Was the Fall Necessary? Second Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For...
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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...
Read MoreMoving Mormons Toward a Personal Awareness of Sin
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 2 (2003). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, click here. The...
Read MoreWhat Does Jerusalem Have to Do with Provo?
This Viewpoint article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 14, number 4 (Spring 1992). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to...
Read MoreAn Alternative Approach to Reaching Mormons
This Effective Evangelism column first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 17, number 4 (Spring 1995). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. In your attempts to reach Mormons...
Read MoreWitnessing Tips: Mormon Priesthood
This article first appeared in Forward volume 9, number 1 (Spring / Summer 1986). The full PDF can be viewed by clicking here. One of the first subjects a Mormon will bring up in an encounter with a Christian is authority...
Read MoreWitnessing to Mormons – Some First Principles
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal volume 10, number 2 (Fall 1987). The full text of the article can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal...
Read MoreMormonism and the Question of Truth
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 1 (Summer 1992). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. SUMMARY The Mormon concept of, and approach to, the...
Read MorePhilosophical Problems with the Mormon Concept of God
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 14, number 4 (Spring 1992). Most Christians who critique the Mormon view of God do so from a strictly biblical perspective. Christian apologists have...
Read MoreThe Mormon Doctrine of Salvation for the Dead: An Examination of Its Claimed Biblical Basis
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 2 (November-December 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. SUMMARY The Mormon church cites 1 Peter...
Read MoreHofmann Pleads Guilty to Mormon Murders
In a plea bargain agreement, Mark W. Hofmann confessed to the murders of two people, and the forging of two documents, including the controversial “salamander letter” (see FORWARD, Winter 1986). As a result...
Read MoreHow 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,...
Read MoreMarching Toward Respectability: Mormon Wagon Train Reenactment Shows the Triumph of Image Over Substance
This article first appeared in the Christian Research REPORT, issue 1 (September / October 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. After 97 days of walking, riding, pushing handcarts...
Read MoreAre Mormons Christians?
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 2 (Fall 1992). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. A Summary critique of Are Mormons Christians? Stephen E....
Read MoreMy Family Came Across the Plains with Brigham Young
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Newsletter, volume 1, issue 2. For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. I would like to thank CRI for all their wonderful work in bringing...
Read MoreMormon Proof-Texts from the Bible
EZEKIEL 37:15-17 Mormonism teaches to investigators and followers alike that the correct interpretation of this passage is that, the sticks are really scrolls, the ‘stick of Judah’ is the Bible, the ‘stick of Joseph’ is the Book...
Read MoreThe 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.”...
Read MoreThe Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA)
The program now know as “Insight Transformational Seminars” (formerly “Insight Training Seminars”) is connected with the New Age organization known as The Movement of spiritual Inner awareness (MSIA,...
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George M. Lamsa: Christian Scholar or Cultic Torchbearer?
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 12, number 2 (Fall 1989). The...
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