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THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE VERSUS THE JESUS OF THE MORMONS
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Gods of the Mormons Vs. God of the Bible
The Jesus WE KNOW contrasted to the
"Jesus" of Mormonism The one true Jesus of the BIBLE, of all eternity God
the Son, who died that we may have eternal life; who paid the price of all
sins; who has entered our lives and is walking with us in a personal
relationship day by day -- is not known in Mormonism. The Jesus of
Mormonism is an entirely different "Jesus".
Let's examine what the
leaders and prophets - the foundation of the Latter Day Saints Church -
have said:
"When the time came that His First-Born, the Saviour,
should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father Himself came
and favoured the Spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other MAN
do it. .... The Saviour was begotten by the Father of His spirit, by the
same being who is the Father of our spirits, and that is all the organic
difference between Jesus Christ and you and me" -BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of
Discourses, 4:218
"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." -ORSON PRATT, The Seer, pg
158
"Christ was begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that
mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers ----- 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 of 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." -BRUCE R.
McCONKIE, Mormon Doctrine, pg. 547,742
Brigham Young, to be
consistant with his "Adam-God" doctrine, believed Adam was the literal
father of Jesus Christ:
"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." -BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of Discourses, 1:50,51
As is
evident in these statements, there is no Virgin Birth in Mormonism. On the
other hand, the Bible clearly shows us:
- Matthew 1:18 Mary with child of the Holy Spirit
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- Matthew 1:20 That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit
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- Matthew 1:23 Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son
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- Luke 1:35 The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you
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Further, the "Jesus" of Mormonism was
married in polygamy and had children. This had to be so to be consistant
with the doctrines of Joseph Smith, Junior.
As Joseph reports as a
"revelation" given him by God on July 12,1843:
"I am the Lord thy
God .... obey the instructions I am about to give unto you.... if ye abide
not that covenant, then ye are damned; for no one can reject this covenant
and be permitted to enter my Glory .... verily I say unto you, if man
marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting
covenant .... they shall be gods .... And again, as pertaining to the law
of the priesthood - if any man espouses a virgin, and desire to espouse
another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and
they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then he is justified
.... and if he have ten virgins given unto him by the law, he cannot
commit adultry, for they belong to him." -JOSEPH SMITH, Doctrine &
Covenants, 132:2,3,4,19,20,61,62
"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." -ORSON HYDE, Journal of
Discourses, 13:259
"How was it with Mary and Martha, and other
women that followed Him? In old times, and it is common to this day, the
women, even Sarah, called their husbands 'LORD' .... Jesus was the
bridegroom at the marriage of Cana of Galilee .... We say it was Jesus
Christ who was married, to be brought into relation whereby he could see
his seed, before He was crucified .... I shall say here, that before the
Saviour died, he looked upon His own natural children, as we look upon
ours." -ORSON HYDE, Journal of Discourses, 2:81,82
The Bible states
that Jesus is God the Son -- eternally existant with God the Father -- yet
Mormon doctrine says Jesus was a spirit offspring of the Father; that
Lucifer was the second spirit offspring (THEY WERE BROTHERS?!); followed
by billions more - or each of us, for instance. We are "brothers" and
"sisters" of Jesus Christ. Jesus is not the only begotten Son in Mormon
Theology: "It makes me think of that second person that came forth in the
heavens when the voice went forth: 'Who will redeem the earth, who will go
forth and make the sacrifice for the earth and all things it contains ?'.
The Eldest son said: 'Here am I'; but he did not say 'send me'. But the
second one, which was 'Lucifer, Son of the Morning', said, 'Lord, here am
I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that
lives on the earth." -BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of Discourses,
13:282
"The appointment of Jesus to be Saviour of the world was
contested by one of the other sons of God. he was called Lucifer, Son of
the Morning .... this spirit brother of Jesus desperately tried to become
the Saviour of Mankind. -MILTON R. HUNTER (First Council of 70) The Gospel
Through the Ages, pg 15 [1958]
"Jesus Christ is also of our species
.... I have heard sectarian priest undertake to tell the character of the
Son of God, and they make him half of one species and half of another, and
I could not avoid thinking at once of a mule." BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of
Discourses, 4:217 "There is no impropriety .... in speaking of Jesus
Christ as the elder brother of the rest of human kind." -JAMES TALMAGE,
ARTICLES OF FAITH, pg 473
In Mormonism, Jesus was a created
being:
"Jesus is man's spiritual brother. We dwelt with Him in the
spirit world as members of that large society of our eldest brother."
