4. Mormonism.

There are similarities between the Blood Doctrine and Mormonism. The preacher who called the author's attention to this doctrine had done so by preaching a sermon so bizarre that it sounded an alarm that something was badly wrong. He made all the claims of the Blood Doctrine that are listed in this document, and also said that when a man is saved, the blood of Christ leaves Heaven, enters his body, and that man becomes a part of the body of Christ, complete with the blood of Christ in him. When that man sins, the blood of Christ responds, producing anti-bodies in the man. When he confesses his sin, Christ's blood leaves Heaven, flows through the believer, and washes away that sin. Ever after that, the man has an immunity in his blood against that sin. A Christian has Christ's blood in him, making all Christians part of one body.

Several other preachers say similar things. Perhaps they misunderstood Dr. DeHaan, who said,

 What the blood in our bodies does for us in times of danger and attack the PRECIOUS BLOOD of the Lord Jesus Christ does for each and every believer...

 It is the army of "white cells" in the blood of Christ which puts the enemy to flight...

Your only hope is in CONFESSION of your sin, and then He sends the "army" of "white cells" of the precious blood of Christ to cleanse you. Then TRUST Him to keep you from sin through that same precious blood which, in addition to the "white cells" of fighting and cleansing, also contains the ANTITOXIN against further sinning... ⁽¹⁸⁾

 Ordinarily, Dr. DeHaan's statements would be understood to be figures of speech. However, the statements relating to blood that are used by other preachers shows that they would interpret Dr. DeHaan literally. Doctor DeHaan's ideas are not unique, though. Here is a virtual image to his claims:

 ...as the Holy Ghost falls upon one of the literal seed of Abraham, it is calm and serene &ldots; while the effect of the Holy Ghost upon a Gentile, is to purge out the old blood, and make him actually of the seed of Abraham. That man that has none of the blood of Abraham (naturally) must have a new creation by the Holy Ghost.⁽¹⁹⁾

 If a Jew comes into this Church, and honestly professes to be a Saint, a follower of Christ, and if the blood of Judah is in his veins, he will apostatize. He may have been born and bred a Jew, ...but I will tell you a secret--there is not a particle of the blood of Judaism in him, if he has become a true Christian, a Saint of God; for if there is, he will most assuredly leave the Church of Christ, or that blood will be purged out of his veins. We have men among us who were Jews, &ldots; here is brother Neibaur; do I believe there is one particle of the blood of Judah in his veins? No...⁽²⁰⁾

 If you haven't already checked the references in the endnotes, you may be surprised to learn that those quotes came from Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, the first two leaders of Mormonism. Kind of spooky, isn't it? When Jerald and Sandra Tanner recorded these accounts, they began by saying,

 One of the oddest doctrines that Joseph Smith taught was that a Gentile must literally have his blood changed so that he is actually of the seed of Abraham.⁽²¹⁾

 Odd, indeed, Mr. Tanner. It is even odder that we should find this cultic belief at the very heart of our own denominations. We might wonder where the Mormons got such an idea. As odd as their belief is, though, it is not so very different from the Blood Doctrine's claims for blood.

It is the author's opinion that both the Blood Indoctrinators and Joseph Smith found their inspiration for their beliefs about blood from the same source; standard Nineteenth Century, wild-eyed, superstitious wives' tales. The Mormon Church, in order to survive, has had to be quick to forget today what it said yesterday. Until the early part of the Twentieth Century, they dogmatically taught that there were natives living on Moon, for example. The Fundamentalist churches are somewhat unique, in that they long for the Nineteenth Century (not the First Century, as they would like to believe). Therefore, the most conservative of the Fundamentalist churches have some very odd beliefs.

Studying the beliefs of Fundamentalism is like stepping into a time capsule. This will become obvious in the section dealing with science, for they pretend that the medical knowledge of a man who studied medicine nearly a century ago (Dr. DeHaan) is still perfectly valid. They still preach (even plagiarize) these century-old medical opinions.

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