Mormonism Research Ministry

Author: Eric Johnson

  • To Baptize for the Dead…or not?

    Eric Johnson

    It’s a saga that’s 16 years in the making, with the story line that goes something like this: The Jewish community is up in arms because they find out the Mormons are being baptized in proxy for deceased Holocaust victims, then the Mormons apologize before eating crow later once it’s discovered they’re still baptizing these…

  • Call Me My Grandpa’s Dad’s Son

    Eric Johnson

    During a recent road trip, my family and I decided to stop by the St. George temple visitors’ center, which is located not too far off the main I-15 freeway at the western Utah border near Arizona. Dedicated in 1877, the St. George temple is the oldest temple in the state of Utah, and I…

  • George P. Lee dies

    Eric Johnson

    On Wednesday, July 28, former LDS Seventy George P. Lee, a Navajo, died at the age of 67 due to health problems. Lee was best known for being the first Native American LDS General Authority, being commissioned at the age of 32 in 1975. The up-and-coming star was the poster child for Spencer Kimball’s “campaign…

  • Ignore the bad history, go with your gut

    Eric Johnson

    In the July 15, 2010 edition of the Mormon Times, popular LDS author Orson Scott Card reflects on how his church’s checkered history used to cause him consternation. Married to the oldest daughter of church historian James Allen, Card and his father-in-law took a trip one day to the Church Historical Department to research a…

  • Attempting the Impossible?

    Eric Johnson

    The ability to earn one’s own salvation is an important distinction in the teachings of the Mormon Church. Using the Book of Mormon passage that a person is saved “by grace after all (he or she) can do” (2 Nephi 25:23), LDS leaders throughout the years have made it abundantly clear that grace only takes…

  • Photos

    Eric Johnson

    Pictures from MRM

  • Foreign Language Index (Spanish, German, Russian)

    Eric Johnson

  • Documents and Speech Index

    Eric Johnson

    Related to Joseph Smith and Brigham YoungPainesville Telegraph – Friday, December 21, 1832 “The Crisis”1835 D&C 101Sidney Rigdon’s 4th of July OrationJoseph Smith’s Sermon on the P

  • Reviews Index

    Eric Johnson

    Reviews of books, movies, and LDS church manuals by the staff of Mormonism Research Ministry

  • Church Issues Index

    Eric Johnson

    ChurchApostolic successionChurch membershipCommunionDenominationsFastest growing church?Great apostasyName of God’s ChurchNepotism and church leadershipPaid ministry

  • Evangelism Index

    Eric Johnson

    Evangelism Issues

  • Testimonies

    Eric Johnson

    John Divito Lane Thuet Loren Franck Jerald Tanner Gail Clark Michael J.

  • Plural Marriage Index

    Eric Johnson

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

  • Bible Index

    Eric Johnson

    ‎”If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible… I should do all I could to surround it with the spiritual equivalent of pits, thorns, hedges, and man traps to frighten people off.” – J.I. Packer

  • Joseph Smith Jr. Index

    Eric Johnson

    PropheciesCivil War predictionRocky Mountain prophecyPrediction of Second ComingDoes the Bible contain Prophecies of Joseph Smith?Joseph the ManNEW!

  • The Nature of God Index

    Eric Johnson

    The Mormon doctrine of God is not the same as the historic Christian view. It holds that God and man are essentially of the same human species, and that God the Father is fundamentally a material being with a body of flesh and bones. He is not uniquely self-existent, transcendent, or eternal. Neither is he…

  • Introductory Index of Topics

    Eric Johnson

    Start off with…Struggling with Mormonism?Leaving MormonismSome questions for our LDS FriendsSome things to think about…

  • Movie Review: Return with Honor: A Missionary Homecoming

    Eric Johnson

    By Eric Johnson Released in September 2007 by the company that produced The Other Side of Heaven and God’s Army, Return with Honor was named Best Picture and lead actor Javen Tanner won Best Actor at the 2007 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The film also received the Gold Remi Award for…

  • Is Mormonism Research Ministry "Anti-Mormon"?

    Eric Johnson

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  • Citations on the Fall

    Eric Johnson

    Mormonism teaches that The Fall was a wonderful and fortunate event, empowering man with more liberty to choose (now “knowing good and evil”), with the ability to procreate, and with the opportunity to prove one’s worthiness through a learning process unto personal exaltation and full potential (godhood). This is connected to other Mormon doctrines like…