"Mormonism Has Another Jesus": A Gospel Tract That Gets It Right

The Fellowship Tract League (FTL) has a gospel tract titled "Mormonism Has Another Jesus" that does a good job exposing the false Jesus of Mormonism. The original cover design is pictured below. As far as I know, FTL still has the tract available for free (see tract #147), although the cover design has since been updated. The newer version of the tract also adds in Romans 10:9 at the very end, when the original did not. 

The "Mormonism Has Another Jesus" gospel tract is one of the better FTL tracts, if for no other reason than because it has a clear gospel invitation. That immediately puts it ahead of most other FTL tracts, which typically add in the infamous "sinner's prayer" (ugh!) at the end. I remember when I was a kid and I'd hear preachers on the radio give an invitation for salvation, and they'd say, "Repeat this prayer after me if you want to be saved!" I'd dutifully mouth the words and wait for a magical feeling, hoping to get the assurance of salvation. But I never did. Because the prayer I repeated wasn't the gospel. And it's the gospel that is "the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth" (Rom. 1:16, KJV), not saying a prayer! 

Notwithstanding, most FTL tracts tell the reader to prayer a prayer to be saved. They use and abuse Romans 10:9-10 and Romans 10:13 as supposedly providing biblical support for this practice, but of course in the book of Romans the apostle Paul never teaches any such thing! Nor does Paul teach it in any of his other writings either. The Bible never contradicts itself: salvation is by faith alone, not faith plus saying a prayer. If saying a prayer is required for salvation then mutes could never get saved because they can't say anything. 

And if the Bible is really our guide, let's see what The Gospel of John says about it. John's Gospel is God's gospel tract, and in John 12:42 it says: "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue" (Jn. 12:42, KJV). So here we have a clear example of people who believed in Jesus but explicitly did not confess Him! Proponents of "the sinner's prayer" may say that these believers are not saved because they didn't confess Christ, but the context of John 12 teaches no such thing. John 12:42 actually clearly indicates that these believers who didn't confess are in fact saved, because the word "Nevertheless" at the beginning of the verse (v. 42) contrasts the believers who didn't confess Christ with the unbelievers whom Isaiah foretold would not be converted (see John 12:37-41). This clearly implies that the believers who didn't confess Christ were converted. 

Anyway, that's a bit off topic from the main point of this blog post, but I think it's necessary to warn people about how most of the gospel tracts on the Fellowship Tract League website have a false addition to salvation by encouraging the unsaved to pray a "sinner's prayer" to get saved. By way of contrast, that's one of the reasons why I especially like the "Mormonism Has Another Jesus" gospel tract is because it doesn't have a sinner's prayer. Rather, the gospel tract ends by giving a clear invitation that is particularly well-worded and clear on the one condition of salvation which is to simply "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). Here are the closing two paragraphs of the gospel tract, which are excellent. It reads:

     "How does one obtain eternal life? The Bible says, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved' (Acts 16:31). Believe here does not mean to simply acknowledge Jesus as the Savior, or to merely say that one believes in Him. The word believe in the Bible means to place total and complete trust in Christ, to depend on Him alone for eternal life. Church membership cannot saved. Baptism cannot save. Good works or good morals cannot save. Only the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, can provide eternal life. The Bible says, 'I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee' (Is. 57:12). Jesus said, 'This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent' (John 6:29).

     Don't place your trust in a church, or in baptism, or in a prophet, or in a false Christ. Put your faith solely in the Jesus of the Bible. He promises that 'whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life' (John 3:16). If you will trust Him, He will keep His promise." 

 

MORMONISM HAS ANOTHER JESUS

by Fellowship Tract League

(Original Cover)