Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Henrik Into and Wafted by the Spirit

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Henrik from the Netherlands Introduced himself. Art then describes two instances of being wafted by the spirit after praying concerning items of vital importance to the Kingdom of God. One of these was the instance of praying about the Adam God doctrine after a question-and-answer session in George Paces book of Mormon class in the religious studies department at BYU. A young elder stood up in the back of the Joseph Smith Auditorium and in a loud voice inquired concerning "anti-Mormon literature" which proclaims that Brigham Young taught that Adam was God. Brother pace directed the students to "go for themselves" to the Special Collections Department of the Harold B Lee Library and see for themselves by reading the documents. Art then waited for everyone to file out of the auditorium and then prayed concerning the doctrine for the first time and was wafted by the spirit right over to the shelves on which was the book Keys of the Priesthood Illustrated, a copy of which is now in arts possession.

The second instance of this supernatural agency which seem to have the power of even lifting my body from the floor, carried me over to my bookshelf to the book The Discourses of Brigham Young by John Widtsoe and this upon my inquiry as to what authority that I held after receiving my first two written revelations. I was informed that I had been ordained to the apostleship which holds all the keys upon ordination to the office of the 70 Apostle in May of 1974, because the office of an apostle "holds all the keys that were ever delivered to the sons of Adam".

The account of Eusebius concerning the 70 apostles is read, in which Eusebius declares the 70s to be apostles. The account of Thomas one of the 12 sending one of the 70, Thaddeus beyond the Euphrates to heal a potentate named Abgarus, King of the Edessences, who had offered to shield Jesus from the persecution of the Jews.

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  • "But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?"  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
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       When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet.
     
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  •  "All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God."  Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
  • "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)

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by Art Bulla
Tue, Dec 27, 2011

Henrik from the Netherlands Introduced himself. Art then describes two instances of being wafted by the spirit after praying concerning items of vital importance to the Kingdom of God. One of these was the instance of praying about the Adam God doctrine after a question-and-answer session in George Paces book of Mormon class in the religious studies department at BYU. A young elder stood up in the back of the Joseph Smith Auditorium and in a loud voice inquired concerning "anti-Mormon literature" which proclaims that Brigham Young taught that Adam was God. Brother pace directed the students to "go for themselves" to the Special Collections Department of the Harold B Lee Library and see for themselves by reading the documents. Art then waited for everyone to file out of the auditorium and then prayed concerning the doctrine for the first time and was wafted by the spirit right over to the shelves on which was the book Keys of the Priesthood Illustrated, a copy of which is now in arts possession.

The second instance of this supernatural agency which seem to have the power of even lifting my body from the floor, carried me over to my bookshelf to the book The Discourses of Brigham Young by John Widtsoe and this upon my inquiry as to what authority that I held after receiving my first two written revelations. I was informed that I had been ordained to the apostleship which holds all the keys upon ordination to the office of the 70 Apostle in May of 1974, because the office of an apostle "holds all the keys that were ever delivered to the sons of Adam".

the account of Eusebius concerning the 70 apostles is read, in which Eusebius declares the 70s to be apostles. The account of Thomas one of the 12 sending one of the 70, Thaddeus beyond the Euphrates to heal a potentate named Abgarus, King of the Edessences, who had offered to shield Jesus from the persecution of the Jews.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Pagan Holidays and Making Calling and Election Sure

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Constantine in making Christianity the state religion of Rome, adopted pagan holidays to make popular.  John saw arisal of "Mother of Harlots".

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 1 AND there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore (univeral or "cahtolic" church that sitteth upon many waters:
 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
 5 And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

   (Rev  17:1-6)

Calling and Election Made Sure:

 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:  (2 Pet  1:5-7,10)

This exhortation by Peter gives the lie to modern apostate Christianity's false doctrine of "once saved always saved" and attendant claptrap.

"Contend earnestly for the like precious faith with the Apostle Peter, "and add to your faith virtue," knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity; "for if these things be in you...neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." Another point, after having all these qualifications, he lays this injunction upon the people "to make your calling and election sure." He is emphatic upon this subject-after adding all this virtue, knowledge, &c., "Make your calling and election sure." What is the secret-the starting point? "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness." How did he obtain all things? Through the knowledge of him who hath called him. There could not anything be given, pertaining to life and godliness, without knowledge. Woe! woe! woe to Christendom!-especially the divines and priests if this be true. (HC 5:402-3.)  (Joseph Smith, Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, compiled by Alma P. Burton, p.150)

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·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
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Constantine in making Christianity the state religion of Rome, adopted pagan holidays to make popular. John saw arisal of "Mother of Harlots".

