Hey Mormons, Why was Joseph Smith,Killed by a Mob?
Why, was it because of Mormonism? i dint understand..
14 black scholar: Mormons say that those rules have been discredited Blacks are welcome in Mormon churches
The Mormon religion is a complete joke and it deserves not respect. It teaches racism one of their teachings say that blacks are the cursed people of Satan.
FACT: destroyed a printing press and was getting a little too friendly with the town girls (11 and 12 year ODs)
perv
criminal
deviant
stole money
list goes on and on
he was NOT a martyr like the Mormons will say. Joe actually shot and killed several people while in jail
Because he ordered a printing press burned down for printing an expose of his secret plural marriages and sexual practices. It had nothing to do with religious beliefs.
And yes, he was armed, and fired a number of shots.
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The Mormons answering this question clearly have no clue about their own history. Read the documented history, people! One of the links I've given you just now has the actual the newspaper article right there.
Or you could just keep your heads in the sand and keep chanting your mantra: "We're so persecuted, everyone hates us!"
Joseph Smith started his own militia. Does that sound like a "lamb to the slaughter" who was "just persecuted for being different" to you?
In 1820, as He had done throughout history, Father in Heaven again chose a prophet? to restore the gospel? and the priesthood? to the earth. He called a young man named Joseph Smith, and through him, the foulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ was restored to the earth.
Joseph Smith lived in the United States, which was perhaps the only country to enjoy religious freedom at the time. It was at a time of great religious excitement in the eastern United States, and Joseph Smith?s family members were deeply religious and constantly sought for truth. The Holy Bible? taught that there was ?one Lord, one faith, one baptism? ( Ephesians 4:5), but many ministers claimed to have the true gospel. Joseph attended different churches, but he was confused about which church he should join and desired ?to know which of all the sects was right? ( Joseph Smith?History 1:18). He later wrote:
As Joseph sought truth among the different faiths, he turned to the Bible for guidance. He read, ?If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that girth to all men liberally, and upbraided not; and it shall be given him? ( James 1:5). Because of this passage, Joseph decided to ask God what he should do. In the spring of 1820 he was 14 and went to a nearby grove of trees and knelt in prayer. He described his experience: ?I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. . . . When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other?This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!? ( Joseph Smith?History 1:16?17). In this vision God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to Joseph Smith. The Savior told Joseph not to join any of the churches, for they ?were all wrong.? The Savior stated, ?They draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof? ( Joseph Smith?History 1:19).
Although many good people believed in Christ and tried to understand and teach His gospel, they did not have the foulness of truth or the priesthood authority to baptize and perform other saving ordinances? at that time. They had inherited a state of apostasy?, as each generation was influenced by what the previous one passed on, including changes in the doctrines and in ordinances, such as baptism.
Joseph Smith?s First Vision? marked the beginning of the Restoration? of Jesus Christ?s Church to the earth. In subsequent years, Christ restored His priesthood and reorganized His Church. He has continued to reveal truths to His prophets and to restore the blessings that were taken from the earth for a time.
so why was Joseph smith persecuted?
People were mad that he didn't follow their religion so they sent mobs after him. They hated him because he restored the gospel and the true church to earth. They simply did not believe in the church he restored. So he was arrested and killed in the Carthridge jail.
P.S........ don't believe anything that some people answered. Some people say we are racist, and all this other made up crap. Just because you hear rude and horrible things about Mormons, doesn't make it true.
The Holy bible does not mention anything about Joseph Smith being. which Mormons claim him to be. There is one God the Father Almighty Lord of Lords and King of Kings and one true Bible not Joseph Smith version. But that there belief so let them be. God is the only one to judge their religion not me.
Because they hated him, and he said that and angel showed him where some gold plates were which he translated. Lots of people thought that was bull crap and he therefore needed to be killed, not only that but his followers needed their homes to be burned down and persecuted until they left. So yes, it was not only because he was Mormon but he was the Mormon prophet.
He was murdered. Not unlike the 12 apostles in Christ's day, who also were murdered for the Word's sake.
Blacks are welcome in the LDS Church. Blacks hold the priesthood and have leadership positions in many local congregations, including all across Africa.
The plain truth of the matter is that Joseph Smith was murdered because he never would deny that he had seen God and his Son Jesus Christ. He never would deny that he was called of God to translate the Book of Mormon and to bring forth the Church of Jesus Christ again.
This of course made people who didn't believe him or felt threatened by him very mad. Mad enough to show up at his house pull him out of it, and tar and feather him with oozing burning hot tar. Mad enough to persecute his followers and drive women and children out of their homes in the dead of winter where women and children left bloody foot prints along the snow covered ground and they were driven from their homes. Mad enough to basically steal his followers property and homes because of greed and fear and drive the Mormons into the wilderness where they had to find a place far in the West in order to worship without fear. Mad enough to break into a jail in which several of the Mormon leaders were being held, and in cold blood shoot them. Including Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum who were killed.
As a black man having the heritage that you have, you know better than most that not all things are fair in America. Especially back then when Joseph Smith was killed, the same era as the Civil War.
Things happened that were unjust and unfair. The governor in Illinois at that time actually signed a bill to have all Mormons "Exterminated."
Mormon's were not in favor of slavery and as their population grew they were a threat to the powers withing the Illinois government. Illinois was a swing state and many people feared the Mormon's becoming too powerful politically.
Now, as in times past when things like this happen we should all ask, "Who is actually leading these people to do such horrible things?"
Their is only one answer, Satan. His purpose? To prevent the truth from coming forth. Satan can try to stop the truth from being heard, but he cannot succeed. The church did not die with the murder of Joseph Smith. Why? Because the witness of the truth of the church lies within the hearts of its members and cannot be beaten out of them.
P.S. I would like you to be able to read the words Joseph himself wrote about why he never denied what he saw so I have included the link. Good luck!
Hey Mormons, Why was Joseph Smith,Killed by a Mob?
