Welcome to Mormon Truth Videos Gospel Topics Hub, your resource to get straight to the cold hard facts on Mormonism.
This website will be a work in progress & Initiated in time for New Years Eve 2017, which date is the 1 year anniversary of myInitial and Primary Youtube Channel referenced Below.
Arranged by topic you will find documented content on historical and scriptural issues relative to evaluating Authenticity and Authority claims of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The site will contain some written content but will also draw from what I believe to be the largest collection of video based content on the internet addressing Mormon History & the Evolving Cannon of LDS Scripture,Teachings & Practices, located on my YouTube channels known as the Dodger Dave Channel, formerly called the Dodger Game Channel and The Mormon Truth Videos Channel, thus Creating a resource for individuals to systematically Study, Fact Check & Evaluate Mormonism in Video format.
This Page has a few Video selections Followed by Hyper-Linked Chapter Headings, which can also be accessed under the MENU BUTTON in the upper left of each Page Header
In order to evaluate the validity of the Church's truth & Authority claims I will give my description of the premise upon which the church seems to be marketed historically from my observation, following which we must ask if the History, Doctrine ,Practices & Polices of said organization are consistent with the narrative marketed by the LDS Church.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presents the theme that the Old and New Testaments are essentially authentic and that some of the basic tenants of christianity are true other than those items where doctrine of the LDS Church differs from other churches due to mistranslation either accidental or deliberate in the flawed scriptures altered by the church of the Devil which has in the past been identified by Mormon leaders as spearheaded by the Roman Catholic Church to which all other churches are aligned with or part of in one degree or another. (See Book of Mormon 1st Nephi Chapters 13 & 14 and various discourses by LDS PRESIDENT Brigham Young and his Brethren found in the Journal of Discourses.)
The story is that the Israelite god established covenants with Old Testament Characters starting with Adam and continued supplying a Stairway to Heaven through the Dispensation headed by Jesus Christ after which the Church of the Devil wiped out the authorized Priesthood representatives commissioned by Jesus, and the world entered the Dark Ages devoid of divine guidance, until this same God and his son Jesus appeared to Mormonism's founder Joseph Smith Jr. at age 14 in a grove of trees in New York the 1st time he happened to pray. In said Heavenly vision Joseph was informed that all other christian creeds were abominations and their leaders were all corrupt, however the true Gospel of Jesus Christ would be restored through him at a later date and for the time being he needed to stay away from the other religions.
The narrative continues by asserting that Joseph was subsequently visited by Heavenly messengers who arranged for him to miraculously translate an ancient record of the American Indians who allegedly emigrated from Israel via Boats about 600 BC , had prophets and were visited by Jesus post resurrection in the New Testament story.
Chapters going into detail regarding the 1st Vision as it is called and the translation of the Book of Mormon will have much more detail on these matters as well as the "Restoration of the True Gospel of Jesus Christ" and his authorized Priesthood authority to act in his name and establish his 1 True Church through continuous revelation to Latter- day prophets and the evolving doctrines, rites and practices revealed by the unchanging eternal God to said Prophets will round out the menu which is found as mentioned above in hyperlinks up top or in this Home page as you move down the page.
When reviewing LDS history for consistency with its narrative of being the "One True & authorized Church of the God of gods we have some RED Flags such as the following. 1. The Official 1st Vision story taught to members and prospective members by the thousands of Missionaries out "sharing the Restored Gospel" was not part of the narrative used by Joseph Smith during the 1st Decade of the church"s existence or 2 decades after it allegedly took place. It was conspicuaously not included in the official history of the church published by Joseph Smith and his distant cousin and confidant Oliver Cowdrey which they published around 1835 and stated that he was seeking to know if a Supreme Being even existed in 1823 , 3 years after the alleged 1820 Official version of the Father and Son visit and the Official version also contradicts key aspects of the 8 or so alleged 1st vision accounts he either wrote, dictated or told trusted associates. 2. The Book of Mormon was alleged to be declared absolutely true and accurately translated from said ancient records by Jesus Christ himself to or through Joseph Smith as recorded in the LDS Book of Doctrine and Covenants containing church approved revelations to the Prophet yet it has had thousands of subsequent corrections and is filled with anachronistic statements, biblical storyline and doctrine, animals not present in pre-Columbian America and technology such as Steel Weapons and armor for thousands of warriors who battled on the hill next to Joseph's home in New York but can not be found along with the people and entire culture and evidence of existence vanishing without a trace. The BOM does contain narrative including passages from popular books available to Joseph Smith at the time such as "A View of the Hebrews" by Oliver Cowdrey's Pastor Ethan Smith & "The Late War between the United States and Great Britain" in which the Book of Mormon actually quotes mention of the 4th of July in obvious plagiarism. The Book of Mormon is filled with 19th Century Christian vernacular and New Testament topics and even some quotes in it's pre NT timeline.It contains many chapters from the Book of Isaiah nearly word for word including some that would have been originally penned after the Book of Mormon crew had departed Jerusalem for the New World or Promised Land as it is called in the book. It is written in 17th century English meant to blend with the King James Translation of the Bible verses it contains which somehow carried over KJV mistranslations found in the edition that happened to be the Smith family Bible as well as verses that Joseph later changed in his retranslation of the Bible in order to give the world the pure word of the Israelite god, restored from that which the Church of the Devil had corrupted.
