Author: Eric Johnson
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Archaeology and the Bible
By Eric Johnson Archaeology, or the scientific study of historic peoples and their cultures, is certainly a fascinating topic. Biblical archaeologists, as they were once called before the 1970s, have been able to locate many sites and artifacts in the Holy Land to help show how the cities and people listed in the Bible were…
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Jorge Zeballos’s Attempt at the Impossible
By 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…
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Forgiveness: A 28 (or More)-Step Program?
By Eric Johnson Christianity has historically taught that God provides forgiveness to all who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus. Over and over again, the Bible proclaims that it is through the blood of the Lamb that God’s children are able to receive this forgiveness, despite the fact that “all have sinned and…
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Book Review: Mere Mormonism
Reviewed by Eric Johnson If you thought of C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity when you saw the title of the book being reviewed, you were supposed to. Unfortunately, I don’t believe the author of Mere Mormonism—Ronald R. Zollinger—would have been worthy to tie the proverbial shoestrings of the late philosopher from England. Mere Mormonism will…
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Is Free Speech Just for the Rich?
MRM associate Randy Sweet and I decided to head to Provo—home of the LDS Church-owned BYU Cougar football team—to hand out our Brigham Young million dollar bill tracts before the game on Saturday, October 23. Wouldn’t you know it! For two of the three hours that we handed out the tracts, it poured cats and…
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Follow-up: Christian church doesn’t allow LDS parents to become Cub Scout leaders
We blogged about this story here at Mormon Coffee last week, but it is still very much in the news. A big hubbub is being made because a Mormon couple was not allowed to become Cub Scout leaders at a pack sponsored by a North Carolina Presbyterian church. Christ Covenant Church, which is about 10…
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The Mystery of Mormonism
Mormon author Orson Scott Card recently wrote a piece in the Mormon Times called “Gospel has no place for ‘mysteries’ ” (10/14/2010). In his mind, Christians who use the word “mystery” when confronted with an issue that is impossible to understand are taking the low road. He believes that the high road is understanding how…
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Knowing more about the Bible
A recent religious literacy poll done by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that Mormons know more about the Bible and general religion than Catholics, Jews, and Protestant Christians. (See “Survey: LDS know more about the Bible than other Christians,” The Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 29, 2010, p. A4.) The…
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Rejoinders to Mormonism 201 Index
A series of rejoinders written in response to rebuttals to McKeever and Johnson’s Mormonism 101.
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Rebuttals and Rejoinders
Critiques of Websites and other MediaBill McKeever responds to Scott Gordon of FAIR-LDS, 11/18/2013Family Entertainment Network and MormonismBill McKeever Responds to the Book of Mormon Answer Man Web Site
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To Baptize for the Dead…or not?
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…
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Call Me My Grandpa’s Dad’s Son
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…
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George P. Lee dies
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…
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Ignore the bad history, go with your gut
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…
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Attempting the Impossible?
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…
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Documents and Speech Index
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
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Reviews Index
Reviews of books, movies, and LDS church manuals by the staff of Mormonism Research Ministry
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Church Issues Index
ChurchApostolic successionChurch membershipCommunionDenominationsFastest growing church?Great apostasyName of God’s ChurchNepotism and church leadershipPaid ministry
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