Joseph Smith Biography

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Without Disclosing My True Identity


understand or carry out. Instead, they choose to pray with the words of their mouths,
lifting their arms up to God,^76 asking for further light and knowledge.^77 They have
certainly received an answer, from their true god—the God of this world.^78 They pray
and fast with “a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces”^79 when they bow their
heads in solemnity and partake of their sacraments, so that they might appear to
others as if they are a humble and contrite^80 people before God.
They have become some of the most judgmental people who have ever existed
upon earth. They mete out measurements of holiness and worthiness, condemning
winebibbers, smokers,^81 womanizers,^82 and the poor who cannot pay their tithing.^83 They
judge and set measures not only among themselves, but for the whole world,
proclaiming that their way (the doctrines and commandments of their Church) is God’s
only way, even the only way to salvation. Their measures have caused contention,
complaint, persecution, ridicule, and misery upon those who are not members of their
church, or who do not subscribe to their lifestyle.^84 Yes, the LDS/Mormon people have
disregarded every principle of decency accounted for in the “law and the prophets”:
“Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them.”^85


NOTES


(^1) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 86.
(^2) BOM, 3 Nephi 19:4.
(^3) PGP, Moses 7:18; JST, Genesis 7:23.
(^4) DHC, 2:352–3.
(^5) Matthew 5:13 (JST, 5:15); BOM, 3 Nephi 12:13.
(^6) Matthew 5:16; BOM, 3 Nephi 12:16.
(^7) Matthew 7:21–3; BOM, 3 Nephi 14:21–3.
(^8) D&C, 84:1–5.
(^9) DHC, 1:286–95.
(^10) D&C, 84:2–5, emphasis added.
(^11) D&C, 84:58–9.
(^12) D&C, 84:39–40.
(^13) D&C, 84:43–8.
(^14) D&C, 84:18, 29, 42.
(^15) D&C, 84:54–7, emphasis added.
(^16) D&C, 84:44; 98:11.
(^17) Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 12:47; 15:2–3, 7; 2 Corinthians 5:17. See also Hebrews 8:6–13.
(^18) See BOM, 3 Nephi, chapters 12, 13, and 14.
(^19) Compare BOM, Moroni 7:18–19; Alma 28:14; 38:9; D&C, 11:28; 84:45; 88:7.
(^20) D&C, 84:61.
(^21) D&C, 84:61–2.
(^22) D&C, 84:62–6.
(^23) D&C, 84:73, emphasis added.
(^24) D&C, 109:2–4.
(^25) DHC, 6:24. “One of the secrets that God has revealed unto his Prophet in these days is the
Book of Mormon; and it was a secret to the whole world until it was revealed unto Joseph Smith,
whom God has raised up as a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator unto His people”;
“We thank thee, gracious Lord, that thou didst raise up thy servant, our brother, Joseph
Smith, as a prophet, seer, and revelator and restorer, and the Book of Mormon, and many revelations

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