"Are you calling Joseph Smith a false prophet?" Let's set aside whether or not Joseph Smith is a false prophet and start with what God said about false prophets and prophecies: "But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' - when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:21-22) So, according to God, a false prophet is one whose prophecy doesn’t come true. Joseph Smith, who founded Mormonism, prophesied that he would be alive when Jesus returns. Joseph Smith died in 1844 and Jesus hasn’t returned yet, so his prophesy didn't "come to pass", which according to God's Word above makes it false and Joseph Smith a false prophet. While it isn't easy to have the leader of your belief system identified as a false prophet, this is what the Bible indicates, so please ask God to show you the truth about Mormonism. The above passage also applies to all self-proclaimed Christians who make prophecies. If it comes true, we need to ask if it wasn’t a coincidence. But if the prophecy doesn't come true, whoever uttered it is a false prophet as defined by God Himself and quoted above.
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