That Same Spirit
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 11:03 pm
Twenty-three-year-old Joseph Smith applied his knowledge of the Bible coupled with common theology taught by Protestant churches in order to present a heaven or hell judgment in Book of Mormon doctrine. Smith basically took teachings of his day as understood in the Bible and presented them in his own way to provide other examples to express the same thing. It’s either heaven or hell! You’re saved or damned, period! There is no such thing as repentance in an afterlife. There is no salvation for the dead who rejected Jesus while in mortality. They go to hell, period. That *IS* the message in the Book of Mormon. The doctrine of salvation for the dead or repentance and progression in the hereafter was a later construct that came towards the end of Smith’s ministry. The Book of Mormon contains biblical Protestant teachings only!
Let us examine some Protestant teachings in the Book of Mormon:
• Smith uses the doctrine of threatening the faithful with hell and damnation if they apostatize
• Withdrawal of the Holy Spirit leads to damnation
• Leaving the Church is to fight against God in open rebellion
• Apostates are subject to the evil spirit (Satan) and become enemies of God
• Failure to repent and to die in sin automatically results in eternal hellfire
• There is absolutely NO mercy for apostates who die in their sin
• The damned in hell will suffer for ever and ever in a state of “never-ending torment”
In other words, the torment will never end for those who reject the gospel of Jesus Christ while in mortality. They are doomed to suffer the wrath of Smith’s eternal God forever and ever. It is therefore written that there will be no end to this torment for it is “never-ending” and flames ascend up “forever and ever”. Wherefore it is more express than other scriptures, that it might work FEAR upon the hearts of men in order to keep them in check and from questioning the church and ultimately disagreeing and falling away.
Therefore, the “final doom” of the apostate is to endure a never-ending torment, forever and ever. There is nothing after the final doom other than forever and ever which is a never-ending torment, for it is written, there will be no end to this torment.
Let us examine some Protestant teachings in the Book of Mormon:
Mosiah 2:36-39 wrote:And now, I say unto you, my brethren, that after ye have known and have been taught all these things, if ye should transgress and go contrary to that which has been spoken, that ye do withdraw yourselves from the Spirit of the Lord, that it may have no place in you to guide you in wisdom’s paths that ye may be blessed, prospered, and preserved—
I say unto you, that the man that doeth this, the same cometh out in open rebellion against God; therefore he listeth to obey the evil spirit, and becometh an enemy to all righteousness; therefore, the Lord has no place in him, for he dwelleth not in unholy temples.
Therefore if that man repenteth not, and remaineth and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt, which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord, and doth fill his breast with guilt, and pain, and anguish, which is like an unquenchable fire, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever.
And now I say unto you, that mercy hath no claim on that man; therefore his final doom is to endure a never-ending torment.
• Smith uses the doctrine of threatening the faithful with hell and damnation if they apostatize
• Withdrawal of the Holy Spirit leads to damnation
• Leaving the Church is to fight against God in open rebellion
• Apostates are subject to the evil spirit (Satan) and become enemies of God
• Failure to repent and to die in sin automatically results in eternal hellfire
• There is absolutely NO mercy for apostates who die in their sin
• The damned in hell will suffer for ever and ever in a state of “never-ending torment”
In other words, the torment will never end for those who reject the gospel of Jesus Christ while in mortality. They are doomed to suffer the wrath of Smith’s eternal God forever and ever. It is therefore written that there will be no end to this torment for it is “never-ending” and flames ascend up “forever and ever”. Wherefore it is more express than other scriptures, that it might work FEAR upon the hearts of men in order to keep them in check and from questioning the church and ultimately disagreeing and falling away.
Therefore, the “final doom” of the apostate is to endure a never-ending torment, forever and ever. There is nothing after the final doom other than forever and ever which is a never-ending torment, for it is written, there will be no end to this torment.