Thanks, Wayne. I did respond personally to you and will here. We do speak out and yet often, as with anything good and true, there is great opposition. The ironies are telling as our claim is that the Savior Himself has appeared in our day and that He restored His gospel to the earth and yet some will claim we do not believe in Him. Clearly a media-created misperception which we are working to correct. God bless you in your journey. I’d be happy to send you a free copy of the Book of Mormon if you’d like to read more of what Christ has offered us in our day, a second witness to the Bible. Kindest,

K

I am not a Mormon but I know better than that. I am a member of the Church of Christ and your plan of salvation is the same as ours. Our doctrine is somewhat differnt but we both beleive Jesus Christ is the son of God.

I hate to see untrue statments like that go with out rebutal.Your Church should speak out on a national level about statments such as that.

Wayne Utley

Worthy men who hold the Melchizedek priesthood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have the power to cast out devils as did the apostles of old. Sometimes, this does take place.

Yes, but Mormons know more about it than most Christians, because of revelation to modern prophets. Hell has two meanings.
1. When we die, our spirits go to a place called the spirit world to await resurrection and judgment. There, those who never heard the gospel of Christ, or who rejected it on earth, will be taught. Those who reject the gospel of Jesus Christ will not be able to use the power of His atonement. They will have to suffer for their own sins. This suffering is temporary and ends when the person is resurrected and inherits a kingdom in heaven. This suffering is one definition of hell.
2. Hell, also called outer darkness, is the place into which the devil and his angels will be cast when Christ finishes His work. This is eternal damnation and will also be home to those who commit “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” which is to have a perfect witness of Christ (the heavens opens, and Christ stands before you, after quickening you so you can bear His presence) and then deny Him, thus Crucifying Him Anew. Cain evidently falls into this category. This hell is also called perdition, and Cain is a son of perdition.

In Acts 21:10, the prophet Agabus prophesies that Paul would be taken by the Gentiles.

In Ephesians 4:11, 12, it says: And he agave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

So we know that Christ called prophets in New Testament times, after His crucifixion and resurrection, and at the same time there were apostles. These men received direct revelation from Christ to guide the churches. Don’t we still need prophets and revelation? I for one am so grateful that we do have those things, and that we are not shut off in these modern times of need.

Also, in Hebrews 1 it states that God spoke to us in times past through prophets but has spoken to us in these last days by His Son. So why would the LDS claim their is a living prophet other than Christ? John 16:13 also states that the apostles at that time would be lead into all truth by the Holy Ghost. If all means complete than than there would be no further revelation.

How do you answer these questions?

The prophet Joseph Smith had a vision of the three degrees of glory in heaven, mentioned by Paul — the Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial kingdoms. You can read it at the following link: http://www.lds.org/?lang=engscriptures/dc-testament/dc/76?lang=eng.

He saw that God dwells in the highest mansions of the Celestial kingdom, where the most righteous dwell with him. The Terrestrial kingdom receives the ministration of the Celestial realm. The Telestial receives the ministration of Christ’s messengers from the Terrestrial kingdom.

Now, Joseph saw that the lowest kingdom, the Telestial, is glorious beyond description, but the inhabitants have to wait until the last resurrection to be resurrected (which occurs after the millennium), and since they rejected the atonement, have to suffer for their own sins before resurrection:

“These are they who are thrust down to hell. These are they who shall not be redeemed from the devil until the last resurrection, until the Lord, even Christ the Lamb, shall have finished his work. These are they who receive not of his fulness in the eternal world, but of the Holy Spirit through the ministration of the terrestrial;”

So, once these people take their place in the lowest kingdom of heaven, they are eternally separated from God.

Thanks for your comment.