Watchtower Teaches
Salvation must be earned by one' s works.
'Working Hard For The Reward Of Eternal Life' (Title page..Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1972 p.491 )
'It is for the reward of eternal life that every last person on earth should now be working.' (Watchtower, Aug. 15, 1972 p.492)
One must be part of the Watch Tower organization to be part of God's kingdom
'A third requirement is that we be associated with God's channel, his organization....To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise we must identify that organization and serve God as part of it.' (Watchtower, Feb. 15, 1983 p.12)
'So, recognition of that governing body and its place in God's theocratic arrangement of things is necessary for submission to the headship of God's Son.' (Watchtower, Dec. 15, 1972)
One cannot be sure of his/her salvation for at least another 1000 years
'...they can demonstrate to God directly that their unchangeable choice, their unbreakable decision, is to worship and serve the only living and true God forever on paradise earth. Hence, before adopting them as his free sons through Jesus Christ, Jehovah God will subject these perfected human creatures to a thorough test for all time.' (Life Everlasting-In Freedom Of The Sons Of God, W.T.B.T.S. 1966 p.398)
'At the end of the thousand years...reaching of pefection by all then on earth...the Bible reveals that persons reaching that state will not be assured of everlasting life until they prove faithful against a final attack by Satan.' (Life Does Have A Purpose, W.T.B.T.S 1977 p.177)
The Bible Teaches
Salvation cannot be earned. It is God's free gift.
When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"
But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." (Mt.19: 25-26)
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (Eph.2: 8-9)
Identification and association with Jesus Himself equals entrance to God's kingdom
"I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness...For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should speak. And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak." (Jn.12: 46, 49-50)
Jesus said to him,"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (Jn.14: 6)
We can be sure. Its God's word against ours.
...knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. (Galatians 2:16)
He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. (1 John 5:10-13)
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The Mormon Religion was officially founded by Joseph Smith Jr. on April 6. 1830 after the Book of Mormon (BOM) was published in that same year.
Joseph Smith Jr. was born in Vermont on December 23, 1805. He claimed that when he was 14, he received a vision from God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees near his home where he received instructions not to join any of the Christian churches because they were all wrong.
Three years later, Smith claimed that an angel named Moroni (a character found in the BOM) appeared to him in his bedroom whom he said revealed to him that he was selected to translate "Reformed Egyptian" (a language that does not exist) from gold plates into old English. These plates were supposedly hidden near Palmyra, New York and are said to be written around the 4th century. The BOM was named after Moroni’s father, Mormon. Mormons view the BOM as sacred. No one is able to study the original plates because Joseph Smith claimed the angel took them back on May 2, 1838 (History of the Church 1:60).
Smith had a scribe named Cowdery. Smith did not actually translate directly from any plates. Rather, in his writings, he said he placed a "seer stone" in a hat and covered any light from entering it as he placed his face in the hat. According to Martin Harris, “By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet . . . , and when finished he would say, ‘Written,’ and if correctly written, that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected,” Smith said, “By the power of God I translated the Book of Mormon from hieroglyphics".
Despite such methods of translation, there have been at least 3,913 changes made in the BOM from the time it was first published. Joseph Smith stated, “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” Smith also claimed that John the Baptist appeared to him on May 15, 1829 while he was translating the BOM, and instructed him to restore the church by preaching the only true gospel.
Mormons regard the BOM as sacred writings, and view it in higher standing than that of the Holy Bible. Mormon Missionaries will ask you to pray that it is true. (See our page Pray to Know)