Questions About the Book of Mormom; Doctrine and Covenants; and the Beliefs and Practices of the Latter Day Saints Church

Questions About the Book of Mormom; Doctrine and Covenants; and the Beliefs and Practices of the Latter Day Saints Church
1. Why does the Book of Mormon say that the Lord was to "be born of Mary, at Jerusalem;" when the Bible says he was born at Bethlehem? (Matthew 2:1 vs. Alma 7:10).

2. Why does the Book of Mormon say, "those who were true believers in Christ took upon them, gladly, the name of Christ, or Christians as they were called" (footnote says 73 BC); when the Bible says "the disciples were called Christians FIRST in Antioch? (Acts 11:26 vs. Alma 46:15).

3. Please explain Helaman 14:20, "there shall be no light upon the face of this land, even from the time that he shall suffer death, for the space of three DAYS" in view of Matthew 27:45. "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour."

4. How did the man, Nephi, happen to have a mariner's compass to guide him in or about 589 BC, when the mariner's compass was not invented till about the 12th century AD? (Americana Encyclopedia, Vol. 7, pg. 429; I Nephi 18:21).

5. Why do you teach that the "living may be baptized for the dead" (C. W. Penrose, What the Mormons Believe, p. 8), when the Book of Mormon says, "....if we do not improve our time in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed. Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world" (Alma 34:33-34).

6. Why did Jesus say, "in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage" (Matthew 22:30); when you teach that some marriages are for eternity, (What Mormons Believe, p. 11)?

7. If Joseph Smith was God's Prophet, why do you not teach and practice in accordance with his revelation on Plural Marriages? (Doctrines and Covenants, sec. 132:61-62).

8. Lehi was a descendant of Joseph, the son of Jacob, the patriarch (I Nephi 5:14). Nephi, the son of the above mentioned Lehi, consecrated Joseph and Jacob to be priests; (they were sons of Lehi, and brothers to Nephi, they were descended from Joseph, the son of Jacob). Please explain how this could be since the Bible plainly says, "No stranger that is not of the seed of Aaron come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah..." (Numbers 16:40). Hebrews 7:5 says, "the sons of Levi that receive the priests office..."Hebrews 8:4 tells us that Jesus, "if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all." Our Lord was of the tribe of Judah (Hebrews 7:14). It is evident that God forbade any Hebrew to be a priest, unless he was of the tribe of Levi; the men mentioned above were of the tribe of Joseph; if the Book of Mormon be true, these men received that which Jesus could not have. God destroyed Korah for attempting this very thing! Please Explain!

9. Why do you use water in the communion, when the Book of Mormon says, "...he (Jesus) commanded his disciples that they should take of the wine of the cup and drink it..." (III Nephi 18:8)? The Bible also teaches us to use "fruit of the vine" in communion (Matthew 26:29)!

10. Why does the Book of Mormon say, "...David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord" (Jacob 2:24); when the Doctrine and Covenants says, "David also received many wives and concubines, and also Solomon and Moses my servants... and in nothing did they sin..." (Doctrine and Covenants 132:38)?

11. Why have you not built "the temple" and "the city of New Jerusalem" in Independence Missouri; since the Doctrine and Covenants says, "For verily this generation shall not pass away until an house shall be built unto the Lord..." (84:5); "Wherefore this is the land of promise, and the place for the city of Zion... the place... called Independence..." (57:2-3)?

12. Why do you not use the original, 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon?

13. Can I become a Mormon by reading and obeying only the Bible?

14. Do you consider the Bible, as we have it today, a reliable record of God's will to man? Yes or No?

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