Three Irrefutable Reasons Why Joseph Smith Was a Fraud (Part 3 of 3) By Nathan Jones Reason 3: Mormon Scriptures Joseph Smith claimed that the golden plates the angel Moroni had led him to discover, along with the Urim and Thummin stones used to translate the Egyptian hieroglyphics inscribed on…
Three Irrefutable Reasons Why Joseph Smith Was a Fraud (Part 2 of 3) By Nathan Jones Smith’s Immoral Character The second of Morey’s two-pronged strategy for eroding the Mormon foundation rests on describing the many historically documented examples of Joseph Smith’s immoral character. His lifestyle of debauchery proves Smith was…
Three Irrefutable Reasons Why Joseph Smith Was a Fraud (Part 1 of 3) By Nathan Jones What is the goal of a Christian cult? Cults expert James Bjornstad identified the goal as: “The goal of religious counterfeits is deception, presenting a likeness to the original while at the same time…
The Almost Only True Church By Ed Decker I remember an article in the Denver Post, sometime back in the early eighties when the God Makers book and movie came out and we were bringing Christian missionaries into Utah by the bus load every summer. It's been many years ago…
Astrology By Dave Hunt Originally Published June 1, 1988 There seems to be no end to the disillusionment we are experiencing with both religious and political leaders. The latest, of course, comes from the revelations concerning the long-time involvement of the Reagans in astrology and the President's sad enslavement to…
Seventh-Day Adventist Eschatology Compounding an Error By Dr. David R. Reagan Bible prophecy has always been important to Seventh-Day Adventists, more so than you would find among mainline Christian groups, even Evangelicals. The SDA church was founded on Bible prophecy, and its phenomenal growth during the 20th Century was based…
The Seventh-Day Adventists Christian or cultic in nature? By Dr. David R. Reagan The Seventh-Day Adventists are an anomaly. Evangelical Christians have never been comfortable with them, but they have been unable to decide whether the SDA is a legitimate expression of Christianity or whether it is a cult, like…
Scientology By Dennis Pollock “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3) It happened during the filming of a quickly forgotten horror film, The Devil’s Rain, in 1975. John…
The Maze of Masonry By Dr. David R. Reagan In the mid-1980’s I was holding a meeting at a large church in Lexington, Kentucky, when I received a phone call at my motel from one of the church members. The caller identified himself as one of our radio listeners. He…
I Was A Teen Age New Ager By Dennis Pollock In the annals of book burnings it would be considered pretty small potatoes. Ten or eleven books, all written by or about the noted psychic Edgar Cayce, were quietly burning in a rusty 55 gallon drum in the crisp evening…