Please Read This First
Jesus taught that "the way" was narrow and that we should not
assume that all who call Jesus "Lord" are really Christians (Matt.
5:20; 7:13-23).
Another Christ?
The Other Christ of Mormonism
Over the past year I have received a lot of letters regarding an
article I wrote on this site about the Mormon godhead. Click
here to read it. I don't want to appear to be just name calling,
judgmental, making false accusations. or even an Anti-Mormon. That is
why I use primary source material, Mormonism's own writings. If it
shocks you as a Mormon, perhaps then you should leave the Mormon
church and find a good Bible believing Christian church. It cannot
possibly offend you as a Mormon, though it is sickening to me and any
other Christian who may read this article. Everything I have quoted
is from your own leaders mouths and pens, and is recognized as
doctrine for your faithful. Though your leaders prefer not to discuss
this to outsiders much. It is as accurate as I can research from all
the material that is available to me, and discussions with Mormons.
It pains me to write some of the stuff and clarify what Mormonism
teaches about my Lord and Savior. I love Jesus and what he has done
for me and my wife and my brothers and sisters in the Lord. I don't
like what is written by Mormon authorities, and I feel spiritually
defiled when I type in some of their quotes. But the truth of their
beliefs must be exposed to stop more people being led into following
a false christ, one that cannot save.
14/11/99 I have been recieving a lot of mail from Mormons who say the quotes here are all lies, rehashes of antimormon propaganda etc. Well please check out the sources, they are all listed. Mormon 'Prophets' actually taught and teach the heresies listed on this page. Calling me a liar before examining the truth is a sin, baring a false witness. Don't be so ready to condem and deny, check first.
In this article I am answering
a specific question which has been asked of me by a number of
Mormons:
Why don't you call Mormons
Christians, they believe in Jesus. Why his name is even in the name
of their church "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints".
To answer this question, one needs to dig deep in Mormon writings.
You see the Jesus of the Book of Mormon appears to be the same one of
the Bible, even saying the same things. Carefully wording their
phraseology, Mormon missionaries will try to convince you they
believe in the same Jesus of the Bible. They will use the same
terminology as Christians to say they believe He is eternal, He is
God, He is part of the Trinity and so on. But it just takes a glance
at their other scriptures to see the Jesus of Mormonism is indeed a
very different Christ. The Mormon Jesus is a false Christ , a very
different Christ that cannot save. I have this chart here to help the
reader see and clearly understand why the Mormon Jesus is not the
Jesus of the Bible. Please do not forget to read the conclusions at
the bottom. You will understand why these are about the only
statements I agree with them on, by Elder Bernard P. Brockbank of the
first Quorum of Seventy:
"It is true that many of the Christian churches
worship a different Jesus Christ than is worshiped by the Mormons
or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For example
from the Church of England’s Articles of Religion, article
one, I quote: ‘There is but one living God, everlasting,
without body, parts, or passions.’ We cannot obtain salvation
and eternal life by worshiping fake christs…. The belief that
God has no body parts, and passions is not a doctrine of Jesus
Christ or a doctrine of the holy scriptures but is a doctrine of
men, and to worship such a God is in vain" ("The Living Christ,"
Ensign, May, 1977, pp. 26–7).
And more recently:
"In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President
Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day
Saints 'do not believe in the traditional Christ.' 'No, I don't.
The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of
whom I speak.'" (LDS Church News, week ending June 20, 1998,
p.7)
Mormon theologian Bruce R.McConkie accuses Christians of
Prostrating and abasing "themselves before the mythical throne of
a mythical Christ" (Mormon Doctrine, pg.269).
Well there you have it, from the horses mouth so to speak. Yes,
the Mormon church do indeed have a very different Christ, and the
purpose of this article is to find out what type of Jesus the Mormon
church do have. How different from the orthodox Christian concept of
Christ, based entirely on the Bible is the Mormon Jesus?. Let us
investigate. But first some quotes to encourage any Mormon readers of
this article.
"Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the
Latter-day Saints with it and see if it will stand the test"
(Brigham Young, May 18, 1873, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 16, page
46.)
"If a faith will not bear to be investigated, if its
preachers and professors are afraid to have it examined, the
foundation must be very weak". (Mormon George A. Smith, Journal of
Discourses, XIV, Liverpool: Albert Carrington, 1872, p.
216.)
The foundation of the Christian faith is Jesus. No other
foundation can be laid. "For no man can lay
a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ"
(1Corinthians 3:11)
The Jesus of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) is indeed a very
different foundation. Look at this chart and compare.
The Mormon
Jesus
|
The Biblical / Christian
Jesus
|
Not Eternal
God
|
Always was God throughout
eternity
|
Born twice through sexual
procreation
|
Born once of a
Virgin
|
A brother of the
Devil
|
Unique and Only Son of
God
|
Polygamously had wives and
children
|
Never Married
|
Sinful
|
Never sinned
|
Needed to earn his
salvation
|
Never needed salvation, brings
it for others
|
One of many gods, only an
exalted man
|
Only One God
(Trinity)
|
Not worshipped
equally
|
Worshipped
|
Unable to save
others
|
Able to save to the
utmost
|
Unable to
create
|
He is The Creator of All
things
|
Hates Christian
Churches
|
Church is the Bride of Christ,
He loves it
|
Let us examine these claims in more detail first:
The Mormon doctrines of Jesus Christ require much definition,
because Mormons make the claim their Jesus is God, the Savior and
always was eternal. But this is a deliberate smokescreen which the
father of all lies (the devil) has thrown up to separate them from
understanding Biblical salvation. So when discussing with Mormons,
make sure you define the terminology, because it sounds Christian,
but is really pagan. President Gordon B.Hinkley in his speech quoted
above about his Jesus being not the same as the Christian Jesus went
on so far as to say:
"Am I Christian?. Of course I am. I believe in Christ.
I talk of Christ. I pray through Christ. I’m trying to follow
Him and live His gospel in my life" (LDS Church News, week ending June 20, 1998, p.7)
It sounds so 'Christian' doesn't it. but when we examine what he
really means, it sounds very different. Mormon terminology needs to
be defined to avoid confusion. Also according to Mormon doctrine, and
in their organizational structure, an Apostle of the Mormon Church
has the same authority as any Apostle of the Bible (see, e.g..
D&C 18:9; 1:38). Thus, when the Mormon Apostles speak - it is
just as if the Apostle Paul or the Apostle John (of the Bible) have
spoken. So there may be parts of their four books of Scriptures which
contradict these statements. But it appears that the Mormons
believe what the Mormon Apostles say first, above all else.
