Restoring a Stairway to Heaven
Mormon Authenticity and Authority Claims Examined.
1 Restoring The Stairway to Heaven
In 1830 a 24 year old Back Country Farm Boy in Upstate New York published The Book of Mormon and founded the Church of Christ with all of six members on April 6th of that year in what he would call a response to God's call for him to restore the ancient order and Authority, constituting a plan of Salvation and Exaltation available to the lost sheep of the House of Israel & those who could be grafted in, with the power to bring us back into the presence of God in the company of our loved ones, where we can progress, create worlds, procreate Spirit Children and take our place in the genealogy of the Gods for all eternity.
In case you're concerned that you may be studying the wrong Church, don't worry, THE CHURCH OF CHRIST is just part of the genealogy of the Church's name.
Joseph and his new Business Partner Sydney Rigdon then renamed the church the Church of the Latter Day Saints around 1834 & then in 1838 got the name of Jesus Christ into it, in keeping with that teaching found in the Book of Mormon which asks "How be at my Church, save it be called in my name." Thus the third time was the charm and we've got the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Smith asserts that God originally made this wonderful plan of happiness all possible through his priesthood Authority given to Adam and passed on through righteous Patriarchs until Moses, when this saving Authority and Fullness of the Priesthood was taken from the Earth when the children of Israel disappointed God with their disobedient behavior in the wilderness.
We are also informed that Jesus Christ came in the Meridian of time in order to accomplish certain important tasks including atoning for the sins of all mankind and restoring the plans of Salvation and Exaltation to the Earth while establishing his church as a vehicle to facilitate gaining these blessings for all who would choose to follow Jesus of Nazareth.
We are taught in the Book of Mormon in the first book of Nephi Chapter 13 that the good news or Gospel of the Lamb was assembled in the book of the Lamb of God and went forth from the 12 Apostles in its purity, However after doing so we are informed in that chapter, of the formation of a Great and Abominable Church, which is most abominable above all other churches, and that the devil was the founder of this church.
The scripture goes on to tell us that this great and abominable Church which Joseph Smith's successors such as Brigham Young clearly identified as the Catholic Church, got hold of these scriptures and perverted the right ways of the Lord by taking out many plain and precious truths from the gospel of the Lamb, which originally contained the fullness of the Gospel, before such perversions of scriptures occurred at the hands of the Servants of the devil, who persecute the saints of God through the great and abominable Church of the devil and apparently killed off those having Priesthood Authority to run the True Church of Jesus Christ which he had established during his mortal Ministry.
These factors combined for a loss of God's true priesthood authority to perform Essential Ordinances for Salvation and Exaltation, such as Baptism and the Laying on of Hands for the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and apparently although not mentioned in the Bible, ordinances which would occur in the temples which contained special additional gifts or Endowments and Sealing powers to bind families together forever and to teach very important secret handshakes known as tokens as combined with other signs and keywords which we later learn are reported to have been practiced since the time of Adam, and apparently are necessary to demonstrate to the angels and gods who stand as Sentinels filtering out who they shall admit into the presence of the Lord through the Pearly Gates.
Although it was about a dozen years after founding the church that Joseph Smith informed us of the need to have knowledge and ability to demonstrate our familiarity with these Secret Signs, Tokens and Keywords of the Holy Priesthood in order to gain our Eternal Exaltation as Brigham Young later said, He at least started off with the premise that we had lost Authority and important truths in our now perverted Bible Scriptures, as well as the ability for anyone to speak with and for God as a prophet Seer and Revelator.
Fortunately God decided in his great wisdom to help us out by calling upon young Joseph Smith to fill this great void for us.
We also learn in 1st Nephi Chapter 14, That, "All other Churches are merely appendages to that great and abominable Church of the Devil," as well as in the Joseph Smith history where he explains that Jesus personally told him that all their Creeds are an Abomination to him, and "all of their Ministers were corrupt."
"All have gone astray and teach for Doctrine the Commandments of men, having a form of godliness but lacking the power thereof."
All of these evils will be overcome through the Advent of the kingdom of God, as restored through Joseph Smith the prophet of the restoration.
Praise be to God for having mercy upon the inhabitants of the Earth, after so many hundreds of years of leaving us in the Dark Ages ruled by the prince of the power of the air.
