(This article regarding the Book of Mormon's Jesus is longer than usual but so worth the read - LfL) (take 5 minutes and learn the difference)
Please Note: (Mr. Decker is an Ex-Mormon – his knowledge of both Mormonism and Christianity written within is completely truthful and without deception. Additional information from him can be attained at www.saintsalive.com) -- LookinforLucy
In the Local Paper Article by Ed Decker - September 2006
An article in our local paper caught my eye in early August. I am sure that not one other reader picked up on it. It was a story about a Mormon family from our town who went back and joined the cast of 600 Mormons at the Hill Cumorah Pageant, America’s Witness for Christ in Palmyra, NY.
It was a really nice story. They said it was the most awesome thing they had ever done as a family. I am sure it was.
What slammed out at me, however, were the words of the youngest, who, because she was under 14, couldn’t audition for a role, but was assigned the part of a destruction victim.
“After Christ died, we were all wicked people, so we died during the earthquake and mayhem,” she said. “All this water shot up and fireballs were going off and rocks kept falling down.”
It certainly didn’t sound like the Jesus Fanny Crosby wrote about when she penned, “filled with his goodness, lost in his love.”
But, it is the murderous Jesus of The Book of Mormon. This Book of Mormon Jesus brought death and destruction with him to the Cross. In 3 Nephi, Chapters 8 and 9, it details the events testifying of Christ's crucifixion. It describes the desolation of the great city of Zarahemla by fire, and the city of Moroni "did sink into the sea and the inhabitants thereof were drowned... the earth was carried up upon the city of Mornihah...there was great and terrible destruction in the land southward......terrible destruction in the land northward....the highways were broken up....many great and noble cities were sunk and many burned and many shaken till the buildings thereof had fallen to the earth.....all these great and terrible things were done in the space of three hours."
3 Nephi, Chapter 9, tells of further wrath as the Lord also destroyed the cities and inhabitants of Gigal, Onihah, Mocum, Jerusalem, Gadiandi, Gadiomnah, Jacob, Gimgimmo, Jacobugath, Laman, Josh, Gad, and Kishkumen. (A total of 16 major cities.)
Who did all this killing to testify of our Lord's atonement on Calvary? 3 Nephi 9:15 reveals the murderer of approximately 2 million innocent inhabitants of The Book of Mormon lands, "Behold, I am Jesus Christ the son of God. I created the heavens and the earth and all things that in them are." He adds, (in verse 21), "behold, I have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the world to save the world from sin."
I guess the easiest way was to kill almost every living creature; at least the vast majority of that portion of his "other sheep have I." This Mormon Jesus was a god of wrath and death.
Strange that such horrible destruction followed the death of Jesus for the ‘other sheep’ when no such event occurred at the actual place of his death. While the earth did shake, no deaths were reported. In fact, people actually rose out from the grave.
The Biblical Jesus brought life, not death! When his disciples wanted judgment to fall on a village of Samaritans, He rebuked them.
Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him.
But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?"
But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." Luke 9:51-56
The Book of Mormon is a story of another Jesus, a murderous Christ.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
(4)For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 2 Cor 11:3,4
“No need to say more – The BOM Jesus is not the Jesus of the Bible” - Any questions? LookinforLucy