The Beginning:
Let us start with eternity, the beginning. Here is how they
believe their Jesus is eternal. I will attempt to clarify each
difficult quote as best as I can. Mormon theologian Bruce McConkie
says:
Spirit entities as such, in their organized form as
the offspring of Deity, have not existed as long as God has, for
he is their Father, and he begat them as spirits. Thus, there are
two principals:
1) That "man was also in the beginning with God," meaning
that the spirits of men were created, begotten and organized, they
came into being as spirits at the time of their spirit birth; and
2) That "intelligence, or the light of truth, was not
created or made, neither indeed can be" (Doctrine & covenants,
93:29), meaning that spirit element, "the intelligence of spirits,
'the substance from which they were created as entities, has
always existed and is as eternal as God himself.' " (Mormon
Doctrine, Bruce R.McConkie Pg.77)
This helps us to understand where Mormons believe life and
everything come from. You see they don't believe in the Biblical
account of how God could create something out of nothing (ex
nihilo). Brigham Young taught:
"God never made something out of nothing; it is not in
the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist."
( May 14, 1871 Journal of Discourses 14:116)
Joseph Smith the founder of the Mormons taught,
"Now the word create came from the word baurau which
does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to organize; the
same as a man would organize materials and build a ship. Hence, we
infer that God had materials to organize the world out of chaos
— chaotic matter, which is element, and in which dwells all
the glory. Element had an existence from the time he had. The pure
principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed;
they may be organized and reorganized, but not destroyed. They had
no beginning, and can have no end" (Teachings of the Prophet
Joseph Smith, pgs. 350–2).
And:
"The organization of the spiritual and heavenly
worlds, and of spiritual and heavenly beings, was agreeable to the
most perfect order and harmony: their limits and bounds were fixed
irrevocably, and voluntarily subscribed to in their heavenly
estate by themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p
325).
So their idea is that there was (and still is) at first a
formless, nebulous kind of 'eternal intelligence',as well as other
gods. Brigham Young second Mormon president said:
"How many Gods there are, I do not know, But there
never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men
were not passing through the same ordeals that we are passing
through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and
will be so to all eternity" (Journal of Discourses 7:333)
Mormons believe at some point some undefined god mystically
remolds through sexual intercourse with one of his god-wives the
'eternal intelligence' into a spirit baby. Joseph Smith founder of
Mormonism said:
I might with boldness proclaim from the housetops that
God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all, God
himself could not create himself" (Smith, Teachings of the Prophet
Joseph Smith, pp. 354)
This intelligence now molded into a spirit baby then goes through
a period of probation, schooling and progression. However they do in
this period determines how they will live when they are born on earth
(or whatever planet they will be born on). Then if they are good
Mormons they will achieve god hood, on the celestial plane, the
highest of the three Mormon heavens. This means they become a god
with their own planet and wives to populate their own planet though
sexual intercourse, and it goes on eternally in this cycle. Mormon
Apostle Orson Pratt explains:
"Each God, through his wife or wives, raises up a
numerous family of sons and daughters; indeed, there will be no
end to the increase of his own children: for each father and
mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever. As
soon as each God has begotten many millions of male and female
spirits, and his Heavenly inheritance becomes too small, to
comfortably accommodate his great family, he, in connection with
his sons, organizes a new world, after a similar order to the one
which we now inhabit, where he sends both the male and female
spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones. Thus each God
forms a world for the accommodation of his own sons and daughters
who are sent forth in their times and seasons, and generations to
be born into the same. The inhabitants of each world are required
to reverence, adore, and worship their own personal father who
dwells in the Heaven which they formerly inhabited" (The Seer, p.
37)
This isn't just on old doctrine that isn't believed anymore. This
was quoted as recently as 1996:
"Knowing what we know concerning God our Father --
that he is a personal being; that he has a body of flesh and bones
as tangible as our own; that he is an exalted and glorified being;
that he was once a man and dwelt on an earth - and knowing that
this knowledge was had by many of the ancients, should we be
surprised to find legends and myths throughout the cultures of the
earth concerning gods who have divine power but human attributes
and passions?" Robert L. Millet Ensign magazine, July 1996, pg.
53
The answer of many is "Yes, but it's better known as paganism or
Baalism!". Further, according to the Sixth Mormon president Joseph
Fielding Smith,
"We are not the only people that the Lord has created.
We have brothers and sisters on other earths. They look like us
because they, too, are the children of God and were created in his
image, for they are also his offspring" (Doctrines of Salvation
1:62).
How does this apply to the Mormon Jesus? you might ask. Well we
just have to set the scene first, otherwise confusion abounds. It is
all relevant, be patient and just read on!. According to Mormonism,
Jesus was just like all the other spirit offspring. He was part of
the formless 'eternal intelligence', just as we were supposedly too.
He got a spirit body through God (Elohim) having sex with one of his
wives. In an article in the 'The Seer' (a Mormon publication) by the
Mormon author Orson Pratt
"We have now clearly shown that God, the Father had a
plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He
begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His First Born...
We have also proved most clearly that the Son followed the example
of his Father, and became the great Bridegroom to whom kings'
daughters and many honorable Wives to be married. (The Seer
p.172)
The bit about the bridegroom we can discuss later in this study.
LeGrand Richards a modern day Mormon Apostle is quoted in the Mormon
monthly magazine Ensign of July 1973 p.79
In the 143rd General Conference, Apostle LeGrand
Richards recounted an incident which had occurred earlier in his
career. After speaking to a group of ministers from other
churches, one of them raised a question. "He said, `We have heard
it said that you believe that God has a wife. Would you explain
that to us?' I think he thought he had me in trouble, and so I
rather facetiously said, `I don't see how in the world he could
have a son without a wife, do you?'" (Ensign, July 1973, p.
79).
Even God {Elohim} was at one stage a man born through sexual
relations of his heavenly father and mother, then through fleshly
sexual relations of his fleshly mother and father too. Mormon Apostle
James Talmage wrote:
"We believe in a God who is Himself progressive, whose
majesty is intelligence; whose perfection consists in eternal
advancement -- a Being who has attained His exalted state by a
path which now His children are permitted to follow, whose glory
it is their heritage to share" (The Articles of Faith, p.
430).
