Below are some of the questions that other relgions have toward the Latter-day Saints. Scripture references are available to help better understand the concept we believe as Latter-day Saints. To look these scriptures up on-line, click HERE.
NOTE: The views on these doctrines are not official statements of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  1. Do not add to or take away from the word. (Revelation 22:18-19)
    1. When John made this statement there was no Bible.
    2. The book of Revelation is a self-inclusive book (Revelation 1:4) therefore, it does not apply to the rest of the Bible.
    3. If you take Revelation 22:18-19 literally, then you also have to accept Deuteronomy 4:2

  2. Saved by Grace, you only have to confess Jesus to be saved. (Ephesians 2:8-9 & Romans 10:9)
    1. James 2:17-20 The devils believe and it hasn't got them anywhere. James 1:22; Matthew 7:21-23; Revelation 20:13; Romans 2:6.

  3. God, Jesus and Holy Ghost are one. "Trinity"
    1. Matthew 3:16-17; Acts 7:55-56; John 17:14-23 showing the symbolism of being one. Mark 13:32 & 14:36; John 20:17

  4. God is a Spirit (John 4:24 no form or shape)
    1. We all have spirits, God has one also. If you take it literal that God only has Spirit, then we can only worship him in Spirit, we can't have a body (Philippians 3:3)
    2. Hebrews 1:1-3, Jesus was the express image of his person, was Jesus only Spirit?
    3. If God is a Spirit and if Jesus is God, what happened to Jesus' Body after his resurrection (assuming you believe in the "trinity"). Luke 24:39; 2 John 1:7. You have to believe that Christ is in the flesh now or you are a deceiver and an anti-Christ. How can Christ be in the flesh now and God be a Spirit and they are the same person?
    4. 1 John 3:1-2

  5. No on has ever seen God (John 1:18)
    1. John 6:46
    2. Page 177 of Topical Guide God, Manifestations of.

  6. You can go to any church, it doesn't matter which one (Matthew 18:20)
    1. Ephesians 4:5
    2. Read 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11-14; Hebrews 13:8; Galatians 1:7-8

  7. The Heavens are closed, there is no need for Prophets
    1. God is the same forever (Hebrews 13:8) His truth is unchanging, we should all have the same doctrine, but we don't (1 Corinthians 1:10) this is why God speaks through holy Prophets and Apostles, Amos 3:7. Without Apostles and Prophets we are blown about with every wind of Doctrine (Ephesians 4:11-14).
    2. If God is perfect and unchanging, why is there so many ways to get to heaven?
    3. Acts 2:17-18

  8. The Bible is infallible and is the complete word of God
    1. John 21:25 Much was said, not all was written.
    2. Read Exodus 32:14; Numbers 23:19 showing contradiction. Read Matthew 27:5; Acts 1:18 showing contradiction in Judas' Death. Read Acts 9:7 to Acts 22:9 Paul's vision. (Showing contradictions and possible mistakes in translation).
    3. Page 725 of the Bible Dictionary under "Lost Books"

  9. Don't the Mormons have more than one wife?
    1. God is eternal and unchanging (Hebrews 13:8). Righteous men in the past have had more than one wife. (2 Samuel 5:13)
    2. The Lord will command men to have more than one wife if needed, otherwise it is not approved. (Jacob 2:27-30).
    3. Official Declaration of the Church

  10. You guys wouldn't let black people hold the Priesthood in your church. God is not racist.
    1. Matthew 10:5, no preaching to the Gentiles, God denied all people the Gospel but the Jew. Similar to one kind of person can hold the Authority and one can't. Go to Acts 9:15 by revelation from God the prior commandment was changed just as it has with black people and the Priesthood.
    2. See declaration at end of D&C

  11. Not everyone will be resurrected
    1. Acts 24:15; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22

  12. Anyone can be a preacher or have the authority of God
    1. Man must be called of God as was Aaron (Hebrews 5:4). Jesus Christ ordained his Apostles and gave them the authority to do his work (Matthew 10:1-5). Authority is given by the laying on of the hands by those who have been ordained. Acts 13:1-3; 1 Timothy 4:14
    2. Acts 19:13-16 People cursed for assuming authority
    3. Acts 8:14-23; Authority can not be bought

  13. We pay our preacher a lot of money. (Luke 10:7; 1 Timothy 5:18)
    1. 1 Corinthians 9:18; 2 Kings 5:15-27; Micah 3:11. All these show examples or scriptures that support the doctrine of a lay ministry.

  14. We never existed before we were born.
    1. Jeremiah 1:5; Proverbs 8:22-27; Ecclesiastes 12:7

  15. I don't think resurrection is physical (1 Corinthians 15:50)
    1. Leviticus 17:11 clarifies the relationship of blood to mortality or corruption. After the resurrection we will not have blood, but we will still be physical, see Luke 24:39.
    2. Read 1 Corinthians 15:51-57

  16. You think you can become "God".
    1. Romans 8:16-17; 1 Peter 3:22; Hebrews 1:1-3. If we will be joint heirs with Jesus Christ and all authorities and powers are subject to him and he also created the worlds, why can't we?