3. Church history has been continuously rewritten to cover up obvious contradictions and even the Book of Commandments was eliminated when the Priesthood restoration stories were introduced and backdated. Later the new truth about the nature of the Godhead was updated.....again. specifically the BOM teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are one in the same being, not just one in purpose as the Church now teaches. Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith ( whose inclusion in the new D&C was the reason for the word Doctrine being used in the title,) has Joseph Smith teaching that God is a Spirit as the NT states and that Jesus alone, has a resurrected body of flesh and bones, while the Holy Ghost is just the combined mind and will of God and Christ, a non entity perhaps similar to the Microsoft Cloud, rather than the Spirit man that he is declared to be in D&C 130, where we learn the new version of the truth about the godhead, which has updated "Heavenly Father," to a resurrected Glorified god of flesh and bones. So new truth trumps old truth in LDS tradition, but how can the unchanging god just screw up the first way he informs his prophet about what he really is? 4. The BOM clearly teaches that failure to accept Jesus as your Savior in this life means you Can NOT be "SAVED," for all eternity, whereas sections 19 and 76 in the D&C contradict this and basically let us know that god was not being totally honest when he led us to believe the former version of truth found in the BOM which Jesus had already declared to be absolutely correct. Now you can be baptized by proxy in LDS Temples after you have been dead for 1 year so that spirit missionaries can teach you the Mormon Discussions in Hell or Spirit Prison and faithful obedient worthy tithe paying temple patrons can stand as "Saviors on Mount Zion" for you, so that "Families can be together forever through Heavenly Fathers plan," just as long as we all pay pray and obey!
5. The Church hid the fact that Joseph Smith was a practitioner of the occult who used a Seer Stone to search for lost items and treasure and was purported by his family and friends including his wife Emma & BOM witness David Whitmer and family, to have viewed the perfect words for translation of the BOM on this same Magic Stone placed in his hat in order to bring us the BOM rather than by peering at the Golden Plates and pondering their meaning as we have seen pictured in the Official Church Magazine, "The Ensign", all these years. The church now has had to admit to this since so many people are aware of it but continues to be deliberately deceptive about its history in its Gospel Topics Essays on subjects such as this found on it's official websites lds.org & mormon.org, while conveniently failing to discuss how the perfect translation has need to be altered in thousands of places. Especially when the Lord would not change the phrase on the Magic stone to the next words until the former were correctly transcribed.
6. The BOM specifically states that the Lord promised to preserve the land for an inheritance for the BOM people" unto themselves" by keeping it from the knowledge of other nations etc, but after the the DNA evidence came out showing that 99.4 % of Native American Tribal people tested came from Siberia starting about 15 thousand years ago which is 9000 years before Joseph Smith says Adam and Eve left their garden home in Missouri and that these people obviously were not destroyed in the imaginary flood of Noah which the Joseph Smith Inspired translation assures us was real history and the BOOK of Mormon intimates was the case in which it states that after the waters receded from off the face of this land it became a special place where only those brought by the hand of the Lord could dwell, as affirmed by LDS Apostle, Jeffry Holland in his June 1976 Ensign Article while he was a Seventy and President of BYU. Yes after all these affirmations of this storyline that the BOM Israelites were the Primary ancestors of the American Indians as the Church stated in the BOM introduction as the angel had assured Joseph was the case, the church not only changed the BOM intro to not include that statement, but lied in the 1st Presidency and Quorum of the 12 Apostles approved Gospel Topics Essays, Stating the the BOM neither tells us that the Israelites from the BOM story were either the ONLY or even the PRIMARY People in The AMERICAS, in direct contradiction of LDS scripture and teachings. They also throw the baby out with the bath water by leading us to believe that the BOM people just disappeared into this vast preexisting population of Pre Adamite Siberians while with the Egyptians, Babylonians, Sumerians, Chinese and others were unaffected by the flood of Noah found in the Bible they declare to be the word of their ever honest and reputable god. Thus completely discrediting their narrative of biblical historicity. Along with demonstrating the intent to continue to use all manner of techniques and tactics to deceive church members into believing that they can have their "families together forever" if they just continue to pay pray and obey, as I stated earlier. The reader is deliberately confused with all sorts of DNA theory about bottlenecked populations etc and led to conclude that no definitive physical evidence exists for the concerned member to determine whether or not the BOM is an authentic historical record as it claims to be and that the only viable means of determining such a thing is through praying to the god it testifies of, for which action the truly honest in heart and worthy Latter-day Saint will receive an answer to said prayer in the affirmative, inferring of course that failure to receive this divine assurance is evidence of unworthiness on the part of the person seeking the witness of the spirit regarding the truth of the BOM or the church.