Based on this belief it was fifth LDS President Lorenzo Snow who
coined the expression, "As man is God once was, as God is, man may
be" (Articles of Faith, pg. 430). In the words of Mormon Apostle
Orson Hyde,:
"God our Heavenly Father was perhaps once a child, and
mortal like we are, and rose step by step in the scale of
progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and
overcome, until He has arrived at the point where He now is"
(Journal of Discourses 1:123)
And again:
"Mormonism teaches that God was once just like
ourselves; that the eternal part of Him was enshrined in mortal
flesh, subject to mortal ills and earthly pains and toils. I do
not now refer to the experience of the Savior in the meridian of
time. I mean that in the far away aeons of the past God once dwelt
upon an earth like this, and that through its trials and
vicissitudes and the experience they afforded He became a more
intelligent being than before, ascending finally by obedience to
certain principles, ennobling and exalting in their nature, to the
plane which He now occupies. These truths, forming the ladder up
which He climbed to celestial heights, up which we too are
expected to climb from earth to heaven, from mortality to
immortality, from a world where grief and sorrow reign, to a
better and brighter sphere where sorrow and suffering are
unknown--these truths are self-existent and eternal." Orson F.
Whitney, May 6, 1892 Collected Discourses, Vol.3
Bruce McConkie wrote further:
"The Father is a glorified, perfected resurrected,
exalted man who worked out his own 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, pg. 64).
The founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith taught,
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted
man … 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 the idea.… What did Jesus do? Why; I do the things I
saw my Father do when worlds came rolling into existence. My
Father worked out his kingdom with fear and trembling, and I must
do the same; and when I get my kingdom, I shall present it to my
Father.… He will then take a higher exaltation, and I will
take his place, and thereby become exalted myself" (Teachings of
the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345–48)
Think this through. God the Father lived as a normal sinful man
(how else could he have overcome?), had to get saved by 'working
out his salvation' and then died (if he didn't, then how was he
resurrected?). Mind blowing!. Don't be fooled when a Mormon says they
believe God is Eternal. Remember Mormonism redefines many Christian
terms to make them sound Christian. Here's what they really mean as
defined by Bruce R.McConkie:
"One of the names of God is Eternal; to Enoch the Lord
said, 'Eternal is my name' (Moses 7:35, Book of Mormon), using
this designation as a noun and not as an adjective. "The Lord uses
his name Eternal to teach with specific accurateness certain great
principles of revealed truth. Thus the kind of life he lives,
(which, of course, is God's life) is called eternal life (meaning
exaltation); and the kind of punishment which is dealt out to
transgressors by him is called eternal punishment, a name having
reference to the type and not duration of the penalty imposed"
(Mormon Doctrine, p. 233).
Finally just to add weight and clarify I will quote from a book
that is given to new converts 'Gospel Principals'. It says on page
6:
"Our Father In Heaven, God is a glorified and
perfected man, a personage of flesh and bones"
So without going on and on, we have established that God the
Father, according to Mormonism, is nothing more than a glorified man,
with one of his names 'eternal', and who has flesh and bones, and
many god-wives. How different this Mormon revelation is from the God
of the Bible that Jesus revealed to the Samaritan woman at the well
in John 4:24
"God is spirit, and those who
worship Him must worship in spirit and truth"
Orson Pratt another leading Mormon wrote in 'The Seer' p.158 about
the spiritual and physical birth of Jesus:
"The fleshly body of Jesus required a mother as well
as a Father. Therefore, the Father and Mother of Jesus, according
to the flesh, must have been associated together in the capacity
of Husband and Wife, hence the Virgin Mary must have been, for the
time being the lawful wife of God the Father: we use the term
lawful Wife, because it would be blasphemous in the highest degree
to say that He overshadowed her or begat the Savior
unlawfully,"
So here we have Jesus not being a conceived by the Holy Spirit,
but a glorified man of flesh and bones, not even born of a virgin
either. To make matters worse, remember Mary was supposed to be an
offspring of this same polygamous 'glorified man-god'. So she had sex
with her heavenly father, and got married to him, as well as marrying
Joseph, making Jesus' mother a bigamist and not a virgin, and his
father incestuous. Is this Christian or Pagan? This doctrine is not
just something one person thought up, but is repeated throughout
Mormonism's theology. See here also:
"[Christmas] points attention to the fact that
the Great Almighty, an Exalted, Glorified, Perfected, and
Resurrected God, joined with a mortal woman and bore a Son, in the
language of the angel Nephi, 'after the manner of the flesh.'"
Mark McConkie, The Mormon Trail, 12/1/87
Well there's a different way of looking at Christmas!. Note the
date, 1987, not some old now defunct doctrine. Further this belief
goes throughout Mormonism:
"Implicit in the Christian verity that all men are the
spirit children of the Eternal Father is the usually unspoken
truth that they are also the offspring of an Eternal Mother. An
exalted and glorified Man of Holiness could not be a Father unless
a Woman of like glory, perfection, and holiness was associated
with him as a Mother. It is the begetting of children that makes a
man a father and a woman a mother whether we are dealing with man
in his mortal or immortal state. This doctrine that there is a
Mother in Heaven was affirmed in plainness by the First
Presidency. . . they said that 'man, as a spirit was begotten and
born of heavenly parents. . ." (Mormon Doctrine. Bruce R.McConkie,
pg. 516).
The previous (late) prophet of the LDS Church, Ezra Taft Benson
proclaimed,
"I testify that Christ was born into mortality with
Mary as His mother and our Heavenly Father as His Father" (Ensign,
Nov. 1988, p. 86).
Mormon President Heber J. Grant, said
"We believe absolutely that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God, begotten of God, the first-born in the spirit and the only
begotten in the flesh; that He is the Son of God just as much as
you and I are the sons of our fathers (Millennial Star, p. 2)
Notice well the words " begotten in the flesh ", not
conceived by the Holy Spirit. Brigham Young the second President of
the Mormon church taught:
"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" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, p. 50).
In direct violation of what the Bible says at Matthew 1:20,
Brigham Young says "He was NOT begotten by the Holy Ghost" The
Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt taught,
"…It was the personage of the Father who begat
the body of Jesus; and for this reason Jesus is called 'the Only
Begotten of the Father;' that is, the only one in this world whose
fleshly body was begotten by the Father.… The fleshly body of
Jesus required a Mother as well as a Father. Therefore, the Father
and Mother of Jesus, according to the flesh, must have been
associated together in the capacity of Husband and Wife; hence the
Virgin Mary must have been, for the time being, the lawful wife of
God the Father.…God having created all men and women, had the
most perfect right to do with His own creation, according to His
holy will and pleasure: He had a lawful right to overshadow the
Virgin Mary in the capacity of a husband, and beget a Son,
although she was espoused to another; for the law which He gave to
govern men and women was not intended to govern Himself, or to
prescribe rules for His own conduct. It was also lawful in Him,
after having thus dealt with Mary, to give her to Joseph her
espoused husband. Whether God the Father gave Mary to Joseph for
time only, or for time and eternity, we are not informed. Inasmuch
as God was the first husband to her, it may be that He only gave
her to be the wife of Joseph while in this mortal state, and that
He intended after the resurrection to again take her as one of His
own wives to raise up immortal spirits in eternity" (The Seer, p.
158).
Mormon Apostle Bruce McConkie wrote some wonderful 'double-talk'
which seems to allow flesh and blood deities to have sex with
virgins, and not affect their virginity (bear in mind that the Mormon
belief is God {Elohim}has a body of flesh and bones like a normal
person).
"For our present purposes, suffice it to say that our
Lord was born of a virgin, which is fitting and proper, and also
natural, since the Father of the Child was an immortal Being ...
He is the Son of God in the same sense and way that we are the
sons of mortal fathers. It is just that simple" (The Promised
Messiah, pp. 466, 468)
To simplify the terms the Apostle Bruce R. McConkie repeats
himself and explains:
"And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son
of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and
literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father.
There is nothing figurative about his paternity; he was begotten,
conceived and born in the normal and natural course of events, for
he is the Son of God, and that designation means what it says"
(Mormon Doctrine, p. 742).
To summarize, Jesus was an eternal intelligence, as are everyone
ever born. Then he was spiritually born first by sexual procreation
of a glorified man and one of his wives. Then born on earth by this
same flesh and bones glorified figure having sex with his mother,
Mary. If this isn't the basest form of blasphemous heresy, then tell
me what isn't?. Mormons seem to believe that god having sex with
human women doesn't make them lose their virginity!. Even though the
Mormon god has flesh and bones and is a glorified man!. The Bible
specifically claims again and again that Mary, a Virgin conceived
Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Matthew 1:20 & 21 specifically
says:
But when he had considered this,
behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife;
for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. "And
she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He
who will save His people from their sins."
(NB: Notice verse 21 says He will save His people from their sins
and not just Adam's 'transgression' as the Mormons claim.) So
Mormonism's Jesus differs greatly from the Jesus of the Bible even
before He is born!. But if you thought that was heretical, read
on.
We too were supposedly with him in a preexistent state. According
to Mormonism we dwelt on a planet near the star kolob in a previous
spiritual existence as brothers and sisters of Jesus. Sixth LDS
President Joseph F. Smith stated:
"Among the spirit children of Elohim, the first-born
was and is Jehovah, or Jesus Christ, to whom all others are
juniors" (Gospel Doctrine, p.70)
So He is Jehovah, the eldest son of Elohim, first born son among
many billions of spirit children.
NOTE WELL: This causes problems for any
Mormon willing to study the Biblical languages of Hebrew and Greek.
Because on literally hundreds of occasions, the Name "Yahweh" (or
Jehovah) and "Elohim" are used together to demonstrate that Jehovah
is Elohim in the Bible. See Genesis 2:4-22; Deut. 4:1; Judges 5:3; 1
Samuel 2:30. These words are also used together as "LORD our God,"
"LORD my God," "LORD his God," "LORD your God," and "LORD thy God."
So Mormonism's doctrine of Jehovah being the son of Elohim crumbles
under examination. I intend to put another
article on this site as soon as I can (Lord willing!) about the Name
of God with Hebrew references, if that is possible. My personal
belief is Jehovah is a bad mistranslation of Yahweh.
According to the 'Encyclopedia of Mormonism' :
"Jesus Christ is not the Father of the spirits who
have taken or yet shall take bodies upon this earth, for He is one
of them. He is The Son, as they are sons and daughters of Elohim."
(Vol.4, Appendix 4)
Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth LDS prophet testifies:
"I testify that we are the spirit offspring of a
loving God, our Heavenly Father" (Ensign, Nov. 1988, p. 86)
So Jesus is the eldest of Elohim's millions of children. But he's
special because he excelled in all that he did in his previous spirit
life. The Mormon theologian McConkie said:
"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 preexistent state" (Mormon Doctrine, 1966, pg. 129)
So he is as such a god, or God, as Mormons claim. This pauses
another problem for Mormons as it clearly states in Doctrine &
Covenants Book of Abraham 3:25 that having a body of flesh and bones
is a prerequisite to obtaining exaltation (god hood), and the Mormon
Jesus was a god before he came to earth to take on flesh and bones!.
Jesus for Mormons is just one god among many. Even the Trinity is
broken up by the founder Joseph Smith:
"I will preach on the plurality of Gods. I have always
declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate
and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was
a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute
three distinct personages and three Gods" ( Smith, Joseph F. The
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith P.370 )
He has brothers and sisters, (that's us!), who shall become gods
if we are good Mormons!. Joseph Smith taught,
"… 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 … " (Smith, Teachings of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 348)
As if to prove this point the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 2.
even says He is the brother of the Holy Ghost.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
teaches that the Holy Ghost is a spirit man, a spirit son of God
the Father."
He is even the brother of Lucifer, the devil according to Mormon
beliefs (see Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, page 282 & Milton
R. Hunter. The Gospel Through the Ages. p. 15 ). Twelfth President
Spencer W. Kimball wrote:
"Long before you were born a program was developed by
your creators ... The principal personalities in this great drama
were a Father Elohim, perfect in wisdom, judgment, and person, and
two sons, Lucifer and Jehovah." (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball,
pp. 32-33).
These spirit offspring (that's us!) lived on a planet near the
star Kolob (Book of Abraham). One day the council of gods came
together to discuss putting the Earth together, and decide how they
could make their spirit children earn their salvation. Because this
life is somewhat of a trial where we must overcome sin (and
participate in many clandestine Mormon ceremonies) in order to become
gods. Therefore we needed Jesus, our big brother to be an example.
Second LDS President Brigham Young made this clear when he said:
"Sin is upon every earth that ever was created, and if
it was not so, I would like some philosophers to let us know how
people can be exalted to become sons of God, and enjoy a fullness
of glory with the Redeemer. Consequently every earth has its
redeemer, and every earth has its tempter; and every earth, and
the people thereof, in their turn and time, receive all that we
receive, and pass through all the ordeals that we are passing
through" (Journal of Discourses 14:71-72).
Lucifer and Jehovah (Mormon Jesus) both came forward with their
plans to Elohim. Lucifer's plan was rejected and Jehovah's (Jesus')
accepted. Milton R. Hunter of the First Council of the Seventy wrote
about this:
"The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the
world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called
Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of
power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to
become the Savior of mankind" (Gospel Through The Ages, p.
15).
The Incarnation
So the Mormon Jesus was born through God having sex with Mary, and
He grew up as all children do to become a fine adult. He worked
out his salvation as good Mormons do the usual way. One of the laws
governing salvation in Mormonism is the necessity of marriage. So he
had a nice polygamous wedding at Cana (what you didn't know he was
married and believed the Bible where he is said to be also an invited
guest{John 2:2?!}).
Mormon Apostle Orson Hyde said:
"It will be borne in mind that once on a time, there
was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and on a careful reading of
that transaction, it will be discovered that no less a person than
Jesus Christ was married on that occasion. If
he was never married, his intimacy with Mary and Martha, and the
other Mary also whom Jesus loved, must have been highly unbecoming
and improper to say the best of it." (Journal of Discourses,
Vol.4, p.259).
- (Q) Why was Jesus married three
times?
- (A) LDS Prophet Joseph F Smith taught
that polygamy was essential to exaltation {Mormon god hood}
(Journal of Discourses, 20:28 also see Doctrine & Covenants
132:7, 13, 15-16, 19-22)
Brigham Young taught:
"No man can be perfect without the woman, so no woman
can be perfect without a man to lead her. I tell you the truth as
it is in the bosom of eternity. If he wishes to be
saved, he cannot be saved without a woman by his side"
(as quoted by Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p.
215). {See also Improvement Era, Vol. 2 1, Dec. 1917, pp. 105-106,
as well as Joseph F. Smith. Gospel Doctrine, p. 272.}
He also taught that Jesus had children:
"This same truth is borne out by the Savior. Said he,
when talking to his disciples:`He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father;' and, `I and my Father are one.' The Scripture says that
He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not
know who they were, unless His wives and
children" (Journal of Discourses Vol.13 P.309)
and so did Jedediah M. Grant, October 6, 1854
"Gentlemen, that is as plain as the translators, or
different councils over this Scripture, are allow it to go to the
world, but the thing is there; it is told; Jesus was the
bridegroom at the marriage of Cana of Galilee, and he
told them what to do... Now there was actually a marriage; and if
Jesus was not the bridegroom on that occasion, please tell who
was. If any man can show this, and prove that it was not the
Savior of the world, then I will acknowledge I am in error.
We say it was Jesus Christ who was married, to be
brought into the relation whereby he could see his
seed, before he was crucified." (Journal of Discourses
2:82)
Anyone claiming to be an actual physical descendant of this Mormon
Jesus?. Jewish folks thought it very very important to keep
genealogies, so maybe they could let us know who his kids were, and
if he has any actual descendants?! I'm sure TV chat shows would be
very interested in interviewing you!. Mormon Apostle Orson Hyde
further went on to say in the Journal of Discourses 2:210, March 18,
1855
"I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent
me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on
Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was
married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his
wives, and that he begat children. All that I have to
say in reply to that charge is this — they worship a Savior
that is too pure and holy to fulfill the commands of his Father. I
worship one that is just pure and holy enough 'to fulfill all
righteousness;" not only the righteous law of baptism, but the
still more righteous and important law "to multiply and replenish
the earth.' Startle not at this! for even the Father himself
honored that law by coming down to Mary, without a natural body,
and begetting a son; and if Jesus begat children, he only 'did
that which he had seen his Father do.'"
When Mormon leader Joseph Fielding Smith was asked if this meant
that Christ had children, Joseph Fielding Smith wrote:
"Yes! But do not preach it! The Lord advised us not to
cast pearls before swine!" (Letter to J. Ricks Smith, dated March
17, 1963)
In his book The Seer, Orson Pratt says on page 172
"We have now clearly shown that God, the Father had a
plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He
begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His First Born...
We have also proved most clearly that the Son followed the example
of his Father, and became the great Bridegroom to whom kings'
daughters and many honorable Wives to be married."
In his journal, which many Mormons were happy to keep in the
Mormon church for posterity, Wilford Woodruff comments on a speech by
Joseph F Smith, an early leader of the Mormons.
"Evening Meeting. Prayer By E Stephenson. Joseph F
Smith spoke One hour & 25 M. He spoke upon the Marriage in
Cana at Galilee. He thought Jesus was the Bridegroom and Mary
& Martha the brides. He also referred to Luke 10 ch. 38 to 42
verse, Also John 11 ch. 2 & 5 vers John 12 Ch 3rd vers, John
20 8 to 18. Joseph Smith spoke upon these passages to show that
Mary & Martha manifested much Closer relationship than Merely
A Believer which looks Consistent. He did not think that Jesus who
descended through Polygamous families from Abraham down & who
fulfilled all the Law even baptism by immersion would have lived
and died without being married." 8:187, July 22, 1883
So the Mormon Jesus was married three times on earth at the same
time, and has many wives on his planet, and had earthly children.
This was to fulfill the Mormon's beliefs that a man cannot be exalted
(reach the third and highest heaven) unless he is married and sealed
in a temple to his wife (or wives) for 'time and eternity'. So Jesus
fulfilled the laws of the Mormon church by being baptized, and
married polygamously.
Why did he come?. According to the Bible, He came to do the will
of the Father: For I came down from heaven,
not to do mine own will, but the will of him
that sent me. (John 6:38). How different this is from the
Book of Mormon Jesus who came to do his own will , and the
fathers:
Behold, I come unto my own, to fulfill all things
which I have made known unto the children of men from the
foundation of the world, and to do the will, both of the
Father and of the Son--of the Father because of
me, and of the Son because of my flesh. And
behold, the time is at hand, and this night shall the sign be
given. (3 Nephi 1:14)
Why did this Mormon Jesus need to do his own will?. Maybe this
next quote will clear it up, you see, the Mormon Jesus that came
needed to be saved too!. According to Bruce McConkie:
"Jesus kept the commandments of his Father and thereby
worked out his own salvation, and also set an
example as to the way and the means whereby all men may be saved"
(The Mortal Messiah, Vol.4, p.434).
Why would Jesus need salvation from sin?, he never sinned
(well the one in the Bible, the Jesus of Christianity didn't). But
Mormonism believes he did, and that it was necessary to have wives at
his side in order to be saved. Truly Mormons have another Jesus, one
who cannot save them.
In the Gospel of John chapter 6 from verse 53 to 66 an amazing
thing happens. Many disciples leave Jesus because they cannot
understand what He is saying. Joseph Smith capitalizes on this with
his statement putting himself above Jesus:
I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am
the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church
together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole
have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did
it. I boast that no man ever did such work as I. The followers of
Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away
from me yet" (History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 408-409)
Such humility, and so glorifying to Jesus Christ too!. It was
shortly after making this boast that Joseph Smith was killed in a gun
battle after he had killed two others with his own gun. It is said of
Joseph Smith in the Mormon Scripture Doctrine & Covenants
135:3
"Joseph Smith the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has
done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of man in this world
than any other man who lived in it."
But back to Jesus now, maybe another time I will compile an
article on the true history and false prophecies of Joseph Smith
which Mormon leaders have attempted to suppress and hide.
Jesus did many wondrous things in His 3 year ministry. These signs
or miracles were to point His followers to the fact that He was God
incarnate. But the greatest miracle of all still takes place today,
that is the forgiveness of sins. Jesus made this possible through
taking the sins of all mankind on himself and paying the price for
man's sin by His sacrificial death on the cross. This is called the
Atonement by Christians. To all of those who repent of their sins and
accept by faith what Jesus has done for them, their sins are
forgiven. In putting or committing their lives to the Lord believers
are born again, and have the perfect assurance of eternal life.
But the Jesus of the Mormons cannot save. He wasn't even God
when He died according to Mormon president Joseph F. Smith:
The Savior did not have a fullness [of deity]
at first, but after he received his body and the resurrection all
power was given unto him both in heaven and on earth Although he
was a God, even the Son of God, with power and authority to create
this earth and other earths, yet there were some things lacking in
which he did not receive until after his resurrection. In other
words, he had not received the fullness until he got a resurrected
body. (Doctrines of the Gospel: Student Manual . Texts for
Religion 1986 pp.231-232)
Like all cults they reject Jesus Christ's sacrificial death on the
cross for their sins, and instead try to work out their own
salvation, which is in complete contradiction to the Scriptures.
Salvation to a Mormon means resurrection after death, that's all!. It
says in the Book of Mormon:
"For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our
children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be
reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are
saved, after all we can do." 2 Nephi
25:23
In an official periodical of the LDS Church, Joseph Fielding
Smith, tenth prophet, said:
"Our Eternal Father would have every soul saved if
that were feasible. Salvation, however, is based on merit and
obedience to divine law and therefore is only obtained through
compliance with divine commandments" (Improvement Era Nov. 1965,
p. 962).
And yet the Bible clearly states at Ephesians 2:8-9:
For by grace you have been saved
through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not
as a result of works, that no one should boast.
The Mormon church believes that their Jesus only made immortality
possible through his sacrifice. They differentiate between
immortality and eternal life. Immortality was achieved for all by
their Jesus' sacrifice paying the price for Adam's transgression.
"Immortality connotes life without end. Eternal life,
on the other hand, connotes quality of life — exaltation, the
highest type of immortality, the kind of life enjoyed by God
himself. It is in the attainment of eternal life, which man must
earn in mortality, that he reaches his full potentiality" (Marion
G. Romney, of the First Presidency, at General Conference, October
1978, Ensign, November, 1978, p. 14)
"Man's immortality and eternal life are God's goals. (Moses
1:39.) Immortality has been accomplished by the Savior's
sacrifice. Eternal life hangs in the balance awaiting the works of
men. This progress toward eternal life is a matter of achieving
perfection. Living all the commandments guarantees total
forgiveness of sins and assures one of exaltation through that
perfection which comes by complying with the formula the Lord gave
us.… " (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, pp.
208–10)
Mormon theologian James E. Talmage wrote:
"We believe that through the sufferings, death and
atonement of Jesus Christ all mankind, without one exception, are
to be completely and full redeemed [of] Adam's
transgression" (Articles of Faith, p. 477)
So like the Jehovah's Witnesses (another heretical cult), they
believe that Jesus sacrifice was just the start of a process, which
they must continue with, even after they die!. They have no assurance
of salvation this side of the grave unlike Biblical Christians who
has that blessed assurance. The cross is central to Biblical
Christianity, and without it there is no salvation. on the other
hand, Mormons reject the cross and avoid it like Jehovah's Witnesses
and Vampires!. Bruce R.McConkie said:
"Our Lord's sufferings -- the pain, torture, crown of
thorns, scourging, and final crucifixion -- which he endured
between the night of the Last Supper and his death on the cross
are collectively spoken of as the Passion of Christ. The
sectarian world falsely suppose that the climax of his torture and
suffering was on the cross — a view which they
keep ever before them by the constant use of the cross as a
religious symbol. The fact is that intense and severe as the
suffering was on the cross, yet the great pains were endured in
the Garden of Gethsemane. It was there that he trembled because of
pain, bled at every pore, and suffered both in body and in spirit,
and would that he 'might not drink the bitter cup.' It was there
he underwent his greatest suffering for men, taking upon himself,
as he did, their sins on conditions of repentance" (Mormon
Doctrine, p. 555)
Yes, Mormons actually believe that Jesus paid the price in the
garden of Gethsemane., and not the cross!. I include more quotes to
show that this isn't just one man's opinion as some Mormons will
claim. In the 'Temple Preparation Seminar Discussion' booklet, which
is published by the LDS Church, it states clearly:
"Jesus' greatest suffering in making the atonement for
mankind occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane., when he took upon
himself our sins, which caused him to bleed at every pore. His
suffering at that point was even more intense than when he was put
to death on the cross" (p. 18).
Bruce R. McConkie wrote,
"And as he came out of the Garden, delivering himself
voluntarily into the hands of wicked men, the victory had been
won. There remained yet the shame and the pain of his attest, his
trials, and his cross. But all these were overshadowed by the
agonies and sufferings in Gethsemane. It was on the cross that he
'suffered death in the flesh,' even as many have suffered
agonizing deaths, but it was in Gethsemane. that" he suffered the
pain of all men, that all men might repent and come unto him."
(The Mortal Messiah p.127-8)
Ezra Taft Benson said:
"It was in Gethsemane. that Jesus took on Himself the
sins of the world, in Gethsemane. that His pain was equivalent to
the cumulative burden of all men, in Gethsemane. that He descended
below all things so that all could repent and come to Him"
(Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, pg.15).
Again Bruce R. McConkie said:
"Forgiveness is available because Christ the Lord
sweat great drops of blood in Gethsemane. as he bore the
incalculable weight of the sins of all who ever had or ever would
repent.… The atonement is … written for all to read in
the wracked body and the spilt blood of the one perfect man who
bowed in agony alone, in a garden outside Jerusalem's walls" (The
Promised Messiah, pp. 337–8).
Marion Romney, a member of the LDS First Presidency, stated,
"Jesus then went into the Garden of Gethsemane. There
he suffered most. He suffered greatly on the cross, of course, but
other men had died by crucifixion; in fact, a man hung on either
side of him as he died on the cross. But no man, nor set of men,
nor all men put together, ever suffered what the Redeemer suffered
in the garden. He went there to pray and suffer'" (Conference
Report, October 1953, Pg.35)
So Jesus' death on the cross is made little of, and also so is the
Blood of Jesus Christ, which according to the Bible 'cleanses us from
ALL sin' 1John 1:7. In the publication 'What the Mormons Think of
Christ' on page 22 it reads,
"Christians speak often of the blood of Christ and its
cleansing power. Much that is believed and taught on this subject,
however, is such utter nonsense and so palpably false that to
believe it is to lose one's salvation. Many go so far, for
instance, as to pretend, at least, to believe that if we confess
Christ with our lips and avow that we accept Him as our personal
Savior, we are thereby saved. His blood, without other act than
mere belief, they say, makes us clean."
Brigham Young preached:
"There is not a man or woman, who violates the
covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay
the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own
blood must atone for it; and the judgments of the Almighty will
come, sooner or later, and every man and woman will have to atone
for breaking their covenants” (Discourses of Brigham Young,
p. 385).
Joseph Fielding Smith said:
"But man may commit certain grievous sins - according
to his light and knowledge - that will place him beyond the reach
of the atoning blood of Christ. If then he would be saved he must
make sacrifice of his own life to atone - so far as in his power
lies - for that sin, for the blood of Christ alone under certain
circumstances will not avail. Do you believe this doctrine? If
not, then I do say you do not believe in the true doctrine of the
atonement of Christ!" (Doctrines of Salvation Vol.1,
Pg.134)
Some Mormons will claim the 'Blood Atonement' doctrine which
caused many to be slaughtered in the early years of Mormon history is
now done away with. But in a publication still printed today and is
the standard textbook for Mormon Doctrine the late Mormon Apostle
Bruce McConkie wrote,
"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 have their own blood shed to
atone for their sins" (Mormon Doctrine, P. 92).
So let it be understood by all who read this that the Mormon
church believe that the blood of the worst sinners can pay for their
sins, something the pure unblemished blood of Jesus Christ cannot do.
Why then does the Bible constantly reminds us of the necessity of the
blood of Jesus Christ ?, for instance see these passages in the
scriptures: 1Peter 1:18-19 / Hebrews 9:22-28 / Hebrews 9:13-14 /
Revelation 12:11 / Ephesians 2:13-16 / Romans 3:23-25 / Romans 5:9 /
Hebrews 10:29 / John 6:53-57 / 1John 1:7 (very important
scripture).
According to the Book of Mormon at the time of Jesus' death
(Crucified in Bethlehem), there were terrible disasters in which
thousands perished (3 Nephi 8:6-23; 9:3-10). How different it was to
the real death of Christ which brought life not fear and dread.
Jesus Christ in modern times.
To Christians, the fact that they have Jesus, a living savior who
mediates on their behalf, before the throne of God in the capacity of
a high priest in the order of Melchizedek, is not only a comfort, but
also a blessing. Knowing they have the forgiveness of sins and
salvation through His blood and His death on the cross is a matter of
rejoicing . Jesus saves lives every day, forgives sins every day when
the believer truly repents of them.
Pity the poor Mormon who has no assurance of salvation, just a
book of laws and his (or her) own efforts to merit salvation. But
this is because Joseph Smith believed what he thought was Jesus
Christ appearing to him. If in fact his accounts can be believed as
there is evidence of at least seven different versions of the
incident written in his own hand. Joseph Smith claimed he had seen
both God the Father and Jesus Christ. another account has many other
'spirit personages' appearing too, yet another version has an angel!.
In the official version the church uses it says
"When he asked these personages which church he should
join, he was told to join none of them, "for they were all
wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their
creeds were an abomination in his sight" (Joseph Smith History
1:19)."
Therefore according to the Mormon Jesus, every church that calls
itself Christian is an abomination. One might wonder if this Jesus
and God the father he saw wasn't just a couple of angels of light
which according to the Scriptures, deceive.
So Joseph Smith started the Mormon church,and the rest is
history.
Some beliefs of the Mormon church:
According to the Mormon church, there is no salvation outside of
it.
There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints." (Bruce R.McConkie, Mormon Doctrine
p. 670)
And from Orson Hyde:
All other churches are entirely destitute of all
authority from God; and any person who receives baptism or the
Lord's Supper from their hands will highly offend God; for He
looks upon them as most corrupt of all people. Both Catholics and
Protestants are nothing less than the whore of Babylon." (The
Seer, p. 255)
Like every cult they throw in the doctrine that they alone are the
true church, ignoring the Biblical fact that is it not which church
you go to that saves you, but faith in Jesus Christ. Because if going
to a certain church could save you, then the whole life and death of
Jesus Christ would have been pointless. Jesus could have just
appeared and pointed out which church could save you, then left the
rest up to you to make the decision to go or not!. Well it seems like
you don't really need Jesus in the Mormon church either, just confess
Joseph Smith:
As Brigham Young taught:
"No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter
into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph
Smith. From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth
to the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must
have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to
their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are."
(Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, p. 289)
And again, a distortion of Romans 10:9-10 from Brigham Young:
"All those who believe in their hearts and confess
with their mouths that Joseph Smith is a true Prophet, at the same
time trying with their might to live the holy principles Joseph
the Prophet has revealed, are in possession of the Holy Spirit of
God and are entitled to a fullness." Journal of Discourses, Vol.
9, p.312
So Jesus has been put aside, Joseph Smith is the one who makes the
final decision as to who gets in or doesn't!. But don't worry, since
the Bible has been dispensed with almost entirely by the Mormon
church, according to Bruce R.McConkie:
"Ignorant translators, careless subscribers, or
designing and corrupt priests have committed many errors--many
plain and precious things were deleted, in consequence of which
error and falsehood poured into the various churches. One of the
greatest heresies of modern Christendom is the unfounded
assumption that the bible contains all the inspired teachings now
extant among men." (Mormon Doctrine p. 82, 83)
So you don't have to worry about scriptures anymore, especially
passages like Hebrews 9:27 which tell us that we die once then face
judgment. Instead, we can be saved after death by living Mormons.
Baptism for the dead and marriage to dead people ceremonies take
place daily in Mormon temples to save dead relatives. So salvation
can take place after death in Mormonism, without Jesus. According to
BYU Professor Stephen E. Robinson:
"In the LDS view the fullness of the gospel is
ultimately necessary to salvation, but not necessarily in this
life. I personally have many, many non-LDS friends, some of whom
dislike my faith very much, with whom I fully expect to sit down
along with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven."
How Wide the Divide, pp. 72-73
And Joseph Feilding Smith wrote:
In conformity with this pattern of vicarious service,
the gospel law enables worthy members of the Church to act on
behalf of their dead ancestors in the performance of the
ordinances of salvation and exaltation. Baptism is essential to
salvation in the celestial kingdom, endowments and sealings to an
exaltation therein. The living saints, acting on a proxy basis,
perform these ordinances for and in behalf of those who have died
and who did not have an opportunity while in this life to receive
the ordinances personally. (D. & C. 128; Doctrines of
Salvation, vol. 2, pp. 129-180.)