In the Book of Mormon, Which Joseph Smith says he translated from Golden Plates, as a history of people who came from the Middle East led by holy prophets from God who recorded God's dealings with them including the visit of Jesus Christ shortly after his resurrection in Jerusalem,
We find
the familiar gospel message of 19th century Christianity, as well as the wording being done in 17th century English similar to and sometimes identical to passages found in the 1769 King James translation of the Bible, Complete with errors made in the King James translation, and various New Testament themes, language and sometimes direct quotes, which somehow found their way into the Old Testament timeline, in the book of Alma, one of the Prophets found writing in the Book of Mormon.
What we do not find, oddly enough, are many of the aspects which we are told are parts of this Plan of Salvation and Exaltation, Especially regarding Temple ordinances, Including the Holy Endowment, & the Sealing of Husbands and Wives and Families Together.
Also missing, are the practices of Baptism for the Dead, Washing and Anointing Ordinances , the teachings of a pre-mortal existence or multiple kingdoms of immortal glory, Such as the Telestial, Terrestrial and Celestial Kingdoms of God, where people wind up based on their level of obedience to Israel's God's laws and Ordinances.
Neither do we see the specified Three Degrees Of Glory in the Celestial Kingdom. In short, Most of the things that Mormons are Best known for, are not taught in this book,
Also
according to Joseph Smith, Jesus Christ told him that the Book of Mormon contained the fullness of the Gospel, in what has been published as section 20 of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Book of Mormon also does not teach the importance and approval of the practice of having multiple wives and concubines, but rather specifically condemns both David and Solomon for practicing such “Wicked Abominations”, while a book of Mormon prophet named Jacob condemns some of the local men for practicing such Abominations themselves and breaking The Tender Hearts of their wives and children.
Stranger yet we find those same two characters being named in an 1843 revelation to Joseph Smith, which he publicly denied existed until his demise, which stated that those same two characters were approved of God in their practices of having many wives and concubines... Go figure.
Joseph Smith "re-translated" or Altered the Bible to restore some of these important lost truths which were said to be "plain and most precious unto the Children of Men" as it say sin the Book of Mormon, or in other words, easy to understand and very essential for our salvation. However in doing so we still do not find the doctrines of plural marriage or Temple or Celestial marriage and Sealings even mentioned, much less endorsed.
We do not find explanations about the pre-mortal existence or how one might obtain the highest degree of Glory and differentiate that from the other degrees of Glory in the Celestial Kingdom, or the other two kingdoms of Glory, instead we find this information given in later Revelation to Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants, which happens to be a redo of a former collection of Revelations called The Book of Commandments, which was redone or published under this new name after multiple Revelations were revamped and quotes from Jesus Christ apparently were changed from what he was supposed to have told us earlier, including language which would go along well with a restoration of priesthood in 1829, which doesn't appear to have really been claimed to have happened till 1834, although the newly revamped version of our story tells us that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery received visitations from Angels such as John the Baptist and Peter James and John to restore lost Priesthood Authority, which would be necessary for his apostles among other officers of the church including the offices of Seventy or High Priests, Elders, Priest, Teachers and Deacons.
We do find that the Apostles did not even know they were given the priesthood and neither did the Three Witnesses, as the entire story appears to have been backdated in the revamped Book of Joseph's Revelations, called the Doctrine and Covenants.
Since God was restoring his Ancient Order and priesthood we would expect that the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible would be restoring language commensurate with such history and as a matter of fact in the first chapters of the book of Moses we find this to be the case as a matter we have discussions of Jesus Christ and New Testament theology right near the beginning of the book of Genesis and then we just don't hear about it again that I recall and we seem to resume the order of things found in the King James version of the Bible where animals are being sacrificed in order to gain the remission of sins from a God who is not very forgiving unless you kill animals and burn them in order to please him.
We also do not find other aspects of this New Testament Gospel as it is sometimes called including Baptism and the "Gift of the Holy Ghost by the Laying on of Hands," which apparently, we are to assume the Catholic Church managed to edit out of several dozen books of ancient scripture even managing to get it out of the Jewish Talmud or Pentateuch, which they supposedly never got hold of because these new testament doctrines which never appeared in the Old Testament, until Joseph Smith re-translated and placed them in Genesis don't appear again until the New Testament times.
Maybe it was just too much work for him to undo all those errors or evil extractions of such doctrines and actually change the culture of the people at least until the time of Moses when the Hebrew god got sick and tired of putting up with these rebellious children and took away the Melchizedek priesthood from them, as Joseph Smith teaches us in another Revelation found in the book of Doctrine and Covenant section 84 verses 23 through 26.
