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Sandra Tanner asks "why doesn't the LDS Church release an official list of Joseph Smith's wives?" Full video - youtu.be/43jrxPVv8nQ

I had no idea LDS members would balk at this very basic, central belief about hell, heaven, and who goes where. Yes, all Christians believe in hell and that we deserve to go there. That’s the bad news. The good news is, through Christ, we can be saved from hell and instead spend eternity with him. This is not accomplished through ordinances, church membership, or claims of apostolic succession, but through Jesus’s sacrifice alone. The good news is that there is nothing you can or must do to earn your way into God’s Presence. Rather, Jesus’s blood is sufficient in making us clean and acceptable before God. You are free to believe that access to eternity with Jesus can only be accomplished through following LDS ordinances, and that non-LDS members will only have a degree of glory (but not God’s presence) in the afterlife. It’s just not a Christian belief. For a believer in Christ, there is nothing good about the news that we non-Mormons will live forever in a “better place” but without the presence of Jesus. That is not heaven. Jesus is the prize! And our place with Him is secured by grace through faith in Him. Hallelujah! “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”” Romans 10:13

Joseph Smith Origins: Money Digging & Magic Check out our full video on early Mormonism and Divination: youtu.be/-W5QZ9DG2M0

Sally Chase: Village Seer Sally's involvement with Joseph threads through the narrative of early Mormonism, and is a story worth knowing. Check out our full video about Sally & Joseph: youtu.be/-W5QZ9DG2M0

NEW VIDEO: Many know that Joseph Smith was involved in divination practices and folk-magic, but a lot of people don't realize how intertwined these magic practices were with the early years of Mormonism. youtu.be/-W5QZ9DG2M0

NEW VIDEO: Most Latter-day Saints believe we’re all literal children of Heavenly Parents. But I argue that Christianity teaches that we are "children of God" in a more substantial sense than Mormonism. All of us is essentially and completely *from* God. youtu.be/ToQzpp-r18A

Check out our newest video on 5 notable changes made to the Book of Mormon text since it was published: youtu.be/lj5GZ63S49Y If the initial translation was done by supernatural means, by the power of God, why the changes?

Check out our video explaining why we believe in Original Sin (and why it actually points us to Christ!): youtu.be/hFg9f4JHiS8

There's more to Romans 5: > "many died through one man’s trespass" (v15) > "because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man" (v17) > "one trespass led to condemnation for all men" (v18) > "by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners" (v19)

@Swedemontana @jbrtnme @mrmdotorg @ThoughtfulSaint 'Cuz it fundamentally alters the nature of God. Either He is the source of everything (Romans: all things are from Him, through Him, and to Him), or He is subject to things outside of Himself. He is either the fount of all or a co-recipient with us. The Creator or a co-creature

@Godlovesmormons @jbrtnme @mrmdotorg @ThoughtfulSaint So, pardon my ignorance, but why is the possibility of God the Father also having a father a bad concept? The concept is not illogical.

LDS apologist Jacob Hansen (@ThoughtfulSaint) gives the false impression that the King Follett Discourse was the last sermon of Joseph Smith with relevance to the regress of deities.

@Bongo83948 @jbrtnme @mrmdotorg @ThoughtfulSaint To be clear, I wasn't saying it was official doctrine. Simply that Smith was teaching regress here. The SitG was given days after the Expositor was destroyed. Smith's responding to the criticisms in the Expositor, which criticized regress being taught in the KFD.

@Godlovesmormons @jbrtnme @mrmdotorg @ThoughtfulSaint Even if Joseph was not speaking hypothetically, which I believe he was, his opining on this does not make it doctrine.

NEW VIDEO: Latter-day Saints often appeal to their personal "testimony" as the bedrock truth their faith is grounded upon. Should a subjective experience keep people from testing the claims of Mormonism? Check out our newest video on this: youtu.be/FhOvA-ZzCSo

@jbrtnme @mrmdotorg @ThoughtfulSaint (Forgive my accidental early end-quote. All 3 posts from Joseph's SitG)

@jbrtnme @mrmdotorg @ThoughtfulSaint Whenever did a tree or anything spring into existence without a progenitor? And everything comes in this way. Paul says that which is earthly is in the likeness of that which is heavenly, Hence if Jesus had a Father, can we not believe that He had a Father also?"

A word of encouragement to Latter-day Saints for their 2026 Old Testament studies: study the Old Testament as a Christ-centered document. The Old Testament is a thoroughly Christ-centered work; Jesus is the scope and substance of *all* Scripture. youtu.be/lymtg5XlxKM

NEW VIDEO: In 1844, Joseph Smith ordered the Nauvoo Expositor to be destroyed for publishing lies about Smith; an event which led to Joseph's death. As it turns out, the paper was a lot more truthful than Smith claimed. Fact checking the Nauvoo Expositor: youtu.be/5SX-pdGIXUU?si…

@PTSPentax @JW_Lumley @RestoredTruth8 Hey Scott - hope you're doing well! I know the convo has moved past this quite a bit, but if you're curious, I made a vid trying to explain why we repeatedly address LDS teachings that are seen as "speculative" or "unofficial" - youtu.be/3k8qCOJsaI8

@JW_Lumley @RestoredTruth8 @Godlovesmormons That’s because GLM loves to focus on speculative esotericism rather than our actual doctrines.

The funny thing is LATTER DAY SAINTS ACTUALLY KNOW THEIR DOCTRINE! Most creedal Christian’s have never read about the 6 ecumenical councils that created the Trinity. Looks like 80% of all creedal Christians are going to hell with us. Because they don’t know the trinity at all

IF Mormons must abstain from coffee/tea/alcohol to hold a temple recommend, & IF temple works are needed for exaltation, then keeping the Word of Wisdom is necessary to having eternal life. That's not only an unnecessary restriction—it's a false Gospel. youtu.be/_Sw_dEWnUbw