THE MORMON PROPHET BOASTS AT BEING THE BEST RELIGIOUS GUIDE EVER

The Mormon Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was founded in 1830 by a man called Joseph Smith who claimed to be a prophet of God. Was he really a prophet of God? We will soon see that he wasn’t. He was behind scriptures such as the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants.

 

Smith wrote, "God is in the still small voice. In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of the devil--all corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet. You know my daily walk and conversation. I am in the bosom of a virtuous and good people. How I do love to hear the wolves howl! When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go. For the last three years I have a record of all my acts and proceedings, for I have kept several good, faithful, and efficient clerks in constant employ: they have accompanied me everywhere, and carefully kept my history, and they have written down what I have done, where I have been, and what I have said; therefore my enemies cannot charge me with any day, time, or place, but what I have written testimony to prove my actions; and my enemies cannot prove anything against me. They have got wonderful things in the land of Ham. I think the grand jury have strained at a gnat and swallowed the camel".

 

Clearly he blames Jesus for losing followers and implies he is a better spiritual leader. Jesus claimed to give the words of God as even Smith acknowledged. This implies how strongly Smith asserted his claim to be a prophet or mouthpiece of God. It virtually makes you think of those Mormon heretics who hold that Smith was a god in the flesh and the Holy Spirit.

 

Mormons hold that there are many gods and God the father being almighty is not literally true. It means he has huge power not that he is like the versions of God which say he has complete and absolute and unlimited power. So Smith claiming to be better than Jesus is no surprise for God and Jesus to him were two exalted superhuman men.

 

SMITH FAILS TO RAISE A CHILD FROM THE DEAD

 

Doctrine and Covenants 124:97–100

 

Let my servant William Law also receive the keys by which he may ask and receive blessings

 

And these signs shall follow him—he shall heal the sick, he shall cast out devils, and shall be delivered from those who would administer unto him deadly poison;                

 

And he shall be led in paths where the poisonous serpent cannot lay hold upon his heel, and he shall mount up in the imagination of his thoughts as upon eagles’ wings.                   

 

And what if I will that he should arise the dead, let him not withhold his voice.                                                

 

After first conference (June [3]–6, 1831)                      

 

At a meeting of the tribe on the 3d. inst. the fact was made known to them that 28 elders must be selected and ordained, to start immediately, for Missouri. Jo accordingly asked the Lord in the assembly whom he should select, and the Lord named them over to him, as he made them believe. The ceremony of endowing them with miraculous gifts, or supernatural power, was then performed, and they were commanded to take up a line of march; preaching their gospel, (Jo's Bible) raising the dead, healing the sick, casting out devils, &c. "Mormonism on the Wing," PT , June 14, 1831.    

 

After first conference (April [3]–6, 1831)         

 

A dead body, which had been retained above ground two or three days, under the expectation that the dead would be raised, was insensible to the voice of those who commanded it to awake into life, and is destined to sleep in the grave till the last trump shall sound, and the power of God easily accomplishes the work, which frustrated the attempts, and bid defiance to the puny efforts of the Mormonite.*      

 

Ezra Booth Letters (4-6), published Nov. 3, 1831.

 

That an attempt was made to raise the child, is denied, of course, … The parents of the deceased child, however, state, that they were prevented from procuring medical aid for the child, by the representations of the elders, that it was in no danger—that it would certainly be restored. The father had no other idea but that the child was to be raised; neither did his faith fail him till preparations were made for its interment. He then awoke from his dream of delusion, and dissolved his connexion with the imposters.      

 

Mormonism Unvailed , 190n. Footnote added by E. D. Howe to Booth letter.

 

Resurrection men in Pomfret    

 

It seems these miserable fanatics have made a few converts in Pomfret, Chautauqua county. One of their number died and the night after his burial, a party of "resurrection men" were disturbed while disinterring the deceased, and one of the offenders taken and bound over for trial—The editor of the Censor gives a very flattering account of the intellectual endowments of the community in which he resides, when he says, the Mormonites have selected "a suitable field for operation, where nothing is too absurd to gain credence."                     

 

"Mormonism," Buffalo Patriot, Jan. 17, 1832.

 

The Mormons announced that on a certain day, at the house of my husband's uncle, Isaac Morley, they would raise the dead. Joseph, the prophet, made protracted efforts to restore to consciousness a child to whom they had administered a soporific, but the scheme failed because they had given an overdose, and the child died. "Mrs. S. W. Hanson's Statement,” NTAM 1, no. 2 (Apr. 1888)   

 

Orson Pratt raises corpse                     

 

During the same summer [of 1832], it is said, a young girl whose parents, David Rosenburger and wife, lived near Hyde Lake, not far from Theresa, [New York], apparently died after a short illness. Her parents, converts to the new faith, kept the body for three days unburied, until the arrival of Orson Pratt, who, after praying beside the corpse and anointing the brow from the strange vase of ointment asked that all leave the room, and a moment later, recalled the weeping friends to show them their daughter, restored to life. Even the adherents to the new faith doubted this miracle, it is said, and there was a falling off in attendance at the Mormon meetings.             

 

Watertown Daily Times, Dec. 10, 1898, qtd. in Jefferson county genealogy 12, no. 1 (Apr. 11, 2002)