Mormonism today
teaches that God was once a man.
Prior to his death, Mormon Founder Joseph Smith Said,
"We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will
refute the Idea and take away the veil so that you may see." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, page 345)
However, in the Book of Mormon, it preaches Christian Doctrine that God is God and has always been God.
Moroni 7:22 "God knoweth all things, from
everlasting to everlasting."
Moroni 8:18 "God is unchangeable from Eternity to
Eternity."
Mormon 9:9 "God is the same yesterday, today, and forever
and in him there is no variableness."
3rd Nephi 24:6 "I am the Lord, I change not."
These are Biblical Teachings. These ideas came straight
from the Bible.
Jesus’s miraculous
conception
Mormon Leaders and their manuals have taught directly and
repeatedly that Jesus was not conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
overshadowing Mary, but it was a relationship with God the Father who was in a
body of flesh and bone. That eliminates the Biblical Idea of a virgin birth. Had she been in a relationship with God then she would no longer be a virgin.
LDS Apostle Bruise R McConkee said, "Jesus was
begotten by his Father as literally as he was conceived by his mother."
(Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 1:144)
But the Book of Mormon Teaches the Biblical Position of being overshadowed.
Alma 7:10 "Mary shall be overshadowed and conceive by the
power of the Holy Ghost." A traditional Biblical Teaching.
Jesus/God Dwells
in Men’s Hearts
In one of Joseph Smiths later revelations, he says in Doctrine
and Covenants 130:3 "the idea that the father and son dwell in a man’s heart is
"An old sectarian notion." Mormons do not believe that Jesus dwells
in your heart even though the bible teaches that he does.
The Book of Mormon teaches God does dwell in the Hearts of Men.
Alma 34:36 "The Lord hath said He dwelleth not in
unholy temples, but in the hearts of the righteous doth he dwell."
So another biblical tenant preached in the Book of
Mormon, not believed by Mormons today and actually refuted by LDS leaders and
teachers in their manuals and writings.
One God
Mormonism teaches that there are many Gods with a Capital
"G". LDS Apostle Boyd K Packard said in a recent past, "Anyone who believes
and teaches God the Father, and accepts the divinity of Christ and of the Holy
Ghost, teaches a plurality of Gods." (Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled page
291) That's the LDS stance. If you believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ and the
Holy Ghost and their deity, you believe in the Plurality of Gods. You’re a Polytheist.
That's where you believe in more than one God.
In the Book of Mormon it refutes Packard’s statement.
Alma 11:28:29 "Is there more than one God? And he
answered, no."
3rd Nephi 11:27,36 "the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the father, and the Father in me."
Mormon 7:7 "the Father, and unto the Son, and unto
the Holy Ghost, which are one God." Not a Plurality. ONE God.
Alma 11:44 "Christ the Son. God the Father and the
Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God."
Not a Plurality of Gods.. Not part of the God Head... Not one of many Gods.. ONE GOD!
Again, the Book of Mormon lays it out for people and
hooks them with Biblical Principles but after they join they start teaching the
changes that contradict their own Book of Mormon.
Pray to Jesus
Mormonism today would never, ever, pray to Jesus.
“…some misguided members of the Church may ‘begin to pray directly to Christ because of some special friendship they feel has been developed’ with him. This is wrong, said Elder McConkie. We should pray directly to the Father...” —The Ensign, June 1998, p. 59
“…some misguided members of the Church may ‘begin to pray directly to Christ because of some special friendship they feel has been developed’ with him. This is wrong, said Elder McConkie. We should pray directly to the Father...” —The Ensign, June 1998, p. 59
The Nephites in the Book of Mormon and Praying to Jesus.
3 Nephi 19:15, 17-18 “...Jesus came… he commanded his disciples that they should pray. And behold, they began to pray; and they did pray unto Jesus, calling him their Lord and their God.”
This is straight from the pulpits if Christian Churches.
This is what Joseph Smith saw as a young man. This is what he included in his
Book of Mormon.
Look at the Christian sounding Idea in the Book of Mormon.
Jacob 2:21 "...And all flesh is of the dust; and for the selfsame end hath he created them, that they should keep his commandments and glorify him forever." This is a line straight from the Christian
community which Glorifies God forever.
Hell
Latter-day saints reject the idea of Hell. Even to the
point that Elder William R. Walker answered Barbara Walters question on 20/20
July 6th 2012.
19:28 - 19:55
Barbara: "If you do not accept Jesus Christ as the
son of God, if you are a Jew for example or a Muslim, what then?"
William: "I don't think it's as difficult as it
seems. When we get on the other side, after we've died, and God the Father
says, this is my son Jesus Christ, we believe every knee will bow, every tongue
confess that Jesus is the Christ. So all mankind can make it into Heaven,
because of that."
Barbara goes on to ask if she will then be going to Heaven and William says she absolutely will.
It's clear, today; Mormons reject the idea of Hell if
everyone is going to heaven.
"We do not believe that hell is a place where the
wicked are being burned forever." (Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to
Gospel Questions, 2:208)
"In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
there is no Hell." (John a Widtsoe, Joseph Smith, Seeker after Truth, page
178)
The Book of Mormon clearly teaches the Christian Doctrine about Hell
that says:
3rd Nephi 27:11 "If the church is built upon the
works of men.....they are hewn down and cast into the fire, from whence there
is no return." Mormons say that's not true, there is no hell and there is no fire.
The Book of Mormon States differently.
2nd Nephi 33:6 "Jesus, for He hath redeemed my soul
from Hell."
2nd Nephi 1:19 "God....delivered his Saints from
Hell."
Alma 41:4 "to endless misery to inherit the kingdom
of the devil...."
1st Nephi 14:3 "into hell that hath no end."
