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Injustice in the The Mormon Scriptures

    1 Nephi

  1. "The Jews did mock him because ... he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations ... they were angy with him ... as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out and stoned."
    After Lehi saw the pillar of fire, God, Jesus, the apostles, and angels, and read from the book that God gave him, he went into town to tell the people about it. They all thought he was crazy, since they were a bunch of wicked, abominable Jews. 1:19-20
  2. The Spirit of the Lord "constrained" Nephi to murder Laban as he lay passed out on the ground. 4:10
  3. But the Spirit had to tell Nephi again. 4:11
  4. And a third time, reminding Nephi that God kills people too (so it must be OK) and besides, it's better that one person die than a whole nation dwindle in unbelief. 4:12-13
  5. So Nephi (finally) obeys the Spirit by grabbing Laban by the hair and chopping off his head with his own sword. 4:18
  6. Lehi thinks his dream assures the salvation of Nephi, Sam, and "their seed" and the damnation of Laman and Lemuel. (Because the former ate the magic fruit and the latter didn't.) 8:3-4
  7. The Native Americans are the decedents of those "who dwindled in unbelief." As a punishment for their disbelief, their skin was darkened and they became "a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of abominations." 12:22-23
  8. Nephi sees the "great and abominable church" and its founder, the devil. 13:6
  9. The wrath of God is on the Native Americans (Nephi's brethren). 13:11
  10. God's wrath is on the Native Americans who were slaughtered by the Europeans. 13:14
  11. God inspired the Europeans (who "were white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful" just like Nephi's descendants before the evil, dark-skinned Laminites killed them all ) to slaughter the Native Americans. 13:15
  12. "The Gentiles ... did humble themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them." 13:16
  13. God helped the American colonists win the Revolutionary War. 13:18
  14. God helped the Americans win all their other wars too. (Except maybe the Vietnam war.) 13:19
  15. The angel tells Nephi that the "great and abominable church" (the Catholics) ruined the Bibe by deleting the "plan and most precious parts." 13:26-32
  16. Good news for "gentiles" in "the promised land." ("Gentiles" are non-Mormons and "the promised land" is the United States in Mormon-speak). All you have to do is become a Mormon and then you will be blessed by God (otherwise you're going to hell). 14:1-2
  17. The Catholic church was founded by the devil to lead souls to hell. 14:3
  18. f you're a gentile, you've only got two choices: become a Mormon or fall into the Catholic pit that leads to hell. 14:5-6
  19. The angel tells Nephi that the lamb of God (Jesus) says that the time will come (2423 years later) when a 17 year old treasure digger from New York (Joseph Smith) will find some golden plates and translate them by staring into his hat at some magic rocks and thereby produce the "great and marvelous work" that we now know as the Book of Mormon. This book is, according to the angel, the best and most important book by far that you, me, or anyone else will ever read. And we'll be tortured forever after we die unless we believe it. 14:7
  20. The "great and abominable church, ... the mother of abominations, whose founder is the devil." 14:9
  21. There are only two churches: the church of the Lamb of God, and the church of the devil.You either belong to the good chuch or the bad church (the mother of abominations, the whore of all the earth). 14:10
  22. "The whore of all the earth sat upon many waters." 14:11
  23. The church of the Lamb of God had few members "because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore who sat upon many waters." 14:12
  24. The "great mother of abominations" recruits people from all over the earth to fight against the Lamb of God. 14:13
  25. "The wrath of God was poured out on the great and abominable church." 14:15
  26. "The wrath of God is upon the mother of harlots." 14:16
  27. "The wrath of God is poured out upon the mother of harlots, which is the great and abominable church ... whose founder is the devil." 14:17
  28. There's an "awful gulf" that separates the wicked from the saints. 15:28
  29. There's an "awful hell" prepared for the wicked. 15:29
  30. There's an "awful hell" prepared by the devil. 15:35
  31. God destroys entire nations of "wicked" people and curses the land for their sakes. 17:37-38
  32. Among many other things, Nephi told his brothers that God straitens murmurers by sending fiery flying serpents to bite and kill them. (See Numbers 21:6) 17:41
  33. Then Zenos explains how all kinds of bad stuff would happen to the Jews because they "crucify the God of Israel." They'd be hated by all nations, wander in the flesh, etc. 19:13-14
  34. God will force people to eat their own flesh and drink their own blood. 21:26
  35. The members of "the great and abominable church" (the whore of all the earth) will kill each other and get drunk on their own blood. 22:13
  36. All those that fight again Zion (Mormonism), like "that great whore, that great and abominable church" will be destroyed. 22:14
  37. They who fight again Zion (Mormonism) will be cut off. 22:19
  38. You must do whatever the prophet (Jesus or Joseph Smith) says. Those who don't will be cut off. 22:20
  39. Soon all the churches of the devil (non-Mormon churches) will be destroyed. 22:23

