This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 2 (2001). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the...
When professor Tatiana came to the Christian Research Institute on a January afternoon, she had one thing in mind: getting help for her people. Tatiana is a language instructor at Moscow State University, and a fairly new Christian. But even as God's love and peace...
This article News Watch column first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 2 (Fall 1995). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 1 (September-October 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 4 (July-August 1997). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org...
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (Winter 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
This article first appeared in CRI’s newsletter Christian Research REPORT, volume 11, number 1 (January 1998). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. The June 1997 issue of Charisma features an article by executive editor J. Lee...
Troy Lawrence, author of New Age Messiah Identified (Huntington House), is exposed as a fraud. According to an article by Eric Pement in Cornerstone magazine (vol. 20, no. 95), “Troy Lawrence” — an alias for Darrick Evenson — “has written and been published as a...
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 2 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at...
This book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 4 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
This Effective Evangelism article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 4 (2001). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources...
This Effective Evangelism article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 23, number 3 (2001). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 1 (Summer 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY The Mormon organization FARMS is producing the most widely read and seemingly...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 4 (Spring 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
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...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in the early nineteenth...
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. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide...
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 the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click...
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. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 14, number 4 (Spring 1992). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org...
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 3:18-20, 4:6, and 1 Corinthians 15:29 as...
“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...
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 and pulling wagons over more than 1,100...
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 truth into my everyday walk with...
“. . .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 1. Compare I Nephi 1:2 with...
This feature article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 16, number 3 (Winter 1994). For further information about the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at...
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). During the cross-examination period of our debate on purgatory, Father Peter Stravinskas, noted theologian and author of The Catholic...
This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 3 (2001). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (Winter 1996). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org...
This article first appeared in Forward volume 8, number 4 (1986). The full PDF can be viewed by clicking here. Islam and Christianity are the two largest and most missionary-minded religions in the world. Their beliefs are very similar in many areas. They are...
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 3 (1996). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
More than two years ago the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) was informed by Christian Research Institute that there were Mormons in membership in some of their local chapters, specifically Salt Lake City. The FGBMFI president did not...
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). For further information about to the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help...
The producers of a popular series of New Testament videos for children are hoping that speculation and controversy over their product’s Mormon connections will soon be put to rest. The set of twelve videos, called “Animated Stories from the...
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 01 (1998). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 02 (1998). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 20, number 5 (1998). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that...
Click Here to listen. Over the last few months I've been hearing more and more about a book titled The Shack by William Young, who goes by his middle name, Paul. Some, like my mother, are profoundly disturbed by the content of this book. Others are saying that it is...
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...
THE PROPHET JONAH- Introduction You wouldn’t normally expect Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and skeptics to agree on much of anything. Yet all three share a similar opinion regarding, of all things, the Book of Jonah. Can you guess what it is? The CRI Perspective in a...
THE BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS- Introduction Non-Christians, (skeptics like New Agers or Mormons) claim that in the process of copying Scripture the text of the Bible was corrupted. Is this really true? THE BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS- An Example Suppose you wrote an essay and asked...
CULT AND OCCULT- Introduction The words “cult” and “occult” are popular terms that should not be confused with one another. So, what is the difference between them? CULT AND OCCULT- Cult The term “cult” is typically used by the secular media to describe religious or...
IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A CULT?- Introduction Roman Catholicism — some say it’s a cult, while others believe that it is a bona fide Christian denomination. So, which side is correct? IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A CULT?- A Mixed Bag While Protestants continue to disagree...
THE REORGANIZED LATTER-DAY SAINTS- Introduction Mormons refer to themselves as Latter-day Saints. But what exactly is the difference between them and the Reorganized Latter-day Saints? THE REORGANIZED LATTER-DAY SAINTS- Different from Mormons? Both the Utah Latter-day...
QUETZALCOATL AND JESUS- Introduction Mormons believe that Jesus appeared in America shortly after His resurrection. Is this really true? QUETZALCOATL AND JESUS- "Other Sheep" Mormons claim that the “other sheep” mentioned in John 10:16 refers to displaced Israelites...
MORMON TEMPLE RITUALS- Introduction Temples play a central role in Mormonism. What exactly happens inside these somewhat mysterious structures? What are these Mormon Temple Rituals? MORMON TEMPLE RITUALS- Necessary for Godhood Only after meeting certain requirements...
MORMONS AND RESTORATION- Introduction Mormons claim that there was a falling away from the faith after the death of the Apostles. Does this mean that the church needed to be restored through Mormonism? MORMONS AND RESTORATION- The Church Corrupted? Joseph Smith, the...
