“MORMONISM” #TWO (Isa
Prayer Meeting Notes:
Int. Mormonism
believes God is a mere “exalted human being.”
1. Apostle Parley
P. Pratt, (one of their leaders) says: “Gods, angels and men are all
one species, one race, one great family.”
a. “God and man are of the same race,
differing only in their degrees of advancement.”
2. Bruce
McConkie (another one of their leaders) says: “That there is a God in
heaven who is infinite and eternal; who
has a body of flesh as tangible as man’s and who is in fact a resurrected,
glorified, perfected, and exalted Man.”
3. Notice
how they vacillate. On July 18th, 1997 on a public T. V. broadcast,
entitled, Road to Salvation, their President Gordon Hinckley says “the
concept of God having been a man is not stressed any longer, but he does
believe that human beings can become ‘gods’ in the afterlife.”
4. Joseph
Smith said: “God was once a man like us; yea, God himself, the Father
of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did.”
5. Now let us
examine this statement in the light of Scripture.
a. (Psa 50:21) "These things hast thou done, and
I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as
thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before
thine eyes."
b. (Rom
1:22-23) "Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools, {23} And changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things."
Note:
Some Scholars say that the word
changed here is “exchanged”
6. They loved to quote the
following verses which speak of God having “members”
a. (Deu 33:27) "The eternal God is thy refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall
thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them."
7. The
"Mormons" is the Church of
"contradictions", and of
"deception".
8. Founded in 1830 in
9. They
boast 7 million members; 5 in the
10. Their
headquarters:
11. Concerning
the Bible, they say it is good:
a.
It is good... but it is good for
nothing, at least if it agrees with the "Book of Mormon".
b.
In fact, Smith introduced 125 new
verses only in the New Testament, and changed 1,475 verses in the Bible.
c.
Listen to the Scriptures: (Deu 13:1-3) "If there arise among you a prophet, or
a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, {2} And the sign or
the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after
other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; {3} Thou shalt
not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the
LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all
your heart and with all your soul."
1. CONCERNING
GOD AND CHRIST.
Int. The “God the Father", and "Jesus Christ"
of the Mormons are not those of the real Bible:
A.
CONCERNING GOD THE FATHER, THEY
SAY:
1.
"God the Father", for the Mormons, was
once a man, but became God..
2.
He has a physical body, as does his wife, Heavenly Mother. Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost are three separate gods.
a.
(1 Cor 8:6) "But to us there is but one God, the
Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom are all things, and we by him."
3.
Worthy men may one day become gods
themselves.
a.
(John
B.
CONCERNING GOD THE SON, THEY SAY:
1.
"Jesus Christ",
like God the Father, for the Mormons is "eternal"
because he has no end, like any other man, but he is "not
eternal", because he had a beginning:
a.
(John 1:1-3) "In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. {2} The same was in the beginning with
God. {3} All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made
that was made."
2.
They say He was born from Adam (who
was God), by sexually cohabiting with the Virgin Mary in a physical,
flesh relationship.
3.
Brigham declared emphatically,
"Jesus was not begotten by the Holy Ghost". Jesus was married and had
children with the two sisters of Lazarus, Maria and Martha... and Jesus became
God, as you and I can become God, like Him!... everything contrary of what the
real Bible says!.
Note: An another strange thing of the
Mormons: Jesus and Lucifer are brothers!.
4.
In an interview on Larry King
live during the month of Sept. 1998,
mormon President,
II. THEY
TEACH THAT MEN
BECOME GODS.
A.
THEY TEACH
THAT ANY MAN
CAN BECOME GOD.
1. One of their favorite sayings is:
a. "As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man can
become"
b.
But of course, only the Mormons can become
God, if they are faithful to their Church!... and only "men",
not "women".
2.
This concept of "every man
is god", has been taken up by the New Age Movement, but using
different methods to become god.
3.
"There are 12. 000 Mormon school
teachers in
III. MORMONS AND POLYGAMY
A.
POLYGAMY IS BUT ADULTERY
IN A HIDDEN FORM.
1.