    40. 2 Nephi

  40. All humans are lost because of the transgression of their parents. 2:21
  41. God cursed the Lamanites (the ancestors of the Native Americans) causing their skin to turn dark and making them "loathsome" to His people. 5:21-22
  42. God forbids intermarriage between the Nephites and Lamanites. Those who do will be cursed by God with "the same cursing". 5:23
  43. God's curse on the Lamanites (Native Americans) also caused them to "become an idle people, full of mischief." 5:24
  44. Those who don't fight against Zion (the Mormon Church) and who don't join "the great and abominable church (the Catholic Church) will be saved. 6:12
  45. Those who do not believe in the Messiah (Jesus) will be destroyed by fires, storms, earthquakes, war, disease, and starvation. 6:15
  46. God will force people to eat their own flesh and drink their own blood. 6:18
  47. Hell is a lake of fire and brimstone where the damned are tormented forever. 9:19
  48. Those who don't believe or who are not baptized will be damned to hell. 9:24
  49. Filthy people will be tormented forever in a lake of fire. 9:16, 9:26
  50. Many children will die because of their unbelief. 10:2
  51. Jews are wicked. Only the Jews would crucify their God. 10:3
  52. To punish them for their iniquities, God sent famines, disease, wars, and destruction on the Jews. 10:6
  53. God gave the entire Western Hemisphere to the Mormon Church, but he blesses non-Mormon, non-Catholic, white Christians ("Gentiles" in Mormon-speak) too. 10:10
  54. God will protect and strengthen America (since it's his favorite country). 10:12
  55. Those who fight against Zion (Mormonism) will die, for they are the whore of all the earth. Those who are not for God are against God. 10:16
  56. America was consecrated by God to the seed of Nephi (Mormons). God likes America better than any other country. All Americans will someday worship God. (And become Mormons?) 10:19
  57. God will "smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion" and "will discover their secret parts" since he doesn't like the way they dress and walk. 13:16-17
  58. God will make sweet smelling things stink, make people bald, and cause men to die in wars. 13:24-25
  59. God will prevent people from hearing and understanding "lest they ... convert and be healed." 16:10
  60. If you associate or gird yourself, God will break you in pieces. 18:9
  61. God will not have mercy on orphans or widows. 19:17
  62. God will make every man kill his brother and then force him to eat "the flesh of his own arm." 19:19-20
  63. God will "smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked." God must have some pretty bad breath! 21:4
  64. On God's special day he will kill sinners with great anger, wrath, and cruelty. 23:6-9
  65. If God can find you, he will "thrust you through," smash your children "to pieces" before your eyes, and rape your wife. 23:15-18
  66. Children will be slaughtered for the iniquities of their fathers. 24:21
  67. The Jews created abominations and works of darkness. 25:2
  68. Wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church (the Mormons).
  69. God will destroy (in varous ways) those who "dwindle in unbelief." 26:15
  70. God won't give good stuff to those who "dwindle in unbelief." 26:17
  71. God will get the Gentiles to kill all those who "dwindle in unbelief." 26:19
  72. There are many bad churches out there. (The non-LDS ones.) 26:21
  73. The devil is the founder of all those "secret combinations." 26:22
  74. People should work for Zion (the Mormon church) not for money. 26:31
  75. "Wo be unto him that rejecteth the word of God!
    (By "word of God" Joseph Smith means the Book of Mormon.) 27:14
  76. Death, hell, the devil, and the "endless torment" of "the lake of fire and brimstone." 28:23
  77. "Unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have." 28:30
  78. Before many generations pass, Native Americans will convert to Mormonism, their skins will turn white, and they will become a "delightsome" people. 30:6
  79. The Jews will also be converted and become a "delightsome" people. 30:7
  80. Those who reject the Book of Mormon are of the devil. 33:5
  81. Those who believe in Christ will also believe in the Book of Mormon. 33:10

    82. Jacob

  82. God curses "the land" to punish humans, and he has cursed the Lamanites (Native Americans) "with a sore cursing." 3:3
  83. The Lamanites (Native Americans) are filthy and have dark skins because they were cursed by God. (But at least they weren't polygamists, as were the Nephites.) 3:5
  84. If you don't repent, God will make your skin even darker than that of the Lamanites (Native Americans). 3:8
  85. God made the Lamanites (Native Americans) filthy and dark skinned "because of their fathers." 3_9
  86. God casts some people into a "lake of fire and brimstone" where they suffer "the pains of hell." 3:11
  87. God commanded Abraham to kill his son Isaac. (And that was a good thing?) 4:5
  88. God will curse some people and burn the world with fire. 6:3
  89. Those who "bring forth evil fruit" will be "cast into the fire." 6:7
  90. God will cast some people into a lake of fire and brimstone where he will torment them forever. 6:10
  91. Sherem, the first freethought martyr in the Book of Mormon [see the story of Korihor for another (Alma 30)], tells Jacob he is misleading the people in by telling them (ca. 500 BCE) that Christ will be coming "many hundred years hence." 7:1-7
  92. Jacob asks Sherem if he denies that Christ will come. Sherem answers that although he doesn't believe it now, he could be convinced if Jacob could show him a sign. Jacob responds by saying, "Thou art the devil ... but if God shall smite thee, let that be a sign unto thee." 7:9-14
  93. "He gave up the ghost."
    God gives Sherem a little sign: he kills him. 7:15-20
  94. "This thing was pleasing to me."
    Jacob is pleased that God killed Sherem. 7:22