-MILTON R. HUNTER, Gospel Through the Ages, pg 21
"The devil is a
spirit son of God who was born in the morning of pre-existance." -BRUCE R.
McCONKIE, Mormon Doctrine, "Devil", 1966 edition, pg. 192
"There
are three Gods - the Father, Son and Holy Ghost." BRUCE R. McCONKIE,
Mormon Doctrine,"God", pg 317
The REAL JESUS, the ONLY Son of God
and God the Son, is proclaimed throughout the BIBLE!
Look up these
references and tie-ins of Old and New testaments declaring
Jesus'
Divinity and NOT being created:
LOOK UP
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COMPARE WITH
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Psalm 24:10
Psalm 45:6,7
Isaiah 8:13
Isaiah
40:3
Malachi 3:1
Psalm 102:27
Psalm 102:25
Psalm 102:26
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I Corinthians 2:8
Hebrews 1:8
I Peter 2:8
Matthew
3:3
Matthew 11:10
Hebrews 13:8 James 1:17
Colossians
1:16
Matthew 24:35 2 Peter 3:7,10 |
JOHN 1:1-3,14 - "In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in
the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was
not anything made that was made .... And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the Glory as of the ONLY
begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
COLOSSIANS 1:15
- "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature"
[Here 'firstborn' does not mean first 'spirit-child', rather a position of
high honor - see verse 18, Hebrews 12:23, revelation 1:5, and Psalm
89:27]. The next verses, 16 and 17, tell us, "For in Him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that are on the earth .... All things
were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him
all things consist."
HEBREWS 1:10 - "Thou, Lord (Jesus), in the
beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the
work of thine hands." In Isaiah 44:24 God tells us that He "stretched
forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself."
Jesus, who IS the TRUTH and God the Father "have no lies within them" and
are INCAPABLE OF TELLING A LIE. Jesus is God the Son, eternally One with
the Father and the Holy Spirit, and not be confused. God the Son is not
God the Father and God the father is not God the Holy Spirit, but each
entity is a part of the ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD.
ISAIAH 9:6 - "For
unto us a child is born .... his name shall be called Wonderful
Counsellor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace."
MICAH 5:2 - "Whose goings forth have been from of old, from
everlasting."
MATTHEW 28:18 - "And Jesus came and spake unto them,
saying, 'All power is given unto me in heaven and in
earth."
PHILIPPIANS 2:6-10 - "Who, being in the form of God, though
it not robbery to be equal with God: .... was made in the likeness of men
.... became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore
God also hath highly exaulted him .... That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow ....". Compare to Isaiah 45:22,23 for if Jesus is not God,
then we worship two (or more) Gods! The Mormons, basically, do not worship
Jesus, or pray to Him, only "through" Him.)
COLOSSIANS 2:9 - "For
in Him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily"
HEBREWS 1:3 -
"... The express image of His person ...."
JOHN 5:23 - "That all
men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. he that honoreth
not the Son honoreth not the Father which hath sent Him."
JOHN
20:28 - "And Thomas answered and said unto Him, 'My Lord and my
God'"
Jesus used the same descriptions of himself; I AM, ALPHA and
OMEGA, FIRST and LAST; as used by God the Father:
| JESUS |
SAYING |
GOD |
JOHN 8:58
REV. 22:13,16
REV. 1:17
REV. 2:8
REV.
22:13 |
I AM
ALPHA AND OMEGA
FIRST AND LAST
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EXODUS 3:14,15
REV 1:8 & 21:6
REVELATION
21:6
ISAIAH 44:6
ISAIAH 48:12 |
Jesus is GOD the SON!
Eternally God and not after, or created by, or a spirit child of God! Our
Jesus is NOT the "Jesus" of Mormonism, and we are empowered,if we have
accepted the true Jesus into our hearts, to give Thanks unto God for
selecting us to reveal His True Son to us. HALLELUJAH and AMEN !!!
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THE GODS(!) OF THE MORMONS,
VERSUS
THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
There is but ONE GOD. The BIBLE states that there has been,
and presently is, and always will be only ONE GOD. History and the BIBLE
show that the Jewish people always believed in ONE GOD of the UNIVERSE.
The Jewish nation; However, was lured, time and time again, into going
after "other gods" that were worshiped by the people surrounding
Israel. That was the sin GOD hated and punished them for practicing.