Calling and Election Made Sure:

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (2 Pet 1:5-7,10)

This exhortation by Peter gives the lie to modern apostate Christianity's false doctrine of "once saved always saved" and attendant claptrap.

"Contend earnestly for the like precious faith with the Apostle Peter, "and add to your faith virtue," knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity; "for if these things be in you...neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." Another point, after having all these qualifications, he lays this injunction upon the people "to make your calling and election sure." He is emphatic upon this subject-after adding all this virtue, knowledge, &c., "Make your calling and election sure." What is the secret-the starting point? "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness." How did he obtain all things? Through the knowledge of him who hath called him. There could not anything be given, pertaining to life and godliness, without knowledge. Woe! woe! woe to Christendom!-especially the divines and priests if this be true. (HC 5:402-3.) (Joseph Smith, Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, compiled by Alma P. Burton, p.150)

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Anceints Mighty Men of Renown

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 7 It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.

            (D&C  123:7)

 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.


            (Mal  4:5-6)

Ancients were "mighty men of renown". Rehearsal of works of these mighty men. Enoch turns river out of its course. Melchizedek when eight years old stopped the mouths of lions and quenched the violence of fire. Eusebius' account of Thaddeus, one of the 70 sent by Jesus to Agbarus, a king of the Edessenes, who sent a courier to Jesus, and treating him to come to his city and heal him of his disease.

What Eusebius (circa 300 A.D.) Says
about the Seventy Apostles

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These are some of the references indicating succession in the Presidency and the Twelve from the history written by Eusebius in around 300AD, further indicating the validity of my revelation on the subject and that Joseph and Brigham are true, and that the Church has gotten out of order, but one line preserved through which the entire Kingdom and Church (the House of God, not limited to the Church as Alex wants to pettyfog) can be set in order as prophesied:

Alex Pogossov,

Read here what Eusebius says about Paul, which I hope I don't seem chauvnistic or carried away unto boasting herewith, but I was caught up in exactly the same manner as Paul (attributed here to him by Eusebius and of course in the letter to the Corinthians).  But according to Alex, I must now first submit myself to the tutelage of one Onias in his "school"  and be admonished and rebuked by this fellow  that I should be so foolish as to speak ill of a Gordon B. Hinkley or even Onias!  

 Hebrews 12:3
  For consider him that endured such

contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Hebrews 12:4
  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.  

But au contrare, my blood was shed by them also.  And as Joseph remarked concerning tutelege as touted and advocated by this fool:

"Could we read and comprehend all that has been written from the days of Adam, on the relation of man to God and angels in a future state, we should know very little about it.  Reading the experience of others, or the revelation given to them, can never give us a comprehensive view of our condition and true relation to God. Knowledge of these things can only be obtained by experience through the ordinances of God set forth for that purpose.  Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject."

From Eusebius:

CHAPTER 24
The Order of the Gospels

"This extract from Clement I have inserted here for the sake of the history and for the benefit of my readers. Let us now point out the undisputed writings of this apostle. And in the first place his Gospel, which is known to all the churches under heaven, must be acknowledged as genuine. That it has with good reason been put by the ancients in the fourth place, after the other three Gospels, may be made evident in the following way. Those great and truly divine men, I mean the apostles of Christ, were purified in their life, and were adorned with every virtue of the soul, but were uncultivated in speech. They were confident indeed in their trust in the divine and wonder-working power which was granted unto them by the Saviour, but they did not know how, nor did they attempt to proclaim the doctrines of their teacher in studied and artistic language, but employing only the demonstration of the divine Spirit, which worked with them, and the wonder-working power of Christ, which was displayed through them, they published the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven throughout the whole world, paying little attention to the composition of written works.

And this they did because they were assisted in their ministry by one greater than man. Paul, for instance, who surpassed them all in vigor of expression and in richness of thought, committed to writing no more than the briefest epistles, although he had innumerable mysterious matters to communicate, for he had attained even unto the sights of the third heaven, had been carried to the very paradise of God, and had been deemed worthy to 'hear unspeakable utterances there."

 

Chapter XII. The Disciples of Our Saviour.

1 The names of the apostles of our Saviour are known to every one from the Gospels. But there exists no catalogue of the seventy disciples. Barnabas, indeed, is said to have been one of them, of whom the Acts of the apostles makes mention in various places, and especially Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.

2 They say that Sosthenes also, who wrote tothe Corinthians with Paul, was one of them. This is the account of Clement in the fifthbook of his Hypotyposes, in which he also says that Cephas was one of the seventy disciples, a man who bore the same name as the apostle Peter, and the one concerning whom Paul says, "When Cephas came to Antioch I withstood him to his face."

3 Matthias, also, who was numbered with the apostles in the place of Judas, and the one who was honored by being made a candidate with him, are like-wise said to have been deemed worthy of the same calling with the seventy. They say that Thaddeus also was one of them, concerning whom I shall presently relate an account which has come down to us. And upon examination you will find that our Saviour had more than seventy disciples, according to the testimony of Paul, who says that after his resurrection from the dead he appeared first to Cephas, then to the twelve, and after them to above five hundred brethren at once (seven Quorums of Seventy and 11 of the Twelve), of whom some had fallen asleep; but the majority were still living 4 at the time he wrote.

So the ancient order was to call upon the Seventy to fill vacancies in the Quorum of the Twelve, and it follows that vacancies in the First Presidency should be filled from the Twelve, and no High Priest should be in these Quorums, saith the Lord.  The Church took to ordaining Apostles High Priests after they had been ordained Apostles!  Jesus was never ordained a High Priest but was an Apostle, Joseph was never ordained a High Priest, but was an Apostle, and Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball were Apostles only.  So this is the correct order of succuession, saith the Lord, and no Elder such as Onias can subvert the Holy Order of God, despite what false testators such as Alex say.  Shame on you Alex. I want to include in this email an account from Eusebius of on the Seventy, Thaddeus who is not mentioned in the Bible.

Chapter XIII. Narrative Concerning the Prince of the Edessences.

1 The divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being noised abroad among all men on account of his wonder-working power, he attracted countless numbers from foreign countries lying far away from Judea, who had the opening of being cured of their diseases and of all kinds of sufferings.

2 For instance the King Abgarus, who ruled with great glory the nations beyond the Euphrates, being afflicted with a terrible disease which it was beyond the power of human skill to cure, when he heard of the name of Jesus, and of his miracles, which were attested by all with one accord sent a message to him by a courier and begged him to heal his disease.

3 But he did not at that time comply with his request; yet he deemed him worthy of a personal letter in which he said that he would send one of his disciples to cure his disease, and at the same time promised salvation to himself and all his house.

4 Not long afterward hispromise was fulfilled. For after his resurrection from the dead and his ascent into heaven, Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, under divine impulse sent Thaddeus, who was also numbered among the seventy disciples of Christ, to Edessa, as a preacher and evangelist of the teaching of Christ.

5 And all that our Saviour had promised received through him its fulfillment. You have written evidence of these things taken from the archives of Edessa, which was at that time a royal city. For in the public registers there, which contain accounts of ancient times and the acts of Abgarus, these things have been found preserved down to the present time. But there is no better way than to hear the epistles themselves which we have taken from the archives and have literally translated from the Syriac language in the following manner.

Copy of an epistle written by Abgarus the ruler to Jesus, tend sent to him at Jerusalem by Ananias the swift courier.

6 "Abgarus, ruler Of Edessa, to Jesus the 6 excellent Saviour who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem, greeting. I have heard the reports of thee and of thy cures as performed by thee without medicines or herbs. For it is said that thou makest the blind to see and the lame to walk, that thou cleansest lepers and castest out impure spirits and demons, and that thou healest those afflicted with lingering disease, and raisest the dead.

7 And having heard all these things concerning thee, I have concluded that one of two things must be true: either thou art God, and having come down from heaven thou doest these things, or else thou, who doest these things, art the Son of God.

8 I have therefore written to thee to ask thee that thou wouldest take the trouble to come to me and heal the disease which I have. For I have heard that the Jews are murmuring against thee and are plotting to injure thee. But I have a very small yet noble city which is great enough for us both."

The answer of Jesus to the ruler Abgarus by the courier Ananias.

9 "Blessed art thou who hast believed in me without having seen me. For it is written concerning me, that they who have seen me will not believe in me, and that they who have not seen me will believe and be saved. But in regard to what thou hast written me, that I should come to thee, it is necessary for me to fulfill all things here for which I have been sent, and after I have fulfilled them thus to be taken up again to him that sent me. But after I have been taken up I will send to thee one of my disciples, that he may heal thy disease and give life to thee and thine."

10 To these epistles there was added the following account in the Syriac language. "After the ascension of Jesus, Judas, who was also called Thomas, sent to him Thaddeus, an apostle, one of the Seventy. When he was come he lodged with Tobias, the son of Tobias. When the report of him got abroad, it was told Abgarus that an apostle of Jesus was come, as he had written him.

11 Thaddeus began then in the power of God to heal every disease and infirmity, insomuch that all wondered. And when Abgarus heard of the great and wonderful things which he did and of the cures which he performed, he began to suspect that he was the one of whom Jesus had written him, saying, `After I have been taken up I will send to thee one of my disciples who will heal thee.'

12 Therefore, summoning Tobias, with whom Thaddeus lodged, he said, I have heard that a certain man of power has come and is lodging in thy house. Bring him to me. And Tobias coming to Thaddeus said to him, The ruler Abgarus summoned me and told me to bring thee to him that thou mightest heal him. And Thaddeus said, I will go, for I have been sent to him with power.

13 Tobias therefore arose early on the following day, and taking Thaddeus came to Abgarus. And when he came, the nobles were present and stood about Abgarus. And immediately upon his entrance a great vision appeared to Abgarus in the countenance of the apostle Thaddeus. When Abgarus saw it he prostrated himself before Thaddeus, while all those who stood about were astonished; for they did not see the vision, which appeared to Abgarus alone.

14 He then asked Thaddeus if he were in truth a disciple of Jesus the Son of God, who had said to him, `I will send thee one of my disciples, who shall heal thee and give thee life.' And Thaddeus said, Because thou hast mightily believed in him that sent me, therefore have I been sent unto thee. And still further, if thou believest in him, the petitions of thy heart shall be granted thee as thou believest.

15 And Abgarus said to him, So much have I believed in him that I wished to take an army and destroy those Jews who crucified him, had I not been deterred from it by reason of the dominion of the Romans. And Thaddeus said, Our Lord has fulfilled the will of his Father, and having fulfilled it has been taken up to his Father. And Abgarus said to him, I too have believed in him and in his Father.

16 And Thaddeus said to him, Therefore I place my hand upon thee in his name. And when he had done it, immediately Abgarus was cured of the disease and of the suffering which he had.

17 And Abgarus marvelled, that as he had heard concerning Jesus, so he had received in very deed through his disciple Thaddeus, who healed him without medicines and herbs, and not only him, but also Abdus the son of Abdus, who was afflicted with the gout; for he too came to him and fell at his feet, and having received a benediction by the imposition of his hands, he was healed. The same Thaddeus cured also many other inhabitants of the city, and did wonders and marvelous works, and preached

18 the word of God. And afterward Abgarus said, Thou, O Thaddeus, doest these things with the power of God, and we marvel. But, in addition to these things, I pray thee to inform me in regard to the coming of Jesus, how he was born; and in regard to his power, by what power he performed those deeds of which I have heard.

19 And Thaddeus said, Now indeed will I keep silence, since I have been sent to proclaim the word publicly. But tomorrow assemble for me all thy citizens, and I will preach in their presence and sow among them the word of God, concerning the coming of Jesus, how he was born; and concerning his mission, for what purpose he was sent by the Father; and concerning the power of his works, and the mysteries which he proclaimed in the world, and by what power he did these things; and concerning his new preaching, and his abasement and humiliation, and how he humbled himself, and died and debased his divinity and was crucified, and descended into Hades, and burst the bars which from eternity had not been broken, and raised the dead; for he descended alone, but rose with many, and thus ascended to his Father.

20 Abgarus therefore commanded the citizens to assemble early in the morning to hear the preaching of Thaddeus, and afterward he ordered gold and silver to be given him. But he refused to take it, saying, If we have forsaken that which was our own, how shall we take that which is another's? These things were done in the three hundred andfortieth year."

I have inserted them here in their proper place, translated from the Syriac literally, and I hope to good purpose.

INTRODUCTION

We have discussed in the preceding book those subjects in ecclesiastical history which it was necessary to treat by way of introduction, and have accompanied them with brief proofs. Such were the divinity of the saving Word, and the antiquity of the doctrines which we teach, as well as of that evangelical life which is led by Christians, together with the events which have taken place in connection with Christ's recent appearance, and in connection with his passion and with the choice of the apostles.

In the present book let us examine the events which took place after his ascension, confirming some of them from the divine Scriptures, and others from such writings as we shall refer to from time to time.

CHAPTER 1

The Course pursued by the Apostles after the Ascension of Christ

First, then, in the place of Judas, the betrayer, Matthias, who, as has been shown was also one of the Seventy, was chosen to the apostolate. And there were appointed to the diaconate, for the service of the congregation, by prayer and the laying on of the hands of the apostles, approved men, seven in number, of whom Stephen was one. He first, after the Lord, was stoned to death at the time of his ordination by the slayers of the Lord, as if he had been promoted for this very purpose. And thus he was the first to receive the crown, corresponding to his name, which belongs to the martyrs of Christ, who are worthy of the meed of victory. Then James, whom the ancients surnamed the Just on account of the excellence of his virtue, is recorded to have been the first to be made bishop of the church of Jerusalem. This James was called the brother of the Lord because he was known as a son of Joseph, and Joseph was supposed to be the father of Christ, because the Virgin, being betrothed to him, "was found with child by the Holy Ghost before they came together," as the account of the holy Gospels shows.

But Clement in the sixth book of his Hypotyposes writes thus: "For they say that Peter and James and John after the ascension of our Saviour, as if also preferred by our Lord, strove not after honor, but chose James the Just bishop of Jerusalem."

But the same writer, in the seventh book of the same work, relates also the following things concerning him: "The Lord after his resurrection imparted knowledge to James the Just and to John and Peter, and they imparted it to the rest of the apostles, and the rest of the apostles to the seventy, of whom Barnabas was one. But there were two Jameses: one called the Just, who was thrown from the pinnacle of the temple and was beaten to death with a club by a fuller, and another who was beheaded." Paul also makes mention of the same James the Just, where he writes, "Other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother."

At that time also the promise of our Saviour to the king of the Osrhoenians was fulfilled. For Thomas, under a divine impulse, sent Thaddeus to Edessa as a preacher and evangelist of the religion of Christ, as we have shown a little above from the document found there?

When he came to that place he healed Abgarus by the word of Christ; and after bringing all the people there into the right attitude of mind by means of his works, and leading them to adore the power of Christ, he made them disciples of the Saviour's teaching. And from that time down to the present the whole city of the Edessenes has been devoted to the name of Christ, offering no common proof of the beneficence of our Saviour toward them also.

These things have been drawn from ancient accounts; but let us now turn again to the divine Scripture.


Authority of the Seventy

Apostleship of the Seventies: Evidences

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  • "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)

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Ancients Mighty Men of Renown
by Art Bulla
Thu, Dec 22, 2011

7 It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.

(D&C 123:7)

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.


(Mal 4:5-6)

Ancients were "mighty men of renown". Rehearsal of works of these mighty men. Enoch turns river out of its course. Melchizedek when eight years old stopped the mouths of lions and quenched the violence of fire. Eusebius' account of Thaddeus, one of the 70 sent by Jesus to Agbarus, a king of the Edessenes, who sent a courier to Jesus, and treating him to come to his city and heal him of his disease.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Possessed with a Lying Spirit or Just a Knave?

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Knavery or Just Possessed?

by Art Bulla

Sun, Dec 18, 2011

Mr. Hale Is Proven Either Possessed with a Lying Spirit

or

Is a Knave
 

 42 Behold, I know that thou believest, but thou art possessed with a lying spirit, and ye have put off the Spirit of God that it may have no place in you; but the devil has power over you, and he doth carry you about, working devices that he may destroy the children of God.

            (Alma  30:42)
 

 29 Yea, we see that whosoever will

may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked--

            (Hel  3:29)

 37 And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he shall send his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.  (JS-M  1:37)

Mr. Hale (a self-confessed liberal and Darwinist, who outwardly wears habiliments of the Priesthood), being detected by the power of the Priesthood, and confronted on his program with a statement he made concerning the canonicity of the Book of Revelation during an attack thereon. To wit:  that no authority in the first two centuries after Christ considered The Book of Revelation to be canonical. Mr. Hale then denied making the statement, which I this time recorded.  I play the two clips, one making the statement and the other denying that he made the statement proving that he is a liar.

 
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    The Revelations of Jesus Christ:
    http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-28287-3 
  • "But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?"  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
  •  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
       When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet.
     
  •  Our website: http://www.artbulla.com
  •  "All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God."  Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
  • "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Why I am NOT a Christian

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Why I am NOT a Christian

by Art Bulla

Thu, Dec 15, 2011

Woman-scarlet

The Whore, Apostate Christianity, Riding the Beast

 

Martyrdom

Martyrdom of Joseph Smith (1844)

 

 

 

APOSTATE DOCTRINES PREVAILING AT TIME OF FIRST VISION. What was the condition of the religious world, which professed to believe in and practice the doctrines of the Redeemer, when the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph Smith and instructed him? The answer is found in the words of the Lord which are similar to and a fulfilment of the prediction by Isaiah: "They draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof." Some of the leading teachings and practices were as follows:    
1. That God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are not three personages, but one ethereal, immaterial God, unknown and unknowable to man, who fills the immensity of space.    
2. That the canon of scripture is full and complete, and since the passing of the apostles there was to be no more revelation, no opening of the heavens and communications by angels, but the people were left to rely on what was written in the Bible or taught by their priests.    
3. That baptism is to cleanse us from "original sin," and that all little children had to be "regenerated" by baptism and if not baptized they will perish.    
4. That baptism is an ordinance acceptable to the Lord by sprinkling or pouring water on the heads of unbaptized adults or infants.    
5. That men may take upon themselves the authority to be ministers of the word of God, without a divine appointment by one duly authorized by Jesus Christ.    
6. That the organization of the Church as established in the days of Jesus Christ and his apostles is no longer necessary; there were to be no more apostles, prophets, and gifts of the spirit.    
7. That man was not created in the image of God in form, for God is not an anthropomorphic being.    
8. Other doctrines, such as the necessity for keys for the restoration of Israel, the need of the coming of Elijah, as proclaimed in the scriptures, are not necessary.    
APOSTATE DOCTRINE DAMNING NON-CHRISTIANS. The Lord declared to Nicodemus, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." It must be accepted by all who profess belief in our Savior that this edict is true and final. However, in the centuries which are passed, and even now in many so-called Christian communities, a wrong application of this doctrine has led to very serious errors and unwittingly to the committing of very grievous sins. I refer to the doctrine which proclaims that all who in the flesh have not professed belief in our Lord, or heard of him before death removed them from the earth, are forever damned and without means of escape from the torments of hell. This false conception and application of gospel truth has been a teaching of so-called Christianity from the earliest centuries of our era, but it never was a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ.    

   (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 3 vols., edited by Bruce R. McConkie, 3:, p.284-285)

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 Degeneracy of Worship Incident to the Apostasy-That, as the Priesthood disappeared from the earth after the apostolic period, the forms of worship were perverted, while many pagan influences and practises crept in, may be reasonably inferred from the records of history. Mosheim, an authority of note in ecclesiastical history, has this to say regarding pagan innovations during the fourth century: "The Christian bishops introduced, with but slight alterations, into the Christian worship, those rites and institutions by which, formerly, the Greeks and Romans and other nations had manifested their piety and reverence towards their imaginary deities; supposing that the people would more readily embrace Christianity if they saw that the rites handed down to them from their fathers still existed unchanged among the Christians, and perceived that Christ and the martyrs were worshiped in the same manner as formerly their gods were. There was, of course, little difference, in these times, between the public worship of the Christians and that of the Greeks and Romans. In both alike, there were splendid robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers, processions, illustrations, images, golden and silver vases, and numberless other things."   (James E. Talmage, Articles of Faith, p.442)
The Lord has revealed to me that the "woman clothed in scarlet" sitting up the beast with seven heads, is Apostate Christianity which Constantine made the state religion, the relilgion of Rome which state power is beastly power.  Now the Beast is ruled by the "little horn more stout than its fellows" which beast would "wear out the Saints of the Most High" getting them to changes times and laws according to the perversion of this beastly power.  It was Protestant ministers (harlots from the Catholic Mother of Harlots seen by John) who murdered Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844.

 
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    The Revelations of Jesus Christ:
    http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-28287-3 
  • "But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?"  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
  •  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
       When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet.
     