"Polygamy", is forbidden in the "Book of
Mormons"; however, Smith, in his 132 revelation was ordered by God to have
polygamy, as in the life of Solomon:
2.
So, Smith had 27 wives officially,
and 60 unofficially.
3.
Brigham Young, had 25 wives with 56
children, and proclaimed, "he who rejects the doctrine of polygamy shall
be condemned"...
4.
They teach that "the only men who become gods are
those who enter polygamy"...
5.
However, a third "little
Pope", Fielding, abolished
officially polygamy in 1904.
6.
Today, polygamy is forbidden in
the Mormon Church, but an estimated 30,000 fundamentalist Mormons have
plural marriages in
IV. MORMONISM AND
SUICIDE.
A.
THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST RATE OF
SUICIDE IN THE NATION.
1.
"Women", cannot become
priests or church leaders, and cannot become gods...
2.
In the Mormon Church women have the
highest rate of suicides in the nation,
3.
The highest percentage in mental
institutions, and
4.
The highest percentage of divorces in
the nation.
V. THE BOOK
OF MORMONS
A.
THE BOOK THAT HAS
REPLACED THE BIBLE
WITH THEM.
1.
The Book is a plagiarism of a fiction
novel written by Solomon Spaulding in 1816,
"Manuscript Story"... and maybe this is the
reason why Smith always dictated the book from behind a curtain.
2.
Martin Harris, an old friend of
Smith, portrayed him as "a religious faker, a charlatan",
in a letter in 1830
VI. THE CONTENTS
OF THE BOOK
OF MORMON.
A.
IT IS A GREAT
PIECE OF DECEPTION.
1.
The Book relates a thousand-year
history of a lost tribe of Israelites who left Palestine and came to America to
become the ancestors of the Native Americans.
2.
The leader of the lost tribe
was Lehi, who had two sons: Laman and Nephi
.
3.
They lived in pease and love, until
the Lamanites became bad people, who fought and annihilated the Nephites near
Palmyra, N.Y. in 428 A.C.
4.
But, before his demise, Mormon,
the Nephite leader, wrote and buried his Book, including the appearance
of Christ in America, after his resurrection, instituting the ordinances of
baptism, communion, and priesthood.
B.
THE TIME IT WAS
PUBLISHED.
1.
The Book was published in 1830, with
the subtitle "Another Testament of Jesus Christ", and
it is the most sacred scripture for the Mormons, "the most correct
book of any on earth"...
2. But
here comes the big deception:
3. The
Mormon's doctrine often contradicts the Book of Mormon's doctrine:
4. The
Book says, "there is only one God", Mormonism teaches
"there are many gods" (Mosiah 15:1-5, Alma 11:28, 2 Nephi
31:21, Journal of Discourses, Smith, Vol.6, page 5).
5.
The Book says, "the
Trinity is one God", Mormonism teaches, "the Trinity is
3 separate gods" (Alma 11:44, Mosiah 15:5, 2 Nephi 31:21, Articles
of Faith, Talmage, pag.35, 1985).
a.
(1 Tim 2:5) "For there is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
6.
The Book says, "God is
Spirit", Mormonism teaches "God has the form of a
man" (Alma 18:24,28, Journal of Discourses, Smith, Vol.6, p.3.
a.
(John 4:24) "God is a Spirit: and they that
worship[1] him must worship[2] him in spirit and in truth."
7.
The Book says, "polygamy
condemned", but polygamy was taught and practiced (Jacob 1:15,
2:23-31, Ether 10:5,7, Mosiah 11:2,4, Journal of Discourses, Young, Vol.3,
p.266).
a.
(Eph 5:25) "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it;"
VII. NOTICE WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE BOOK OF MORMONS.
A.
HERE IS ANOTHER BIG DECEPTION. There are at least 12 essential Mormon
doctrines are not found in the Book of Mormon:
1.
The Church organization is not found
there.
2.
The Aaronic priesthood is not found there.
3.
The Celestial Marriage that they talk
about is not found there.
4.
Baptism for the Dead is not found
there.
5.
That men may become gods is not found
there.,
6.
The
3 degrees of glory in heaven is not found there.
