Ancient Texts and Mormonism: Discovering the Roots of the Eternal Gospel in Ancient Israel and the Primitive Church (Paperback)

Showing that Mormonism is a genuine restoration of Primitive Christianity. To demonstrate to Latter Day Saints that " Mormonism" is what it exactly what it claims to be a genuine restoration of the Gospel. Mormonism is an genuine restoration of the Gospel as it was taught by disciples of the Primitive Church. This is important because through out the world Mormonism is labeled as a non-scriptural, non-Christian "cult", which departs in alarming in alarming ways from the traditional concepts of the bible. The claim that Mormonism is a "cult", and not a Christian religion, is based on the fact that Mormonism accepts none of the traditional creeds of "orthodoxy". The chief difficulty with this assessment is that so-called "orthodoxy" never existed before the fourth or fifth centuries, until the Church's original teachings had been radically altered by Greek- informed metaphysical concepts, bearing little relationship to the thought of the earliest Christians