By: Sandra Tanner; ©2012 Today there are approximately 50,000 LDS missionaries going door to door throughout the world to announce that the true church has been restored by the prophet…
By: Sandra Tanner; ©2012 Plural marriage was first introduced into Mormonism by Joseph Smith in the 1830’s. LDS Leaders Still Believe there will be Polygamy in Heaven Plural marriage was…
By: Dr. Thomas Figart; ©{{{copyright}}} Our last article discussed some of the problems in Section 27 of the Doctrine and Covenants, which was originally Chapter 28 in the Book of…
Zen as Self-Disintegration Sooner or later “zazen leads to a transformation of personality and character.”[1] It “effects a fundamental change in oneself, philosophical and intellectual, as well as psychological.…
Salvation and Works In order to attain enlightenment, Bodhidharma, the “founder” of Zen, purportedly sat before a wall for nine years without speaking to anyone![1] One can honestly wonder if…
Theologically Zen denies relevance to God and practically speaking it is atheistic. Ruth Fuller Sasaki denies relevance to God while affirming absolute relevance for “THIS”: Zen does not hold…
By: Marvin Cowan; ©2013 Mormon leaders claim the Bible has been corrupted and mistranslated so that it is not as reliable as their latter-day revelations. The oldest Bible manuscripts are…
As a whole, Buddhism has little directly to say about Jesus Christ. It does acknowledge what most men do: that He was a great person. For the most part, however,…
By: Marvin Cowan; ©2013 If the Lord really revealed the message the information in the Book of Commandments the way it was originally recorded in 1833, did He make a…
By: Marvin W. Cowan; ©2013 The Bible defines scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16 as “inspired” or “God breathed” and “profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness.” Isaiah 40:8…
