Mormon Truth

The Mormon faith [Latter-Day saints (LDS)] was part of my life for 18 years. I grew up in the church, I associated mostly with other Mormons, it was a lifestyle that was told to me to be true - the only true religion and I believed it whole heartedly!
But that all ended with my education in various scientific fields and my education with a former Mormon Church historian.
God is claimed to be an omnipotent being. And when God gives humans comandments, laws, doctrine and powers to transcribe ancient tongues, all information must be infallible, for the Christian God is claimed to be omnipotent.
The Book of Mormon no longer reads as it did when Joseph Smith
first published it in 1830. For today Mormon leaders, at will, replace words with other words to establish a new interpretation. This is usually done when a paticular word conveys a negative meaning or does not sit well with the present period -- my 1977 edition differs from any current issue.
This Book of Mormon cannot possibly be the word of God if humans are changing words - an infallible being's meaning!
Through out Mormon doctrine there exists many many controdictions! An All Know Being's philosophy will NOT controdict itself. A controdiction is a flaw and I don't believe an omnipotent being makes mistakes -- that is not really knowing it all, now is it!
(I will not list all Controdictions here but in a Blog to come...)
The Book of Mormon clearly states that polygamy is condemed by God (Jacob 2:23,24,28). But it is not until after the Book of Mormon is published that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon faith, reveals a controdicting revelation!
Found in The Doctrine and Covenants (D&C) are revelations from God to Joseph Smith. In section 132 God commands man to take more than one wife. And if man does not he will not be able to enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Brigham Young,second President of the Mormon Chruch, quoted, "Now if any of you will deny the Plurality of Wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned..." (Deseret News, Nov. 14, 1855)
It wasn't until 1890 that the Mormons had to give up Polygomy to recieve statehood.
Though the fight for statehood was long, Mormons insisted on not giving up their god giving practice. Wilford Woodruff, 4th President of the Mormon church, is quoted in the Journal Of Discourses, vol. 13, page 166, as stating, "If we do away with polygomy, it would be one feather in the bird...Do away with that, then we must do away with prophets and Apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally our religion altogether...we just can't do that...."
It was not a god who told Mormons to stop polygomy but it was the United States Congress.
The Book of Mormon also clearly states that dark skin is clearly a sign of God's displeasure. Ultimatley, Mormons believe people of dark skin are the sons and daughters of Cain (History of the Church, vol. 4, pg. 501). Specifically, Mormon leaders preached that Negros will never be allowed to hold a high position in the Mormon church, until after the second coming of their Lord (Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, pg. 143).
But during the Civil Rights Movement, in the 1970's, Mormon leaders were preasured by society into changing their beliefs. If they did not change, the Mormons would viewed by society as haters, outcasters. Mormon Doctrine had to change to survive!
This civil decision did not come from a god. The Christian god is infallible - he would NOT change his mind! It had to come from Mormon leaders.
Most Members of the LDS faith are unaware there is no archelogical evidence which exists to support the Book of Mormon.
Many years have been put forth in search of Mormon ancestory. But Mormon Anthropolgists and Archeologists, such as Thomas W. Murphy and Thomas Stuart Ferguson, have come up empty handed.
The Book of Mormon claims the Lamanites and the Nephites are from Israel and inturn the Native Americans are the decendants of the Lamanites. But Science has demonstated through DNA Testing the Lamanites ARE NOT the ancestors to Native Americans as the Book of Mormon leads us to believe. Rather the Native Americans are decentants of Siberians.
Dr. Simon Southerton - Molecular Biologist and former Mormon Bishop:
Mormon Anthropolgist Thomas W. Murphy on more DNA Evidence: