On this episode, we interview Pastor Jason Wallace - an OPC Pastor who will have been evangelizing in Utah for 25 years, as of May 2023.If you are in the Provo or Salt Lake City area - we invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!Jason's Youtube Channel is Ancient Paths TVSandra Tanner Playlist; also see the indispensable Mormonism - Shadow or Reality? by Sandra and Jerald TannerAn Earnest Plea to Latter-day Sai...
On this episode, we interview Pastor Jason Wallace - an OPC Pastor who will have been evangelizing in Utah for 25 years, as of May 2023.
If you are in the Provo or Salt Lake City area - we invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!
Jason's Youtube Channel is Ancient Paths TV
- Sandra Tanner Playlist; also see the indispensable Mormonism - Shadow or Reality? by Sandra and Jerald Tanner
- An Earnest Plea to Latter-day Saints
- Was the Burning in Your Bosom from God?
- Joseph Smith: Behind the Mask
- Interview with Kathleen Kimball Melanakos (book here)
- Debates (e.g. here and here and here and here)
- The Bible vs. Shawn McCraney
- An Earnest Plea to Seventh-day Adventists
- An Earnest Plea to Charismatics
- An Earnest Plea to Muslims
- The Atheist Illusion (and atheism debate)
- The Truth about Calvin and Servetus
- The Church Impotent (Dispensationalism)
Note: To be technically accurate, in the LDS temple endowment ceremony before 1990 - Lucifer (or Satan) used to mention that he would "buy up...popes and priests". Then, there was a scene where Lucifer hires a minister (thus, a "hireling of Satan") who is interviewed to make sure he's been to school - and then, Lucifer has him promote "the orthodox religion" (including a God "without body, parts, or passions") to Adam/Eve. Lucifer tells the minister that he will pay him well for conversions. (here, here, here, here)
Correction: *Goshen*, not Magna. (Though it is technically not in Goshen.)
Resources:
Terry Johnson (here and here)
When Grace Comes Home by Terry Johnson
Speaking the Truth in Love to Mormons by Mark Cares
The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin
Augustine's Confessions
Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman (also: here, here, here)
The Courage To Be Protestant by David Wells
My Servants The Prophets by Edward J. Young
Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
C.S. Lewis's Introduction to On the Incarnation by Athanasius; here's a sample quotation: "Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books."
Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion and Letter to Sadoleto
Dialogue On the Two Natures of Christ by Peter Martyr Vermigli
Reformation Day Lecture; and here (Michael Horton)
Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals by Willem Balke
War Against the Idols by Carlos Eire
Christianity at the Crossroads by Michael Kruger
Defending Constantine by Peter Leithart
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods
Dominion by Tom Holland
Approaching the Book of Mormon (Bill McKeever)
LDS sources mentioned:
Joseph Smith taught: "Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God. I say that is a strange God anyhow -- three in one, and one in three! It is a curious organization. "Father, I pray not for the world, but I pray for them which thou hast given me." "Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are." All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God -- he would be a giant or a monster." (Sermon in the Grove)
JSH 1:20 (cited, with an inaccurate period added, by David Bednar)
2 Nephi 2:25 (See also here and here)
Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet by Ezra Taft Benson, wherein he even states (quoting another GA): "always keep your eye on the President of the Church, and if he ever tells you to do anything, and it is wrong, and you do it, the Lord will bless you for it.” (Also: Sheri Dew)
All Are Alike Unto God by Bruce R. McConkie (Also: here)
Examples of LDS view of reformers and American founders here, here, here, and here
Brad Wilcox fireside here (40:30); I have asked several protestant ministers of different denominations if they have ever heard of someone doing this, let alone for extra money - and I have found no example of this even being allowed.