7. Mormon Doctrine has now officially changed regarding the curse of Cain on African Negroes and Brigham Young and his Successors being racist men while still prophets of god who just let cultural norms influence them more than God in certain teachings and somehow not be a false prophet even though Joseph Smith wrote the Priesthood ban on the forbidden race into the Book of Abraham right in the 1st chapter is our explanation of how god could let his church be so politically incorrect for over a century. The Gospel Topics Essay on Race and Priesthood goes so far as to state that dark skin is not a sign of divine disfavor or a curse while the BOM specifically says that it is a curse on the laminates while the Book of Moses used to be hyperlinked from the spot in Abraham chapter 1 indicating the curse about the priesthood on descendants of Cain through Egyptus and Ham to Moses 7 where the Canaanites got turned black so they would be despised by all people after they murdered the people of Shum.
Once again they ignore the Scriptures that they contradicted & obfuscate the greater points of the problem while claiming to be giving a comprehensive and accurate essay on the subjects problematic to the narrative that the church is guided by such wonderful men who communicate with an all knowing unchanging righteous god.
8. Joseph Smith broke his marriage covenants regularly with concubines and girls both young and older in the spiritual wife system and through dealings with other mens wives and girls as young as 14 whom he coerced through the authority of his office to enter into marital relations, even promising eternal life to the girls entire family if she would not deny his request or stating that an angel with a drawn sword threatened him if he would not enter into such relationships. The church published a Gospel Topics Essay on this as well and avoided discussing such key points as much as possible and pretending that the god of Israel commanded Joseph to "marry other women while ignoring the spiritual wife system of Nauvoo and ignoring the fact that the alleged revelation on Celestial marriage D&C 132 was long after he was caught with 16 year old Fannie Alger who he impregnated while she was the family nanny or maid whom Emma kicked out on the street pregnant as a teen and yet we are taught that all this so called plural marriage was gods will. So retroactive revelations are now an excuse for adultery, no wonder a church founded by a sexual predator is still covering up for the pedophilia and Satanic Ritual Abuse of it's Priesthood and Employees.
9. The Church also published a "Gospel Topics Essay" about the Book of Abraham which Joseph Smith and the Church claimed that he translated from Egyptian Papyri along with certain facsimiles found with the Writings which he claimed to also translate and related them to the writings. The Papyri however have since been translated by Egyptologists as a common funerary text called the Book of Breathings which have exactly ZERO to do with any story about the Bible character Abraham, neither do the facsimiles which they also translated and absolutely none of Joseph Smiths Egyptian alphabet translation which he proudly exhibited to the saints in his day was correct. The Book of Abraham contains information known to be false, such as the translation of the meaning of the word Pharaoh or Egypt indicating that which is forbidden (to go along with his priesthood ban on descendants of Ham from Abraham 1 commonly said to be negroes in christian and LDS teachings of the time. Anachronisms such as Chaldeans 1000 years ahead of their time copied from the Bible or Jehovah's coming to Abram and calling him Abraham too early in the story or Jehovah being a real character in 2000 BC about 3300 years before the name Jehovah was invented in its primitive form by Catholic Monk Raymond Martini. But we are told that Josephs god gave him the power to translate this Papyri which is totally fraudulent and to which the Community of Christ, formerly called the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has admitted and removed from it's cannon of scripture in the light of the irrefutable evidence of the fraudulent nature of the Book of Abraham. However the LDS church essay tells us that we just can't figure it out by looking at evidence and we just need to pray for the witness of the spirit as our way of determining truth. While all we really need do is observe the evidence mentioned and add to that the disgusting fact that the guy that Joseph Smith tells us by his divine translating power is the great Elohim or god the father in mormonism pictured in facsimile #2 figure 7 and is revealing the grand key words of the Priesthood to his pals Abraham and the Holy Ghost has his pants off and is in a obvious state of extreme sexual arousal exhibiting lewd behavior while conducting this bizarre priesthood instruction session with 2 males. My reply is if that is our example for conducting a priesthood interview by God himself, then how can we allow Bishops and other priesthood leaders to conduct closed door one on one interviews with our children or spouses & how comfortable are you in worshipping such a perverted god?
Priesthood, Priesthood, Who's got the Priesthood The Canaanites and the Prince Hall Freemasons. The order of Enoch & the Law of Consecration. Emanuel Swedenborg's Doctrines Pre-existence & 3 Degrees of Glory make it into Mormonism.
The Kinderhook Plates
The Greek Psalter & the disorderly Glass Looker.
Mark Hoffman and the Salamander Papers.
The Bogus Business, Banking Fraud in Kirtland. Counterfeiting in Nauvoo.