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- From: af664@yfn.ysu.edu (Frank DeCenso, Jr.)
- Subject: MORMONISM VS. THE BIBLE (The Doctrine of God)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:57:15 GMT
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- DOCTRINE OF GOD
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- Mormonism: God the Father has a flesh and bones body. (_D & C_ 130.22)
- Bible: God is a Spirit. (John 4:24 "'God is Spirit, and those who worship
- Him must worship in spirit and truth.")
-
- Mormonism: God the Father is simply a man who achieved godhood (_History
- of the Church_, Vol. 6, pg. 305)
- Bible: God the Father has always been God. (Psalm 90:2 "Before the mountains
- were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even
- from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.")
-
- Mormonism: God Himself is ever progressing upward in knowledge, wisdom, and
- power. (_Journal of Discourses_, Vol. 1, pg. 93; Vol. 6, pg. 120)
- Bible: God already possesses eternal wisdom, power, and knoledge, and so
- never changes. (Mal 3:6 ""For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you
- are not consumed, O sons of Jacob."; Heb 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same
- yesterday, today, and forever.")
-
- Mormonism: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct gods.
- (_Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith_, pg. 370, 372)
- Bible: There is only one God, but three distinct Persons in the Godhead.
- (Deut 6:4 ""Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!";
- Isa 48:12-13 ""Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am
- the First, I am also the Last. Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the
- earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them,
- They stand up together."; Matt 28:19 ""Go therefore and make disciples of
- all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
- of the Holy Spirit")
-
- Mormonism: God the Father has Eternal Wives through whom spirit children have
- been and continue to be born. (_Mormon Doctrine_, 1966, pg. 516; _The Seer_,
- Orson Pratt, pg. 37, 158)
- Bible: God has no wives, and stands alone as God. (Isa 46:9 "Remember the
- former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and
- there is none like Me")
-
- Mormonism: Satan [Lucifer] was originally the spirit brother of Jesus.
- (_The Gospel Through the Ages_, pg. 15)
- Bible: Satan was originally a created angel who led a rebellion against God
- in heaven. Christ is Creator, Satan a created being. (John 1:1-3 "In the
- beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
- was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without
- Him nothing was made that was made."; Col 1:16 "For by Him all things were
- created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible,
- whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were
- created through Him and for Him."; Ezek 28:11-19)
-
- Mormonism: God the Father in His glorified physical body had sexual
- intercourse with the virgin Mary that resulted in the conception of the
- physical Christ. (_Mormon Doctrine_, pg. 547; _Journal of Discourses_, Vol.
- 1, pg. 51; Vol. 4, pg. 218)
- Bible: The physical Christ was conceived supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in
- the body of the virgin Mary. (Matt 18:18-25)
-
-
- Adapted from _The Mormon Mystique_, American Tract Society.
-
- --
- Frank
- ....
- "Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven." PSALM 119:89
- "The entirety of Your word is truth." PSALM 119:160
-