  •  Our website: http://www.artbulla.com
  •  "All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God."  Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
  • "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)

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Why I am NOT a Christian
by Art Bulla

Thu, Dec 15, 2011

Degeneracy of Worship Incident to the Apostasy-That, as the Priesthood disappeared from the earth after the apostolic period, the forms of worship were perverted, while many pagan influences and practises crept in, may be reasonably inferred from the records of history. Mosheim, an authority of note in ecclesiastical history, has this to say regarding pagan innovations during the fourth century: "The Christian bishops introduced, with but slight alterations, into the Christian worship, those rites and institutions by which, formerly, the Greeks and Romans and other nations had manifested their piety and reverence towards their imaginary deities; supposing that the people would more readily embrace Christianity if they saw that the rites handed down to them from their fathers still existed unchanged among the Christians, and perceived that Christ and the martyrs were worshiped in the same manner as formerly their gods were. There was, of course, little difference, in these times, between the public worship of the Christians and that of the Greeks and Romans. In both alike, there were splendid robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers, processions, illustrations, images, golden and silver vases, and numberless other things." (James E. Talmage, Articles of Faith, p.442)
The Lord has revealed to me that the "woman clothed in scarlet" sitting up the beast with seven heads, is Apostate Christianity which Constantine made the state religion, the relilgion of Rome which state power is beastly power. Now the beast is ruled by the "little horn more stout than its fellows" which beast would "wear out the Saints of the Most High" getting them to changes times and laws according to the perversion of this beastly power. It was Protestant ministers (harlots from the Catholic Mother of Harlots seen by John) who murdered Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Analyzing the Apostate Clique

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38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies--because of the praise of the world?

   (Morm  8:38)
 

 

  There is a prophesied apostate clique within Mormonism comprised of those who consider themselves the "intellectual elite". These are they who effeminate minded but who "wear stiff necks and high heads" , who consider themselves the elite because of their "worldly learning" in fulfillment of the prophecy found in the Journal of Messiah Hancock

 "The next day the Prophet came to our home and stopped in our carpenter shop and stood by the turning lathe. `I will show you the travels of this people.' He then showed our travels thru Iowa, and said, `Here you will make a place for the winter; and here you will travel west until you come to the valley of the Great Salt Lake! You will build cities to the North and to the South, and to the East and to the West; and you will become a great and wealthy people in that land. *** You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the friends of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many will be hoisted because of their money and the worldly learning which they seem to be in possession of;" (Mosiah Hancock Journal, p. 19)


                                                                                       
Revelation received 4/19/2004, Baja, Mexico.
 
 Therefore I the Lord God had a sure defense, or a wall erected for the defense of the kingdom .  But the wall was torn down and the enemy, saith the Lord, came and sowed tares amongst the wheat.  To wit The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.… An enemy hath done this.  The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest…

1. Though in the outward church below,
The wheat and tares together grow;
Jesus ere long will weed the crop,
And pluck the tares in anger up.
For soon the reaping time will come,
And angels shout the harvest home.
2. Will it relieve their horrors there,
To recollect their stations here;
How much they heard, how much they
knew,
How much among the wheat they grew?
3. No! this will aggravate their case,
They perish'd under means of grace;
To them the word of life and faith
Became an instrument of death.
4. We seem alike when thus we meet,
Strangers might think we all were wheat;
But to the Lord's all-searching eyes,
Each heart appears without disguise,
5. The tares are spared for various ends,
Some for the sake of praying friends;
Others the Lord, against their will,
Employs his counsels to fulfil.
6. But though they grow so tall and strong,
His plan will not require them long;
In harvest, when he saves his own,
The tares shall into hell be thrown.
7. Oh! awful thought, and is it so?
Must all mankind the harvest know?
Is every man a wheat or tare?
Me, for that harvest, Lord, prepare.

 
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The Revelations of Jesus Christ: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-28287-3 
  • "But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?"  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
  •  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
       When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet.
     
  •  Our website: http://www.artbulla.com
  •  "All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God."  Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
  • "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

·         10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)

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Monday, December 12, 2011

Canonicity of the Book of Revelation of John the Apostle

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Canonicity of the Revelation of John the Apostle

by Art Bulla

Sun, Dec 11, 2011

It turns out Eusebius had access to libraries no longer extant:  a well-stocked library in Caesarea, as well as by visiting the Christian library at Jerusalem. 

