The Bible is categorically clear and absolutely unwavering on this one thing, namely the belief that there is but one true God!! This concept of monotheism oozes out of every part of the Bible, both Old Testament and New Testament. Orthodoxy demands that the adherent of Christianity holds to the belief in the existence of only one true God!! Every prophet from Moses to Jesus taught that there was but one God. Mormonism however, believes in a multiplicity of gods, in fact every practising Mormon has the potential to become a God!
This teaching explores the theology of Mormonism as it relates to the doctrine of God and contrasts it with the clear teaching of the Bible.
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Mormons believe without question that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. In this teaching we put the Book of Mormon under the spotlight to see if stands up to scrutiny in three main areas, namely, the light of Science, the light of Archaeology and the light of the Bible. You be the judge of the outcome!
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The history of the LDS church has typically been separated into three distinctive periods.
1. “Early History” under the leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr.
2. “Pioneering era” under the leadership of Brigham Young.
3. “Modern Era” beginning around the turn of the 20th century as polygamy was abandoned.
In this teaching we look briefly at each of these three periods before moving on to look at the life of its founder Joseph Smith, Jr. What you will discover in this teaching will shock you!
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The LDS church has twice as many members as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The official membership of the LDS church (as of November 2013) is 15 million. These 15 million members meet in over 29 thousand congregations worldwide. The LDS church has 80,000 active missionaries on every mission field of the world. It boasts 141 Temples worldwide with a further 15 under construction and 14 more that have been announced. It receives an estimated $7 billion a year in tithes and sits on an estimated $35 billion of real-estate.
In this teaching we take a quick whistle stop tour through the many teachings and beliefs of Mormonism including a look at its Temples and ritual, along with its governmental structure.
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Paul Williams spoke at The Sanctuary Conference 2013
Roy Daniel spoke at The Sanctuary Conference 2013
There were a number of groups that sprang out of the Millerite movement in the mid 1800's including the SDA’s, the Christadelphians and the JW's. Since all three share a common root they also share common doctrines. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists and the Christadelphians all have in common the heretical doctrine of mortalism (the mortality of the soul) out of which flows the false doctrines of Soul Sleep and Annihilation. In this final teaching on Seventh-day Adventists we examine these doctrines including the doctrine of baptismal regeneration.
We ask the question; is Adventism a cult or has it now reformed so as to place itself under the umbrella of orthodox and historic Christianity?
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It has well been said that the only really distinctive and unique doctrine of the SDA church is the doctrine of the heavenly sanctuary out of which proceeds the doctrine of the Investigative Judgment. This teaching is the very pillar and foundation of the SDA church. What is this peculiar doctrine that many with Adventism today want to distance themselves from? Is such a doctrine compatible with Biblical Christianity? We shall seek to address this head on in this teaching.
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Are Christians required to keep the Sabbath, are Christians free to eat what they please? Does what we eat affect our spirituality? In this teaching we shall be focusing our attention on the emphasis that the Adventist church places on the observance of the Sabbath along with its heavy emphasis on the dietary laws which SDA’s links to sanctification.
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The SDA proposition that the Law of Moses as represented by the Decalogue (Ten Commandments) is still binding and in force upon those professing faith in Jesus and is a necessary requisite for salvation is not new to our era. The Church in the first century was faced with exactly the same proposition! Historically, the very first converts to Christianity were all Jewish; the very first church as recorded in the book of Acts consisted purely of Jewish believers who had come to faith in the Messiah Yeshua. However in accordance with the plan of God and the Old Testament prophecies, the door of salvation was opened to the Gentile nations. When Gentiles began being converted in vast numbers and began coming into the Church, there were those Jews, the Judaizers, zealous for the Law of Moses who sought to place them under the law as a requisite for salvation.
Are Seventh-day Adventists the modern day Judaizers? Does salvation come by grace through faith or by the keeping of the law? Can a professing Christian hold to both and be saved? We explore these questions and more in this teaching!
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