From: af664@yfn.ysu.edu (Frank DeCenso, Jr.)
Subject: MORMONISM VS. THE BIBLE (The Doctrine of God)
Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:57:15 GMT


DOCTRINE OF GOD
 
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
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"Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven."  PSALM 119:89
"The entirety of Your word is truth."  PSALM 119:160
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