Defeating Cults and Non-Christian Groups #11 – Defeating the Book of Mormon with the Bible

This video is a suggested action plan for Christians who are concerned about false doctrine and want to stop its spread. I share with you an approach I have been using for decades while traveling to Marriott branded hotels. This video will show you what to do with that book of Mormon you find in your hotel room. This method will teach you how to make a lasting impact exposing Mormonism and showing it to be a false religion.

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[InjeeliMedia]

Great job, please continue to expose all these pseudo-Christian cults. God bless

[justinteehee]

A ink stamper made to stamp a QR code that is a link to a website about how the book of Mormon is false could be helpful to future guest at the hotel. They could scan it with their phone.

[PavelMosko]

If I dealt with the Mormons I would want something stronger than that quote, something on Soteriology, Christology or other major Christian dogma from the Nicene creed. Going back 32 years I had a jack Mormon friend, Billy, that became a Chrisitan, my nondenominational charismatic best friend Stan witnessed and discipled him. Anyway 32 years ago he had some Mormon missionaries come over to meet with him along with myself and Stan. We had some good conversation about Mormonism being "a Faith about works" etc. and other stuff. But when it was Billy's turn at bat, as a Jack Mormon, and the missionaries asked him "What is your problem with the Book of Mormon?" All he could point too factually was this verse discrepancy. And they pointed out how close the two places were. And I got to say, being fair or Devil's advocate I would kind of agree based on how people today and in other times use language like being around major population centers. So for myself I moved to North Carolina for nearly 6 years, living in the general "Charlotte" area. I have sometimes described myself as living in Charlotte for some people with little knowledge of the region, even though I usually give better details than that. Like my actual city of Kannapolis, and the fact that it is 10 miles Northeast of Charlotte.

Besides the modern idiom, I can point to some areas too where Hebrew Culture sometimes was much less precise on details than we are today. Like when it comes to counting time, like Christ in the tomb (Inclusive Reckoning of rounding fractions up when counting days for instance) and other similar things. Anyway, seeing this argument play out in real life, I would rather pass on it in favor of something else. I kind of thought bringing this up, sort of let them off the hook, because it can come across as being too picky compared to the really heretical stuff they believe. Especially concerning God the Father etc.


Now I'm not sure what that something would be. Mormons were the first cult I gained some experience with because they were a sizeable population in my Mojave Desert city of Ridgecrest CA. I grew up in. But I unfortunately, haven't really dealt with them much moving into Silicon Valley as well as PA and NC. I do like Mormons, or at least feel more comfortable with them than I do with Jehovahs Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists. Mormons seem more sociable; they are not out to try to invalidate your church or spiritual heritage the way Adventists or Jws do.


PS - I actually can recall one area in hindsight that we wish we would have explored and confronted more in our meeting the Mormon Missionaries. The second missionary who was more the assistant finally piped up towards the end of out meeting and he gave a kind of "burning in the bosom" testimony. And we later wish we would have dealt with that more in light of Bible verses on Spiritual deception, and the need to be grounded in Biblical facts and reality. There is much to Mormonism that does not hold up to scrutiny and this is very significant on many levels including that the Greek word for Truth is Alethia which means objective truth, truth of fact and detail etc.

[ExaminingAdventism]

Very helpful. Great advice on tactics and Great video. Thank you

[sonjamccart]

This is a great idea, thank you for sharing.

[SaintGerardMajellaInc]

You should listen J.R. Sweet and his upbringing in that sick destructive cult. Made my head spin

[ISayToMyself]

Good idea!! What I notice is that there’s nothing in the drawer. Not even the Bible. I went down to the front desk and asked for a Bible. They said they didn’t have one. 😮.

[jameseldridge]

Mark Twain remarked that the Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.

[sillygoose]

Now you have a very good point there place of birth is different I look at the story of the angel moronia and the golden plates and the weight with obviously can't humanly be possible to pu and I dismiss the book of Mormon but I like the birth location difference

[dr.downsyndrome]

This is such a bad example, anyone who's actually read the book of mormon would know why they said Jerusalem instead of Bethlehem. All you did was shovel another bad apologetic against the lds church that has been explained/debunked countless times.

[Wendler]

This might be your favorite argument, but it is absolutely your weakest and exposes your actual lack of knowledge of the Book of Mormon. For full context in Alma, Alma was speaking to people approx 500 years after they left Jerusalem, So obviously none of there had seen Jerusalem, only heard about it and read about it. They would have known he was not directly speaking of the city of Jerusalem, but as emphasized by the phrase, "The LAND of our Forefathers", clearly speaking of the general area that they left.
The other fun thing that ancients peoples had this same concept of other cities being in the "land of Jerusalem" El Amarna letter #290 reports that "a town of the land of Jerusalem, Bit-Lahmi [Bethlehem] by name, a town belonging to the king, has gone over to the side of the people of Keilah." Ancient people considered Bethlehem in the land of Jerusalem. so referring to Bethlehem as the land of Jerusalem, is completely accurate historically.
You will no doubt try to find another favorite reason the Book of Mormon isn't true, cuz this one only emphasizes it's truthfulness.