    95. Mosiah

  95. Those who die in their sins are tormented forever in hell. 2:33
  96. Those in hell "endure a never-ending torment." 2:39
  97. The damned are in a state of misery and endless torment. 3:25-27
  98. God answers the Nephites prayers, and helps them kill 3043 Lamanites in one day and a night. 9:18
  99. The Lord says that this (which?) generation will be slain and their bodies will be eaten by vultures, dogs, and wild beasts. 12:2
  100. God will smite his people with sore afflictions, famine, pestilence, and will cause them to howl all the day long. 12:4
  101. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generations 13:13
  102. The Lamanites were sinful and polluted. 25:11
  103. God hardened their hearts because of their unbelief. 26:3
  104. Those who don't know Christ will be thrown into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 26:27

    105. Alma

  105. Those who refuse to kill a murderer must have his blood fall upon them. 1:13
  106. "What he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death."
    Nehor was killed for teaching the heresy of universalism. 1:4, 15
  107. Those who didn't belong to the right church were lazy, wicked, babbling, idolatrous, proud people who were all a bunch of thieves and murderers. 1:32
  108. God helped the Nephites slaughter 12,532 Amlicites. 2:18-19
  109. The Lord did hear their cries [he had his hearing aid on], ... and the Lamanites and Amlicites did fall before them. 2:28
  110. The Lamanites were naked, and their skins were dark because of a curse from God. 3:5-6
  111. God darkened the skin of the Lamanites (Native Americans) to keep them separate from the Nephites. 3:8
  112. Whoever "mingles his seed" with the Lamanites will be cursed by God and will "bring the same curse upon his seed." (Their children will have dark skins.) 3:9
  113. Whoever is led away by the Lamanites will have "a mark set upon him." (God will darken his skin?) 3:10
  114. God darkened the skin of the Lamanites (Native Americans) to forever separate them from the Nephites. 3:14
  115. Whoever "mingles his seed" with the Lamanites will be cursed by God. (They and their children will have dark skins.) 3:15
  116. If you are not a sheep of the good shepherd, the devil is your shepherd. 5:39
  117. God will destroy those who don't repent. 8:16, 9:12
  118. If the Nephites don't repent, God will send the Lamanites to destroy them. 9:18
  119. God favored the Nephites over all other people on earth. 9:20
  120. Some people will be tortured forever in the fires of hell. 12:17
  121. The Lamanites were a wild, ferocious, and lazy people who delighted in murdereing, robbing, and plundering. God cursed them because of what their fathers did. 17:14-15
  122. God's curse of the Lamanites was lifted from the "Anti-Nephi-Lehies." So did their skin became "white and delightsome" again? 23:18
  123. The Lamanites (Native Americans) "began to hunt the seed of Amulon ... and began to slay them."
    "Behold, they are hunted at this day by the Lamanites." 25:8-9
  124. The Lamanites (Native Americans) "delight in the shedding of blood" and spend their days in "the grossest iniquity." 26:24
  125. Korihor is arrested for expressing his disbelief. 30:29
  126. Korihor (who spoke the plain and simple truth) was the Anti-Christ. 30:12
  127. Since Alma can't refute Korihor's arguments, he says he'll have God smite him so that he can no longer speak. It's better, he says, that Korihor's soul be lost than that he convince others that there is no God. 30:47
  128. Korihor "was struck dumb ... according to the words of Alma." 30:50
  129. "The curse was not taken off of Korihor; but he was cast out, and went about from house to house begging for his food." 30:56
  130. The chief judge warned everyone not to believe Korihor or they will also be struck dumb and be forced to beg for their food. 30:57
  131. Korihor was trampled upon by the Nephites until he was dead. 30:59
  132. If you ask God to kill your enemies, he will do it for you. 33:10
  133. Denying the Holy Ghost (refusing to become Mormon or escaping from Mormonism?) is the greatest abomination and is unpardonable. 39:5-6
  134. Evil people are those who "have no part or portion of the Spirit of the Lord." They will be "cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth." 40:13
  135. The Amalekites were even "more wicked and murderous" than the Lamanites. 43:6
  136. God is with Moroni and the Nephites. The Lord has delivered the Lamanites into their hands "because of [their] religion and [their] faith in Christ." 44:3
  137. "Now ye see that this is the true faith of God." (You can tell by all the nonbelievers they kill.) 44:4
  138. In the war with the Lamanites, God is on the Nephites side. He just likes their religion better. 44:5
  139. Moroni gets angry and orders his people to kill the Lamanites, which was exceedingly easy since they were all naked as jaybirds. 44:17-18
  140. God curses the land and "every nation, kindred, tongue, and people." 45:16
  141. God helped the Nephites defeat the Lamanites. 46:7
  142. If the Nephites forsake God, then God will tear them to pieces. 46:21
  143. The Nephites make a deal with God. If they fail to follow God properly, then God can kill them all. 46:22
  144. Those who will not support the cause of freedom are put to death. (The Bush Doctrine?) 46:35
  145. The dissenters become even more "wild, wicked, and ferocious than the Lamanites [Native Americans], giving way to indolence and all manner of lasciviousness." 47:36
  146. Those who were faithful "were delivered at all times," while "thousands of their wicked brethren" were enslaved, killed, forced to dwindled in unbelief, or to "mingle with the Lamanites [Native Americans]." 50:22
  147. Moroni writes a petition empowering him "to compel those dissenters to defend their country or to put them to death." 51:15
  148. Four thousand dissenters were "hewn down by the sword." 51:19
  149. The rest of the dissenters were forced to live in freedom. 51:20
  150. There is an "awful hell that awaits" those who fail to repent. 54:7
  151. Moroni threatens to kill all the Lamanites, taking "blood for blood" and "life for life." 54:12
  152. Moroni gets angry and threatens to kill the Lamanites. 55:3
  153. The Nephites kill two thousand Lamanites after they had surrenedered as prisoners of war. 57:14
  154. God allows the righteous to be killed so that he can judge the wicked. 60:13
  155. Moroni executed "those king-men" who refused to fight for their country. 62:9
  156. "Whosoever was found denying their freedom was speedily executed." 62:10
  157. Moroni "inflicted death upon all those who were not true to the cause of freedom." 62:11
  158. Teancum sneaks into the Lamanite's camp and throws a javelin into the king's heart. 62:36
  159. Moroni and the Nephites slay the Lamanites "with a great slaughter." 62:38

