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Mormonism Research Ministry is a Christian organization that has been dedicated to comparing the differences between Mormonism and biblical Christianity since 1979. Our purpose is to not only offer a critical evaluation of Mormonism from a biblical worldview, but to also proclaim the biblical gospel of grace to the Mormon people.

Mission Trips

Considering a group missions trip? Why not Utah? Mormonism Research Ministry helps Utah Partnerships for Christ train mission teams.

Pastor, how will your congregation respond...

... when the Mormon missionaries knock on their door? Prepare them by scheduling an MRM representative at your church in 2009. Contact us for details.

Compassionate Boldness 2009 MP3s Available

MP3s from the Compassionate Boldness 2009 conference are now available for $2.99 each. MP4 videos will also be available soon.

Not Familiar with MRM?

In a 15-minute interview with a Salt Lake City radio station, Bill McKeever, Mormonism Research Ministry's founder and director, outlines the goals and purpose of MRM. He also offers some suggestions when speaking with your LDS friends and acquaintances. To listen to the broadcast click here.

Struggling with your Mormonism?

Few things in life are harder to handle than betrayal. The impact of shattered trust seems to completely permeate hearts and minds, making it difficult to ever trust again. As bad as that is, betrayal is compounded when it comes from a trusted spiritual leader. Read article »

Now available!

Bill McKeever’s new book, In Their Own Words: A Collection of Mormon Quotations

Pray today for...

Kurt and Angela Goedelman - Personal Freedom Outreach

Need Prayer?

Struggling with your faith? Aching over loved ones? Please e-mail us at prayer@mrm.org to tell us how we can pray for you.

Introductory Issues

Eight Mormon myths - 10 things Christians can learn from the Mormons - Anti-Mormon: The Mormon N-Word - Leaving Mormonism - Quick responses to 10 common questions - Some questions for our LDS Friends - 8 Characteristics of Counterfeit Christianity - Why clarify Mormonism? - “We're Christians just like you!” - Is Mormonism Christian? - Struggling with Mormonism? - Comments from readers

Nature of God

The God of Mormonism - "As God" or "Like God"? - Has a physical body? - Eternal law - Lorenzo Snow couplet theology - Elohim the sinner - Heavenly Mother - Glorifying pagan concept of God (new) - Athanasian Creed - Separate entities - Creation ex nihilo - Early Church believed in LDS doctrine of God?

Jesus Christ

The Jesus of Mormonism - Physical conception? - Born "at Jerusalem"? - Was Jesus Married? - Unique priesthood - Lucifer's brother - Atonement at Calvary or Gethsemane? - LDS Christmas Story

Salvation

Salvation according to Mormonism - The Fall - Impossible gospel - Assurance of salvation - Spencer Kimball's Miracle of Forgiveness - Saved unto damnation - Quotes on merit - Heaven and hell - Godhood and theosis - Celestial law - 2 Nephi 25:23 - Progression between kingdoms - Repentance quiz - Law of sacrifice - 'Faith alone' in the JST - Sons of perdition - Moving toward Protestantism? - John MacArthur on Robert Millet - Spurgeon on salvation

The Mormon Temple

Mormon temples - Temple ceremony - Sacred or secret - Masonic influence - Garments - No crosses - Nauvoo pentagrams - Calling wife on resurrection day - Preparing for temple tour - Temple worthiness - Sin of Jeroboam - Communication with the dead - Prominent people baptized by proxy - Baptism for the dead (Tecktonics) - Baptism for the dead (IRR) - Obsession with Lucifer (Sandra Tanner) - Temple-Appropriateness - List of temples (Wikipedia) - Transcript of the 1990 Endowment Ceremony

Marriage and Family

Abortion - Singlehood - Unequally yoked - Celestial marriage - Polygamy - Celestial polygamy - John Taylor's 1886 Revelation - Marriage and Mark 12:25 - Families Forever? - Eternal increase - Large families - Non-member families and temple marriage

Joseph Smith Jr.

Praise to the man - Civil War prediction - Rocky Mountain prophecy - President of the resurrection - Kinderhook plates - Death - Second Muhammed - No salvation without Joseph Smith - Amorous advances - Plural marriages - Comparison with Jonah - Folk magic - Greater than Isaiah? - Guess who? - Should Joseph Smith appear today - Prediction of Second Coming

Bible

Bible prophecies about Joseph Smith? - Isaiah's "mountain of the Lord" - Judging and Matthew 7:1 - Marriage and Mark 12:25 - Gamaliel's Advice in Acts 5:38 - Other sheep in John 10:16 - Revelation 22:18 - Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy - Article eight - Rightly interpreting (Rhodes) - Acts and Archaeology (AIM) - Gnostic Gospels (CRI) - NT influenced by pagan philosophy? (CRI) - NT influenced by pagan religions? (CRI) - Sola scriptura in early church (ChristianAnswers.net) - Manuscript support (Rhodes)

Book of Mormon

Coriantumr and Shiz - Witnesses - DNA - Attempt to sell copyright - Weight of plates - White and delightsome - Smithsonian Statement - Praying to know truthfulness - Knowledge test - NHM - Coins - Translation - Nephite Synagogues - Mahonri Moriancumr - Bible and Book of Mormon contradictions - Quetzalcoatl - Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life

D&C and Pearl of Great Price

Better to have never known (D&C 137:7)? - The Book of Abraham

Truth and Discernment

Myth as scripture - Hougey on authority - Tolkien among prophets? - True and false prophets - Ten lies - Feelings - Historicity vs. subjectivism - Searching for Answers or Seeking Confirmation? - Pinning down Mormon doctrine - Pascal's wager - Lying for the Lord - Nature and Necessity of Logic - I heard the voice of God (Piper)

