book of Revelation over 85 times. I think that qualifies him for the curses, don’t you ! He made 662 changes in the book of Genesis 32 different statements about the book of Genesis. 560 changes in the book of Luke. Mt.483, Ps.188, Isa.178, John.159.etc. Do they present any proof of why the bible is mistranslated . No, all they do is refer to their infallible prophet/Pope who says so.

When the missionaries come to your door do they tell people about their real view of the bible that its full of defects? What they don’t tell people is what Mormon leaders and the Mormon Scriptures actually say? For good reason, most who read the bible or have any background in it would throw them right out.

In its general public statements about the Bible today, The Mormon Church cites its own Articles of Faith, found in its Scripture, the Pearl of Great Price. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly;... (Articles of Faith, #8)

    As Christians we don't have any objection with this statement, obviously their are some extremely poor and bad translations (mostly from the cult). The Jehovah's Witness's New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is one example. But this is not what the Mormons really mean when they state this. Speaking more honestly to their own members recent Mormon leaders have stated it this way:

The Mormons most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations.  (Church News, June 20, 1992, page 3, a letter from the First Presidency (Presidents Benson, Hinckley, and Monson) dated May 22, 1992, to all members of the Church)

Thus, instead of using the Bible to evaluate Mormonism they reverse this and use Mormonism to judge the Bible. When speaking honestly, Mormon leaders view the Book of Mormon as more reliable than the Bible:

" Unlike the Bible, which passed through generations of copyists, translators, and corrupt religionists who tampered with the text, the Book of Mormon came from writer to reader in just one inspired step of translation. ("The Keystone of Our Religion", Ensign, by President Ezra Taft Benson, January 1992, page 5).

     The Book of Mormon itself claims important parts of the Bible have been removed. That it was needed to restore the true gospel.

I [Joseph Smith] believe the Bible as it read when it came from the pen of the original writers. Ignorant translators, careless transcribers, or designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors. (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.327)

...It was not until February 16, 1832, however, after a conference in Amherst, Ohio, that Joseph said it was apparent to him, "from sundry revelations which had been received, "that "many important points touching the salvation of man had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled." (Preface to D&C 76.)  

So what do they mean when they say: God

"...orthodox Christian views of God are Pagan rather than Christian." (Mormon Doctrine of Deity by B. H. Roberts, p.116)

"...the God whom the 'Christians' worship is a being of their own creation..." (Apostle Charles W. Penrose, JD 23:243)

How anyone can say these things and publish them with a straight face is beyond me. The pagan concept is multiple Gods exactly what they believe, Also they have in their writings that Adam was God and god was once a man who progressed to be god and that is the God they worship, that is worshipping a god of their own creation , god made in the image of man, a creature who is not god at all.

When a Mormon speaks about the Gospel it is not the Christian Gospel but the restored one of J. Smith, you can join the Mormon church and not believe Jesus is the Son of God but you cannot join unless you accept J. Smith as a prophet of God.

This is more than a church but its a way of life. they will not remove ones name from the roll unless one is excommunicated , if there are problems they will ask them to go inactive but will not take the step to leave because its too scary ,The Mormons believe you are born saved, universalism. Jesus death gave salvation to all meaning its not salvation from sins but resurrection. Salvation is only square one, it is exaltation that is important, becoming a God. This becomes a complicated process.

SALVATION

God so loved, that he made provision for a 2nd chance and all will receive that opportunity.

Apostle of The Church Bruce R. McConkie, called the doctrine of salvation by grace without works, "the second greatest heresy" of Christianity during Brigham Young University's opening devotional Tuesday. The first great heresy, he said, pertains to the nature of God, the doctrine of the trinity. (Staff Report, The Herald, Provo Utah, 1/12/1984)

The nature of god in Christianity and the persons involved also have to do with salvation.

For Salvation, the Mormon church has always upheld mans own obedience merits him right standing with God, whoever that god is, I still haven’t figured out which one.

The Gospel of Mormonism is "faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the H. Spirit by the laying on of hands, morality, loyalty, tithing, word of wisdom, duty, celestial marriage (Articles of faith)

James Talmage, who many considered Mormonism's greatest theologian, explained Jesus' atoning work on the cross.

Talmage wrote, "We believe that through the sufferings, death and atonement of Jesus Christ all mankind, without one exception, are to be completely and fully redeemed... [of] Adam's transgression..." (Articles of Faith, p. 477).

Thus, the atonement and death of Jesus on the cross actually only forgives mankind of Adam's original sin. How then is man forgiven of his own personal sin?

In the Improvement Era, an official periodical of the LDS Church, Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth prophet, explained the solution. "Our Eternal Father would have every soul saved if that were feasible. Salvation, however, is based on merit and obedience to divine law and therefore is only obtained through compliance with divine commandments" (Nov. 1965, p. 962).