(Jeremiah 2:11 11:9-13 19:13)
In direct contrast, MORMONISM has a
basic belief in many gods. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost (in Mormonism)
are three separate gods. There were gods before them and will be gods to
follow: "If we should take a million worlds like this and number their
particles, we should find that there are more gods than there are
particles of matter in those worlds." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, Vol 2, page
345 [Feb 1855] Orson Pratt
"Many men say there is one God; the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are only one God. I say that is a
strange God, anyhow - Three in one and one in three. It is a curious
organization ... all are to be crammed into one God, according to
sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world ... he
would be a giant or a monster." TEACHING OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH,
page 372; HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, Vol 6, page 476
"In the
beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods, and they
came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it."
JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, JOSEPH SMITH, Vol 6, page 5; HISTORY OF THE
CHURCH, Vol 6, page 308
Mormons will say they worship only one
God; But, whether they worship them or not, believing in the valid
existence of many gods -- of the same authority and reality of the one
God -- makes you a polytheist!
False Prophets have always led the
people of history (and the current peoples of the earth) to go after
other gods (Deuteronomy 13:1 to 13). God's strongest wrath was then and
is now upon people who worship or believe in other gods (Jeremiah 16:10
to 13 and 22:8 & 9).
Mormonism teaches that "Father God" is
married and has many wives: "In the heaven where our spirits were born,
there are many Gods, each of whom has his own wife or wives, which were
given to him previous to his redemption while yet in his mortal state."
THE SEER, Orson Pratt, page 37
Look up John 10:34 used by Mormons
to justify a belief in "many Gods". Jesus, there, is quoting Psalm 82 in
which the judges were referred to as "gods" -- but were wicked and
unjust and "die like all men".
Anytime the word "gods" occur in
the BIBLE it must be verified in context as referring to the idols,
satanic princes or counterfeit gods - (Isaiah 41:23 and 24 and
45:20).
IN CONTRAST The BIBLE states throughout there is but
ONE GOD!
Look up these verses:
ISAIAH
DEUT
PSALM
MARK
GAL
JAMES
EPH
I
COR
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43:10-11
44: 6-8
45:
5-6
45:18-22
6:4
32:39
86:10
12:29
3:20
2:19
4:5-6
8:4-6
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"Before me NO god was formed, nor after"
"I am the first and
the last, beside me no other"
"I am the Lord, and there is no
other"
"HE created the heavens and earth-there is no
other"
"Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord"
"There is
no god beside me"
"Thou alone art God"
"Jesus said, the Lord
our God is one; no other"
"God is one"
"You believe God is one
- you do well"
"One God and Father of us all"
"There is no god
but me"
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GOD IS INFINITE: The BIBLE states that God has
always been the same from all time in eternity past and does not change.
In direct opposition to this, the Mormon Church has the basic belief that
God was once a man, with many gods before Him and many gods to come after
Him. They further believe that God is progressing to higher levels of
power and ability: "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted
Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens ... it is necessary that we
should understand the character and being of God, and how He came to be
so; for 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 will take away the veil, so that you may see ... 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 did. "TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH, page
345; JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES Vol 6, page 3; HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, Vol 6,
page 305
"As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become." THE
GOSPEL THROUGH THE AGES, Milton R. Hunter, pages 105 & 106
"Our
Eternal Father has attained His position of exaltation and Godhood by
obedience to the great law of progression ... was once a mortal man who
passed through a school of earth-life similar to that which we are now
passing." THE GOSPEL THROUGH THE AGES, Milton R. Hunter, pages 12 &
104
"Through modern revelations we learn that the universe is
filled with vast numbers of intelligences, and we further learn that
Elohim is God simply because all of these intelligences honor and sustain
him as such --- But God acquired the honor and sustaining influence of
'all things'. It follows as a corrolary that if He should ever do anything
to violate the confidence of 'sense of justice' of these intelligences,
they would promptly withdraw their support, and the 'power' of God would
disintegrate --- He would cease to be God. Our Heavenly Father can do only
those things which the intelligences under Him are voluntarily willing to
support Him in accomplishing." THE FIRST 2000 YEARS, W. Cleon Skousen
*,pages 355,356 *=FREEMEN INSTITUTE PRESIDENT & B.Y.U.
Professor
Mormonism teaches that God is confined to a body of flesh
and bones. He is at a particular place at a particular time. The Mormon
"god" is a SMALL "god". You can have tremendous faith in a god - BUT, if
that god is not THE GOD, then all that tremendous faith is meaningless.
Elijah once challenged the priests of "another god" to start a fire, and
the "god" who was able to do so would be recognized as THE GOD. The
priests for this wooden idol, with great faith and efforts prayed and
prayed to their god to bring down fire to prove his godhood. Elijah even
became somewhat sarcastic when he asked a rhetorical question of "Maybe
your god is asleep? Maybe you should cry out louder to wake him up?".
