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1. If Gods are individuals who
have passed through mortality and have progressed to
Godhood, how has one person of the Trinity (the Holy
Spirit) attained Godhood without getting a body? (See
Acts 5:3,4)
2. If Gods are individuals who
have passed through an earth life to attain Godhood, how
is it that one person of the Trinity (Jesus Christ) was
God before He received a body or passed through earth
life? (Matt. 1:23 and Hebrews 10:5)
3. If the Book of Mormon really
contains the fullness of the Gospel, why does it not
teach the doctrine of “eternal progression”? (See D&C
20:8,9)
4. God said, “Is there a God
beside me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any”. How
can there be Gods who are Elohim’s ancestors? Surely an
all-knowing God would know this and wouldn’t speak
falsehoods. (See Isa. 44:8 and Journal of Discourses
Vol. 1, pg. 123)
5. How can any men ever become
Gods when the Bible says, “Before me there was no god
formed, neither shall there be after me”? (Isaiah
43:10)
6. If Adam is the “only God with
whom we have to do”, did Adam create himself? (Journal
of Discourses Vol. 1, pg. 50, 51)
7. Joseph Smith stated that
without the ordinances and authority of the priesthood
no man can see the face of God and live (D & C 84:21,
22). He also said that he saw God in 1820 (Joseph Smith
2:17). Joseph Smith, however, never received any
priesthood until 1829 (D&C 13). How did he see God and
survive? In which was he in error: his revelation in D
& C 84:21, 22 or his experience in the grove?
8. If a spirit is a being without
a body (See Luke 24:39), why do Mormons teach that God
the Father has a body of flesh and bones? (See John
4:24)
9. If the Father is Elohim and
Jesus is Jehovah (as the Mormons teach), how does a
Mormon explain Deuteronomy 6:4, which in the Hebrew
says, “Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our Elohim is one
Jehovah”?
10. If the Book of Mormon contains
the fullness of the Gospel, why doesn’t it teach that
God was once a man?
11. If Mormonism is the restored
church, which is based upon the Bible, why are Mormon
leaders so quick to state that the Bible is “translated
wrong” when faced with some conflict between the Bible
and Mormonism?
12. If Jesus was conceived as a
result of a physical union between God and Mary, how was
Jesus born of a virgin? (Journal of Discourses Vol. 1,
page 50)
13. Why did Christ not return in
1891 as Joseph Smith predicted? (History of the Church,
Vol. 2 page 182).
14. Journal of Discourses Vol. 2,
page 210 says Jesus was being married to Mary and Martha
in Cana. Why then was he INVITED to his own wedding?
(John 2:1,2)
15. Why does the Mormon church
teach that there is no eternal hell when the Book of
Mormon teaches that there is? (I Nephi 14:3, II Ne.
9:16;28: 21-23, Mosiah 3:25, Alma 34:35, Heleman 6:28
and 3:25,26).
16. How can Mormons teach that the
repentant thief was not saved when the Book of Mormon
states that Paradise is where the righteous go? (Luke
23:43, Alma 40:12, 16)
17. How did Nephi with a few men
on a new continent build a temple like Solomon’s while
Solomon needed 163,300 workmen and seven years to build
his temple? (See I Kings 5:13-18 and II Nephi 5:15-17)
18. If the book of Mormon is true,
why hasn’t a valid geography been established for the
book?
19. Why was Joseph Smith still
preaching against polygamy in October 1843 after he got
his revelation in July 1843 commanding the practice of
polygamy? (D & C 132; and History of the Church Vol. 6,
page 46, or Teachings of the Prophet, page 324)
20. If Lehi left Jerusalem before
600 B.C., how did he learn about synagogues? (See II
Nephi 26:26)
21. If the Book of Mormon is true,
why do Indians fail to become white when they become
Mormons? (II Nephi 30:6 – prior to 1981 revision)
22. What kind of chariots did the
Nephites have in 90 B.C. some 1500 years before the
introduction of the wheel on the Western Hemisphere?
(Alma 18:9)
23. How do Mormons account for the
word “church” in the Book of Mormon, about 600 B.C.,
which was centuries before the beginning of the Church
on the day of Pentecost? (I Nephi 4:26)
24. How do Mormons account for the
italicized words in the King James Version (indicating
their absence in the Hebrew and Greek) being found in
the Book of Mormon? (A comparison of Mosiah 14 and
Isaiah 53 will provide at least 13 examples)
25. How did the French word
“adieu” get into the Book of Mormon? (Jacob 7:27)
26. Was it right or wrong for
Solomon to have many wives? (See Jacob 2:24; D & C
132:38,39) Which is it?
27. If polygamy was a provision
for increasing population rapidly, why did God give Adam
only one wife?
28. D&C 129:4, 5 says, “When a
messenger comes saying he has a message from God, offer
him your hand and request him to shake hands with you.
If he be an angel he will do so, and you will feel his
hand.” How can this test distinguish between an angel
of God and a Jehovah’s Witness missionary…or a Mormon
Elder.
