The Antidote to Mormonism and Infidel Error publishes a summary of John Brindley's lecture against Mormonism; provides Adam-God as one example of current LDS theology contradicting LDS Scripture.

Date
Sep 19, 1857
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Periodical
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The Antidote to Mormonism and Infidel Error
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Non-LDS
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Journalism
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"Dr. Brindley's Lecture at Rugby," The Antidote to Mormonism and Infidel Error, no. 13 (September 19, 1857): 103-4

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The Antidote to Mormonism and Infidel Error
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John Brindley, The Antidote to Mormonism and Infidel Error
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Reading Public
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On Friday last Dr. Brindley delivered, by invitation, a lecture at the Assembly Rooms, Rugby, on the Mormon iniquities—open to discussion. The room was densely crowded. Mr. Campbell, a county magistrate, occupied the chair, and was supported by several of the clergy and ministers of the neighbourhood. The principal point urged upon those assembled was the utter inconsistency of the present Mormon practices wit the doctrines laid down in their own pretended books of revelation, the Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants. Those books distinctly declared that polygamy was hateful to God, and that no man whatever should have at one time more than one wife. They also declared that the Eternal God, who was from the beginning, and His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, were to be the sole objects of man's worship. They further declared that every true believer in Mormonism, as an evidence of his true belief, was bound to work miracles to the full extent set forth in the Christian scriptures. In opposition to all this, the Mormons of the present day boasted of their licentious habits and commanded every man to be "sealed" to a multitude of women. They also now ridiculed the God of the Bible, declaring that God was a material being, a man like ourselves, that Adam was God, and Jesus Christ his son in the flesh, as in the instance of any other man's son. And for the miracles, when now called upon to make good their pretensions, they shuffled out of it by every imaginable subterfuge—they had not performed one single miracle, neither could they do so.

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