    160. Helaman

  160. Pacumeni was executed for causing rebellion and trying "to destroy the liberty of the people." 1:8
  161. The Nepites "mixed with the Lamanites" and became "wicked, wild, and ferocious, yea, even becoming Lamanites." 3:16
  162. Those who rebelled against the Nephites (Mormons) were killed or "driven out of the land." 4:2
  163. The Nephites became "a wicked people ... wicked even like unto the Lamanites [Native Americans]." 4:22
  164. The Nephites "began to disbelieve ... and the judgments of God did stare them in the face." (God doesn't like disbelievers.) 4:23
  165. God withdrew his miraculous protection from the Nephites because "they had fallen into a state of unbelief." 4:25
  166. The only way anyone can be saved is "through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ." This statement was supposedly made in 30 BCE! 5:9
  167. God gives Nephi the power to "smite the earth with famine, and with pestilence, and destruction." 10:6
  168. And if he asks God to "smite this people, it shall come to pass." 10:10
  169. Nephi asks God to send a famine on the land. "And so it was done, according to the words of Nephi. ... And the whole earth was smitten," causing thousands of people to starve to death. 11:4-6
  170. After a couple years of starving thousands of people to death, God finally makes it rain when asked to by Nephi. 11:14-16
  171. God must kill and terrorize people with starvation and disease or they won't remember him. 12:3
  172. God torments people in hell forever for "their iniquities." 12:20
  173. God will consign evil doers "to a state of endless misery" and "everlasting damnation." 12:26
  174. God prophesies that he will kill the Nephites with war, starvation, and disease within the next 400 years or so. (And I guess if you believe the Book of Mormon, he did with a little help from the Lamanites). 13:9
  175. If there weren't some "righteous" people in the city, God would have burned everyone to death by sending down fire from heaven. 13:13
  176. "Whosoever repenteth not is hewn down and cast into the fire." 14:18
  177. Those who believe will be saved; those who don't will be damned. 14:29
  178. God loved the Nephites, but hated the Lamanites "because of the iniquity of the tradition of their fathers." 15:3-4
  179. If the Nephites don't repent, God will kill them all for their unbelief. 15:17

