Christianity vs. Mormonism (Part 2)

Who is God?

When we consider the intricacies of all creation; the detail and marvel of the human eye, or the DNA code, or the orbit of the planets, it’s clear there was a designer, creator, a perfect God in control.

Do the Mormon’s believe that?

1. Mormonism: “The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as a man’s, the Son also…” - Doctrines and Convenants section 130:22
2. The Bible: i) “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” - John 4:24. ii) “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” - Psalm 90:2 iii) 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. - Colossians 1:16 iv) “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. - Colossians 2:8-10
1. God has existed for all of eternity. He alone is the eternal, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent Creator.

In The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith pg. 345 we are told:

“I’m going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed hat God was God from all eternity, I will refute that idea and take away the veil so 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 Himself did.”

Orson Pratt (Mormon Apostle) – “If we should take a million worlds like this and number their particles we should find that there are more gods than there are number of particles in those worlds.”

People think there are other gods out there somewhere, but the Bible is clear there is but ONE! The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 8:4-5, “Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords)”

There is only one God. Any others are only imagined.

Joseph Smith Redefines God – In Mormonism, God is simply an exalted man. He was born as a man and conceived in natural way and by an adherence to the system of Mormonism in a previous world, in a previous life, through his good works in accordance with that system, he became God.

Men have a tendency to want to bring God down to our level and become gods. This is what the serpent promised Eve in the Garden of Eden, that she would become a god. Brigham Young said, “The devil told the truth. We don’t fault Eve for eating the apple in the Garden of Eden, that’s how we become Gods!”

Therefore, Mormonism is based on saying the lie of the serpent is the truth.

“I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides me.” - Isaiah 44:6

“I am the LORD and there is no other; besides me there is no God.” – Isaiah 45:5

Mormonism says there are many gods and men can become gods.

“…Before me there were no gods formed, Neither shall there be after me.” - Isaiah 43:10

That means: All the Mormon teaching about many gods is FALSE.

That means: There was NEVER a god before this God.

That means: Mormon men will NEVER become gods.