Questions Latter-day Saints ask
Honest answers, with respect
The questions Latter-day Saints most often ask Christians, answered straight, with the Bible word for word and the Church's own scriptures quoted exactly.
Aren't Latter-day Saints Christians?
Latter-day Saints love the name of Jesus and many follow him sincerely. The question is whether the Jesus and the gospel taught by the Church are the Jesus and the gospel of the Bible.
Doesn't Ezekiel 37 predict the Book of Mormon?
No. Ezekiel explains his own sign a few verses later: the two sticks are the two kingdoms of Israel, Judah and Joseph (Ephraim), reunited as one nation under one king.
Who are the other sheep in John 10:16?
The Gentiles, who would be brought into one flock with believing Jews. The New Testament shows it happening.
I prayed and felt a burning in my bosom. Isn't that the Spirit?
Feelings are real and can be precious, but the Bible never makes a feeling the test of truth. The Holy Spirit never testifies against what he inspired in Scripture.
Doesn't Paul mention baptism for the dead?
Once, describing what some people were doing, in an argument for the resurrection. He never commands it, and Hebrews 9:27 says judgment follows death.
Doesn't James say faith without works is dead?
Yes, and Paul agrees. Real faith produces good works. But works are the fruit of being saved, never the root or the price.
Doesn't the Bible say ye are gods?
Psalm 82 says it to corrupt judges who will die like men. Jesus quotes it to defend his own claim to be the Son of God, not to promise godhood to us.
The early church had apostles and prophets. Why not today?
Because the apostles and prophets are the foundation, and a foundation is laid once. We have their teaching in the New Testament.
Isn't it unkind to criticise another church?
It would be unkind to mock people. It is not unkind to ask whether a teaching is true, gently and with evidence, when eternity is at stake.
I'm a Latter-day Saint and I have doubts. What now?
You are not alone, and you do not have to give up on God or on Jesus. Read the Bible's Gospels, pray honestly, and talk with someone you trust.