"Men have work to do if they would obtain salvation." (Doctrines of salvation vol.3 p.91)

"Individual (salvation) that which man merits through his own acts through life and by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel." (Doctrines of salvation vol.1 p.134)

The forsaking of sin must be a permanent one. True repentance does NOT permit making the same mistake again (Spencer W. Kimball, Repentance Brings Forgiveness, Page 7)

"We also have to forsake the sin and never to repeat it not even in our minds, in order to remain forgiven we must never commit the sin again (Mormon Missionary Discussion F, Uniform systems for teaching families p.35-36)

11 Nephi 25:23 says that in order to be saved you must do all that you can do. Are you doing all that you can do? Have you repeated your sin? The idea of perfection in this life has been proposed by numerous people over the centuries, and while our weakness is not a legitimate excuse for practicing sin in reality no one has the ability not even monks to rid themselves of sin or not repeat it. Doctrines like this operate from pride. As soon as one thinks they have become humble walking in perfect obedience they have pride which is the basis of operation for almost all sins especially false doctrine.

Joseph Fielding Smith. Under the sub-heading "Misinterpretation of Texts," Smith discussed Ephesians 2:8-10 in this way: "There are various opinions concerning the virtue and requirements of salvation. Misinterpretation of Paul's words has led to much confusion and rejection of the full gospel plan."

"Failure to comprehend the two-fold purpose of the atonement has caused many to believe that all that is essential for salvation is to confess the name of Jesus Christ." "Those who teach the doctrine of 'faith alone' are searching for an 'easy road to heaven.' ... Someone has referred to them as Bible Christians - their religion is in the Bible and not very much in themselves," (Religious Truths Defined, 1961 ed., p. 267).

Smith is actually correct. As Biblical Christians we do put our faith in the teachings of the Bible and not in our own works. But it was not an easy road, because Christ had to suffer through his life and ultimately on the cross to obtain it for us. They practice a crossless Christianity. And we are to walk in his footsteps by picking up the cross and denying self. Mormonism operates on the very opposite basis that all is done so one can obtain the right to be a god on their own planet just as all other gods before them. They are striving for an illusive butterfly. You can say their prophets, over promises and their religion falls way short of its delivery.

What can one say to a Mormon who comes to their door without it taking hours having only one chance to challenge them.

When I’m in a discussion I have them commit to saying they are a Christian. Then I pose a question to them in this manner.

What if I said I was a Mormon and that I can join any church that teaches the bible.   I don’t believe J. Smith was a true prophet or that their are modern day prophets and apostles. I don’t believe Jesus is an angel in the Spirit family of Lucifer. Nor that God gives new revelation adding to scripture neither that I can progress to be god of my own world !

They would answer, Then you are not Mormon!

I would then ask why not ?

Their reply would be, Because you do not believe what Mormons believe, in our priesthood our prophet, you don’t believe in eternal progression, or new revelation in scripture!

My reply would then be, This is exactly the reason why you are not a Christian. You don’t believe in one god the finished revelation written by the true prophets, that Jesus is the one true God and that man is a sinner, in need of redemption never to progress to be God !This is why they don't practice historic Christianity.

A Response to Latter-day Saints Who Say,

"We Never Criticize Christian Churches"

Compiled by Bill McKeever

A common response to Christians who question the teachings of Mormonism is to accuse them of being contentious and unloving. Often Mormons will question the "Christianity" of the person and proudly claim that members of the LDS Church never criticize the beliefs of others and therefore conclude that no one else should either. As the following quotes demonstrate, Mormons leaders have long criticized Christians, and oftentimes very harshly.

Joseph Smith (Mormonism's founder) —

Joseph Smith claimed that he had seen both God the Father and Jesus Christ and asked these personages which church he should join. He claimed he was told to join none of them, "for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight" (Joseph Smith History 1:19).

When asked "Will all be damned but Mormons?" Smith replied, "Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119).

"Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth" (Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 14:10).

The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS church is, "the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ...."

Brigham Young (Mormonism's Second President) —

"When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73).

"The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171).

"With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199).

"Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

"The religion of God embraces every fact that exists in all the wide arena of nature, while the religions of men consist of theory devoid of fact, or of any true principle of guidance; hence the professing Christian world are like a ship upon a boisterous ocean without rudder, compass, or pilot, and are tossed hither and thither by every wind of doctrine" (Journal of Discourses 10:265).

"... the time came when Paganism was engrafted into Christianity, and at last Christianity was converted into Paganism rather than converting the Pagans" (Journal of Discourses 22:44).

"Brother Taylor has just said that the religions of the day were hatched in hell. The eggs were laid in hell, hatched on its borders, and kicked on to the earth" (Journal of Discourses 6:176).

John Taylor (Mormonism's 3rd President) —

"We talk about Christianity, but it is a perfect pack of nonsense ...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century" (Journal of Discourses 6:167).

"What! Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast." (Journal of Discourses 6:25).

"What does the Christian world know about God? Nothing ...Why so far as the things of God are concerned, they are the veriest of fools; they know neither God nor the things of God" (Journal of Discourses 13:225).

"And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses 6:24).

