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I love to visit Moab in Southern Utah. I had been here in 2003, 2005, 2007 and April 2008. This is already my second trip this year. From the first visit to this time, I have not seen any new commercial changes here in this area. I love this place because of that reason. As usual my family stayed at the Apache Motel this year too.

Unlike other times, we camped at the Big Bend Recreation Site on Highway 128 for longer time. The George Foreman grill is superb. We had organic steak and kebab. We have not been to Arches National Park, Castle Valley and Canyon Lands this time – a lot of travel will consume the camping time.

The fire consumed a part of Moab this year. We were lucky to have some thunder storms during the weekend, so it was not hot at all this time. I had the regular chat with the Apache Motel Manager who has told me where the fire has started. She has started a monument many years ago to remember a massacre against Indians. That was the exact place where the fire has started. She has worried whether someone can preserve the monument.

We have visited our favorite Chinese restaurant as usual and the grand finale with an ice cream - not from our favorite Moab Diner though.

Discover Moab is a website where there is a lot of information about Moab.

The Book of Mormon followed by LDS (Mormons) had the following introduction from the year 1981.

“The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting Gospel.”

The above statement raises a simple question to all the Mormons. As the statement says, the Book of Mormon contains the fullness of the Gospel as the Bible. If so, why the Holy Bible only can’t be followed by anyone rather than the Book Of Mormon to understand the gospel.

The above statement is going to change soon in the Book of Mormon. The phrase “as does the Bible” has been removed. Does this new change mean the Bible does not contain the fullness of the everlasting Gospel?

Why a Church claims to be the True Church has to change a belief that they have followed for 25 years. I’m confused. I feel sorry for my Mormon friends who have to go through the change in their basic beliefs and still claim to be true?

Someone has once told me you don’t need to defend the TRUTH. Is the LDS Church a true Church?

The FLDS has come up with a website to tell their history. Their website is http://www.fldstruth.org. The lds website is http://www.lds.org

The LDS leader Elder Quentin L. Cook, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City, came up with a video to seperate themselves from the FLDS Community in Texas who was raided some two weeks ago for child abuse and underage marriage. In the video, there are few points adding more confusion than clarification to the listeners who know both the religions.

The elder claims the Mormon is a term that applies to the LDS Church only, and should not be associated with FLDS. I don’t think that is true. Both FLDS and LDS believe in the Book Of Mormon, and the name Mormon came from their belief in the Book Of Mormon.

Secondly, he claims the LDS Church did not practice polygamy over a century. He did not tell it exactly but according to LDS, it is the year 1890. The evidence shows the LDS practiced polygamy even after 1890.

The polygamy is an everlasting covenant according to both FLDS and LDS belief, and the LDS will practice it again if the anti-polygamy law is thrown out by the US.


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Just few days back, a ranch in Texas owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) was raided by the Texas police after the Child Protection Agency of Texas received some calls from a girl who live in the ranch. The girl complained of abuse by older man. Some 400 children were taken out of their parents for investigation after the raid. The investigators have found many girls who were under the age of 16 were married to older men and were pregnant.

This incident – one of the historical raid against a cult group in the United States – has provoked a lot of interest in many countries. The LDS Church based in Salt Lake released a press release after this incident asking the media to separate themselves from FLDS and not confuse with FLDS. The LDS Church is concerned about the impact of this incident on their missionaries around the world.

I live in Salt Lake City, and have done research into the LDS Church and its beliefs. The LDS Church - whose current president is Thomas Monson - has stopped the practice of polygamy in 1890 after the United States Government became tough on the Latter Day saints. Through a manifesto, the LDS president of that time Wilford Woodruff asked the LDS faithful to stop practicing polygamy. The LDS Church excommunicates any member of its church practicing polygamy at this time.

According to the Mormon scriptures, the polygamy is an everlasting covenant of God. Some did not believe in Wilford Woodruff’s manifesto to the members, and they started FLDS to keep the fundamental belief of polygamy in practice. The current leader of FLDS Warren Jeffs is serving life in prison for arranging a marriage between an underage girl and an older man.

Though the LDS Church claims they don’t practice polygamy, it applies only to marriages on the earth. In heaven, a woman can be wife to many husbands. Many leaders of the LDS practiced polygamy until 1950 even after the manifesto was sent out to stop practicing polygamy.

I have asked few Mormons – not FLDS - whether they would practice polygamy again. They said they would if their prophet asks them to do, and some told me when situations like war happen, people die and there is scarcity of people.

It is only a temporary arrangement of LDS that they don’t practice polygamy. One day, they may start practicing polygamy again - there is a great effort among many Americans to make polygamy legal. At that time, there won’t be any difference between a FLDS and LDS.

The FLDS don’t claim they are Christians. But the LDS Church claims they are Christians. This has brought a mammoth confusion among traditional Christians. The fact is that both FLDS and LDS are not Christians like someone belongs to a Christian denomination like Methodist, Lutheran or Baptist. The Christians follow the Holy Bible and their faith is based on the Bible. The FLDS and LDS follow their own scriptures not the Holy Bible as the authority.