29. If Joseph Smith was a true
prophet, why did he fail to realize that “Elias” is the
N.T. form of the name “Elijah”? (D & C 110:12,13 and 1
Kings 17:1 and James 5:17) How could Elijah (Elias)
have appeared to Joseph Smith in the Kirkland Temple as
two different people?
30. If children have no sins until
they are eight years old, why are they baptized at age
eight to wash away non-existent sins? (See Moroni 8:8)
31. How could the Garden of Eden
have been in Missouri when the Pearl of Great Price
declares that it was in the vicinity of Assyria and had
the Euphrates and Hiddekel Rivers in it? (See P of GP
Moses 3:14 and D&C 116 and 117; Genesis 2:8-15)
32. Brigham Young said, “The only
men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who
enter into polygamy”. (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11,
page 269) Why did the Mormons yield to the pressure of
the government and stop practicing polygamy?
33. Heber C. Kimball stated, “We
are th people of Deseret, she shall be no more Utah: we
will have our own name”. Why did this prophecy fail? (J
of D. Vol. 5, page 161)
34. How did Joseph Smith carry
home the golden plates of the Book of Mormon, and how
did the witnesses lift them so easily? (They weighted
about 230 lbs. Gold, with a density of 19.3 weighs
1204.7 lbs. Per cubic foot. The plates were 7” x 8” by
about 6”. See Articles of Faith, by Talmage, page 262,
34th Ed.)
35. When Christ died, did darkness
cover the land for three days of for three hours? (See
Luke 23:44 and III Nephi 8:19, 23)
36. If the Book of Mormon was
translated by the gift and power of God, why have the
Mormons changed it? (There have been over 3,000 changes
in the Book of Mormon, exclusive of punctuation
changes)
37. If God speaks through a
prophet, why do Mormons vote on whether or not to
receive and authorize it?
38. It has been established that
the “Sensen” manuscript was simply a common Egyptian
burial papyrus. Why do the Mormons still accept the
Book of Abraham which was translated from that
manuscript?
39. Why is it that no other
writings have been found in the language of “Reformed
Egyptian”, the supposed language of the Book of Mormon
plates? Is there evidence that such a language really
existed?
40. Joseph Smith said that there
are men living on the moon who dress like Quakers and
live to be nearly 1000 years old. Since he was wrong
about the moon, is it safe to trust him regarding the
way to heaven? (See The Young Woman’s Journal, Vol 3,
pages 263, 264.)
41. Why do Mormons not study
Hebrew and Greek so that they can intelligently discuss
the accuracy of the translation of the Bible?
42. Joseph Smith prepared fourteen
Articles of Faith. Why has the original No. 11 been
omitted?
43. According to Hebrews 7:24, the
Melchizedek Priesthood is not transferable. Why do
Mormons pass it from one to another?
44. If Mormonism came as a
revelation from God, why are the Mormon Temple Oaths
almost identical to the oaths of the Masonic Lodge?
45. Why did the Nauvoo House not
stand forever and ever? (D&C 124:56-60)
46. If genealogies are important,
why does the New Testament tell Christians to avoid
them? (I Timothy 1:4; Titus 3:9)
47. The Bible says, “The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin”. Why did Brigham
Young say that there are some sins which can be atoned
for only by the shedding of ones own blood.
48. God rejected the fig leaf
aprons which Adam and Eve made. Why do Mormons
memorialize the fall by using fig leaf aprons? (Gen.
3:21)
49. Why do Mormons insist that
Ezekiel 37:15-22 is about two books instead of about two
kingdoms as god Himself explained in verse 22?
50. If Acts 3:20, 21 is a prophecy
about the restoration of Mormonism, why didn’t Jesus
return in 1830?
51. Revelation 14:6,7 is part of
the body of prophecy about the future Great
Tribulation. How could that passage have been fulfilled
by Moroni in 1830?
52. In light of Ezekiel 28:13-15
and Hebrews 1:5, how can Satan and Jesus be brothers (as
the Mormons teach)? (note: Satan was created)
53. If no person ever receives the
Holy Spirit before baptism or without the laying on of
hands, how does a Mormon explain the case of Cornelius?
(See Acts 10:44-47)
54. If baptism for the dead was a
Christian ceremony, why did Paul use the pronoun “they”
rather than “we” or “ye”? Why did he exclude himself
and other Christians when referring to it? (I Cor.
15:29)
55. Since the Bible says that a
Bishop should be the husband of one wife, how can
Mormons claim that polygamy is proper for New Testament
Christians? (I Timothy 3:2)
56. Why does the Mormon church
teach that the broad way leads to the Terrestrial Heaven
when Jesus taught that it leads to destruction? (Matthew
7:13, 14)
57. Are you sincere enough about
your personal salvation that you will carefully study
the following Bible references to discover the Bible’s
way to salvation?
John 10:9; I Corinthians 1:18;
Ephesians 2:8-10; Colossians 1:12-14; Romans 4:8; I
Peter 2:24; Acts 16:31; John 1:12; I John 5:12, 13;
Romans 5:1 and Romans 8:1
58. Are you courageous enough to
personally receive the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart
and follow the truth regardless of ridicule, antagonism
or persecution?
John 1:12; Col. 1:27, and Revelation 3:20
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