FAITH EXPRESS:MORMON IS A POWERFULL SECT

FAITH EXPRESS:MORMON IS A POWERFULL SECT
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU..
They may not be able to rub shoulders wwith any of the Abrahamic faiths in the mould of Judaism, Christianity and Islam  in the field of membership or human population ,popularity ,.influence amongst other parameters ,but The News office Desk of E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria having read through and studied parts of the sacred texts of the Book of Mormon declares it today as the most powerful religion of minority order with even Jehovah Witness possibly grinning with envy  though no offence meant..
Save for Hinduism,.Shinto,Tao,Jains,Sikhs,Bahaii,Confuscious,Buddhism that also have a huge following especially in the Middle East ,analysts see the growing influence of the Mormon as a phenomena to watch out for in the years to come on account of its extra-ordinary body of messages for mankind.
The Book of Mormon which was  first printed into a book format in 1830 and now being published in over 80 global languages is now being studied carefully for possible exclusive for onward information to mankind by this reporter .
According to literary accounts from a source about the religion, given to this reporter  by two of its devotees in Lagos,Nigeria ,recently while on news hounding duties in town.
The Prophet Joseph Smith ,the Founder of the faith was a curious human being who kept asking God to show him the true church during his life time on account of massive corruption during his lifetime.
Joseph labored in God's services as he worked to establish the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints while helping to build up God's Kingdom on earth in the latter days.
A source :"it was nevertheless a fact that i had beheld a vision and i have thought  that since that i felt much like Paul when he made his defence before King Agrippa and related the accounts of the visions he had when he saw a light and heard a voice,but still there were but a few who believed him"
"some said he was dishonest ,others said he was mad and he was ridiculed and reviled but all this did not destroy the reality of his visions "
"he had seen a vision ,he knew he had and all the persecutions under the heavens could not make it otherwise and though they should persecute him unto death yet he knew and would know to his last breadth"
"That he had both seen a light and heard a voice speaking unto him was not a hoax and all the world could not make him think otherwise "
Inside the Book of Mormon proper ,it was learnt that  the holy texts  were an abridged versions of the records of Nephi and the Lemanites ,remnants of Children of Israel in diaspora.
After the biblical revelations ends,The Book of Mormon starts with such books like Nephi[:in four versions ],Jacob,Enos,Jarom,Omni,Words of Mormon,Mosiah,Alma,Helaman,Mormon,Ether,Moroni.
The sacred texts of the Mormons is said to have being written on Gold plates through the art and gifts of prophecies and revelations  from the Almighty God through angelic encounters by the Prophet Joseph Smith.
The records gives an example of two great civilizations with one coming from Jerusalem in 600 B.C. and afterwards separated into two nations known as Nephites and the Lemanites.
The other came much earlier when God confounded the Tongues at the Tower of Babel  and this group are known as the Jaredites and after thousands of years they were all destroyed save for the Lemanites and they were among the ancestors of the American Indians till this day.
At least 11 people witnessed to the contents of the Book of Mormon and The Prophethood of Joseph Smith during his lifetime .
Analysts believe that the Mormons have outgrown being called a sect as the content of its sacred texts in terms of divinity clearly places it on the same plane with Judaism, Christianity and Islam in that its founder had contacts repeatedly with celestial bodies ,however, Christianity rejects its contents in its entirety due to a curse on no addition or subtraction by  any one   on the Holy Bible..
About 385 A.D.,The Nephites gathered to the land of Cumorah for the final battles and the Mormons of the day hides the sacred records in the Hills of Cumorah and in the end the Lemanites are victorious with The Nephites nation being destroyed.
Hundreds of Thousands are slain in the battle