pby1000

The whole Mystery religion thing goes back to the Watchers/Fallen Angels.

BumbleTummy

You're way to fucking hung-up on Jesus when you have to invent him hanging out with new peoples on other continents. Hey, maybe he went and hung out with the Abbos down-under after leaving the hold land. Tell Me More About Jesus' Travels In Fiji, won't you?

ardvarcus

Joseph Smith was basically a spiritualist. He talked to spiritual beings through a magic rock, which he put into his top hat. He'd stick his face into the hat and see visions. No, I'm not kididing, this is what the founder of Mormanism did. He was a spirit medium and a seer -- a failed one. As a young man he tried to make a living by getting hired by farmers to find buried treasure on their properties, but it wasn't a prosperous business model.

You might say Smith was in the vanguard of what we today call the New Age -- crystals, Tarot reading, yoga, witchcraft and the Kabbalah, among many other strings. I doubt, however, that Kabbalah played a large part in his thinking, since it was virtually unknown outside of Jewish circles in the period in which he lived. There was some information available on Kabbalah in English and other European languages, but not a lot. If he really had a Jew friend, maybe the Jew knew some Kabbalah and dropped a few points, but it is very doubtful that Smith knew enough Kabbalah to be influenced in any significant way by it.

The Kabbalah as a philosophy/theology is not original or unique to the Jews. It is drawn from Greek philosophy, Gnosticism, Hermetism, and other wisdom currents in the ancient world. The Jews just cobbled it together and applied it to the Torah. Smith could easily have derive ideas in the Kabbalah from non-Jewish sources, without ever knowing anything about the Kabbalah.

mememeyou

Agree that is somewhat possible... But wouldn't you agree that the Future of the Mormon Holy Land = Jewish Holy Land Everything except step 7 (where the Jewish back-stab will come in, they aren't becoming Christian) and possibly 14 are Zionist:

Jerusalem will come under the control of Israel.
A new temple will be built in Jerusalem.

The descendants of Judah will be attacked by their former conquerors, but they will be delivered.

The Messiah will lead the people of Israel to victory and later he will rule as King of kings and Lord of lords.

Two great world capitals are to be established—one in Zion [Salt Lake City?] and one in Jerusalem.

CornyGoatWeed

All of it is for retards

SumerBreeze

written by a jew.

fuck off.

dolphinoise

I can tell you are a man of intellect.

SumerBreeze

go read The Creature of Jekyll Island instead.

mememeyou

infogalactic : The LDS Church includes among its traditional symbols the Star of David . For the LDS Church, it represents the divine Israelite covenant, Israelite regathering, and affinity with Judaism ; a Star of David is prominently depicted in a stained glass window in the landmark Salt Lake Assembly Hall.

Scriptural teaching about the Jewish people and the House of Israel:

The Book of Mormon , part of the scripture of Latter-day Saints, on its title page states that its purpose is "the convincing of the Jew and the Gentile that Jesus is the Christ." However, it contains a specific condemnation of antisemitism: [what kind of "Christianity" does this?? None: 1 Thessalonians 2 ]

"Yea, and ye need not any longer hiss, nor spurn, nor make game of the Jews, nor of any remnant of the house of Israel; for behold, the Lord remembereth his covenant unto them, and he will do unto them according to that which he hath sworn."3 Nephi 29:8