Howver, a certain apostate clique within the Mormon church comprised of persons who may have the outward habilaments of the Priesthood, but whose core is liberalism (the tax-supported religion), the foundation of which is Darwinism (who is an antichrist after the order of Korihor spoken of in the book of Mormon). These persons typified by a broadcaster whom I debate with, use the teachings of such liberal theologians as Bruce Metzger, et al. to attempt to destroy the credibility of the Scriptures. The root of this problem seems to be the complete and total rejection of anything supernatural. Therefore this broadcaster, recently used Metzger on his program to attempt to destroy the canonicity of the Revelation of John! This person also misrepresented and stated that no one in the first two centuries of Christianity accepted the Book of Revelation as canonical. This is proven false by the following quoteof the many that I have:

"Irenæus expressly quotes the Revelation, and ascribes it to John the apostle. And in one place, he says, "It (the Revelation,) was seen no long time ago in our age, at the end of the reign of Domitian." And in the passage preserved by Eusebius, he speaks of the exact and ancient copies of this book; which he says, "was confirmed, likewise, by the concurring testimony of those who had seen John."" Archibald Alexander; 1851

"The Revelation of John is often quoted by Clement of Alexandria.…judging the people, as John says in the Revelation." That Clement believed it to be the work of the apostle John is manifest, because in another place he expressly cites a passage, as the words of an apostle; and we have just seen that he ascribes the work to John."  ibid.

Regarding Eusebius and the New Testament canon, we will use the well-known passage in his Ecclesiastical History (3.25.1-7). We also use an earlier passage (3.3.5-7) in the same book regarding the Epistle to the Hebrews and Shepherd of Hermas, where both are classified as 'disputed'. In the absence of any official list of the canonical writings, Eusebius finds it simplest to count the votes of his witnesses, and by this means to classify all the writings into four categories:

Class writings symbol
homologoumena
(recognized)

... the holy quaternion of the Gospels, which are followed by the book of the Acts of the Apostles. After this must be reckoned the Epistles of Paul; next in order the extant former Epistle of John, and likewise the Epistle of Peter must be recognized. After these must be put, if it really seems right, the Apocalypse of John, .....

The Development of the Canon of the New Testament


 


Cross Reference Table: Writings and Authorities

Each symbol in the large table below corresponds to a specific authority and a specific writing.
The symbols summarize the opinion of the authority about the writing.
If the symbol is blue, select it with the mouse to jump to the evidence.
The symbols have this meaning:
Symbol Opinion of Authority
c accepted; true; scriptural; or quoted from very approvingly
p possible approving quotation or allusion
e acceptable, but only with changes
q dubious; disputed; or useful for inspiration
s spurious (in the classification of Eusebius)
x false; heretical; heterodox; quoted from very disapprovingly
· not mentioned or quoted from; opinion unknown

Ig Po M Va JM Ir C T MC O E CS A D P V
Gospel according to Matthew
Gospel according to Mark · c ·
Gospel according to Luke
Gospel according to John · ·
Acts · ·
Romans ·
I Corinthians ·
II Corinthians · ·
Galatians · ·
Ephesians ·
Philippians · ·
Colossians c · ·
I Thessalonians · ·
II Thessalonians · · ·
I Timothy · · ·
II Timothy · · ·
Titus · · x · ·
Philemon · · e · · · · ·
Hebrews · c · · · ·
James · · · · · p · · ·
I Peter · c · c · ·
II Peter · · · · · · · · · · c
I John · c · c ·
II John · · · · · c · · · c
III John · c · · · · · · · · c
Jude · · · · · · · c
Revelation of John · · · · c
Gospel of Thomas · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Gospel of Truth · · · c · x · · · · · · · · · ·
Gospel of the Twelve · · · · · · · · · x · · · · · ·
Gospel of Peter · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Gospel of Basilides · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Gospel of the Egyptians · · · · · · c · · x · · · · · ·
Gospel of the Hebrews · · · · · · c · · · · c · ·
Gospel of Matthias · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Traditions of Matthias · · · · · · c · · · · · · · · ·
Preaching of Peter · · · c · · c · · x · · · · · ·
Acts of Andrew · · · · · · · · · · x · · · · ·
Acts of Paul · · · · · · · x · · · · · ·
Acts of John · · · · · · · · · · x · · · · ·
Epistle to the Laodiceans · · · · · · · · q · · · · · · p
I Clement · · · · · · · q · · · c · ·
Epistle of Barnabas · · · · · · c · · · c · ·
Didache · · · · · · c · · · · ·
Shepherd of Hermas · · · · · · ·
Apocalypse of Peter · · · · · · c · c · s · · · · ·
Ig Po M Va

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