Mormonism teaches a different Christ than the one from the Bible.

Oh ok ok I see where you are getting at. Well almost all sects of Christianity interpret the bible differently. So if I am ask my opponent, what religion are you? How does that religion affect your interpretation of the bible? For example, Latter Day Saints believe that The Book Of Mormon was given to us to help clarify the teachings of the bible. It's helps us interpret some of the controversial doctrine found in the Bible. So that's how Mormons interpret the bible. So I don't know where you got the Joseph Smith quote, even though your source was "Smith, 321.". So I looked up the quote and the one I found is pretty different from the one you posted. The Joseph Smith quote (as found on lds.org) goes as follows, "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! " It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converses with another, and that 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." The quote my opponent posted seemed kind of to suggest that Joseph Smith created his own doctrine. IDK. Also, the quote "As man is, God once was; as God is, man may be." was a quote by Lorenzo Snow, not Joseph Smith. Yes, Mormon do teach simply that if we follow God's commandments, we can potentiallly become like our Heavenly Father. I do believe that this doctrine of our heavenly potential is compatible with the bible. Several biblical passages intimate that humans can become like God. The likeness of humans to God is emphasized in the first chapter of Genesis: "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. " So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." After Adam and Eve partook of the fruit of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," God said they had "become as one of us," suggesting that a process of approaching godliness was already underway. Later in the Old Testament, a passage in the book of Psalms declares, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." New Testament passages also point to this doctrine. When Jesus was accused of blasphemy on the grounds that "thou, being a man, makest thyself God," He responded, echoing Psalms, "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus commanded His disciples to become "perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." In turn, the Apostle Peter referred to the Savior"s "exceeding great and precious promises" that we might become "partakers of the divine nature." The Apostle Paul taught that we are "the offspring of God" and emphasized that as such "we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." The book of Revelation contains a promise from Jesus Christ that "to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." So as you can see, LDS doctrine and Bible doctrine do not contradict each other, but actually come to the same conclusion that we can reach the potential of becoming like our Heavenly Father. The Book of Mormon and modern day prophets have also confirmed this same doctrine. Thank you for your time. Sources: https://www.lds.org... http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org... Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1938, pp. 345"46.