Also as we look for some corroborating evidence of this gospel or Plan of Salvation to be found within biblical text we would expect the New Testament to be teaching us that Jesus Christ was ordaining men to offices in this Priesthood after first conferring upon them this Priesthood however we find no such thing as the Priesthood in Jewish culture has nothing to do with Apostleship or being a 70 or some other office that is found in the New Testament gospels as they are called but has to do with the butchering of animals to appease Yahweh the god of the Jews, who is actually found in Jewish culture in historical context, whereas the gospels of Matthew Mark Luke and John are actually books written long after the time that Jesus Christ was supposed to have lived and utilize pen names of individuals who were found in those stories after the time that they would have been dead in some cases while authoring these books.
Also we should note that we don't find historians of the many that were present in the area of Jerusalem during the time when Jesus Christ was supposed to have lived that even mention him having existed much less his many mighty Miracles or the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus and the many Saints who were supposedly resurrected at the same time and appeared to many but instead Somehow they have escaped the scrutiny of about 20 historians in that area at that time.
In summary we just don't find corroborating evidence of this Plan of Salvation and Exaltation having existed in biblical text as taught in the LDS temples as being in existence from the time when Adam is purported to have exited the Garden in Jackson County Missouri with his wife Eve and begun the Human family neither do we find it going throughout the dozens of books found in the Old Testament neither do we find it in the New Testament including the Joseph Smith translation which somehow neglects to have Jesus conferring Priesthood upon anyone or teaching Temple ordinances either.
Videos with information pertinent to these issues will be linked here from my YouTube channels the Dodger game channel and or Mormon Truth Videos Channel where a more in-depth discussion may be found as well as reference to related subject matter.
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1 Restoring The Stairway to Heaven
In 1830 a 24 year old Back Country Farm Boy in Upstate New York published The Book of Mormon and founded the Church of Christ with all of six members on April 6th of that year in what he would call a response to God's call for him to restore the ancient order and Authority, constituting a plan of Salvation and Exaltation available to the lost sheep of the House of Israel & those who could be grafted in, with the power to bring us back into the presence of God in the company of our loved ones, where we can progress, create worlds, procreate Spirit Children and take our place in the genealogy of the Gods for all eternity.
In case you're concerned that you may be studying the wrong Church, don't worry, THE CHURCH OF CHRIST is just part of the genealogy of the Church's name.
Joseph and his new Business Partner Sydney Rigdon then renamed the church the Church of the Latter Day Saints around 1834 & then in 1838 got the name of Jesus Christ into it, in keeping with that teaching found in the Book of Mormon which asks "How be at my Church, save it be called in my name." Thus the third time was the charm and we've got the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Smith asserts that God originally made this wonderful plan of happiness all possible through his priesthood Authority given to Adam and passed on through righteous Patriarchs until Moses, when this saving Authority and Fullness of the Priesthood was taken from the Earth when the children of Israel disappointed God with their disobedient behavior in the wilderness.
We are also informed that Jesus Christ came in the Meridian of time in order to accomplish certain important tasks including atoning for the sins of all mankind and restoring the plans of Salvation and Exaltation to the Earth while establishing his church as a vehicle to facilitate gaining these blessings for all who would choose to follow Jesus of Nazareth.
We are taught in the Book of Mormon in the first book of Nephi Chapter 13 that the good news or Gospel of the Lamb was assembled in the book of the Lamb of God and went forth from the 12 Apostles in its purity, However after doing so we are informed in that chapter, of the formation of a Great and Abominable Church, which is most abominable above all other churches, and that the devil was the founder of this church.
The scripture goes on to tell us that this great and abominable Church which Joseph Smith's successors such as Brigham Young clearly identified as the Catholic Church, got hold of these scriptures and perverted the right ways of the Lord by taking out many plain and precious truths from the gospel of the Lamb, which originally contained the fullness of the Gospel, before such perversions of scriptures occurred at the hands of the Servants of the devil, who persecute the saints of God through the great and abominable Church of the devil and apparently killed off those having Priesthood Authority to run the True Church of Jesus Christ which he had established during his mortal Ministry.