That just about covers all the research for this article. It
is about time now that we looked at what real Biblical Christianity
(or Orthodox Christianity, not to be confused with the Orthodox
church)
CHRISTIAN
In the light of what you have read above, it's time to look at the
true Biblical view of Jesus Christ and Salvation.
1. Jesus Christ is not created, but is eternal, and has always
been God. (See Timothy 1: 16: John 1: 1-3; Micah 5:2 1 Timothy 3:16;
Titus 2:13; Revelation 1:8; Matt. 1:23). Jesus Christ was born of the
Virgin Mary as “Emmanuel”, “God with us.” (See
Matt. 1:23 ) Jesus was conceived in the Virgin Mary’s womb when
the Holy Spirit came upon her.) See Matt. 1 :20)
2. The Bible teaches and orthodox Christians through the ages have
believed that there is only one True and Living God and apart from
Him there are no other Gods (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10,11; 44:6,8;
45:21,22; 46:9; Mk. 12:29-34).
3. The Bible teaches and orthodox Christians through the
ages have believed that God is Spirit (John 4:24; 1Tim. 6:15,16), He
is not a man (Num. 23:19; Hosea 11:9; Rom. 1:22, 23), and has always
(eternally) existed as God — omnipotent, omnipresent and
omniscient (Psalm 90:2; 139:7-10; Rev. 19:6; Mal. 3:6)
4. The Bible teaches and orthodox Christians through the
ages have believed that Jesus is the unique Son of God; he has always
existed as God, and is co-eternal and coequal with the Father (John
1:1, 14; 10:30; Col. 2:9). While never less than God, at the
appointed time He laid aside the glory He shared with the Father
(John 17:4,5; Phil. 2:6-11) and was made flesh for our salvation; His
incarnation was accomplished through being conceived supernaturally
by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin (Matt. 1:18-23; Luke
1:34-35).
5. The Bible teaches and orthodox Christians through the
ages have believed that the atoning work of Christ is first and
foremost a solution for humankind’s sin problem. By taking the
personal sins of all people — past, present, and future —
in His own body on the cross (1 Pet. 2:24), Christ, as the spotless
Lamb of God, fully met the demands of Divine justice for us, so that
all who embrace him in heartfelt faith are forgiven and made
righteous before God (2 Cor. 5:21)
6. The Bible teaches and orthodox Christians through the ages have
believed that we are saved by grace alone, apart from our own
self-righteous works (Eph. 2:8-9). The moral law (Ten Commandments)
was given to make us aware of our total inability to meet the demands
of God’s holiness (Rom. 3:20; 5:20; 7:7-8; Gal. 3:19), and the
ceremonial law (sacrifices) was given to point to the gracious
provision of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (Jn.
1:29; Heb. 9:11-14; 10:1-14). There is nothing we can do to merit
salvation and eternal life because apart from Christ we are
spiritually "dead in our sins" (Eph. 2:1,5); a new heart which
desires to obey God’s laws is rather the result of salvation.
(However, it is certainly true that without the evidence of changed
conduct, a person’s testimony of faith in Christ must be
questioned; salvation by grace alone through faith, does not mean we
can live as we please — Rom. 6:1ff.)
The difference is so great that the two cannot be reconciled by
any twisting of words or theological reasoning. The Mormon church has
a god, it calls his son Jesus. It is unfortunate that they call Him
this, as he bears absolutely no resemblance to the Biblical Jesus
Christ. It would be easier if they called him Suc'coth-be'noth
(2Kings 17:30) and his father Marduk if they really want Biblical
names for their deities (the attributes are exactly the same!).
If you are a Mormon reading this:
Now that you know the truth..... Joh 8:32
and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.
Now that you know that the Mormon conception of Jesus is not the
true Jesus of the Bible, but a pagan ideology, you must make a
decision. Here are the facts of Biblical Christianity:
1. God loves you.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish, but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us.
2. All are sinners, even you and I
Ro 3:23 for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to
them He gave the right to become children of God, [even] to
those who believe in His name
1Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered to you
as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He
was raised on the third day according to the
Scriptures.
The Apostle Paul wrote a strong letter to the Corinthian church to
warn them because of their pride, arrogance, false prophets and
various other sinful things. The letter caused grief and great
repentance in the church there. That is true repentance, not "oops!
sorry, I've been caught" type Bill Clinton saving your skin
repentance. True repentance brings sorrow which leads to salvation.
The part I quote below could almost also apply to this article. Like
Paul, I didn't like writing it, but it was necessary. If you are a
Mormon and have been 'cut to the heart' because of your paganistic
beliefs, occult ceremonies, self righteousness and general deception
towards outsiders, then you know you have been wrong, and must repent
of it.
2Corinthians 7:8-10 For though I caused
you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret
it--for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a
while-- I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you
were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made
sorrowful according to the will of God, in order that you might not
suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according
to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to
salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces
death.
3. We cannot save ourselves with our good works or abiding by laws
or covenants
Romans 3:20 because by the works of the
Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law
comes the knowledge of sin.
Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace you have been
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of
God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
Isaiah 64:6 For all of us have become like
one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy
garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like
the wind, take us away.
4. All may be saved now
Revelation 3:20 'Behold, I stand at the
door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will
come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me.
Romans 10:13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL UPON THE
NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."
At this point I would advise you to pray a prayer of faith. You
can use your own words, but you must pray believing that God hears
you, and pray sincerely. You could pray a simple prayer like
this:
Lord, I'm truly sorry for all the sadness I have caused you.
I know now that I have been following a false god and leading others
to bow it it's throne. I beg your forgiveness and I thank you that
you have given me this chance to repent. I believe you will forgive
me as it clearly says in your word. I thank you for your Son Christ
Jesus who truly died for my sins that I may come into the new
covenant of grace and mercy with you. Help me to follow you and to
seek you daily in prayer and in your word the Bible. Please Lord send
your Holy Spirit to guide me in all righteousness, and strengthen me
to make a stand for you in the face of adversity I know I will now
face from those whom I have loved. Help me to confess you and your
truth before others. Help me please lead family and friends and
others to you. Thank you Lord for your free gift of salvation and the
new relationship I have with you. Thank you for cleansing me of my
sins through the shed blood of your one and only Son, Christ Jesus.
Amen
5. Assurance as a new believer
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with
your mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and believe in your heart that
God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved;
John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life,
and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into
life.
1John 5:13 These things I have written to
you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may
know that you have eternal life
John 20:31 but these have been written that
you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that
believing you may have life in His name.
You cannot decide to turn to the true and living savior, Jesus
Christ, and remain in the Mormon Church. Come away from her and all
her abominations. Seek a good Christian church in your area. If you
don't know of any, contact me at my e-mail address
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May God bless you and your decision to follow the True and Eternal Jesus Christ.
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