  17. You can only use wine for the Sacrament
    1. The Bible never commands the use of wine, it commands that you partake of the cup. Matthew 26:26-28; Luke 22:19-20
    2. If there's a Prophet on the earth today our interpretation of the scriptures is right. D&C 27:2

  18. The Three Nephites can't still be alive.
    1. Matthew 16:28; John 21:22-23. Good scriptures that allude to John still being alive today, just as the three Nephites.

  19. Why does it in Alma 7:10 say that Christ was to be born in Jerusalem, "this is a mistake"?
    1. 2 Kings 14:20, if the Book of Mormon is wrong, so is the Bible.
    2. The word "at" in Alma 7:10 is describing the area in which they were familiar. If you were born in Agra, Oklahoma and you were talking to someone in New York; you wouldn't tell this guy you were born in Agra, but you'd tell him you were born in Oklahoma.

  20. There should be no instruments in church meetings.
    1. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 then go to 1 Nephi 10:21. Would having instruments make you spiritually unclean or put you in a state to where you could not dwell with God? Is it a sin? Revelation 14:2. If playing instruments in church is a sin and keeps your from dwelling with God, what is an angel doing in the presence of God playing a harp?
    2. The Old Testament is full of instruments used in worshipping God.

  21. We don't need to follow mans law, we won't go to war or salute the flag.
    1. Colossians 1:16; Titus 3:1; 1 Peter 2:13

  22. Christ's Second Coming was in 1914 and nobody could see him because it was a spiritual manifestation.
    1. Revelation 1:7
    2. If it was a spiritual manifestation, what happened to Christ's body? Do you believe he was resurrected? 2 John 1:7. You have to believe that Christ is in the flesh NOW or you're an anti-Christ and a deceiver.
  23. Jehovah is God the Father
    1. Topic of Salvation, Read Isaiah 12:2 & Acts 4:12
    2. Topic of Judgement, Read Psalms 9:7-8 (Is this the same Lord they call Jehovah?) & Acts 10:38-42.
    3. Topic of Creation, Read Genesis 1 & Nehemiah 9:6 (Did Jehovah create all this?) then go to Ephesians 3:9. Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus Christ of the New Testament, it's in black and white.

  24. We should worship on Saturday; this is the true Sabbath. (Genesis 2:2-3)
    1. Acts 20:7; Colossians 2:16

  25. We are born into sin, you must baptize little children.
    1. 1 John 2:12, if little children are sinless and baptism is for a remission of sin, (Acts 2:38) then little children don't need to be baptized.

  26. Only Heaven and Hell
    1. Matthew 22:13 outer darkness
    2. 1 Corinthians 15:40-42; 2 Corinthians 12:2, Three degrees of Glory

  27. Cool Scriptures etc.
    1. God's time; 2 Peter 3:8
    2. Women should have kids and get married; 1 Timothy 5:4
    3. Must follow all the Commandments; James 2:10
    4. Blood is what makes us mortal; Leviticus 17:11
    5. Accountable for ourselves; Ezekiel 18:20
    6. World hates true religion; John 15:18-21
    7. Bad things happen to good people; Alma 14:10-11

  28. 4 Principles & Ordinances of the Gospel
    1. Faith in Jesus Christ; Hebrews 11:1, 6
    2. Repentance; Luke 12:5
    3. Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; Matthew 3:16-17; John 3:5; Acts 2:38, how was Jesus Christ baptized?
    4. Gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands; John 3:5; Acts 19:5-6

  29. Missionary Scriptures
    1. Matthew 28:19-20
    2. Matthew 10:16-20
    3. Romans 1:16
    4. 2 Timothy 1:7-10
    5. Jacob 1:19
    6. Alma 17:2-3
    7. Alma 31:5
    8. 1 Corinthians 1:25-27
    9. Good rebuke if they like to cuss; James 1:26 & 3:2
    10. Romans 10:17

  30. Baptism invite scriptures
    1. 2 Nephi 31:4-7
    2. Mosiah 13:8-10
    3. Alma 7:15

QUOTES FROM EARLY CHRISTIAN REFORMERS

  1. Martin Luther; I have sought nothing beyond reforming the church in conformity with the Holy Scriptures. The Spiritual powers have been not only corrupted by sin, but absolutely destroyed; so that there is now nothing in them but a depraved reason and a will that is the enemy and opponent of God. I simply say that Christianity has ceased to exist among those who should have preserved it. (In Galata. (1535) Weins IX, P.I. 293, 24-27, p.50, Luther and His Times, p. 509, Martin Luther, p. 188)
  2. John Wesley; It does not appear that these extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were common in the Church for more than two or three centuries. We seldom hear of them after that fatal period when the Emperor Constantine called himself a Christian;... From this time they almost totally ceased;... The Christians had no more of the Spirit of Christ than the other heathens.... This is the real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were no longer to be found in the Christian Church; because the Christians were turned Heathens again, and had only a dead form left. (Wesley's Works, vol.7, Sermon 89, pp. 26-27)
  3. Roger Williams; There is no regularly constituted Church on Earth, nor any person authorized to administer any church ordinance; nor can there be until new Apostles are sent by the great head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking. (Picturesque America, p. 502)
  4. Thomas Jefferson; The religion builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies, and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers.... Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and top off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages. (Jefferson's Complete Works, Vol. 7, pp. 210 and 257)