2nd
Nephi 9:19 "O the greatness of the mercy of God, the Holy one of Israel!
For He hath delivered his Saints from that awful monster the devil..... and
that lake of fire and brimstone and endless torment."
Fire and Brimstone. Endless torment. Right out of the Book
of Mormon. Joseph took that right out of Christian tenant but later, when he
got a following, he started preaching about no hell and no literal God.
Alma 5:53, 56 "And now my Beloved Brethren....can ye
be puffed up in the pride of your hearts, setting your hearts upon the vain
things of the world.... these are they who shall be hewn down and cast into the
fire!"
Alma 19:29 "She stood upon her feet, and cried with
a loud voice: O blessed Jesus, who has saved me from and awful hell! O blessed
God, have mercy on this people!"
If you were to read some of these passages and didn't
know your Bible, you would think they came from the bible and not another source.
It's a total counterfeit.
Saved After Death
Mormonism today, teaches that after people die they will
have a chance to hear and accept or reject the gospel after this life. In the Preach my Gospel manual of the Mormon Church, page 66. "In the spirit world the gospel is preached to those who did not obey
the gospel or have the opportunity to hear it while on earth."
http://www.lds.org/languages/additionalmanuals/preachgospel/PreachMyGospel___00_00_Complete__36617_eng_000.pdf
http://www.lds.org/languages/additionalmanuals/preachgospel/PreachMyGospel___00_00_Complete__36617_eng_000.pdf
The Book of Mormon speaking of all who die said
2nd Nephi 9:16 "they who are righteous shall be
righteous still, they who are filthy be filthy still."
Alma 12:27 "appointed to men that they must die; and
after death must come to judgment."
Book of Mormon does teach Biblical principles but doesn’t
give the Bible credit.
The Fall
Mormonism today teaches that Adams disobedience was a good
thing. That it's a praise worthy thing. It was good that he was disobedient to
Gods commandment.
LDS President Joseph
Fielding Smith was quoted in the Ensign Magazine in 2006 said, "So don't
let us brethren and sisters, complain about Adam and wish he hadn’t done something
that he did. I want to thank him." (Ensign January 2006 page 53)
The Book of Mormon teaches the Biblical truth making it
clear that God does not give dual commandments. He doesn’t give a commandment
so that people don’t know how to obey it or can’t obey it.
The Book of Mormon
says 1st Nephi 3:7 "The Lord giveth no commandment unto the children of
men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which
he commandeth them." Plain and simple but the Mormon teaching on the fall
changes that.
Men becoming Gods
Mormonism today, because of Joseph Smiths later idea, teach the exaltation of man. Men becoming Gods themselves.
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., Doctrines of Salvation,
Vol.2, p.39: SONS OF GOD BECOME GODS. If the faithful, who keep the commandments
of the Father, are his sons, then they are heirs of the kingdom and shall
receive of the fulness of the Father's glory, even until they become like the
Father. And how can they be perfect as their Father in heaven is perfect if
they are not like him? . . . And if they receive his fulness and his glory,
and if "all things are theirs, whether life or death, or things present,
or things to come, all are theirs," how can they receive these blessings
and not become gods? They cannot."The Book of Mormon is Very clear in the fact when it states that there is only One God as stated above in Alma 11:27-39, 44; 2 Nephi 31:21; Mormon 7:7; 3 Nephi 11:27. Look also at the Testimony of the three witnesses in the beginning introduction of the Book of Mormon.
"And the honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, which is one God. Amen." The three witnesses knew there was ONE GOD. The Book of Mormon stated in many places there is ONE GOD, then why are Mormons now teaching the exaltation of Man and becoming Gods themselves?
The first commandment. Thou shall have no other gods before me. When your striving to become a God yourself.. is there yet another god in your life? Perhaps one you hope to one day become yourself?
Worshiping Jesus
Mormonism teaches today that we aren't to worship the
Son, Jesus Christ.
Bruce R. McConkie's devotional address given at Brigham
Young University on 2 March 1982 states: "We worship the Father and him
only and no one else. We do not worship the Son, and we do not worship the Holy
Ghost."
The Book of Mormon presents the Christian View
3rd Nephi 11:17 "They did fall down at the feet of
Jesus and worship Him."
2nd Nephi 25:29 "...wherefore ye must bow down
before Him and worship Him with your whole soul."
Mormons don't teach this. They do not worship Jesus
today.
Polygamy
Can't forget Polygamy. It was justified to the point that Brigham
Young said, "The ONLY men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those
who enter into polygamy." (JOD 11:269)
The Book of Mormon renounces Polygamy.
Jacob 2:24 "Behold, David and Solomon truly had many
wives and concubines, which thing was abominable, saith the Lord."
Jacob 1:15 "And now it came to pass that the people of
Nephi, under the reign of the second king, began to grow hard in their hearts,
and indulge themselves somewhat in wicked practices, such as like unto David of
old desiring many wives and concubines, and also Solomon, his son."
Jacob 3:5 "....that they should have save it were one
wife, and concubines they should have none, and there should not be whoredoms
committed among them."
The LDS church today does NOT teach the Book of Mormon theology. It teaches against it. The Book of Mormon reflects 19th century Christian theology, which given the upbringing and religious background of Joseph Smith, would explain why the Book of Mormon reads the way it does.
If you're taking the time to read and are offended I would urge you to look at the reason why you're offended. I'm not looking to offend anyone but to show you truth. Joseph Smith said: “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” Why then are many of the teachings in the book being ignored by the Leaders of the church, past and present? Is it, or is it not the "most correct of any book on the earth" and is it not the "keystone" of your religion? Why then are teachings in it being contradicted by Leaders?
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