“I and the Father are one.”
The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”
The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out {to be} God.”
Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I SAID, YOU ARE GODS’?
"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
"If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father." (John 10:30-38)
After you become a good Mormon, you have the potential of becoming a god, (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pages 345-347, 354.)
Read Exodus 20:2-3 : I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. YOU SHALL NOT HAVE ANY GODS BEFORE ME.
I swear on my heart that I would treat it with respect if it did not claim to be based on the Christian religion and beleive in the Bible, and the title of this were not “Mormon shift toward more traditional Chrsitianity?”
And, you quoted that wrong. It says Is it not written in your law, 'I have said, you are God’s" . Notice that it has an ’ on it, signifying possession. Why would God contradict His own word? It is written numerous times that Yahweh is the ONLY God. He tells no lies. He is Truth. He never lies to His followers.
God, mother goddess
There is a mother god, (Articles of Faith, by James Talmage, p. 443.)
God is married to his goddess wife and has spirit children, (Mormon Doctrine p. 516.)
It is a common Mormon beleif that Mother Goddess was not included in His word because God loved her so much that He could not stand to see her blasphemied. Where is there proof of that? You may as well say, too, that God had a magical pet hampster named Greg whom had 10000 eyes that He loved so much that He couldnt include him in the bible for fear of him being blashpemied. Again, Exodus 22:2-3
God the Father had a Father, (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 476; Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, p. 19; Milton Hunter, First Council of the Seventy, Gospel through the Ages, p. 104-105.)
Yet another anti-christian Mormon beleif is the thought that God had a father. The Father had a Father? Revelation 2:17:
When I caught sight of him I fell down at his feet as though dead. He touched me with his right hand and said: “There is nothing to fear. I AM THE FIRST AND THE LAST.” There was nobody before Him, and there shall be nobody after Him.
Also read yet again Exodus 22:2-3.
God used to be a man on another planet, Mormon Doctrine, p. 321. Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, Vol 5, pp. 613-614; Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol 2, p. 345, Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 333.)
“The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s…” (D&C 130:22).
God is in the form of a man, (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3.)
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!!! . . . We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea and take away the veil, so that you may see” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345
God resides near a star called Kolob, (Pearl of Great Price, pages 34-35; Mormon Doctrine, p. 428.)
What? A man from another planet? Ill run out of room trying to rebuke this one. On to more Mormon teachings in the next post.
BJ