Daniel H. Wells (Mormon Apostle) —

"The whole system of Christianity is a failure so far as stemming the tide of wickedness and corruption is concerned, or turning men from their evil ways to living lives of righteousness before God our Heavenly Father. I would rather preach the Gospel to a people who have not got any religion than I would to a people who have got a great deal of religion. You take the Catholic world. What impression can the truths of the Gospel make upon them as a people? Scarcely any impression at all. Why? Because they are satisfied with what they have got, which we know is an error, and which is not calculated to stem the tide of wickedness and corruption which floods the world. It never will convert the world to God or His Kingdom, or convey a knowledge of God unto the children of men, and it is life eternal to know Him, the living and true God. The Christianity of the period will never make the people acquainted with God in the world. It will never bring them to eternal life as spoken of in the Scriptures. It is an utter impossibility. In the first place they do not know anything about God, and in the second place, they apparently don't want to know anything about Him. They have reared a superstructure in the earth which is false. It is and has been a tremendous imposture to the children of men. Some have come out of it, to a certain extent, seeing its incongruity, and yet they have floundered in the dark, not knowing what was right; not having that knowledge of God which is necessary to obtain eternal life, they have been tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, without being able to find the truth. Many who have thus been foundering are honest people; but the so-called system of Christianity is not only an error and a snare, but is a monstrous iniquity fastened upon the children of men throughout the earth. No wonder that people become infidel. The inconsistent and incongruous nature of the system is enough to make any being who reasons infidel. It was time the truth should be revealed; it was time for the Lord to restore the everlasting Gospel, for men were blind. Darkness covered the earth, even gross darkness the minds of the people in regard to religious subjects. Perhaps a darker time was never known since the earth began its revolutions around the sun. From what I have read and from what experience I have had in life, and the intelligence I possess, I make bold to give my testimony that the darkest period the world ever saw was when this work first commenced, when it was made known from heaven to Joseph Smith. It was no darker here, perhaps, than in any other part of the world; but it was just as dark in Christian countries as in any Pagan country, so far as true religion and the light of heaven were concerned" (Journal of Discourses 24:321-322).

Orson Pratt (Mormon Apostle) —

"Q. After the Church of Christ fled from the earth to heaven, what was left?

"A. A set of wicked Apostates, murderers, and idolaters, who ...left to follow the wicked imaginations of their own corrupt hearts, and to build up churches by human authority..." (The Seer, pg.205).

"...all other churches are entirely destitute of all authority from God; and any person who receives Baptism or the Lord's supper from their hands highly offend God, for he looks upon them as the most corrupt of all people ...The only persons among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people who have authority from Jesus Christ to administer any gospel ordinance are those called and authorized among the Latter-day Saints" (The Seer, pg. 255).

"This class of men, calling themselves Christian, uniting with the various forms of the pagan religion, adopting many of their ceremonies and institutions, became very popular, and finally some of the pagans embraced Christianity and were placed, as it were, upon the throne, and what they termed Christianity became very popular indeed. How long has this order of things existed, this dreadful apostasy, this class of people that pronounced themselves Zion, or Christians, without any of the characteristics of Zion? It has existed for some sixteen or seventeen centuries. It has spread itself and grown and gone into the four quarters of the earth. It is the great ecclesiastical power that is spoken of by the revelator John, and called by him the most corrupt and most wicked of all the powers of the earth, under the name of spiritual Babylon, or in other words Babel, which signifies confusion. This great and corrupt power is also represented by John as presenting a golden cup to the nations, full of all manner of filthiness and abominations" (Journal of Discourses 14:346).

"This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses 18:44).

"But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance, and they are represented in the revelations of St. John as a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast, having a golden cup in her hand, full of filthiness and abominations, full of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; that in her forehead there was a name written - `Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots'" (Journal of Discourses 18:172).

"Who is Babylon? I have already explained that Babylon is a great power that should be in the earth under the name of a church, a woman - that generally represents a church - full of blasphemy ...These churches are scattered over the wide face of the earth, and this is called Babylon. Another angel is to follow the one that brings the Gospel, after it has been sufficiently preached, and proclaim the downfall of this great and corrupt power in the earth" (Journal of Discourses 18:179).

"The worshipers of Baal were far more consistent than apostate Christendom; for they had a faint hope that Baal would hear and answer them; but modern divines have no expectation that their God will say anything to them or to their followers. Baal's followers cried from morning until evening for him to give unto them a miraculous manifestation, in the presence of Elijah; but to even expect a supernatural manifestation or revelation now is considered, by modern religionists, as the greatest absurdity. Baal's worshipers, therefore, with all their absurdities, approached nearer the religion of heaven, in some of their expectations, than those who falsely call themselves Christians" (Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, No. 1 (1850), pp.12-13).

"We have already proved in the previous numbers of this series that immediately after the first century the whole earth became corrupted by the great "Mother of Harlots," that apostasy and wickedness succeeded Christianity, that for the want of new revelation, all legal succession to the apostleship was discontinued that the gifts and powers of the Holy Spirit ceased and that the Church was no longer to be found on the earth: this being the case, all nations must have been destitute of the everlasting gospel for many generations - not destitute of its history as it was once preached and enjoyed but destitute of its blessings, of its powers, of its gifts, of its priesthood, of its ordinances administered by legal authority" (Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, No.6 (1851), pg.82).

Heber C. Kimball (First Counselor to Brigham Young) —