After all these efforts, nothing happened! It didn't matter if the priest
and believers of that "god" had a great faith because the OBJECT of that
faith was incapable of fulfilling the promise of that faith. The ONE and
TRUE GOD fulfills our prayers.
"If God possesses a form, that form
is of necessity of definite proportions, and therefore of limited
extension and space. It is impossible for Him to occupy at one time more
than one space of such limits." ARTICLES OF FAITH, James E. Talmage, pages
42 and 43
"I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy
all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me,
calling me by name and said, pointing to the other -'This is my Beloved
Son. Hear Him!" PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, Joseph Smith 2:17
"The Father
has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's. DOCTRINE AND
COVENANTS, 130, v:22
"God himself is increasing in knowledge,
power, and dominion and will do so, worlds without end." JOURNAL OF
DISCOURSES,Prophet Wilford Woodruff, Vol 6, Pg 120
"We were
begotten by our Father in heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was
begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was
begotten by still a more ancient Father ...." THE SEER, Orson Pratt, Page
132
The BIBLE states throughout that GOD IS INFINITE! We ask that
you look up these proofs:
II CHRONICLES 6:18
PSALM 41:13 (90:2)
PSALM 102:25-27
PSALM 139:4-8
JEREMIAH 23:24
HOSEA 11:9
MALACHI 4:39
NEHEMIAH 9:6
PROVERBS 15:3
ACTS 17:27
JOHN
4:24
LUKE 24:39
HEBREWS 4:13
I JOHN 4:12
I TIMOTHY 6:15
JOHN 1:18
EXODUS 33:20
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"Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee."
"God
is from everlasting to everlasting"
"created heavens, always the
same without end"
"Omniscient and Omnipresent"
"I fill heaven
and earth"
"I am God, and not man"
"I do not change"
"made
Heaven, Heaven of Heavens and all their host"
"His eyes in every
place"
"He is not far from each of us"
"God is Spirit"
"A
Spirit has not flesh and bones"
"All things opened unto His
eyes"
"No man has seen God at any time"
"No man has seen, nor
can see ..."
"No man has seen God at any time"
"There shall be
no man see me and live"
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It is clear that the BIBLE refutes
the Mormon church's claims and the claims of its prophets and leaders in a
most specific manner.
Brigham Young, second Prophet and President
of the Mormon Church taught that ADAM was "our Father and our God...":
"When our father Adam came into the Garden of Eden, he came into it with a
celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him ... He is our
Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do ... 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 ...." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES,
Vol 1, page 50, April 9,1852
"I have learned by experience that
there is but one God that pertains to this people, and He is the God that
pertains to this earth - the first man. That first man sent His own Son to
redeem the world ..." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, Vol 4, pg 1, June 29, 1856
Prophet & President Heber C. Kimball
"How much unbelief exist
in the minds of the Latter-Day Saints in regard to a particular doctrine
which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me -- namely, that
Adam is our Father and our God ... Our Father, Adam helped to make this
earth, it was created expressly for him ... He brought one of his wives
with him, and she was called Eve ... Our Father Adam is the man who stands
at the gate and holds the keys of everlasting life and salvation to all
his children.." DESERET NEWS, June 18,1873: Discourse by Prophet and
President Brigham Young
Today, the Mormon Church adamantly denies
the "ADAM-GOD" doctrine taught, and as seen above, and affirmed by
"Prophet" Brigham Young. There is overwhelming evidence that he did teach,
believed and strongly defended this belief. By any, reasonable,
interpretation of the BIBLE, Brigham Young must be classified as a FALSE
PROPHET (see Deuteronomy 13:1 to 10 and 18:20 to 22 - also Jeremiah 23:16
to 17) ADAM is not OUR god and NEVER will be!
The BIBLE states:
"... then the Lord God formed man of dust from the earth, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."
(Genesis 2:7)
GOD is ONE and ETERNALLY the same. Creator of the
Heavens and the Earth ... All powerful, all knowing, all present. Despite
the fact that HE is INFINITE, he knows every hair on our heads and has a
plan for each of our lives (John 3:16 & 10:10). It is far better to
have a small faith in THE TRUE GOD of the universe than to have a great
faith in a small, counterfeit god.
One should keep in mind that
faith in a "counterfeit" god is really no more than a misplaced faith in
the false prophet and the teaching of a false Prophet. Remember - a
counterfeit - to be called a counterfeit - must "resemble" the GENUINE
item. If there are many "counterfeit" gods, then there must be a REAL GOD,
and HE is found in the scriptures and in everything that surrounds
us.
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