Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church:
" 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 a 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).
You have been taught that the
BRIEF OVERVIEW
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(LDS, i.e. the Mormon Church) affirms
1. the existence of
many Gods (polytheism).
2. that God was a mere man
on another planet before becoming God.
3. that God had to become God at a point in time (thus denying that God always existed as God).
5. that God was married
to His own spirit daughter, Mary.
6. that Jesus
Christ is not the eternal God (i.e., denying that He always existed as God).
7. that eternal life
(true salvation) is acquired by/though meritorious works.
8. that *black skin* (Indians, Africans, etc.) is a mark from God indicating that they are or were (depending on what LDS Prophet you read) cursed by God for their evil acts in their *first estate* in heaven (as *spirit children* before coming to earth).
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The
Nature of God:
LDS theology holds to some very strange and heretical
views of God, which are clearly inconsistent with biblical theology.
Not Eternal
God the Father is an exalted man with body parts
and passions
Many Gods (Polytheism), thus denying what God had already said concerning Himself:
Thus saith the LORD [Jehovah] the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. . . . (Isa. 44:6).
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is NO God; I know NOT ANY (Isa. 44:8; emphasis added).
God the Father was (and is) a polygamist that was
married to Mary (Jesus' mother- who in in LDS theology, is God the
Father's literal daughter! (see below).
Responding to the Mormon Assertion of God the Father
Jesus Christ:
The Mormon (LDS) view of Jesus Christ (concise)
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The Christological Assertions of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, with Exegetical Refutations (advance)
The
LDS Church patently rejects the eternality of Jesus Christ. He,
according the Mormons, became a God by obedience to law at a
point in time. The Mormons assert that He was a mere man on a earth (like this
one) who had to earn His own salvation (Just
as His Father did).
Jesus
Lucifer's spirit brother
Jesus was a polygamist
The Paternity of Jesus:
Official LDS doctrine teaches that God the Father and the Virgin Mary
had sexual intercourse to procreate Jesus' fleshly body. What is utterly pagan
is that the Mormons say that we are all literal sons and
daughters of the Father God and Mother God in heaven. Hence Mary, in LDS
theology, was a literal daughter of the Father. The result: The LDS God the
Father had sexual relations (and married) His
own daughter to father the child Jesus.
Salvation:
Works/Salvation
Baptism
Blood Atonement
The hope for Mormon males
Exaltation, Man becoming a God
Why is present day LDS theology dramatically different
than that of Joseph Smith's teachings?
The Early
Teachings of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith's
First Vision
LDS Racism:
The Mormon Church claims that they represent Jesus
Christ. However, the Mormon Church is perhaps the most racist church that has
ever emerged, under the banner of "Jesus Christ." Hence they do not
represent Jesus Christ-- Jesus was not a racist.
Mormons and black
skin
LDS Scripture:
The Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon
NOTE: it is not the major discrepancies and inconstancies that plague the history and origin of the Book of Mormon, nor is it the insurmountable problems with the Book of Mormon (internally and externally), but it is the God that the Mormons embrace that condemns them (cf. Jeer. 10:10-11).
Mormon Miscellaneous:
>Are Mormons Christians?
>Defining Mormon Terms
>Jesse Duplantis and Mormonism
Witnessing
Point: Most of the biblical quotations
contained in this LDS section are quoted from the King
James Version. The reason being, the KJV is the only
translation that the Mormons recognize. Hence, when dialoging with Mormons it
is wise to use the KJV.
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