Mormon Direction

There is a new website that just opened up. It is also a “help” site of sorts for people who want to inquire about this Church of Christ and have a hard time reading scripture to understand it. 

This website provides simple explanations in the format of animated videos. I viewed this site and I am impressed with the quality of the information and media. The combination of the visual and verbal provides the viewer a simple guide to our practices, beliefs and doctrines. 

At this time the website owners upload their videos to YouTube and use that feed access for their website. 

The website owners are in the process of constructing more instructional videos. Below is an example of one of their videos entitled, “The Book of Mormon”.

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Click “RSS Feed” on the menu above and follow the instructions. Apparently, some are having difficulty so I provided some instructions.

May this new year of 2009, bring peace, hope, charity and truth.

Blessings to all.

Mark

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The Book of Mormon, edition 1854, written by Joseph Smith is available as a free download from Google Books. The download is in a PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

To see this book listed by Google, go here >> The Book of Mormon 1854

You can search Google Books yourself with these key words (includes quotations) – “The Book of Mormon” 1854

There will be two books listed, with the same edition date. Either one is fine. The book exists at two separate libraries.

Click the one you want and it opens in a viewing window. You can search the book by key words while online with Google Books or download it completely as a PDF file (23 mb).  The only downside to your own copy is that the PDF version you download cannot be searched. The pages are images and not a regular PDF searchable file. The only option is to find software that can convert the images into text form.

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This is a notice to those who use the  RIPE Network Coordination Centre or the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre to post comments on this blog.

These networks harbour false proxies and as such are still, as of today, used by person or persons to post harassing comments. It is the way of the Anti-Mormon’s.

Posts from these two networks are blocked and marked as spam. No posts from these two networks are allowed. Sorry for the inconvience to those who use these networks with good intentions.

If you need to contact me about this, please use the contact link above.

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MormonDirection

Above in the menu, you will see a link named “Purpose”.

Please take a read as this explains the reason for Mormon Direction.com

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Recently an Anti-Mormon contacted me and tried to present himself as a ex-member of this Church, likely because he wanted to gain some favour in my eyes. During our email conversation he brought up his disbelief in this Church based on his view of historic events and one of them was the story of Joseph Smith putting a stone into a hat, using it as a seer stone to translate the Book of Mormon. Suffice the say the correspondence ended quickly due to his argumentative style of writing, but that encounter spurred me to write about the “seer stone” and the Urim and Thummim which was used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon.

Before writing, I took the position as an investigator, one who has a background in the scriptures. I investigated the validity of a seer stone within the Bible. I started with the Bible because this pertains to religious matters, not worldly matters. Here is what I found.

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Isaiah spoke of this as the method of God of how he teaches us by his Spirit, but did you know that this is also the way he brings us to overcome our problems and shortcomings? After all, what do you think would be the way that God uses to brings us affliction, trial or tribulation?

Within the Book of Mormon, it teaches us that God gave us weaknesses so that we may be made humble ( Ether 12:27, 28, 35, 37 ). God also said that he will show our weakness to show that faith, hope and charity bringeth unto God and through weakness we can be made strong, but what God shows from these weaknesses are things that are not easily perceived. This means that no matter how hard you may try identify your own weaknesses, you will not be able to find how they are constructed and integrated into your mind and heart. To see into the heart, to know what lays there affecting you life, God is required. 

Do you believe that you can still do this on your own?

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I have posted two of my testimonies. Go to the menu above and click “Testimony” and they are listed there.

If any member wishes their testimony posted here, please use the “contact” link and send me your testimony of this Church. I will review it prior to posting. Please include your contact email in the event I need to contact you for any needed changes prior to posting.

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