    180. 3 Nephi

  180. God removed his curse from the "good" Lamanites (the ones that "united with the Nephites"), and they "became exceedingly fair, with skins "white like unto the Nephites." 2:14-16
  181. When Jesus died, the inhabitants of many great cities died with him. Entire cities were sunk into the ocean, or were burned, or destroyed by earthquakes. 8:8-10, 14
  182. The voice (who finally identifies himself as Jesus Christ) brags about burning to death, drowning, and burying alive all of the inhabitants of 16 large cities. 9:3-15
  183. Jesus says that whoever does not believe in him and is not baptized will be damned to hell. 11:34
  184. "But wo, saith the Father, unto the unbelieving of the Gentiles." 16:8
  185. "Ye shall be ... as a lion among the flocks of sheep, who ... teareth in pieces." 20:16
  186. "Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off." 20:17
  187. "Thou shalt beat in pieces many people." 20:19
  188. God will kill those who don't repent with "the sword of justice." 20:20
  189. Some folks "dwindle in unbelief" because of their iniquity. 21:5
  190. "Whosoever will not believe ... shall be cut off." 21:11
  191. "And my people ... shall be ... as a lion among the flocks of sheep, who ... teareth in pieces." 21:12
  192. "Their hand shall be lifted up upon their adversaries, and all their enemies shall be cut off." 21:13
  193. God will "cut off" the witches and soothsayers. 21:16
  194. God will destroy entire cities. 21:18
  195. God "will execute vengeance and fury upon" those who do not believe in Jesus. 21:20-21
  196. Those who won't believe the little things won't get a chance to hear the really big ones. And those who don't believe the big things will go to hell. 26:10
  197. "Wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein."
    Most people are going to hell. 27:33
  198. Those who won't listen to Jesus will wish they were never born. 28:34-35
  199. "Wo unto" whoever denies Christ or his latter day revelations. God will show such persons no mercy. 29:5-7

    200. 4 Nephi

  200. "The people of Nephi ... became an exceedingly fair and delightsome people."
    (God especially likes white people.) 10

    201. Mormon

  201. "I saw thousands of them hewn down in open rebellion against their God, and heaped up as dung upon the face of the land." 2:15
  202. The Lamanites (or Native Americans) were once "a delightsome people", but God made them a dark-skinned, "filthy and loathsome people, led about by Satan" because of their unbelief and idolatry. 5:15-18
  203. Repent ... lest a remnant of the seed of Jacob shall go forth among you as a lion, and tear you in pieces. 5:24
  204. "He that condemneth [the Book of Mormon], let him be aware lest he shall be in danger of hell fire." 8:17
  205. "The same that judgeth [the Book of Mormon] rashly shall be judged rashly again. He that smiteth [the Book of Mormon] shall be smitten again, of the Lord." 8:19
  206. "He that shall breathe out wrath and strifes against the work of the Lord [the Book of Mormon] ... the same is in danger to be hewn down and cast into the fire." 8:21
  207. Moroni asks those who don't believe in Christ what they will say when the end of the world comes and they are about to be thrown in with the damned souls in hell -- that there is no God? 9:1-2, 4
  208. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned 9:23

    209. Ether

  209. "He that will contend against the word of the Lord, let him be accursed; and he that shall deny these things, let him be accursed."
    (Those who disbelieve in the Book of Mormon will go to hell.) 4:8
  210. "He that believeth not shall be damned." 4:18
  211. To punish the people for "their wicked combinations," God sent wars, famines, and pestilences. The resulting destruction was the greatest ever seen on the face of the earth -- greater than the flood of Noah, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or World War II. Yet there is no evidence for any of this today. 11:7

    212. Moroni

  212. "Many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken prisoners; and after depriving them of that which was most dear and precious above all things, which is chastity and virtue."
    Chastity (for women) is "most dear and precious above all things." It is lost if they are raped.
    This is the first scripture that young women are taught by the LDS church at the Young Woman's Personal Progress Program.
  213. "Whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do evil, and believe not in Christ, and deny him, and serve not God, then ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of the devil." 7:17
  214. The Promise of Moroni
    "Ask God ... if these things are not true." 10:3-5
  215. "Nothing that is good denieth the Christ." 10:6
  216. Everything good comes from God and belief in God. Whatever is evil comes from unbelief. 10:24-25
  217. "Touch not the evil gift, nor the unclean thing." 10:30

    218. The Book of Abraham

  218. I [God] will bless them that bless you [Abraham] and curse those who curse you. 2:11
  219. As we were traveling, the Lord said to me, "Your wife Sarai is very attractive. When the Egyptians see her, they'll say, 'She's his wife,' and they'll kill you, but keep her alive. So tell her to tell the Egyptians that she's your sister. That way you'll stay alive." 2:22-24

