Written by John Carson
A loving father communicates with his children. A righteous and faithful father will take special notice of wrong turns his child might take or is taking, and then searches for ways to direct him/her out of that situation.
God is loving, faithful and righteous. To suggest that God had not acted in accordance with His characteristics at any time, is to dethrone Him of His rightful place in our hearts as sovereign God. We can have great assurance that the Lord God Almighty has always kept His communication lines open throughout all eras of humanity. To suggest that God had at any time in human history - not communicated to us, is to suggest that He had not acted according to His holy characteristics. To think such thoughts of God is a clear indication that there is a lack of knowledge about how loving and righteous the sovereign Lord really is.
1 Corinthians 10:13 promises:
“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”
The same God who promised, “I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18), has kept this promise too. A total apostasy never happened, and could never happen, because God has been faithful throughout all eras of time. A total apostasy would mean that God had allowed His communication line to become severed. There was no need for Christ's Church to be restored, because God keeps His promises. To the people who lived before Joseph Smith, God was just as faithful then as He is today.
We can be assured that:
“No temptation has seized them except what is common to man. And God was just as faithful then as He is now; he has never allowed anyone to be tempted beyond what they could bear. But with that temptation, he has always provided a way out so that they could stand up under it.”
Oh, what a faithful God He is and always has been.
So ask yourself a question. Would you, as a loving parent, allow the communication lines to your children become severed? How much less then, should we expect God to allow His message of love to become disrupted at any time in history. Thank God for His unbroken promises, and for His unfailing love throughout all generations.
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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)