This article says nothing, so there's nothing to comment about. Grammatically, it doesn't make any errors (being written by a supposed "former Mormon") except that it refers to the church as "the Latter-day Saints," which of course is not the name of the church. It's a little akin to saying "How I left the jews" instead of "how I left judaism." Except with Mormons, the only reason people do that is to overtly leave out the word "Jesus Christ" to make Mormons look non-Christian. It's a standard trick you'll see with a proper google query.
That being said, the second article asks some insincere, or perhaps semi-sincere, questions that I really shouldn't be addressing. But I will anyway:
"They use some of the same words Christians use, like God and Jesus Christ, but they do not believe in the Biblical God and Christ." No one can ever explain that one. It's mostly just fear-words strung together. These are the same people who say all non-trinitarians don't believe in the same Jesus Christ. One some level, yes, there are doctrinal differences in the conception of the godhead, but most reasonable people wouldn't say such differences disqualify one from believing "in the Biblical God." That's just uneducated hate speech.
I wonder if one or more of these men would reply to and explain the following?
1. Why do Mormons not use the cross as a symbol?
Really, the answer is historical in nature, as it is the case with multiple early American churches. Generally considered bottom line is Mormons believe that crosses distract from the focus on Christ's life, his suffering in Gethsemane, and his resurrection. The crucifixion was a major part of world history, but only a few pages of the Bible in light of the life and atonement of Christ.
2. Tell us about Kobol - what is it and where is it? What is its purpose?
Yay, a grammatical error! He's referring to Kolob (corrected spelling.) There is one scripture, believed written by Abraham, that mentions a place called
Kolob which is "the star nearest to God." No one quite knows what that means, but those who hate Mormons have always pretended it's some big doctrinal concept, the planet where God lives, or otherwise. I've never met a Mormon who claims to know or think anything about Kolob, any more than Baptists think about every random name in the Old Testament (Gehat begat Megaliel stuff). What is it's purpose? (Again, the guy makes a grammatical error, and while I know it's versus its isn't entirely correlative to intelligence, it is a red flag of illiteracy to many.) Anyway, no one has ever speculated a purpose to Kolob. It's just a star, a mass of incandescent gas.
3. Are God and Jesus spirits or flesh, blood and bone like humans?
Again showing the guy doesn't really know what he's ripping on, because the answer is A, B, and D; but not C. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ believe that God and Jesus have resurrected bodies of flesh and bone.
4. If they live a life 'worthy enough', will they really become a Heavenly Father in some far-off galaxy?
No idea, but we believe, as the Bible says, that we are all children of our Heavenly Father, and that as children, we have divine potential to share in all that the father hath through the redemptive grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
5. If so, will they have sex, as humans do, with a Heavenly Mother to procreate spirit beings?
Again, something capitalistic churches lay on us because it sounds shocking. All the scriptures say is that families are eternal. People from there assume God must therefore have a wife. Sounds reasonable to me. Those who giggle upon such things love to assume aloud from there that if God has a wife and children, he must have divine sex, and if so, he's Zeus, and if so, he's pagan, and if so, Mormons eat babies. Really, we believe in families and the scriptures.
6. How many Heavenly Fathers are there, and why isn't this polytheism?
No idea, but Jeremiah said "Ye are all Gods." At what point is that not true? No one is, however, ever arguing that we will one day cease to worship our Father.
7. Why is there no hell or eternal punishment for those who don't accept Christ?
There is. What the guy's leading at here is the idea that Mormons believe that everyone is judged according to their opportunities. I know that sounds shocking, but we believe that those who didn't have the opportunity to hear the Gospel of Christ do not automatically get sent to hell. The writer here obviously is from one of the churches that still preaches that most of Africa and China will go to hell because they were born in Africa or China. This is an almost universally non-Biblical idea.
8. And if there is no afterlife punishment, what's the point of conducting proxy baptisms for deceased relatives?
This is why we normally don't respond to these lists. These aren't sincere questions, and by the time you recreate what he's trying to ask you're speaking to the wall. There is an afterlife punishment, but see #7.
9. And if everyone has free will, or "free agency" as Mormons say it, why bother with baptizing the dead who chose not to accept Christ?
We don't know what people's opportunities are--only God judges. We just try to help everyone, and let them choose for themselves.
10. How many of Joseph Smith's prophecies have come to pass, and how many have not?
100% yes. But of course both you and I can read whatever we want into history. Plus, no one has ever converted anyone by miracles--that's pretty overt in the scriptures.
So, Michael W. Hodges of Clemmons, ND, do you understand now? Of course not, because you weren't seeking answers in the first place. If you have any sincere questions, feel free to reply below.