    220. Doctrine & Covenants

  220. Martin Harris is called a wicked man (for losing the first 116 pages of the "sacred" Book of Mormon). 3:12
  221. Woe to anyone who won't listen to my words. 5:5
  222. This generation will be condemned if they don't believe these three witnesses. 5:18
  223. If they don't repent, everyone on earth will be destroyed. 5:19
  224. Much of my gospel has been hidden by wicked people. 6:26
  225. Those who are found on Jesus's left hand will weep, wail, and gnash their teeth. 19:5
  226. Hell will be endless torment and endless damnation. 19:6-7
  227. I [Jesus] am endless, so the punishment that I give is endless. Endless is my name. 19:10
  228. God's punishment is eternal and endless. 19:11-12
  229. So keep the commandments that Joseph Smith, Jun. has given you. 19:13
  230. Repent, or Jesus will smite you with the rod in his mouth. 19:15
  231. Jesus commands Martin Harris to sell his farm to pay for the printing of the Book of Mormon. If he refueses he and his property will be destroyed. 19:33-34
  232. Those who reject the Book of Mormon will be condemned. 20:15
  233. Only those who believe in Jesus can be saved. 20:29
  234. If the churches refuse to support you [Joseph Smith] financially, I'll curse them. 24:3-4
  235. The churches will give to you [Joseph Smith] the moment you speak and write, or I'll curse them. 24:6
  236. If people don't accept you and believe what you [Joseph Smith] say, curse them by casting off the dust from your feet. 24:15
  237. If anyone trys to harm you, command them to be smitten in my name, and I'll smite them. 24:16
  238. Whoever tries to sue you in court will be cursed by the law. 24:17
  239. Those without faith will drink the wine of the wrath of fornication. 11

  240. Things were good between me [Jesus] and James Covel. He said he'd obey me.

    But Satan tempted him and he rejected the word. So he broke our agreement.

    Now I have to decide what to do to him. Amen. 1-3

  241. I'm God. If you listen to me, I'll give you the greatest blessing. If you don't, I'll give you the greatest cursing. 1
  242. Expel anyone who refuses to obey my law. 5
  243. Killers must killed and they will never be forgiven. 18-19
  244. Sinners who don't repent shall be expelled from the church. 37
  245. Those who are idle will not be allowed to eat or wear clothes. 42
  246. Wo to those who don't die in me - their death is bitter. 47
  247. Those who obey my commandments will be saved; those who don't will be damned. 60
  248. The cup of the wrath of mine indignation is full. 26
  249. The wicked shall go away into unquenchable fire. 33
  250. God's arm will fall on the nations. 47
  251. The mockers and scorners will burn in the fire. 50
  252. When the Lord appears, he'll be terrible to them, so they'll tremble with fear. 74
  253. Everyone must be organized according to my laws or they'll be cut off. 2
  254. Each man will be given his portion as long as he obeys the laws the church. 4
  255. If he is no longer considered worthy to belong to the church, he loses his portion. 5
  256. All money and food will be kept in the hands of the bishop. 13
  257. The bishop will reserve for himself and his family whatever he wants. 14
  258. Whoever obeys with a doubtful heart is damned. 29
  259. If one of my commandments is disobeyed, I revoke it. Then people say to themselves, "This isn't the work of the Lord." Wo to them. They'll receive their reward from below, not above. 32-33
  260. I, the Lord, am not well pleased with William Phelps, because he isn't suffiently meek before me. 41
  261. The Lord wants to purchase the whole region of the country as soon as possible. Here is wisdom: If they don't do this, they won't receive any inheritance, except by bloodshed. 52-53
  262. Take what was given to Ziba Peterson until he is suffiently chastened. Because he didn't confess his sins and tried to hide them. 60
  263. Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Oliver Cowdery won't open their mouths to the wicked until they arrive in Cincinnati. When they get there, they'll speak against the wicked people of Cincinnati, whom God wants to destroy. 30-31
  264. I kill, or keep alive, whoever I want. 3
  265. I destroy things for my own pleasure. I can even send souls to hell. 4
  266. The wicked, rebellious, and unbelieving should all be afraid. When the day of wrath comes, everyone will know that I'm God. 6
  267. God s angry with people who don't have faith. He doesn't show signs to them, he condemns them. 11
  268. The fearful, unbelieving, liars, whoremongers, and sorcerers will be burned in the lake of fire and brimstone. 17
  269. When I get angry I create wars where wicked people kill each other, and everyone is afraid. 33
  270. It'll be hard for the saints to escape. But I'll come down from heaven and save them by burning the wicked with unquenchable fire. I'm not going to do this for a while though. I'll do it by and by. 34-35
  271. Be patient, or you'll be condemned. Amen. 66
  272. After today cometh the burning - this is speaking after the manner of the Lord - for verily I say, tomorrow all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, for I am the Lord of Hosts; and I will not spare any that remain in Babylon. 24

