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* [[Template:JosephSmithPortal|Joseph Smith resources]] | * [[Template:JosephSmithPortal|Joseph Smith resources]] | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">It’s no coincidence that Joseph was murdered in the Carthage jail. Why was Joseph in jail? He destroyed a small paper press called the ''Nauvoo Expositor'' because he didn’t like what they had written about him in their one and only publication. – Patrick Powell</h2> | ||
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+ | '''To read more:''' | ||
+ | * LINKS HERE | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">But this was not the first time Joseph was arrested. He had been arrested many times throughout his adult life for things like defrauding people while he was using his glass-looking techniques and creating an illegal bank in Kirtland, Ohio, and fleeing with its monies. – Patrick Powell</h2> | ||
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+ | '''To read more:''' | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">So why do so many people follow this man? Because they don’t know the truth about the character of Joseph Smith. – Pamela Robertson</h2> | ||
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+ | ANSWER | ||
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+ | '''To read more:''' | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">As a Mormon, you cannot question the Church on issues such as these because you run the risk of excommunication. – Pamela Robertson</h2> | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">This video has been sent to Mormon leaders knowing that they will try to destroy and discredit its message but this will not change the fact that the content within is true. – Pamela Robertson</h2> | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Do not trust your eternity to a burning in the bosom which can be felt by simply watching a Hollywood movie. Even terrorists believe and are willing to die for something which is not of the Lord.– Patrick Powell</h2> | ||
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! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Jesus alone is without sin, as we read in 1 John 3:5, “And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.” Only Jesus could live a sinless life.</h2> | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Jesus alone is without sin, as we read in 1 John 3:5, “And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.” Only Jesus could live a sinless life.</h2> | ||
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− | The narrative wants you to believe that this description of Christ is different from LDS beliefs of Christ. This again is false | + | The narrative wants you to believe that this description of Christ is different from LDS beliefs of Christ. This again is false—hardly an act of love! There is no people who worship Christ, preach of Christ, love Christ, and trust in Christ more than members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
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* [[Plain_and_Precious_Book_of_Mormon_doctrines|Book of Mormon doctrines about Jesus Christ]] | * [[Plain_and_Precious_Book_of_Mormon_doctrines|Book of Mormon doctrines about Jesus Christ]] | ||
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− | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">If someone today would model their life after Joseph Smith they would have to be an adulterer, a thief, a fraud and a liar.</h2> | + | ! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "If someone today would model their life after Joseph Smith they would have to be an adulterer, a thief, a fraud and a liar...You must choose to follow Joseph or follow Jesus but you cannot follow both."</h2> |
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