Several people have recently asked me for my opinion regarding the Mormon compound in Texas, where more than 400 children were removed from their parents because of allegations of sexual molestation of children. Authorities discovered that many of the children didn't know their last names, and therefore the parents couldn't be identified...
DNA tests on Texas sect children
A Texas judge has ordered that 416 children, removed from a polygamous sect by police, remain in state custody for genetic testing.
Welfare officers had told the judge they had been unable to determine which parents the children were related to.
The ruling comes after officials said some of the girls may have had babies when they were just 13 years old.
The closed community was first raided amid reports that a 16-year-old girl was physically and sexually abused.
Detectives are looking for evidence of a marriage between the girl and a 50-year-old man.
She is reported to have been beaten and raped by her older husband and to be pregnant again eight months after giving birth to her first child when she was 15.
SOURCE: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | DNA tests on Texas sect children
Most Americans are scratching their heads, trying to understand the mentality behind this bizarre sex cult; however, it is not difficult to understand Mormonism if you study the writings of it's founders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
On February 19, 1854, Jedediah M. Grant, second councilor to Brigham Young, spoke in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, telling of Joseph Smiths demands for other men's wives:
“When the family organization was revealed from heaven—the PATRIARCHAL ORDER of God, and JOSEPH began, ON THE RIGHT AND ON THE LEFT, TO ADD TO HIS FAMILY, what a quaking there was in Israel. Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are DONE AWAY, and NONE ARE BINDING BUT THE NEW COVENANTS; now suppose JOSEPH should come and say HE WANTED YOUR WIFE, what you say to that?' 'I would tell him to go to hell.' This was the spirit of many in the early days of this Church....”
“What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when JOSEPH ASKED him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and I wish I had more to help to build up the kingdom of God.' Or if HE CAME AND SAID, 'I WANT YOUR WIFE?' O YES,' he would say, 'HERE SHE IS, THERE ARE PLENTY MORE.'... Did the PROPHET JOSEPH WANT EVERY MAN'S WIFE HE ASKED FOR? He did not,... If such a man of God should come to me and say, 'I want your gold and silver, OR YOUR WIVES,' I should say,' HERE THEY ARE, I WISH I HAD MORE TO GIVE YOU, TAKE ALL I HAVE GOT.'“
SOURCE: Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, pp. 13-14)
As you've just read, Joseph Smith taught that a genuine man of God is always willing to surrender his own wife to a spiritual leader. No wonder Mormons are so messed up! Smith's successor, Brigham Young, taught that it is Biblically lawful for a wife to LEAVE HER HUSBAND for a man higher in spiritual authority...
"But there was a way in which a woman could leave a man lawfully - when a woman becomes alienated in her feeling and affections from her husband, it is his duty to give her a bill and set her free - it would be fornication for a man to cohabit with his wife after she had thus become alienated from him... Also, there was another way in which a woman could leave a man - if the woman preferred a man higher in authority and he is willing to take her and her husband gives her up. There is no bill of divorce required, in [this] case it is right in the sight of God."
SOURCE: Brigham Young, from Conference Reports, 8 Oct. 1861, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, with acknowledgement to Divorce Among Mormon Polygamists, Eugene E. Campbell and Bruce L. Campbell, The New Mormon History, Signature Books 1992.
Starting to get the picture?
Brigham Young even taught that Mormon men could become "gods" ONLY by entering into polygamy...
“The only men who become gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy.”
SOURCE: Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 269
Now let's apply these false doctrines to a naive family, who sincerely joins the Mormon Church, thinking they've just joined a Bible-believing New Testament Church. After getting to know their new church family, a fondness develops between the couple and the elders in the church. The husband and wife increasingly are taught to admire and trust the wisdom of the Mormon leaders. The doctrines of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young are indoctrinated into the couple.
After time, this couple now believes that it is lawful to do anything-it-takes to make their spiritual leaders happy. I don't need to go into graphic detail. You see where this is going. It's a matter of trust. Mormon's are taught to trust... MEN. The Word of God plainly warns against trusting man...
"Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." —Jeremiah 17:5
"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man." —Psalm 118:8
The most dangerous thing you'll ever do is put down your Bible, for without the Truth of God's Word you'll be susceptible to every lie of Satan. The "official" Mormon Church claims that the sex-cult group in Texas is not a part of their main organization. That is not true. The group in Texas is known as FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) and they are true followers of the teachings of Smith and Young. ALL Mormons recognize the writings of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young as inspired. Mormonism is Mormonism.
Every religious cult elevates the opinions of a man, or group of men, or a woman, to the level of being EQUAL with the Word of God, i.e., the Bible. The word "heresy" in the Bible comes from the Greek word hairesis.
Here is what VINE'S COMPLETE EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT WORDS (Page 303) states concerning the word "hairesis" ...
..."a choosing, choice"; (from haireomai, "to choose") then, "that which is chosen," and hence, "an opinion," especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission to the power of truth, and leads to division and the formation of sects...
SOURCE: VINE'S COMPLETE EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT WORDS; ISBN 0-7852-1160-8
The word "heresy" in the Bible simply means, "an opinion." Many of the doctrines circulating in today's churches are merely opinions which are not based upon the Word of God. In John 5:39 Jesus commanded His disciples to... SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES!!! It is dangerous to form one's opinions apart from the Bible. People who express teachings not taught in the Scriptures are guilty of spreading heresy.
Mormonism is a Satanic religion, straight out of the pits of Hell. It is a sex cult, that brainwashes it's victims into believing that it is proper and right for wives and daughters to give themselves sexually to the leaders on the Mormon Church. Deny it as some Mormons may, the writings of their FOUNDERS are irrefutable evidence of this woeful evil.
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