god issues
In the 1980’s I went to a LDS ward meeting for ladies on interior design on a snowy January afternoon. My coworker invited me - a fallen away Catholic who did her LDS mission in the far east. I went to learn about interior design but was not prepared for what I would hear.
The lady giving the talk from Nevada made a beeline towards me at 1/2 time & zeroed in on me as a potential convert. How did she know I was NOT LDS?
- I had walked there in the snow and was the only person out of a couple hundred women and teens WEARING JEANS!!! (= dead giveaway!)
As she discussed design principles as it relates to femininity and to the interior of the home, she said that we must be more like “HER” (in heaven). “HER” is their heavenly or eternal “MOTHER” !!!
WOW, my spiritual antennae flew up - that ELECTRIFIED me & a real CREEPY FEELING came over me; THAT I WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE & WANTED TO BOLT OUT THE DOOR.
However, prayer calmed me down!
I had read about this in my studies about Mormonism & it brought home the 180 degree u-turn and departure from the TRUTH about the GREAT MOTHER OF GOD, MARY MOST HOLY, of course!
“Heavenly Father”
- changeable god in LDS eyes was once a man who progressed to “Godhood” and is the only one they have anything to do with
- has a wife in their “heaven” known as the eternal or mother god (she is not worshipped)
- has a body of flesh and bones
- versus -
our Almighty God the Father
- who changeth not (Malachi 3:6, & Isaiah, etc. there are no gods besides me,)
- who is Spirit, no flesh and bones here
- who is Holy etc, etc.
I started praying that these women be enlightened with the TRUTH.
In order to reach the “3rd level” or highest level of heaven, the “celestial”, you have to go to the “temple of the Lord” and receive these “holy ordinances” which belong to the “Temple” so it’s “necessary” for a person be “married or sealed” for "time and eternity " there. The husband beckons the wife from her grave after he has been judged worthy and crosses the veil wearing the “holy” garments and give the grip (handshake) etc. What happens if the husband after his death dumps his wife and chooses another in eternity to be god & inhabit their own world & make spirit children for eternity? Puts monumental pressure on the MORMON wife who relies on good 'ol hubby to bail her out in eternity.
According to LDS theology, God the FATHER came down and had physical relations with Mary so that in their eyes Jesus Christ’s birth is a natural birth & therefore NOT SUPERNATURAL.
The gospel of LUKE and the ANCIENT CREED of the CHURCH say OTHERWISE.
Not only that, LDS believe Jesus and Satan are BROTHERS, Jesus had a “good” plan offering “free agency” & would set up the Church. Satan had a “bad” plan & the council of the “Gods” chose Jesus’ plan. Jesus is called “a” god and progressed to becoming a god before He was born or in the “pre-existence”. (Jehovah’s Witnesses say in John 1:1 …and the Word was “a god”.
Isn’t that an interesting PARALLEL; both groups who claim to have THE truth say the same thing about our Dear Lord: “a” god.
If I am not mistaken, LDS believe:
Jesus Christ is NOT to be PRAYED TO
Jesue Christ had a NATURAL BIRTH
Jesus Christ is NOT WORSHIPPED as GOD
Jesus Christ is our ELDER BROTHER but also the “BROTHER” of SATAN
and the list goes on
(In other circles Jesus is known “MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL” (JW))
Quite a turnaround, for example, from the Gospel of John’s 7 “I am’s”
LDS have blood atonement because the Sacrifice on Calvary because Christ cannot atone for some sins one may commit so must atone for their sins by the shedding of their OWN blood.
THAT’S QUITE A LOT OF POWER TO ATONE FOR YOUR OWN SINS BY SHEDDING YOUR OWN BLOOD;
does that make YOU a GOD or something?
A true perversion of the Gospel to be sure
They had “gods” throughout eternity & have up & coming gods on earth waiting for their turn to progress. (I remember a Mormon musical my coworkers used to talk about “My Turn on Earth”)