These factors combined for a loss of God's true priesthood authority to perform Essential Ordinances for Salvation and Exaltation, such as Baptism and the Laying on of Hands for the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and apparently although not mentioned in the Bible, ordinances which would occur in the temples which contained special additional gifts or Endowments and Sealing powers to bind families together forever and to teach very important secret handshakes known as tokens as combined with other signs and keywords which we later learn are reported to have been practiced since the time of Adam, and apparently are necessary to demonstrate to the angels and gods who stand as Sentinels filtering out who they shall admit into the presence of the Lord through the Pearly Gates.
Although it was about a dozen years after founding the church that Joseph Smith informed us of the need to have knowledge and ability to demonstrate our familiarity with these Secret Signs, Tokens and Keywords of the Holy Priesthood in order to gain our Eternal Exaltation as Brigham Young later said, He at least started off with the premise that we had lost Authority and important truths in our now perverted Bible Scriptures, as well as the ability for anyone to speak with and for God as a prophet Seer and Revelator.
Fortunately God decided in his great wisdom to help us out by calling upon young Joseph Smith to fill this great void for us.
We also learn in 1st Nephi Chapter 14, That, "All other Churches are merely appendages to that great and abominable Church of the Devil," as well as in the Joseph Smith history where he explains that Jesus personally told him that all their Creeds are an Abomination to him, and "all of their Ministers were corrupt."
"All have gone astray and teach for Doctrine the Commandments of men, having a form of godliness but lacking the power thereof."
All of these evils will be overcome through the Advent of the kingdom of God, as restored through Joseph Smith the prophet of the restoration.
Praise be to God for having mercy upon the inhabitants of the Earth, after so many hundreds of years of leaving us in the Dark Ages ruled by the prince of the power of the air.
In the Book of Mormon, Which Joseph Smith says he translated from Golden Plates, as a history of people who came from the Middle East led by holy prophets from God who recorded God's dealings with them including the visit of Jesus Christ shortly after his resurrection in Jerusalem,
We find
the familiar gospel message of 19th century Christianity, as well as the wording being done in 17th century English similar to and sometimes identical to passages found in the 1769 King James translation of the Bible, Complete with errors made in the King James translation, and various New Testament themes, language and sometimes direct quotes, which somehow found their way into the Old Testament timeline, in the book of Alma, one of the Prophets found writing in the Book of Mormon.
What we do not find, oddly enough, are many of the aspects which we are told are parts of this Plan of Salvation and Exaltation, Especially regarding Temple ordinances, Including the Holy Endowment, & the Sealing of Husbands and Wives and Families Together.
Also missing, are the practices of Baptism for the Dead, Washing and Anointing Ordinances , the teachings of a pre-mortal existence or multiple kingdoms of immortal glory, Such as the Telestial, Terrestrial and Celestial Kingdoms of God, where people wind up based on their level of obedience to Israel's God's laws and Ordinances.
Neither do we see the specified Three Degrees Of Glory in the Celestial Kingdom. In short, Most of the things that Mormons are Best known for, are not taught in this book,
Also
according to Joseph Smith, Jesus Christ told him that the Book of Mormon contained the fullness of the Gospel, in what has been published as section 20 of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Book of Mormon also does not teach the importance and approval of the practice of having multiple wives and concubines, but rather specifically condemns both David and Solomon for practicing such “Wicked Abominations”, while a book of Mormon prophet named Jacob condemns some of the local men for practicing such Abominations themselves and breaking The Tender Hearts of their wives and children.
Stranger yet we find those same two characters being named in an 1843 revelation to Joseph Smith, which he publicly denied existed until his demise, which stated that those same two characters were approved of God in their practices of having many wives and concubines... Go figure.
Joseph Smith "re-translated" or Altered the Bible to restore some of these important lost truths which were said to be "plain and most precious unto the Children of Men" as it say sin the Book of Mormon, or in other words, easy to understand and very essential for our salvation. However in doing so we still do not find the doctrines of plural marriage or Temple or Celestial marriage and Sealings even mentioned, much less endorsed.
We do not find explanations about the pre-mortal existence or how one might obtain the highest degree of Glory and differentiate that from the other degrees of Glory in the Celestial Kingdom, or the other two kingdoms of Glory, instead we find this information given in later Revelation to Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants, which happens to be a redo of a former collection of Revelations called The Book of Commandments, which was redone or published under this new name after multiple Revelations were revamped and quotes from Jesus Christ apparently were changed from what he was supposed to have told us earlier, including language which would go along well with a restoration of priesthood in 1829, which doesn't appear to have really been claimed to have happened till 1834, although the newly revamped version of our story tells us that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery received visitations from Angels such as John the Baptist and Peter James and John to restore lost Priesthood Authority, which would be necessary for his apostles among other officers of the church including the offices of Seventy or High Priests, Elders, Priest, Teachers and Deacons.