  273. The Lord takes what he wants and pays back whenever he wants.

  274. The rebellious will be cut off from the land of Zion. 35
  275. I've made my church in these last days the judge of all nations. 37
  276. The nations of the earth will tremble because of the church, and fear her terrible ones. I, the Lord, have said so. Amen. 43
  277. Those who believe and are baptized are saved, those that don't believe aree damned. 9
  278. If someone doesn't receive you, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them. 20
  279. You'll be happy to know that on judgment day, you'll judge and condemn them. 21
  280. The heathen will be treated better on judgement day that they will be. 22
  281. It would have been better if the sons of perdition had never been born. Because they are doomed to suffer the wrath of God with the devil and his angels. They will never be forgiven. Because they denied the truth after believing it. They'll go into the lake of fire with the devil and his angels. 32-36
  282. Everyone will be saved except for the sons of perdition, who will be tormented forever. 43-44
  283. Everyone in the telestial world goes to hell, and stay in hell until Jesus finishes his work. 84-85
  284. Those in the telestial world suffer the wrath of God on earth, and the vengeance of eternal fire. 104-105
  285. I, the Lord, will forgive your sin, but if you sin in the same way again, your former sins return and won't be forgiven 82:7
  286. Everyone is condemned until they read and believe the Book of Mormon. 57
  287. Those who don't believe and aren't baptised will be damned. Condemn them for their evil unbelieving hearts. 74-76
  288. Wo to the houses and cities that reject you. I'll send plagues upon them. 95-97
  289. All the rest of you should do the same: Go preach everywhere telling everyone that they will be killed if they don't believe what you say. 117
  290. I will destroy their kingdoms and shake the earth and stars. 118
  291. Everyone that doesn't receive the light is condemned. 93:32
  292. You are God's temple. If you defile that temple, God will destroy you. 93:35
  293. Vengeance will come quickly on the ungodly. 97:22
  294. The Lord's scourge will vex everyone. It will continue until the Lord comes. 97:23
  295. But Zion will escape, if she does what I tell her to do. Otherwise, I'll send plagues, wars, and fire on her. 97:25-26
  296. Renounce war and proclaim peace. Or I will smite the whole earth with a curse and everything livng thing will die. 98:16-17
  297. Renounce war and proclaim peace. Or I will smite the whole earth with a curse and everything livng thing will die. 98:16-17
  298. If that enemy escapes my vengeance, warn them in my name. 98:28
  299. If your enemy attacks you again (for the fourth time in your life or your 3rd or 4th generation descendants), I'll deliver them into your hands. 98:29
  300. But if your enemy is in your hands, go ahead and kill them. 98:31
  301. That's what Nephi, Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham did - as did all of my ancient prophets and apostles. 98:32
  302. But don't go to war unless I command you. 98:33
  303. I'll give you a commandment to go to war with them. 98:36
  304. I'll fight your battles, and your children's battles, and your children's children's battles, until you are avenged of your enemies (for three or four generations). 98:37
  305. But if they do it a fourth time, don't forgive them. Come tell me about it. They won't be forgiven until they reward you with four times whatever they took from you. 98:44
  306. If they pay you back four times, forgive them. If they don't, I'll make them pay 100 times as much. 98:45
  307. And their descendants to the third and fourth generation. 98:46
  308. My father will reject whoever rejects you. 99:4
  309. They must be chastened, like Abraham, who was commanded to sacrifice his only son. 101:4
  310. Break down the walls of my enemies, throw down their tower, anc scatter their watchmen. 101:57
  311. The parable of the woman and the unjust judge (and God's strange act) 101:81-95
  312. I'll be pouring out my wrath, without measure, on my enemies in my own time. 103:2
  313. I've put up with them for a while, waiting for their cup of iniquities to fill. 103:3
  314. My followers will be chastened for a while to punish them for not obeying me. 103:4
  315. I'll begin to defeat my enemies starting right now. 103:6
  316. If the saints obey me, they will prevail until I defeat all of the kingdoms of the world and give the earth to them to possess forever. 103:7
  317. But if they don't obey me, the kingdoms of the world will defeat them. 103:8
  318. If my enemies try to drive you from my goodly land, you will curse them. 103:24
  319. Whover you curse, I curse, and you will avenge my enemies for me. 103:25
  320. I'll help avenge my enemies for three or four generations. 103:26
  321. I have cursed those who were not faithful with a very sore and grievous curse. 104:3
  322. I will curse anyone who belongs to the order and breaks its covenant. They will be trampled on by whomever I want. 104:5
  323. If you're guilty, you can't escape my wrath in your lives. 104:8
  324. You can't escape Satan either. 104:9
  325. Anyone member of the order who transgresses will be delivered to Satan. 104:10
  326. And the armies of Israel will take possession of these lands and throw down the towers of my enemies, scatter their watchmen, and avenge me of my enemies to their third and fourth generations. 105:30
