Mormonism Study

Question 1

What are the positives of Mormonism?

Answer 1

Central Leadership
Evangelism
Hardline about giving
Respectable

Question 2

Who was the founder of the Mormon Church

Answer 2

Joseph Smith Jr.

Question 3

When was Joseph Smith born

Answer 3

December 23, 1805

Question 4

Why was Joseph Smith undecided when his family went to Presbyterian church?

Answer 4

Because of the deadness of Christianity

Question 5

Joseph had his first vision as he was trying to find out what denomination was correct in what year?

Answer 5

1820

Question 6

What did Joseph say that God told him about the other denominations?

Answer 6

That none of them are correct

Question 7

When did Joseph Smith receive his second vision from “The angel Moroni?”

Answer 7

September 23rd, 1823

Question 8

What did “The angel Moroni” have Joseph Smith do?

Answer 8

Transfer words from a golden plate into a book which became known as The Mormon Book

Question 9

What can satan masquerade himself as?

Answer 9

An angel of light

Question 10

Marvin Harris claimed that the writing was reformed Egyptian and that they paid to get it translated in what year?

Answer 10

1830

Question 11

When was the Church of Christ (Mormon Church) officially established?

Answer 11

April 6th, 1830 in Fayette, New York

Question 12

How many members were there when the church first got established?

Answer 12

6 members

Question 13

What year did a mob storm the prison and had Joseph Smith shot?

Answer 13

1844

Question 14

What do Mormons consider Joseph Smith to be?

Answer 14

A martyr

Question 15

Why did Joseph Smith write the “Pearl of Great Price?”

Answer 15

To convince his wife that polygamy was of God

Question 16

Joseph Smith was succeeded by Brigham Young, who got rid of polygamy and some of the more controversial teachings to make it more socially acceptable in what year?

Answer 16

1847

Question 17

Brigham Young died and by this time they numbered approximately 150,000 in what year?

Answer 17

1877

Question 18

When did Brigham Young lead the Mormons on a journey to Salt Lake City, Utah?

Answer 18

July 24, 1847

Question 19

What are the two different Mormon groups today?

Answer 19

Reformers/Fundamentalists
LDS (Latter-day Saints)

Question 20

What do the Reformers/Fundamentalists believe?

Answer 20

They hold to all of Joseph Smith’s teachings including polygamy but are often in hiding because of illegal behavior

Question 21

What does the LDS believe?

Answer 21

They hold on to Brigham young’s watered down more palatable version of Joseph Smith’s teachings

Question 22

How many members of the Mormon church are there worldwide?

Answer 22

16.1 million members

Question 23

How many congregations are there?

Answer 23

30k congregations

Question 24

What are the LDS’s core beliefs?

Answer 24

Doctrinal Authority
There are many gods
Salvation
Marriage in Heaven

Question 25

Why is it hard to convert Mormons?

Answer 25

They don’t really believe the Bible is the infallible word of God

Question 26

How many levels of Heaven do the Mormons believe there is?

Answer 26

3 levels

Question 27

What is the goal of Mormonism?

Answer 27

To get up to the third heaven, with YOUR OWN PLANET, being YOUR OWN GOD, with YOUR OWN WIVES starting a celestial life ON YOUR OWN!

Question 28

What scriptures are used to refute the Mormon doctrine?

Answer 28

Galatians 1:8-9
Ephesians 2:19-21

Question 29

What scriptures refute the Mormons’ that there are many gods?

Answer 29

Ephesians 4:3-6
Hebrews 1:1-3

Question 30

What scriptures refute the Mormons’ second core belief on salvation?

Answer 30

We believe what they believe!
But we do not and cannot agree that there is no hell

Question 31

What scriptures refute the Mormons’ third core belief that there is marriage in heaven?

Answer 31

Mark 12:24-27

Question 32

Why did Joesph Smith come up with the doctrine of polygamy?

Answer 32

He struggled with lust, so he created a doctrine that would augment his lustful desires