7.
The doctrine of eternal progression
is not found there.
8.,
The teaching that God is an exalted man is not found there.
9.
The doctrine of the plurality of gods
is not found there.
10.
The plurality of wives doctrine is not
found there.
11.
The so called Word of Wisdom is not found there.
12.
The doctrine of “Pre-existing” is not
found there.
VIII. THE BIGGEST DECEPTION
OF ALL:
A.
THEIR ARTICLES OF FAITH
ARE DECEPTIVE.
1.
The “biggest deception” of
the Mormons is that their “Sacred Books” contradict each other.
2. So,
if you tell them that Mormonism teaches that there are many gods, they will show
you the Book of Mormon teaching that there is only one God... and so forth...
3.
When they go to your home, they show
you some of their "Articles of Faith", those appealing
to a good Christian, but they are very deceptive:
4.
For example, the Article 1 says,
"We believe in God, the eternal Father, and in his son, Jesus Christ, and
in the Holy Spirit"...
5.
But they don't say that they
are 3 gods!... and they don't say that the Father is "eternal"
only because he has no end, like any other men, but he had a beginning,
so, he was actually "not eternal"...
6.
Article 8 says,
"We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is
translated correctly"... but they don't explain to you that the
"right translation" of Smith contains 1,475 verses changed from the
real Bible.
IX. THEIR BOOKS
COMPARED WITH THE
BIBLE.
A.
THEY CLAIM SUPERIORITY
1.
They claim that the The
"Book of Mormon" is The "Bible",
correctly translated;
2.
"Doctrines and
Covenants"; "The
X. THEIR LEADER,
JOSEPH SMITH, WAS
A FALSE PROPHET.
A.
HIS PROPHESY WAS FALSE.
1.
Smith thought he was living in the
last days before Christ return, and prophesied Jesus Second coming for 1890,
but he died in 1844, without witnessing the non-fulfillment of his prophecy.
B.
HIS PREMISE WAS FALSE
1.
"Restitution"...
the "key word":
2. The
key word for the Mormons is "restitution", the words of
Peter in (Act.3:21), "restitution of all things"...
they claim this restitution, or restoration, began in 1820 with Smith:
3.
The restitution of divine truths with
the Book of Mormons, restitution of the priesthood, of sacred temples... but
they don't realize that Peter was talking about "Jesus Christ", who
restored already everything with his death and resurrection almost 2,000 years
ago...
4.
Peter was not talking about Smith!.
XI. MORMONISM AND
BLACK PEOPLE.
A.
THEY PLACE ALL BLACKS
UNDER THE CURSE.
1.
Smith taught that they were the
defendants of Cain and therefore cursed...
2.
They were barred from the priesthood
until Spencer Kimball received a "revelation" abrogating
this injunction.
3.
Kimball died in 1985, and was
succeeded as President by Ezra Taft Benson
XII. MORMONISM AND GOOD
PEOPLE
A.
THIS IS ANOTHER OF
THEIR DECEPTIONS.
1.
It is impressive to see the young
Mormons dedicating 2 years full time to the Church as missionaries.
2.
They
go two in two, with closely
cropped hair and of dark suits, white shirts,
subdued ties, polished shoes.
3.
They pretend to be representing the
most basic human values: Patriotism, sobriety, familial responsibilities, hard
work...
4. Their
sincerity is beyond question, 30,000 of them, garner 200,000 converts each year...
5.
But they are deceived, as millions of young Communists were
deceived.
6.
As the followers of Jimmy Jones were
deceived... and deceived people are the best to deceive other people...
7. They
are deceived, expecting to become God, and create new planets.
8.
They are deceived with the satanic
and masonic rituals of the "celestial marriages" in the temple.
9.
They are deceived thinking that with
the proxy "baptism for the dead" they can save their ancestors.
10.
A "baptism for the dead" taken erroneously from (1Cor.15:29)
CONCLUSION: This Cult
is a very rich cult.
1. When
you visit
2. The
Mormon Church has assets of $8 "billion", making it the wealthiest
3. They
end up giving to the Church their money, time, and life.