  327. Vengeance will come soon to everyone on earth - a day of wrath, burning, weeping, mourning, and a whirlwind everywhere on earth. 112:24
  328. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, and whoever doesn't believe and isn't baptized will be damned. 112:29
  329. I, the Lord, require that all surplus property be given to the bishop. 119:1
  330. For the building of my house, the foundation of Zion, the priesthood, and to pay the debts of my church. 119:2
  331. And now the tithing of church members begins. 119:3
  332. Everyone must pay one-tenth of their income each year for my holy priesthood. This is a law that is forever binding. 119:4
  333. Those who refuse to tithe will be expelled from the church. 119:5
  334. The money from tithes belongs to the Church and will be disposed of by a council - and by my own voice. Amen. 120:1
  335. God will blind their minds so they can't understand his marvelous workings. 121:12
  336. And in a few years, not one of them or their posterity will be left to stand by the wall. 121:15
  337. It'd be better for them to be drowned with a millstone around their necks. 121:22
  338. They are generation of vipers who will all be damned to hell. 121:23
  339. But if not, there will be cursings, indignation, and judgments on your heads for all of your follies and abominations. 124:48
  340. I'll visit on the heads of those who hinder my work - to the third and fouth generation. 124:50
  341. They will pay with wailing, anguish, and gnashing of teeth upon their heads to the third and fourth generations. 124:52
  342. I, the Lord, have a scourge prepared for the inhabitants of that city. 124:83
  343. Let Sidney [Rigdon] lift up his voice like a trump to warn everyone on earth of the wrath to come. 124:106
  344. This is an everlasting covenant. Those who do not accept it are damned. No one who rejects this covenant may enter into my glory. 132:4
  345. The law was instituted for the fulness of my glory. Abide by it or be damned, says the Lord God. 132:6
  346. Whatever remains is mine; whatever isn't mine will be destroyed. 132:14
  347. Those who commit blasphemy against the Holy Ghost or commit murder will be damned. 132:27
  348. I commanded Abraham to kill his son Isaac as a sacrifice to me, even though I also said, "Don't kill." But Abraham didn't refuse to kill his son for me, and he was righteous for it. 132:36
  349. You [Joseph Smith] asked me [God] about adultery. Here is my answer: If a man receives a wife in the new and everlasting covenant, and if she has sex with another man that I haven't appointed to her, then she has committed adultery and must be killed. 132:41
  350. If she hasn't committed adultery and I reveal that to you, Joseph [Smith], then you have the power to give her to another man who hasn't committed adultery - because he will be the ruler over many. 132:44
  351. Whatever you [Joseph Smith] seal on earth will be eternally sealed in heaven, and whatever sins you remit or retain will be remitted and retained in heaven. 132:46
  352. Whoever you [Joseph Smith] bless I will bless, and whoever you curse I will curse. 132:47
  353. Whatever you, Joseph [Smith], give on earth, and whoever you give it to, will be blessed by me and condemned by no one in heaven or on earth. 132:48
  354. Here is a commandment to Emma Smith, your wife that I gave to you:  Accept all those I have given to Joseph [Smith], and who are virtuous and pure. Those who aren't pure, but claimed to be pure, will be destroyed. 132:51-52
  355. Emma Smith: Be Joseph's wife and don't marry anyone else. If you don't obey this commandment, you will be destroyed. 132:54
  356. If any man marries a virgin, and wants to marry another virgin who isn't vowed to another man, and the first gives her consent, then he is justified, and does not commit adultery - because they are given to him and belong to him and no one else. 132:61
  357. If ten virgins are given to him, he can't commit adultery, because they belong to him. So he is justified. 132:62
  358. But if any of these ten virgins after they are married to one man, has sex with another man, she has committed adultery and shall be destroyed. Wives are given to a man to produce children. 132:63
  359. If a man has a wife, who he has taught this law to, and yet she refuses to believe or obey that law, then she must be destroyed. I will destroy her. 132:64
  360. If a wife will not obey this law by accepting her husband's other wives, then I will give him wives anyway. She is the guilty one, and her husband is exempt from the law of Sarah, who allowed Abraham to take Hagar for another wife and I commanded Abraham to take her.  132:65
  361. I'm going to come down and curse the world. 133:2
  362. Don't hurry, but don't look back or you'll be destroyed. 133:15
  363. We do not believe that it is right to interfere with the right of slave owners to own slaves, or to encourage slaves to rebel against their masters. 134:12
  364. Your testimony has been rejected by the nation that has driven you out Now they will pay for it with calamity and sorrow, unless they repent. 136:34-35

    365. Joseph Smith - Matthew

  365. The end of the world will be especially bad for nursing mothers. 1:16
  366. It be just like it was in the days of Noah. Everyone ate and drank and got married. Then the flood came and drowned them all. That's how it'll be when I come. 1:41-43
  367. I'll cut him down and punish him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 1:54

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