Christian pastor exploring LDS Church in Youtube channel shares what he's learned 

3 Nephi 11 = my conversion. Another witness that Christ did indeed resurrect from the grave and he is the Lord and Savior.

Thank you for sharing why you have not read the Book of Mormon, yet! It makes so much sense. I love your approach to the different aspects of the Church... your sharing your understanding of teachings from the Bible... your openness and honesty as you learn... and the respect you show towards the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and the Church, its self! Here is a thought... when you are ready to read the Book of Mormon... invite your wife to read with you. I assume that you and she read the Bible together, so, do they same with the Book of Mormon. That is just a thought that just came to me! Again, thank you for allowing us to take this journey with you. I'll be 81 years old this month and my journey through life has been with my Savior, Jesus Christ at my side. I can't see Him yet, but I feel Him next to me everyday. Have a blessed day and continue on this journey, because I love the walk!

I'm glad you asked the question regarding The Book of Mormon... After all is said and done, Jeff may have to embrace Moroni 10: 3-5... Study, ponder, and pray! Time, lots of time on our knees!

We believe God has revealed, and will yet reveal, many great and important things, pertaining to the Kingdom of God. I’m so grateful for that understanding, that we aren’t shut out from receiving more Good News from our Creator. He loves us now as much He loved the people of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Book of Mormon times. He’s a kind and just God, who wants to save ALL His children. So why wouldn’t He speak to men today, like He did before? Why wouldn’t He REVEAL His secrets to prophets of today, as He did before? He is the same God today, yesterday, and forever.

I appreciate your pure heart thatI feel when watching your RU-vid videos. I appreciate your curiosity without being critical. I'm looking forward to learning where your journey takes you. Thank you!

And maybe you can go into your reading of the Book of Mormon in the spirit of “Thy will, not mine be done.”. Go into it with a prayer in your heart of wanting to know, without a doubt, if it is true or not. God cannot lie. His Spirit won’t lie to your spirit. If it’s true, you will know it. Good luck and happy reading to you.

I appreciate and respect his willingness to investigate outside of his own faith, especially when, as he indicated, he had been taught to fear the LDS religion. I truly believe in the concept of allowing people to believe and worship God as they deem right (and this is actually something that the LDS church teaches - See the reference below) and love hearing him say that we all need to have and show each other respect and allow everyone to maintain their dignity... and he's walking the walk in how he's approaching this. I also appreciated him saying that he's held off on reading the Book of Mormon because he recognizes his own biases and he wants to be able to read it from a more neutral view point (as much as possible). Thank you for being open, respectful, and willing to discuss these important matters in a loving way. I'm always willing to discuss my beliefs (not to change anyone's mind, but to have an open dialogue), but often am reserved in doing so for fear of being attacked for what I believe (that goes for politics too). I wish as a society we could all be more open to discussing things without the judgement or attitude of wanting to make everyone believe as we do, but instead just listen to each other and grow individually and as a community. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has what are called the 13 Articles of Faith, which basically are just 13 short statements that help to explain our beliefs. Number 11 is what I referenced above. 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. 2 We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression. 3 We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. 4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. 5 We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof. 6 We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth. 7 We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth. 8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. 9 We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. 10 We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory. 11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may. 12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law. 13 We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/article/articles-of-faith

How does the LDS church deal with the many failed prophecies of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young? Doesn’t that discredit the supposed Prophet and show he is in error?

I am deeply Evangelical, and love your videos

Joseph Smith taught that the "atonement" was central to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that everything else was just an appendage!

I've been following your videos for sometime, but this video I've never watched. I love to listen to each of these videos and learn why you believe what you believe and see your understanding of the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints come forth. The one major thing that I don't understand evangelicals believe is how you push the Atonement from Gethsemane aside and seem to teach the Atonement basically from the cross. The Bible teaches first Christ went into the Garden, even asked 3 of his apostles to watch and pray with him twice and his suffering became more intense each time he returned to the Garden. An angel even had to come and encourage him... he sweat "great drops of blood" because of the pain he had to endure! On the cross, he relived the pain that he felt, but the suffering was done in the Garden! And he had to endure all that mistreatment, trials and mockery before making it to the cross. On the cross, he finished his work and "gave up the ghost"! Please, reread your Bible and do a video strickly on the time and suffering Jesus did in both the Garden and on the Cross at Calvary. I know the suffering on the Cross was necessary and important, but I know the suffering in the Garden was essential for all mankind. I hope you will consider a study and video of both these events. Thank you for letting me share my heartfelt love for our Savior and the importance of both the Garden of Gethsemane and the Cross on Calvary! Please forgive me, but I just saw that i made a comment on this one year ago! So I must have watched it then...I just didn't remember it! But my question is still valid and I hope you will answer it. 🤗

