I wrote this 6 years ago when I was teaching publically on the subject. Thankfully truth remains the same no matter how much time has passed.
***Key point: mormon's use the same terminology as Christians therefore making many think they actually are Christian.. yet defining these Christian terms shed light on what mormon's believe which is actually not Christian at all.***
When a Mormon says “God the Father”
1. Once a man.
Joseph Smith taught:
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. …I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil…
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God …and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; …you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another,… from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings. And to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power” (History of the Church Vol. 6 pages 305-306)
“The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked out his salvation by obedience to the same laws he has given to us so that we may do the same” (A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, page 64)
The Bible says:
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:
Hosea 11:9 …I am not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee…
2. God had a father.
Joseph Fielding Smith said. “Our father in heaven, according to the Prophet, had a father, and since there has been a condition of this kind though all eternity, each Father had a Father” (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:47)
The Bible says:
Psalm 90:2 (Moses praying to the Lord) Before the mountains were brought forth, or even hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.
Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah 44:6 I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 44:8 Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God, I know not any.
Isaiah 46:5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else, I am God, and there is none like me.
3. God has a body.
Joseph Fielding Smith said. “I know that God is a being with a body, parts and passions… Man was born of woman; Christ, the Savior, was born of woman; and God, the Father was born of woman” (Deseret News, Church News, Sept 19, 1936, page 2)
Doctrine & Covenants Section 130:22 “The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s…”
The Bible says:
John 4:24 (In speaking of God the Father) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Luke 24:39 (Jesus speaking) Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
John 1:18 & I John 4:12 No man hath seen God at anytime:
4. God has a wife.
“For as we have a Father in heaven, so also we have a mother there, a glorified, exalted, ennobled Mother” (As quoted in Achieving a Celestial Marriage, LDS Church manual, 1976 page 129)
The Bible says:
Refer to previous Isaiah passages
5. God makes kids.
In speaking of Heaven; “And there, as here, we will spread forth, and multiply our children. How long? For eternity. What, resurrected Saints have children? Yes, the same as our God, who is the Father of our spirits; so you, if you are fruitful to the end, will become fathers to your sons and daughter, who will be as innumerable as the sands upon the sea shore.” (B.H. Roberts, The Mormon Doctrine of Deity, page 276-284, quotes approvingly Orson Pratt’s view of Heaven)
The Bible says:
John 1:11-12 He came to his own, and his own received him not. – But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Romans 8:15-17 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
6. God is changing.
Blacks and the priesthood, Polygamy, Temple ceremony (Blood oaths, words, washing, etc), Adam-god,
The Bible says:
Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, I change not;
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
When a Mormon says “Jesus Christ”
1. Was created.
Orson Pratt states; “As God the Father begat the fleshly body of Jesus, so He, before the world began, begat his spirit. As the body required an earthly Mother, so his spirit required a heavenly Mother. As God associated in the capacity of a husband with the earthly mother, so likewise He associated in the same capacity with the heavenly one.” (The Seer, page 158-159)
The Bible says:
Jesus Christ was not created, but is the Creator…
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 ...and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
2. Not begotten by Holy Spirit.
Brigham Young states in a message about Adam being God; “When the virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten Him in His own likeness. He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is the Father? He is the first of the human family… Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now remember from this time forth and forever, that Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost” (J of D, Vol. 1, pages 50-51)
The Bible says:
Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Luke 1:35 The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
3. Brother of Lucifer as we are.
In the Mormon concept of “eternal progression,’ Mormons believe that Jesus Christ, Lucifer, and all of us were spirit children of God in the pre-mortal world. (Mormon Doctrine page 278)
The Bible says:
God created all things, even the Angels.
4. Became a God.
Milton R. Hunter wrote, “Jesus became a God and reached His great state of understanding through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws” (G.T.A. page 51)
“If a man gets the fullness of the priesthood of God, he has to get it in the same way that Jesus Christ obtained it, and that was by keeping all the commandments and obeying all the ordinances of the house of the Lord (temple)” (Mormon Doctrine page 482)
McConkie says of Christ; “He is the firstborn of the Father. By obedience and devotion to the truth he attained that pinnacle of intelligence which ranked him as a God, as the Lord Omnipotent while yet in his pre-existent state”
(How could this happen unless there are temples in Heaven. And this is the whole purpose of Mormonism, is to come to earth to get a body, prove yourself, do the temple ordinances and earn your way to godhood.)
Contradiction: “---and also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself to all nations---(“And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes if men,--)disclaimer!(Book of Mormon title page)
5. Jesus was married.
Apostle Orson Hyde wrote, “Jesus was the bridegroom at the marriage of Cana and Galilee” (J of D Vol. 2, page 82)
Apostle Orson Pratt wrote, “If all the acts of Jesus were written, we no doubt should learn that these beloved women (Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene) were his wives.” (The Seer page 159)
6. Jesus had children.
Orson Hyde states, “Before the Savior died, He looked upon His own natural children, as we look upon ours.” (J of D, Vol 2 page 82)
7. Jesus didn’t die for all sins.
McConkie states: But under certain circumstances there are some serious sins for which the cleansing of Christ does not operate, and the law of God is that men must then have their own blood shed to atone for their sins. (Mormon Doctrine page 92)
The Bible says:
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 John 3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
When a Mormon says “Holy Ghost”
1. Waiting for a body.
Joseph Smith states; “The Holy Ghost is yet a spiritual body and waiting to take to himself a body as the Savior did or as the gods before them took bodies” (Discourses on the Holy Ghost, compiled by N.B. Lundwall page 73)
2. Distinction between Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit
Apostle John A. Widtsoe said; “The Holy Ghost, sometimes called the comforter, is the Third member of the Godhead, and is a personage distinct from the Holy Spirit. AS a personage, the Holy Ghost cannot any more that the Father and Son be everywhere present in person” (E & R page 76)
2. Can’t be everywhere at once.
McConkie states; “The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of Spirit, a Spirit Person, A Spirit Man, a Spirit Entity. He can be in only one place at a time, and he does not and cannot transform himself into any other form or image than that of the Man whom he is though his power and influence can be manifest at one and the same time through all immensity” (Mormon Doctrine page 359)
**Only the power and influence are there… not the actual Holy Ghost**
**Holy Spirit is not listed in the “Trinity” of Mormonism**
How can that be when the Bible says that whenever 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, there I am among you?
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