Mormons- who is the way, the truth and the light- Joseph Smith or Jesus? Who lied, yo
One of your prophets says Joseph Smith is.
""There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God"- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190
The Bible says Christ is.
Jhn 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comet unto the Father, but by me.
You can't accept the FULL GOSPEL of Christ without accepting that Joseph - and the others - are true prophets of God and if you don't have the full gospel you wont get into the Celestial kingdom.
As you can see the story of JESUS was stolen from other deities:
OSIRIS ? EGYPT: He came to fulfill the law. Called "KRST," the "Anointed One." Born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25Th in a cave / manger, with his birth announced by a star and attended by three wise men. Earthly father named "Seb" (translates to "Joseph.") At age 12 he was a child teacher in the Temple and at 30 he was baptized, having disappeared for 18 years. Osiris was baptized in the river Iarutana -- the river Jordan -- by "Anup the Baptizer," who was beheaded. (Anup translates to John.) He performed miracles, exorcised demons, raised El-Osiris from the dead. Walked on water and was betrayed by Typhon, crucified between two thieves on the 17Th day of the month of Athyr. Buried in a tomb from which he arose on the third day (19Th Athyr) and was resurrected. His suffering, death, and resurrection celebrated each year by His disciples on the Vernal Equinox -- Easter.
Called "The Way, the Truth, the Light," "Messiah," "god's Anointed Son,' the "Son of Man," the "Word made Flesh," the "word of truth." Expected to reign a thousand years.
Frankly, I don't care who Mormons' prophet or savior is--they are free to worship as they see fit, just as you are. When was the last time a Mormon asked you an insulting question about YOUR faith, HM?
You are taking that quote out of context. Joseph said innumerable times that Jesus is the way the truth and the light. The Quote by President Joseph Fielding Smith is saying that if you do not believe the Prophet Joseph Smith was an instrument in Gods hand in restoring the true Gospel and the priesthood power necessary for gospel ordinances to be valid in heaven, then you will experience those dreadful consequences because you will not properly have done all that the Lord has asked of us.
Jesus is the way the light and the truth as stated on John 14:6. What Joseph Fielding Smith was talking about is that in order to have a full testimony of the fullness of the Gospel you have to have a testimony of Joseph Smith and that he was a prophet of God and that the others that followed him were and are prophets.
your not using our doctrine your using an opinion I'm a Mormon and yes Joseph smith is the one that translated the book of Mormon and yes he is the one who brought the church back to life but he did it through heavenly father and Jesus Christ.....
Joseph Smith restored the gospel of Jesus Christ, which was taken from the earth with the death of the apostles, the authority had not been passed on. You cannot believe that we are the original restored Christian church without having a testimony of Joseph Smith. If you lack that Testimony, then we are just another Christian church, who changed a few things.
If we are correct and are the Restored church of Christ (which I believe we are) Then it is imperative to accept Joseph Smith as a Prophet and to have a testimony of the things he said.
Joseph Smith was not our Savior, just a man doing Gods will, who happened to do some Marvelous things. If we are the true church, Denying Joseph Smith, denies the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I am no fan of the Mormon Church and their strange delusions, but at least there is extant evidence that Joseph Smith actually existed, which is more than can truly be said about Jesus... Jesus MIGHT have been a real person, but there is scant evidence (outside the official canon of the Christian Church, which hardly counts!) that "He" was a real person, rather than a character invented (perhaps a mix of several real people) to support the new church the Christians were founding.
Has it never struck you as odd that so many of the "defining features" of Jesus' life are identical to parts of much earlier myths?
By the ?WAY? you should be meaning the ?WAY? back to GOD. That is, w/o question Jesus the Christ. Do You know Him? Do you listen to Him, hear Him? Prophets, Like Joseph Smith do?we may listen to them, to see more clearly the WAY to Christ, to see more clearly the WAY to GOD. FYI: Prophets say the same things Jesus says, things like pray, read the scriptures, don?t fight, be nice?let?s not complicate the well known conscientiously given gift from GOD to everyone ever born. What is right, what is wrong is instinctively simple until you go mes sin? w/it.
Many traditional Christians envision Peter standing at the "pearly gates." They are uncomfortable with the misunderstanding that Brigham Young said Joseph Smith will take Peter's place. The thoughtful reader, however, will search the entire discourse delivered by Brigham Young and see that this is not what he was teaching.
Each dispensation has a prophet at its head. Moses taught in his dispensation that those who looked to the serpent on a pole would live. This was a type (Alma 33:19) or similitude of the Savior. Those who didn't obey Moses and would not look, didn't live. Accepting what Moses said in that dispensation was the "passport" to life.
As Christ said:
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuser you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? (John 5:45-47)
If they didn't believe in Moses, he wasn't their "passport."
Noah offered "salvation" to those who would join him in the ark. Those who were disobedient and failed to enter the ark were swept off the earth in the flood and ended up in spirit prison (1 Peter 3:20). Again, as the prophet of his dispensation, Noah provided the "passport" for those who accepted the word of God that came through him.
In the meridian of time, those who accepted the apostles and prophets and did not reject the message of Jesus Christ were saved. As the Lord said to the apostles, "He that receiver you receiver me" (Matt. 10:40).
While speaking about our own dispensation, Brigham Young said that people of this dispensation will not enter God's Kingdom without the "consent" and "certificate" of Joseph Smith as a passport to entering where God and Christ are. Brigham Young then explained what he meant: "It is his [Joseph's] mission to see that all the children of men in this last dispensation are saved, that can be, through the redemption" (Journal of Discourses, vol.7, p.289).
The "passport," then, that people will need to enter heaven is the same as they have always needed, no matter what dispensation they lived in. To accept Christ is to accept his prophets: without the priesthood authority and inspired teachings of the Lord that have come through Joseph Smith, no one in this dispensation, living or dead, can be redeemed.
Anti-Mormon critics distort this view, trying to make it appear that Joseph Smith will be standing by the gate of heaven admitting or rejecting those who seek to enter. This is not the picture that is painted by Brigham Young. He was merely stating that the mission of Joseph Smith, God's prophet, was "to see that all the children of men in the last dispensation are saved, that can be through the redemption."
It should be recognized that the Savior is a great delegate. He has delegated to the "head" of each dispensation certain responsibilities, including some preliminary judging responsibilities. For example, in New Testament times the Apostles were told that they will judge the twelve tribes of Israel (Matt 19:28). Literally, then, those of the Twelve Tribes won't "get to Heaven" without the consent of the Apostles.
Latter-day Saints do not believe Joseph Smith is the keeper of the gate of heaven, nor the one who determines whether we are saved. Some Christians think they will instead meet Peter at the "pearly gates," but The Book of Mormon teaches who will really be the final "gatekeeper":
O then, my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the way for man is narrow, but it Letha in a straight course before him, and the keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employer no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name (2 Nephi 9:41).
Answer me this... If a man claims to believe in Christ, yet denies the Bible and the teachings of the Apostles... can that man be saved? Can a man be saved if he only believes in Christ as the Devils do (See James 2:19) yet he denies those whom Christ sent? What did Jesus say would happen to the people who rejected his Apostles when He sent them out? What happened to Israel when they denied the Prophets and stoned them or cast them out?
That is what was being taught in the quote you mentioned above... If you accept Jesus, then you will also accept those that he sends....
Mormons- who is the way, the truth and the light- Joseph Smith or Jesus? Who lied, yo