Historical Issues

Importance of history - Blood atonement - Journal of Discourses - White horse prophecy - Priesthood restoration - Miracle of the Seagulls - First Vision - Violence in early Mormonism - Adam-God - Bruce McConkie - Curse of Cain - Mountain Meadows Massacre - Joseph Smith for President - Wayne County - Sugar-coated history - Making Mormon History (Boston Globe) - Jehovah As Father (Boyd Kirkland) - Reed Smoot Hearings and the Shaping of 20th Century Mormonism (Sunstone MP3) - Moon men and Sun men - Mormon Beef - Brigham Young's Rise to Power - The 'Lectures on Faith': A Case Study in Decanonization - Brigham Young - Missouri debacle of the 1830s

Testimonies

John Divito - Lane Thuet - Loren Franck - Jerald Tanner - Gail Clark - Michael J. Barrett - Dave Smith - Bill McKeever - Carolyn Sexauer - Art Budvarson - Betty McGill - Former polygamist

Evangelism and Dialog

Talking with Mormon missionaries - Dwell on similarities? - Do the Efforts of MRM and 2 Timothy agree? - Ask an Elder? - Hearing both sides - Witnessing at events - Witnessing inside home - Bridge or the beehive? (PDF) - Spirit of contention - Witnessing "rules of engagement" - Understanding Ex-Cultists - Evangelicals guilty of bearing false witness? - Terminology differences - Apologetics, truth and humility - Manipulative interfaith relationships - Mormon Double Standard When it Comes to Evangelism - "We never criticize Christian churches" - Starting conversations - Tracts

Church and Culture

Being called "Mormon" - Church membership - Caffeine - Communion - Denominations - Fastest growing church? - Great apostasy - Heritage - Missionary life - Name of God's Church - Nepotism and church leadership - Paid ministry - Patriarchal blessings - Tithing - Do We Need Apostles to Run the Church? (Bowman)

Reviews

Books: Leaving the Saints - How Wide the Divide - Early Mormonism and the Magic World View - Miracle of Forgiveness - 17 Points of the True Church - Born Again Mormon - Saints and Solders - Passion of the Christ - Jesus & Joseph: Parallel Lives - Mormon America - One Nation Under Gods - Within Reach - Under the Banner of Heaven - Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon - Quest for the Gold Plates - Bridging the Divide - A Mormon in the White House? - A Different Jesus? - Answers to the 150 Most Commonly Asked Questions about the LDS Church - The New Mormon Challenge - Time Travelers in Church History

Videos: Get the Fire - Burying the Past - Twilight - Other Side of Heaven - Mobsters and Mormons - September Dawn - Emma Smith: My Story - The Work and the Glory - Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration - The Mormons (PBS) - The Restoration - The Testaments - An American Prophet

Responses

Mormonism 201: Introduction - Introduction (Schindler) - Introduction (Waltz) - God the Father (Danderson) - God the Father (Hopkins) - Jesus (Danderson) - The Trinity (Kywult) - The Pre-existence (Wyatt) - The Fall (Graham) - The Apostasy (Bickmore) - The Bible (Graham) - The Bible (McGuire) - The Book of Mormon (Ash) - The Atonement (Jones) - Grace and Works (Graham) - Heaven and Hell (Schindler) - Communion and Baptism (Hickenbotham) - The Word of Wisdom (Starr) - The Temple (McGuire) - Polygamy (Fordham) - Joseph Smith (Katich) - The Church and Its Leadership (Johnson) - The Church and its Leadership (Fordham)

Articles: Fresno Bee (April 1, 2000), Pyle on Questions to Ask Your Mormon Friend, Jacobson on Questions to Ask Your Mormon Friend, Book of Mormon Answer Man - Marcion and Montanus (Watchman)

Other: Charge of hatred - National Conference for Community and Justice - Hinckley on Larry King - Is MRM "anti-Mormon"? - FARMS, A Test of Scholarship (White) - Why Mormonism?

Documents and Speeches

An Interview with William Law - Brigham Young's 1852 Speech on Slavery - Bruce McConkie's Letter of Rebuke to Professor Eugene England - Bruce McConkie's Seven Deadly Heresies Speech - Facing the Judgment, by John Widtsoe - Hearken O Ye Latter-Day Saints August 23 1865 (Rebuke of Orson Pratt) - Instructions to the Saints January 29 1860 (Rebuke of Orson Pratt) - Jesus Christ Literal Son of God, by Joseph F. Smith - Joseph Smith's Sermon on the Plurality of Gods - Mark Twain's Review of the Book of Mormon - Painesville Telegraph - Friday, December 21, 1832 "The Crisis" - Proclamation of the First Presidency and Twelve Oct. 21 1865 (Rebuke of Orson Pratt) - Sidney Rigdon's 4th of July Oration - The King Follett Discourse - Hearken O Ye Latter-Day Saints August 23 1865 (Rebuke of Orson Pratt)

Miscellaneous

A Look at Fundamentalist Mormonism - Aliens? LDS Leaders Insist "We are Not Alone" - An American Garden of Eden - Angels and Humans - Apostles from Manti Predict End: Part 1 - Apostles from Manti Predict End: Part 2 - Oahu's Polynesian Cultural Center - Family Entertainment Network - Bait & switch TV ads - Evolution - The Shifting Paradigms of Stephen R. Covey - RLDS - Disneyland hearse - Links to other sites on Mormonism

Foreign Language Articles

German: "Adam-Gott" - Brigham Young's Theorie oder göttliche Doktrin?, Das celestiale Gesetz, Wer ist der, den die Mormonen "Elohim" nennen?, Wer ist der, den die Mormonen den "Erretter" nennen?,

Spanish: 15 cosas que los misioneros mormones no están dispuestos a decirte

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