We do find that the Apostles did not even know they were given the priesthood and neither did the Three Witnesses, as the entire story appears to have been backdated in the revamped Book of Joseph's Revelations, called the Doctrine and Covenants.
Since God was restoring his Ancient Order and priesthood we would expect that the Joseph Smith translation of the Bible would be restoring language commensurate with such history and as a matter of fact in the first chapters of the book of Moses we find this to be the case as a matter we have discussions of Jesus Christ and New Testament theology right near the beginning of the book of Genesis and then we just don't hear about it again that I recall and we seem to resume the order of things found in the King James version of the Bible where animals are being sacrificed in order to gain the remission of sins from a God who is not very forgiving unless you kill animals and burn them in order to please him.
We also do not find other aspects of this New Testament Gospel as it is sometimes called including Baptism and the "Gift of the Holy Ghost by the Laying on of Hands," which apparently, we are to assume the Catholic Church managed to edit out of several dozen books of ancient scripture even managing to get it out of the Jewish Talmud or Pentateuch, which they supposedly never got hold of because these new testament doctrines which never appeared in the Old Testament, until Joseph Smith re-translated and placed them in Genesis don't appear again until the New Testament times.
Maybe it was just too much work for him to undo all those errors or evil extractions of such doctrines and actually change the culture of the people at least until the time of Moses when the Hebrew god got sick and tired of putting up with these rebellious children and took away the Melchizedek priesthood from them, as Joseph Smith teaches us in another Revelation found in the book of Doctrine and Covenant section 84 verses 23 through 26.
Also as we look for some corroborating evidence of this gospel or Plan of Salvation to be found within biblical text we would expect the New Testament to be teaching us that Jesus Christ was ordaining men to offices in this Priesthood after first conferring upon them this Priesthood however we find no such thing as the Priesthood in Jewish culture has nothing to do with Apostleship or being a 70 or some other office that is found in the New Testament gospels as they are called but has to do with the butchering of animals to appease Yahweh the god of the Jews, who is actually found in Jewish culture in historical context, whereas the gospels of Matthew Mark Luke and John are actually books written long after the time that Jesus Christ was supposed to have lived and utilize pen names of individuals who were found in those stories after the time that they would have been dead in some cases while authoring these books.
Also we should note that we don't find historians of the many that were present in the area of Jerusalem during the time when Jesus Christ was supposed to have lived that even mention him having existed much less his many mighty Miracles or the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus and the many Saints who were supposedly resurrected at the same time and appeared to many but instead Somehow they have escaped the scrutiny of about 20 historians in that area at that time.
In summary we just don't find corroborating evidence of this Plan of Salvation and Exaltation having existed in biblical text as taught in the LDS temples as being in existence from the time when Adam is purported to have exited the Garden in Jackson County Missouri with his wife Eve and begun the Human family neither do we find it going throughout the dozens of books found in the Old Testament neither do we find it in the New Testament including the Joseph Smith translation which somehow neglects to have Jesus conferring Priesthood upon anyone or teaching Temple ordinances either.
Videos with information pertinent to these issues will be linked here from my YouTube channels the Dodger game channel and or Mormon Truth Videos Channel where a more in-depth discussion may be found as well as reference to related subject matter.
Help wake up Mormons by Enabling Dodger Dave to devote TIME our greatest resource through your FINANCIAL Contributions using links below or sending useful items like Supplements , USANA Proflavanol, Soma Derm hgh gel, vitamins D3,E, Selenium, etc $$ etc
PO Box 302 ℅ Postal Annex 2033 San Elijo Cardiff by the Sea CA. 92007
Here's my GoFundMe link gf.me/u/w252uv
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I would also like to include video productions by other individuals on these subjects here ,such as Mormon Historian and Author Dan Vogel who has his own Youtube Channel featuring a number of excellent presentations on Mormon History. Here are a couple detailing Mormon Authority claims on the backdated priesthood revelations which altered those found in the Book of Commandments and brought us the new revised versions of what Jesus had "really said" in the Book of DOCTRINE and COVENANTS.
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