"JimT" wrote in message
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"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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I've found that the "Mormons aren't Christians" crowd. Either are
Ex-Mormons with grudges. Or, are people in other churches who are
defending their own beliefs.

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Are there any specific passages in the "Book of Mormon" that outright
contradict the "New Testament"?

Jim

Most of them.

Let's start with the people being instructed to leave Jerusalem because it
was to be destroyed. They were instructed to go east (to China) and build
boats and sail east to the New World. After they got to the New World, they
established a new civilization where people numbered "as the grains of sand
on the beach". This should have been the predecessors of the American
Indians. In the Book of Mormon, Jesus came and preached to them during the
three days between the time he died and reappeared on earth.

Trouble is, when genetic studies were done of 350 North/South American
tribes, the result were 95% Siberian/Mongolian descent, and 5%
European/African. There were no descendents with DNA that linked to the
middle east where these refugees were to have come from.

You have the Book Of Mormon paraphrased in the previous two paragraphs.
The rest is plagiarized Bible, with bible verses quoted in entirety or in
context or in essence.

After the American Indians challenged the Book of Mormon, Mormons claimed
that God had the ability to alter all the DNA evidence, and did so. Very
interesting study on the modern DNA studies of the origin of the American
continents indigenous populations.

The Jewish community has also had run ins with the Mormons who were
baptizing the dead from the holocaust in proxy (google that), and have
several times asked them to stop, with little results, but who knows what
goes on behind those temple walls. Baptism for the dead is a ceremony where
a dead person is allowed to be brought into heaven by having a living Mormon
proxy baptized in their sacred temple, and brought out of Purgatory, or
whatever holding pen, and into heaven if they accept the Book of Mormon and
Joseph Smith. Of course, they are brought into the Mormon faith, and not
Judaism.

Mormons also believe that women cannot get into heaven on their own, but
have to be brought through a curtain by their husbands with a secret name
that was given to them during their temple sealing for time and eternity
sealing.
Women in Mormon culture are one step above a cow.

Plus, there has been not one shard of pot, or arrowhead, or archaeological
proof that these New World people ever populated the New World, yet they
were "as numerous as grains of sand on the beach" and had extensive cities
and trade routes.

It's like Christianity. You just have to take it on faith, but at least
Christians have SOME archaeological proof.

It's all a reach, except in some cases, it is an extreme stretch.

Steve