The Church of Jesus Christ believes in the Holy Bible and the Book of Mormon. ***We do not practice "plural" marriages. You would be excommunicated . We believe in CHRIST. That is the name of our church. Pray for guidance and read your book of Mormon. We are not perfect as no other church is perfect. Loving wishes to everyone ❤️❤️❤️

I like how people can agree to disagree. I went to high school in UT & met people who were LDS. I didn't buy into any of it. In fact, 15 yrs later I'm an atheist. I don't believe in any gods or that Jesus lived. He's a mythological figure. And a person can definitely have a meaningful, happy life full of kindness and service without believing in any religion or god. No one will ever change my mind about that, either. Like I said - it's nice to be able to disagree. ✌️✌️

This guys is pretty cool. He seems to have a good heart too. For me, I just want to make Heavenly Father proud. I don’t want to disappoint Him. I want to help here on the earth. I read about the parables. I love them. I pray to truly have a Christ like heart. When I read the Book of Mormon I knew it was true. I can only share my own testimony but to each one of us we all have to humbly on our knees seek truth. Ask for God to protect you from Satan while you search. Again Pastor I thank you for your love and respect. We need to all respect each other even if we disagree. We are all brothers and sisters trying to get back Home.

Interesting stuff but you cannot do a deep dive into the church without reading the Book of Mormon.

This is an interesting journey. I'm following somewhat. I have read the Book of Mormon over 20 times and I've recieved a personal witness ( about 30 yrs ago) that it is true and I can't deny that witness. The moment of my witness is too sacred to me to talk about but God knows that I know. I did what is written in Moroni 10:3-4 and I got my answer so I'm sticking by it. That's just my personal experience with the Book of Mormon

I absolutely love this guy. More and more as I watch his videos. Very smart man. He should read over and over again the Sacrament Prayers. He's an LDS fellow in embrio. Read the BOM. He'll make an outstanding LDS Bishop someday. I'm 27 years his senior. I'd love him 2B my Bishop, B4 I die.

What is the difference between LDS and Jehovah Witness please

I thought Christs death reconciled us to God. It is not what we do, but what he did for us.

I’ve read much of the Book of Mormon and it convinced me more than ever that they are far from Christianity

The fact is Mormonisn is based on works righteousness. Paul says, " even when I think I am doing good, I and doing bad because sin lives in me." Paraphrased. The works I do are out of the free gift of grace I have received. My works will not bring me a higher level of salvation. Christ was a fulfillment of the law of Moses. We can not dismiss the law, because the law leads us to our need for Christ. We no longer need to be lead by apostles and prophets because Christ gave us himself through the Holy Spirit. God with us. A major doctrine difference is the unbelief that GOD is in three persons. Father , Son and Holy Spirit. Much like being the living water Christ talks about being. Water is represented in three forms: Solid, liquid, gas, but it is all water. So, there are so many differences in theology. Regardless of history, culture, spirtual activity it is false doctrine. I was Baptized in the LDS church, I preformed baptisms for the dead in the LA Temple, I studied seminary, (which is high school study and I attended Institute during college. I love the wonderful love and care they hold for others. They literally live out, what I think our call to love others is. Unfortunately, their is heresy in it as well. Satan is the great deceiver. We are justified by faith not works. As, long as we believer we hold some power of our own outcome eternally, we put ourselves before what Christ did for us on the cross.

Have you read, and prayed about the Book of Mormon?

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I have watched most of his videos. I wanted to believe his honesty but he is really trying to pull Latter Day Saints away from the gospel. He believes we don’t believe in the true Jesus, so we will not be saved, mostly because we don’t believe like every other Christians of the Trinity. I have asked him why if Joseph Smith was starting a church he would start with a separate Father and Son. He also explains why baptism for the dead is wrong, how any baptism isn’t necessary. That the Bible is never to have added scripture. So no matter what he will never accept the Book of Mormon even though he said he will read it he said he thinks it’s so lowly. He hasn’t attend a Sacrament Meeting or talked to any missionaries. He has picked and chosen where he can find what he believes as cracks. He also believes we use our families as idols in replacement of the Savior.