Twisted Scripture Galatians 1:8-9

Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, claimed that he was visited by the angel Moroni who informed him that the true gospel had been corrupted after the apostolic age and thus had been absent from the earth for nearly nineteen centuries. Smith viewed his calling as a restoration of true Christianity to the world. The Mormon gospel is based on self-effort (2 Nephi 25:23 in the Book of Mormon reads, “For we know that it is by grace that we have been saved, after all we can do”), submission to baptism for regeneration, a belief in the “inspired” Mormon scriptures, and the keeping of the Word of Wisdom, which includes abstinence from coffee and tea, tobacco, and alcohol (Doctrines and Covenants, section 89), among other things. Similarly, Islam teaches that the angel Gabriel delivered the Koran to Muhammad. The apostle Paul identified all such human or angelic revelations as “contrary” gospels and pronounced a curse upon those who proclaim a false gospel.