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CUL:The Jesus of Christianity Vs The Jesus of Mormonism

   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
favored 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 consistent 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 1:20 That which is
conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit 1:23 Behold a virgin shall
conceive and bear a son Luke 1:35 The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you

   Further, the "Jesus" of Mormonism was married in polygamy and had
children. This had to be so to be consistent 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 adultery, 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 existent
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-existence." 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: and COMPARE WITH

   Psalm 24:10 I Corinthians 2:8 Psalm 45:6,7 Hebrews 1:8 Isaiah 8:13 I
Peter 2:8 Isaiah 40:3 Matthew 3:3 Malachi 3:1 Matthew 11:10 Psalm
102:27 Hebrews 13:8 James 1:17 Psalm 102:25 Colossians 1:16 Psalm
102:26 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 Counselor, 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:

   COMPARE: ...

   JOHN 8:58 to EXODUS 3:14,15 REV 22:13,16 To REV 1:8 & 21:6 REV 1:17
to REVELATION 21:6 REV 2:8 & 22:13 to ISAIAH 44:6 & 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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