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Sep 15 2009

LDS Church releases Bible in Spanish

Published by Kevin Bussey under Mormons, heresy

“Una obra maravillosa … un milagro … inspirado … unificar y facilitar.”

Those are the Spanish words — English translations are in the subheads below — some Mormons are using to describe the groundbreaking new Spanish-language edition of the Holy Bible prepared by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“Santa Biblia: Reina Valera 2009″ represents the first time the church has published an edition of the Bible in a language other than English, but it is also a natural progression in a pedigree of LDS editions of the scriptures — the English King James Version in 1979, the English-language LDS “triple combination” (Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price) in 1981 and the subsequent printing of triple combinations in some three-dozen other languages.

Spanish speakers make up a major percentage of the church’s worldwide membership and are an increasing portion of its numbers in Utah, where 70,000 Hispanic Mormons lived at the beginning of the year. The state is home to more than 120 Spanish-language LDS wards and branches.

Catholics, Southern Baptists, losing members–Mormons up!

Published by Kevin Bussey under Christian, Mormons, catholic church, church, evangelicals, evangelism, faith, jehovah witnesses, southern baptist, test

[Washington Times]

Church demographers have been saying for awhile that Catholics are in big trouble if you take away growth from immigration and sure enough, the 2009 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, which just came out, showed the Catholic Church declined .59 percent or 398,000 members in 2007. They still have some 67 million adherents, though.

The Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination, have been seeing faltering numbers for years in their own head counts. Their downward shift is finally being registered by the Yearbook, a bible of sorts for religion writers and scholars. They lost .24 percent or 40,000 members. Which is a drop in the bucket compared to their reported 16.2-million-member total but no one likes a shrinking membership base, no matter how slight.

The churches that are growing are:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (up 1.63 percent to 5,873,408; the Assemblies of God (up 0.96 percent to 2,863,265); Jehovah’s Witnesses (up 2.12 percent to 1,092,169); and the Church of God of Cleveland, Tenn. (up 2.04 percent to 1,053,642). The Mormons are now America’s fourth-largest church group, having surpassed nearly every mainline Protestant denomination.

Two Mormon Missionaries think Bigfoot has been to their house!

Published by Kevin Bussey under Mormons

[San Fransico Sentinel]

Two missionaries with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints received a scare on the night of Dec. 2 when they saw what they think was a set of sasquatch footprints outside of their Burns Lake home.

Focus on the Family Explains Decision to Pull Mormon Interview

Published by Kevin Bussey under Christian, Mormons, ministry

[Christian Post]

Focus on the Family got to work this week in explaining in detail why it pulled from its website an interview with a Mormon author.

“We intended no insult,” expressed ministry spokesman Gary Schneeberger, in a statement. “[W]e merely miscalculated on how best to feature Glenn [Beck], whom we greatly appreciate.”

Last week, some time before Christmas celebrations, Focus on the Family took down the interview with Beck amid complaints from the evangelical community over the former CNN host’s Mormon ties.

The interview, produced by a freelance reporter in Colorado Springs and not Focus on the Family, focuses on Beck’s recently released book, The Christmas Sweater, which has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for Hardcover Fiction for six consecutive weeks and currently ranks at No. 1.

In the interview, Beck talked about what Christmas means to him, how he came to write the book, and what message he hoped readers would take away from the book.

“Sometimes redemption has been made into a word that people don’t understand,” he said. “They need to know it’s true, it’s real. It’s not a word, it’s a life-changing force. It’s transformed my life, who I was to the very core of my being. If it wasn’t for me accepting the gift that the Lord gave to me, I’d be dead today.”

Since the interview was published, a number of Christians throughout the blogosphere raised flags and sounded alarms, concerned that Focus on the Family was compromising central doctrinal truths to win the culture war.

“They use Mr. Beck’s story as a way to show that hope can be found in God, which is true enough; the problem is that Mr. Beck’s god is not the Triune God of the Bible nor is his Jesus the Jesus of the Bible,” commented Dustin S. Seger, pastor of Shepherd’s Fellowship of Greensboro, N.C., in the co-authored blog “Grace in the Triad.”

Beck, however, maintains that the book’s message can be and has been embraced by people of different faiths and should not be “censored” because of his own personal religious views. tells the narrative of a boy named Eddie who embarks on a dark and painful journey on the road to manhood.

The Restoration of Truth?

Published by Kevin Bussey under Mormons, false religion, heresy

I saw this banner on a website and I wondered what “Truth” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” has restored? There are many wonderful people who follow this false religion. I believe they are truly looking for truth but they have been deceived.

The first problem is they follow a false prophet. Joseph Smith was a liar who plagiarized the Book of Mormon from the King James Version of the Bible. No reputable archeologists can find prove that anything written by the Mormon church goes beyond the 1800’s. They believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers. They believe that you can baptize people after they had died and that will save them. The Bible says we have all been appointed once to die and then face the judgment.

I love when Mormon “missionaries” come to my house. I feel the longer I keep them at my home the fewer neighbors they are deceiving. They always talk about a “burning in the bosom” that lets you know if the Mormon religion is true. Well the “burning” could be heartburn.

The Mormons try to pose as “Christians” by using Christian terminology and phrases. Why in the world do they want to be considered Christian? Just say who you are. You are Mormons and we don’t worship the same God and we don’t have the same beliefs. There is nothing about our faiths that are similar except we strive to live good lives. But the difference is the LDS believe that you are good to enter into heaven. The Christian faith believes we are good because of what Jesus does in our lives. That is a major difference.

So, to my Mormon friends, you are free to believe false teaching if you want to. But don’t pose as a Christian religion because you are not. It is time that you turn from your false “good works” religion and turn to the Grace that is offered to everyone through Jesus Christ.

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