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This is not just another Church. This is not just one of a family
of Christian churches. This is the Church and kingdom of God, the
only true Church upon the face of the earth... Mikä kristinuskon tunnustajissa yleensä herättää
pelastuksen toivon? Se on paholaisen liukas, viisasteleva vaikutus,
jolla hän pettää koko maailmaa. ...all the priests who adhere to the sectarian religions of the
day with all their followers, without one exception, receive their
portion with the devil and his angels. Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore
of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator
as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness.
Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance
of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches
will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent. 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
all belong to Babylon. When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian
world was grovelling in darkness. With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived
than the present so-called Christian world. The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge
of the salvation of God. 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 then kicked on to the earth. The Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops
all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel,
I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called. 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 Christian Churches ... But there has been a long
apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate
churches in great abundance. Christianity...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, vol. 6,
s. 167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority
of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom. What! Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things
of God as the brute best. 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. Opit turmeltuivat, valtuus hävisi ja väärä
uskonto astui Jeesuksen Kristuksen evankeliumin tilalle aivan samoin
kuin oli tapahtunut aikaisemmissa armotalouksissa, ja ihmiset jäivät
hengelliseen pimeyteen. For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual
darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to
the place of salvation ...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. ... the Book of Mormon remains secure, unchanged and unchangeable,
... But with the Bible it was not and is not so....it was once in
the sole and exclusive care and custody of an abominable organization
(Christianity), founded by the devil himself, likened prophetically
unto a great whore, whose great aim and purpose was to destroy the
souls of men in the name of religion. In these hands it ceased to
be the book it once was. And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have
power to lay the foudation of this (Mormon) church, and to bring
it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and
living church upon the face of the whole earth... Salvation not through Jesus Christ, but Joseph Smith? Ei pelastusta ilman Joseph Smithin tunnustamista. Jos Joseph
Smith totisesti oli profeetta, ja jos hän puhui totta sanoessaan,
että hän oli Heran tyköä lähetettyjen enkelien
kasvojen edessä ja sai valtuuden avaimet ja käskyn järjestää
Jeesuksen Kristuksen kirkon jälleen maan päälle,
niin silloin tämä tieto on mitä tärkein koko
maailmalle. Kukaan ihminen ei voi hylätä tuota todistusta
saattamatta itseään mitä kauhistuttavimpien seurausten
alaiseksi, sillä hän ei voi päästä sisälle
Jumalan valtakuntaan. No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the
celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every
man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior,
as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ
are. He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent
Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation,
is not of God, but is anti-christ. If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph
Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority
he has received. We cannot get around him [Joseph Smith]. |
