Today [6/2/17] I have been watching ‘Shaun Micallef’s Stairway to Heaven: Mormons’, a documentary about American Mormonism. Mormons come across as so clean-cut and moral. They are keen on family values and relationships. This stands in contrast to so much of what is happening in western society. How could a group of people who are so moral and family-oriented be selling a false religion? What exactly is wrong with this religion which mentions Jesus in its title—The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints—and which talks of Heavenly Father and the Spirit?
Many books could be and have been written about what is wrong with Mormonism. But what struck me specifically today is the matter of personal revelation. For Mormons, personal revelation is a way of life. Joseph Smith Junior had a personal revelation that he should not join any of the established churches but form his own. He had a personal revelation to take multiple wives. Etc. This use of personal revelation bypasses the need for obedience to what God has already plainly revealed in his written word.
It harkens back to the first sin in the Garden of Eden. Even and then Adam did not want to obey the word which God had given to them about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They believed that God should allow them an individual revelation of good and evil instead of the word he had given them.
From that day forward, human beings want their own personal revelation about what is right and wrong, what is good and what is evil. What God has spoken to us is not satisfactory. We believe that we have a right to do what we want to. Personal revelation in Mormonism is simply a version of this insistence on defining our own right and wrong.
The personal revelation of Mormonism is different to genuine Christian prophecy. Prophecy is given by the Holy Spirit to build up the Church in order that we might more effectively become people obedient to God through Christ. Genuine prophecy will not redefine right and wrong nor will it usurp God’s word already given.
So the conclusion of the matter is that no matter how clean-cut, moral and family oriented Mormons are, they are in reality making their own version of right and wrong. They are not obeying the gospel of Christ. Using the name Jesus, mentioning Heavenly Father and claiming to hear from the Spirit, are all religious wrappings which facilitate defining their own way of living. We must not be fooled by the religious façade. This is not a Christian religion, but a satanic deception in the guise of religious morality.