Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank discusses The Book of Mormon, which is an alleged account of two great civilizations, the Nephites and the Lamanites, who migrated from Israel to the ancient Americas. Supposedly,...
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Of Cities and Swords: The Impossible Task of Mormon Apologetics
Summary The Mormon organization FARMS is producing the most widely read and seemingly scholarly defenses of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith available in Mormonism today. The organization focuses primarily on a defense of the Book of Mormon as a historical...
DNA Science Challenges LDS History
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 1 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, click here. DNA evidence is offering a serious challenge to the Mormon...
Questions and Answers with Hank
October 14, 2011 Hank comments on the Book of Mormon teaching that ancient Semites migrated to the Americas, first the Jaredites and then the Nephites and Lamanites. But there is no archaeological evidence for alleged peoples, places, and particulars about the ancient...
Questions and Answers with Hank
June 9, 2010 Hank comments on the problematic claims made in the Book of Mormon. No evidence for Reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics, no evidence for the Land of Moron, and no evidence for Jaredites, Nephites, and Laminates migrated from Israel to the Americas. These are...
Book of Mormon Word Change
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org A recent word change to the introduction of the Book...
The Book of Mormon Vs The Bible
“. . .If we compare the historical, prophetical, and doctrinal parts of the Book of Mormon with the great truths of science and nature, we find no contradictions–no absurdities–nothing unreasonable.” Talmage’s Articles of Faith, page 505...
The Book of Mormon’s Credibility
Click Here to listen In the early 1800s, 1823 to be exact, the angel Moroni allegedly visited Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and divulged the location of some golden plates which contained the "fullness of the everlasting gospel." The plates abridged by Moroni and his...
Is the Book of Mormon Credible?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “I am astonished that you are so quickly...
Is the Book of Mormon credible?
By Hank Hanegraaff In 1823, the angel Moroni allegedly visited Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and divulged the location of some golden plates containing the “fullness of the everlasting gospel.” These plates—abridged by Moroni and his father, Mormon, fourteen hundred...
LDS Apologetics and the Battle for Mormon History
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Apologetics, historically, has not been a high priority for the...
The Basics Of Mormonism
The saga of Mormonism began in 1820, when a young man named Joseph Smith, Jr., purportedly experienced a spectacular vision. Two celestial personages appeared to him, claiming all existing churches were wrong, all their creeds were an abomination, and all their...
Problems with the Gold Plates of the Book of Mormon
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 02 (2011). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org. The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by...
What separates Christian orthodoxy from the heresy of Mormonism? (M-O-R-M-O-N)
By Hank Hanegraaff Although building ongoing relationships with Mormons can open up avenues for reaching rather than repelling, authentic Christians must never lose sight of the essential differences that separate orthodoxy from the heresy of Mormonism. To help you...
2 Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...
Was the Fall Necessary
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...
Questions and Answers with Hank
October 6, 2011 Hank clarifies the official Mormon position on the conception of Jesus, specifically the Latter-day Saints [LDS] teaching on the Father having sexual relations with the Virgin Mary (0:38) Questions / Comments Response to caller citation of 1 Nephi...
Pornography
Volume 27/Issue 3 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: The Pervasive Problem of Pornography by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Darkening Our Minds: The Problem of Pornography among Christians by Joe Dallas Is Belief in Jesus...
LDS Church Acknowledges Anniversary’s Ban on Priesthood for Blacks
On June 8, 1978, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) gave an announcement that many Mormons never expected to hear in their lifetimes. Today Official Declaration—2 is found in the back of the LDS scripture Doctrine and Covenants and...
Lost Books and Latter-Day Revelation: A Response to Mormon Views of the New Testament Canon
This article first appeared in the CChristian Research Journal, volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The Mormon church offers four reasons for rejecting the historic Christian position...
Q&A: Adam’s Fall, Black Hebrew Israelites, and Atheism
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How to get a Mormon’s Attention Long Enough to Point Him to Christ
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 04 (2000). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal click here. What are we after when we talk with members of the...
Questions and Answers with Hank
September 6, 2010 Hank addresses the problem of the 21st century prosperity teachers, such as Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jake, and Joel Osteen, that convince devotes that what happens in your life is a result of the words you speak. Health and sickness are the result of the...
