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The God Makers: A Shocking Expose of What the Mormon Church Really Believes | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ed Decker, Dave Hunt
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  182 reviews
Sales Rank: 80869
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Upd Su
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1565077172
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.3
EAN: 9781565077171
ASIN: 1565077172
Publication Date: November 15, 1997
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Cutting through the wholesome image projected by the Mormons, Decker and Hunt reveal the researched and fully documented facts that expose the startling truths about Mormon beliefs and practices. A great witnessing tool.
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 don't believe everything you read June 28, 2008
I hope people don't believe everything they read. If you want to know more about the Mormon religion, ask a Mormon, not someone who distorts and sensationalizes. As for the Bible being the "true word of God": the Bible is writings of prophets and their accounts, not directly written by God. Mormons hold the Bible to be true, but also believe in modern day prophets and revelations. People have no problem believing in prophets from the Bible, but refuse to believe God still calls prophets to be his mouthpiece.
 not a bad place to start studying the LDS May 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have a long standing interest in Mormonism. I believe i read this when it first came out in 1984, but it was worth the time to reread.
Mormonism is important for a number of reasons. Several touched on in the book, it's power, influence and money. it's rapid growth, it's similarity to real Christianity, and for it's basic theology, it's similiarity to gnosticism and hinduism etc.
only in a few places did i disagree with the author and those were places his premil-dispensationalist theology popped up. i think that the book is well researched, well presented and factually correct. withstanding the test of time and the assaults of Mormons protecting their faith.
worthwhile as a sunday school text, a young Christians study group or for self study on the phenomena of Mormonism. off hand i can only think of the Tanner's work as being better.
 Internal Contradictions & Occultic Basis of Mormonism Exposed May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I once worked with three Mormon co-workers. They were devout, moral, respectable people, and I was curious about their beliefs. I was a protestant Christian, but wanted to make sure that I was not just following my family's faith, simply because I was raised to do so. With an open mind, I read some of the Mormon's sacred books. I discovered that Joseph Smith had re-written the Bible, so I bought a copy of his version of the Bible as well. I was surprised at all the contradictions, and realized that the core beliefs of Mormonism slowly evolved and became more elaborate over time -- often contradicting earlier beliefs. Overall, Joseph Smith's "corrected" passages of the Bible were.... for lack of a better word -- absurd -- and indicated a basic lack of understanding of what he was writing about. I can only assume that the Mormon church leaders agree, since Mormons inexplicably do not even use their own founder's version of the Bible. My investigations led me to the book THE GODMAKERS. It exposes a host of contradictions and most shocking of all, the occultic origin and practices of this religion, which the church downplays or denies. It gave me a renewed appreciation for the beauty of the Bible's cohesive message of God's plan of salvation. In my opinion, the Mormon religion would make more sense if it disassociated itself with the Bible, since it contradicts it in so many ways. Joseph Smith's vision and the Mormon claim that the gospel message was meant to be continually added upon is not congruent with verses, such as: II Corinthians (NASB), "...for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light," and Galations 1:8, "But even though we, or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed." This book is a masterpiece on the subject of Mormonism. It was an eye opener and made me realize that the religion's veracity crumbles in light of the contradictions and occultic practices, which many Mormons do not recognize or realize until they are deeply involved and have committed their lives to it.
Eye Opener to a Cult May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Growing up on the outside edges of this society, made one curious. Knew enough to stay out of the way. Seemed to be more prevalent in the 60's or openly against the outsiders. The book answered a lot of questions. Also the back up movie with clarification from a friend who is part of the LDS hierachy, explaining that this is true information. Worthwhile reading.
a must read to thoroughly understand mormonism May 6, 2008
Living in the Northwest, i really did not understand what mormons believed, and how is that different from what i believe? This book goes into great detail , and thoroughly explains the roots of the religion ( which is extremely important.) The religion is based on something that was not just a "revelation", it was something that kept changing with the whims of joseph smith. then thru the years, it continued to change whenever it was convenient or necessary for the mormon leadership. The author gives many examples to support his claims. He does talk about what the mormon church is currently, and how the church holds a double standard, so that in the end, the mormons are expected to live up to perfection standards, .... which of course they won't be able to do.
THe most shocking thing was that when they die, the church teaches that they still won't be able to go directly to heaven, they will have to further wait for others to pray them in! So it is a no win situation.
Decker makes his points clearly, and supports his points with facts.
I would recommend that you also read the book by Jim Spencer - his own testimony of coming to mormonism and then trying to leave it and how he began to realize the problems. This is easier reading than decker's book, and prepares you for what the contradictions are.
Christians need to read these explanations of LDS. They need to understand the differences, the SERIOUS reasons why mormons are not worshipping jesus christ. The Bible teaches that Christ said he died for the Unworthy, because they cannot be perfect. Mormonism says Christ is expecting you to be worthy and perfect, and only then can you go to heaven. VERY DIFFERENT!
Highly recommend this one. Also talks about Free Masons and how they are related to LDS church.
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