It is commonly understood among Mormons that the Fall was a good thing. A 27 April post on X has sent the Christian world in a spin because it plainly said as much: 'In the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin. on the contrary, we celebrate her courage and wisdom to partake of the fruit, transgress the bounds of Eden and become all that her Heavenly Father wanted her to be.' Of course, nobody outside the Mormon Church would teach such a thing. It goes against everything the Bible tells us, everything Christianity teaches about the nature of man, the purposes of God in creation , and the meaning of the atonement. People get uncomfortable when we use the word 'cult,' but it must be understood that error on this level cannot be winked at. It must be called out for what it is, plain heresy. People must be warned, and the fact someone 'sincerely believes it’ is no excuse. If it upsets our Mormon neighbours then pe...
Christians around the world are celebrating what is, perhaps, the greatest event in human history – the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For millennia we have believed that Christ was raised bodily, that the body He inhabited while living was raised to perfection. In 1 Corinthians 15 v 35-54 we find details of what His (and our) new body looked like, it is not the same, and yet it is. Sown perishable it is raised imperishable, it dies physical, it is raised spiritual. Jesus’ body clearly had unearthly powers as we can see from it popping in and out of locked rooms at will (John 20 v 19) and vanishing before people’s eyes (Luke 24 v 31). But the Watchtower would have us believe this was all a big con. They claim that Jesus was not raised bodily but as a spirit, that Jehovah somehow dissolved His physical body into its constituent atoms to hide it away. They claim that Jesus only appeared to be in physical form in order to convince His disciples that He had indeed been raised. The...