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The Impossible Gospel of Mormonism InfoGraphic

December 5, 2012 3:53 pm / 4 Comments /

I have a friend on Facebook who has recently come out of the Mormon Church and has come to Christ with his whole, immediate family. Bart Pascoal, was a faithful Latter-day Saint who was frustrated with his inability to live up to the impossible standards of the Mormon Church. This frustration led him down a dark path for many years. In the summer of 2010 he decided to get serious about his spirituality, but wanted to try a different approach. He and his wife read the New Testament together and soon realized that all they were taught by the Mormon Church about the sacrifice of Jesus was wrong. This led to much research.

Being a tech geek, Bart decided to create a web site,  www.afterallwecando.com as a place to consolidate his findings and be able to share them with his extended LDS family. Bart was a multi-generational Mormon on his mother’s side so he has lots of Mormon family. Due to his research, Bart came to the conclusion that the gospel of Mormonism just doesn’t work. After seeing one of our videos, he was able to put a name on what he had been trying to live; The Impossible Gospel of Mormonism.

Since becoming a Christian, Bart has used his tech skills in creating www.mormoninfographics.com. His latest infographic explains the confusing path of the impossible gospel of Mormonism. Click on the image to see more detail. An even larger image is available on Bart’s original blog post. That will help in being able to see the small text of the references.  In the words of Sandra Tanner of the Utah Lighthouse Ministry, “I think I need GPS for this.”

As always, feel free to leave your comment. We are particularly interested in what Mormons think of the infographic.

*** I’ve had a couple of requests for a pdf of the graphic since I posted this. Bart created one which you can download here.

 

 

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No. Not Every Evangelical/Mormon Argument Goes Like That.

November 8, 2012 9:08 am / 8 Comments /

David French at Patheos Press recently wrote a blog post titled, “Every Evangelical/Mormon Argument Goes Something Like This . . .” It is short and I encourage you to read it before you read the rest of my post. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

I’m glad you are back. While there is some truth to what French has to say, and I realize that much of this is sarcasm, I have to say that this is not how every argument goes with a Mormon. Actually, let me address one thing right away. If you find yourself in an argument with a Mormon instead of presenting one, chances are, you’ve already lost the battle. This is not how we teach people to engage anyone in religious discussion and this is not how we do it either. Obviously things can get heated from time to time, but for the most part this is not how our conversations go. With that being said, there are some things I like and do not like about this post. First, the things I dislike. Read More →

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Addressing “Anti-Mormons” 101

October 30, 2012 10:46 am / 9 Comments /

We received a letter in the PO Box today that was really impressive. I wanted to share it with you and explain why this letter made such an impact on me. If you have been following our ministry for the last month or so, you know that we went to Utah in early October for an outreach we called, “Woman to Woman in Utah.” We handed out roughly 10,000 packets of tissues at the LDS Women’s conference in a little more than two hours. We inserted a card into the packages which showed a distressed Mormon woman on the front and a verse from the New Testament along with five web sites on the back. You can read more about our outreach here.

As you can imagine, we have received a number of responses because of this outreach. The vast majority of them have been from Mormons who have been, ahh …shall we say, LESS than cordial? I really don’t know what it is that they hope to accomplish by sending caustic emails, but I’ve got pretty thick skin. They do not discourage me at all. Some of them are so childish they are actually humorous. One thing that those types of emails do though is confirm to me that the Mormons sending the emails are worthy of our outreach. In other words, they’re as lost as a goose.

I have never understood people who believe they are the true Christians, I am an apostate or opposer, and because they believe that, they think they have the right to be rude and treat me disrespectfully. That doesn’t make sense to me. When a Mormon or Jehovah’s Witness acts this way towards me, I often ask them, “If I become a JW/Mormon, will I end up being like you?” If being impolite comes with the territory of belonging to the “true Church,”why would I want to become one?

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If Mormonism is not a Cult, then Mitt Romney and the Mormon Church owe Billy Graham an Apology.

October 23, 2012 4:10 pm / 9 Comments /

By now I am sure you have heard that Billy Graham has endorsed Mitt Romney in his bid for the Presidency. Soon after that, Billy Graham’s website took down an article which labeled Mormonism as a cult. I emailed Billy Graham, asked why the information was taken down and encouraged him to put the article back on his website. I knew what would come next if he didn’t. The official statement from Billy Graham’s ministry was reported as saying, “We removed the information from the website because we do not wish to participate in a theological debate about something that has become politicized during this campaign.” I then addressed this issue on our blog by posting, “An Open Letter to Billy Graham Regarding Mitt Romney and Mormonism.”

As I predicted, the secular media, and Mormons in particular, have taken advantage of Graham’s actions. I have read reports ranging from claims that because Graham took the “cult” label off of Mormonism, he is treating people the way he would want to be treated, to claiming he must no longer believe that Mormonism is a cult.

Let’s assume for the sake of argument that Billy Graham no longer believes that Mormonism is a cult and he has removed the cult label to be nice. If that is the case, then Mitt Romney and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owe Billy Graham an apology. Why? Because it is hypocritical for Mormons to accept their new endorsement, yet still maintain what they really think about “other” Christians. Earlier this year I wrote an article on our website titled, Mormonism’s Hypocritical Attack. I will rephrase some of what I wrote then and apply it directly to Billy Graham. Read More →

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An Open Letter to Billy Graham Regarding Mitt Romney and Mormonism

October 16, 2012 8:36 am / 30 Comments /

Billy Graham,

I want to thank you for your many years of serving our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You came to Rochester, New York in September of 1988. A friend invited me to the crusade and I went three times that week. On Friday evening the 16th, I surrendered my life to Christ at the Crusade and have been serving Him since. A short time after I was saved, a couple of Jehovah’s Witness ladies came to my door and challenged my new faith. That incident led me to become a missionary to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons. My wife and I founded Evidence Ministries in 1992 and I have been a full-time missionary to these two cults since 1999.

This morning I read an online article which stated that you endorsed Mitt Romney, and then your ministry took down some information from your web site which describes Mormonism as a cult. The article can be read here. Read More →

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