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I am a service tech for heating and a/c and we regularly maintain and fix systems in the latter day saints churches around my area and i took it upon my self to look at one of their books of mormon today.
I have heard ramblings of this religion from all sorts of people and just wanted to take a peak at what all the talk is about, so i just read over the beginning of the book if mormon where it explains the basis of their religion.
I was shocked at some of the findings.
I did not memorize any of it but will try my best here...apparently a man named mormon took the teachings of jesus christ, taught it to his son moronai and then moronai added some of his own stuff to it and sent it up to god for safe keeping. Then in like 1836 i think it was, moronai was resurrected and called down the teachings from heaven and gave them to a prophet named joseph smith which were no less on metal tablets, and from there joseph smith had like 8 and then 5 wittnesses to verify the tablets were real (don't recall the exact number of wittnesses but it was something close to that) Then it went on to name the wittnesses and from there they went out to teach these in the americas.
I will leave off there because i couldn't read on any further due to the fact i was working and had stuff to do.
I am looking for anyone who might know this a little better than i do, as i am not a mormon and maybe someone out there might have studied this or even been part of this church before to kind of give some insight.
From what i gathered, these people say they believe in jesus christ but are using their own belief system in doing so and not really following the bible. I am just curious about this really because here i am in these peoples church surrounded by all of this and cannot get past the feeling that they are making up their own rules and not following the word of god. making me feel unclean being there really and it is to the point that i may be asking my employer that i not return to these places because i don't want a debate or something negative coming of this, especially since they say we are required to call these people brother or sister, which is something i luckily have not yet had to encounter.
I don't really know but some thoughts would help, and lets try to keep it clean and not turn into a bashing section.
I have heard ramblings of this religion from all sorts of people and just wanted to take a peak at what all the talk is about, so i just read over the beginning of the book if mormon where it explains the basis of their religion.
I was shocked at some of the findings.
I did not memorize any of it but will try my best here...apparently a man named mormon took the teachings of jesus christ, taught it to his son moronai and then moronai added some of his own stuff to it and sent it up to god for safe keeping. Then in like 1836 i think it was, moronai was resurrected and called down the teachings from heaven and gave them to a prophet named joseph smith which were no less on metal tablets, and from there joseph smith had like 8 and then 5 wittnesses to verify the tablets were real (don't recall the exact number of wittnesses but it was something close to that) Then it went on to name the wittnesses and from there they went out to teach these in the americas.
I will leave off there because i couldn't read on any further due to the fact i was working and had stuff to do.
I am looking for anyone who might know this a little better than i do, as i am not a mormon and maybe someone out there might have studied this or even been part of this church before to kind of give some insight.
From what i gathered, these people say they believe in jesus christ but are using their own belief system in doing so and not really following the bible. I am just curious about this really because here i am in these peoples church surrounded by all of this and cannot get past the feeling that they are making up their own rules and not following the word of god. making me feel unclean being there really and it is to the point that i may be asking my employer that i not return to these places because i don't want a debate or something negative coming of this, especially since they say we are required to call these people brother or sister, which is something i luckily have not yet had to encounter.
I don't really know but some thoughts would help, and lets try to keep it clean and not turn into a bashing section.
