.:THE BOOK OF MORMON VS THE BIBLE
AND LDS DOCTRINE Reference Chart
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK OF MORMON VS. THE BIBLE
ISAIAH 8:20: "...if they speak
not according to this word...there is no light in them."
BIBLICAL RECORD |
BOOK OF MORMON RECORD |
At the tower of Babel the Lord confounded
“the language of all the earth.”—Genesis
11:9 |
At the tower of Babel the Lord confounded
the language of the earth except the language of Jared, his
brothers, their friends, and their families: Ether 1:35-37 |
Christ’s Church and the Gospel would
never completely disappear from the earth, thus having to
be restored: Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 3:21; Jude 3; Hebrews
12:28. The Word of God will “never pass away”:
Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:24-25; Isaiah 40:8 |
“the great and abominable
church” has “taken away from
the gospel of the lamb many parts which are plain and most precious....” and “...there
are many plain and precious things taken away from
the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.”
—1 Nephi 13:26, 28 |
Jesus the Messiah was born in Bethlehem—not
Jerusalem. “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of
Judaea....” —Matthew 2:1 (see Micah 5:2) |
“And behold, he shall be born of
Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our
forefathers....” —Alma 7:10 Note: Jerusalem
is not the land, but is a city in Judea as was also
Bethlehem. (see 1 Nephi 1:4) |
Believers in Christ “were called
Christians first in Antioch.” —Acts
11:26 (This is long after Christ’s ascension into heaven.) |
The book of Alma, which is claimed to
have been written in 73 B.C. calls believers
“Christians”: Alma 46:15 |
Hebrews states that Melchisedec was “without
father, without mother....” —Hebrews
7:3 |
The book of Alma says that Melchisedec
“did reign under his father.”
—Alma 13:18 |
The Bible clearly teaches that the fall
of Adam resulted in sorrow for mankind: Genesis 3:9-19; Psalm
51:5; Romans 5:12 |
2 Nephi 2:22-25 states that Adam’s
fall was necessary for mankind to have children and therefore
have “joy.” |
.:THE BOOK OF MORMON VS. LDS DOCTRINE
“...a man would get nearer to God by abiding
by its precepts, than by any other book”—Joseph Smith,
Jr.
BOOK OF MORMON—TEACHING |
LDS DOCTRINE |
ONLY ONE GOD: Alma 11:26-29
Alma 11:44; 2 Nephi 31:21; 3 Nephi 11:27, 36; Testimony of
the Three Witnesses |
GOD THE FATHER IS ONE OF MANY GODS: “...it
is evident...that a plurality of Gods exists.”—McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 576 |
GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE: Moroni 7:22; 8:18; 3
Nephi 24:6; Mormon 9:9, 19 |
GOD WAS ONCE A MAN WHO BECAME GOD:
“Mormon prophets have continually taught the sublime
truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man....He
became God...through obedience...” —Hunter, The Gospel Through The Ages, p 104 |
GOD IS A SPIRIT—NOT FLESH AND BONES: Alma
18:24-28; 22:9-11; 31:15 |
GOD IS AN EXALTED MAN: “The Father
has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s...” —Doctrine and Covenants, 130:22 |
GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOD FROM ALL ETERNITY:
Mosiah 3:5; Moroni 8:18 |
GOD HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN GOD: “We have
imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity.
I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you
may see...”—Joseph Smith quoted
in Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, by Joseph
Fielding Smith, p. 345 |
GOD DWELLS IN THE HEART OF THE RIGHTEOUS:
Alma 34:36 |
GOD DOES NOT DWELL IN A MAN’S HEART:
“...the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a
man’s heart is an old sectarian notion, and is false.”—Doctrine
and Covenants, 130:3 |
REFUTES BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD—NO SECOND CHANCE:
Alma 34:32-35; 2 Nephi 9:36; Mosiah 15:26 |
BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CHURCH: Doctrine and Covenants, 124,
128 |
POLYGAMY CONDEMNED: Jacob 1:15; 2:24, 27-28; 3:5; Mosiah
11:2,4 Ether 10:5,7 |
POLYGAMY = A PRINCIPLE TO BE PRACTICED IN HEAVEN: Doctrine and Covenants, 132:61, 62 |
For more information see:
 Were precious doctrines removed from the Bible?
The Bible vs. the Book of Mormon Video
Index of Any Question on the Book of Mormon - LDS Topics (www.4witness.org)
An Overview of the Book of Mormon - Is it the most correct book?
Contradictions in Mormonism
Significant Changes in the Revelations of Doctrine and Covenants
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