Questions and Answers with Hank
July 9, 2010 Hank addresses the crisis in the modern church caused by popular Word of Faith prosperity preachers like Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jakes and Joel Osteen, particularly their message on words creating reality and what happens in your life is determined by the words...
Rightly Interpreting both the Qur’an and the Bible, and Q&A
Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank comments on last night’s O’Reilly Factor with guest Harris Zafar, National Spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. In a discussion of Sharia law, Zafar...
Matthew 5:48: Is Perfection an Achievable Goal?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 39, number 06 (2016). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN...
Best of BAM: Prophetic STARS, Islamic Jihad, and Q&A
Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank begins with an overview of Superstar ABCs as delineated in his book, Prophetic STARS in the Constellation of Biblical Prophecy. Then, in light of the terrorist attacks...
The Supreme Court’s Infamous Ruling, and Q&A
Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank shares his thoughts on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling. Reading from an LGBT article that considers dissenting Supreme Court justices’ objections to be...
Questions and Answers with Hank
April 14, 2010 Hank shares about how often we talk about the time the Israelites left Egypt, God parted the Red Sea, and they walked across. But we often forget that they left exile by crossing the Red Sea, they entered paradise or the land of Palestine by way of the...
Questions and Answers with Hank
September 9, 2009 Hank shares on Jesus Christ and the Christian faith are constantly being attacked by a postmodern world with Bill Maher being a prime example who wants to “harpoon the whale of religion” because it keeps people from thinking, but what he shares is an...
Questions and Answers with Hank
September 2, 2009 Questions: Is it necessary to speak in tongues to be a Christian? (0:47) Clarify Jesus statement on no one ascending to heaven in Jn. 3:13. Contradicts OT on statements about Enoch and Elijah being taken into heaven? (3:27) Brother says books were...
Best of BAM: Pro-life Criminalization and Q&A
Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank addresses the French National Assembly’s vote to approve a bill that would outlaw pro-life websites. The socialist government wants to criminalize sites that dissuade...
Humanity is Cosmically Special and Q&A
Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank comments on an article in the Washington Post by Astrophysicist Howard A. Smith. Astronomer Carl Sagan said, “We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star.”...
Questions and Answers with Hank
January 31, 2012 Hank shares on the perfect righteousness of Christ from Morning by Morning by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (0:36) Questions / Comments: Did the Holy Spirit indwell Old Testament saints? (3:41) When Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit in Luke 1, is...
Questions and Answers with Hank
March 289, 2012 Hank addresses the question of whether abortion is permissible in the case of rape and incest (0:47) Questions / Comments 6-year-old caller. Where do unborn babies go when they die? I have a friend whose mom had a baby die in her womb (4:51). Do our...
Q&A: Taking Communion Unworthily, Demon Possession, and Ghosts
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How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation
“Both Mormons and Evangelicals trust that they will be brought into a right relationship with God by Jesus Christ, who is both the Son of God and God the Son. Both believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ, justification by faith in Christ, and...
A Question Mormons Can’t Answer
This is an online-exclusive from the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help...
The Last Jedi: A Star Wars Movie for the Era of “the Nones”
A movie review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi Directed by Rian Johnson (Rated PG-13, 2017) Editor’s note: We realize that interpretations and reactions to storyline elements and their ramifications have been hotly debated. We offer this review as one plausible viewpoint....
Tienen Razon Los Testigos de Jehova acerca de La Trinidad?
Los Testigos de Jehová son uno de los grupos, que con más frecuencia critican la doctrina de la Trinidad. ¿Son justas sus críticas acerca de la Trinidad?En 1989 los Testigos de Jehová publicaron un folleto titulado...
Are Mormons and Muslims Apples and Oranges?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS When it comes to stereotypical caricatures, Islam and Mormonism...
In Search of Christian Freedom
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 4 (Spring 1993). A book review of In Search of Christian Freedom by Raymond Franz (Commentary Press, 1991) The nephew of recently deceased Watchtower president Frederick Franz left...
Pinning Down Mormon Doctrine
This article first appeared in the Volume 23 / Number 3 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Part One A significant difficulty when witnessing to a member of the...