From what I’ve read at
Mormon.org and what devout Mormons have told me, the official teaching of the church is that God is God and the Christ is one of many of His children. Christ was chosen to be sent as the savior. The official site of the LDS never once states that Christ is God, only that “Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Under the direction of your Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ created the earth.” (
mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/jesus-christ-our-savior/jesus-christ)
“God is God” is a nonsensical assertion. We believe that the Father is God, and we also believe that the Son is God. What we
don’t believe is the false theology of apostate Christendom that the Father and the Son are somehow mixed up together in some kind of absurd monstrosity that nobody is supposed to comprehend.
Only Mormon states that: . . .
“Only Mormon” is not the source from which I get my understanding of LDS doctrine from, and neither for that matter is this:
LDS.org states that:
“
On first hearing, the doctrine that Lucifer and our Lord, Jesus Christ, are brothers may seem surprising to some—especially to those unacquainted with latter-day revelations. But both the scriptures and the prophets affirm that Jesus Christ and Lucifer are indeed offspring of our Heavenly Father and, therefore, spirit brothers. … We can only imagine the sorrow of our Heavenly Father as he watched a loved son incite and lead a rebellion and lose his opportunity for exaltation. But we can also imagine the Father’s love and rejoicing as he welcomed back the beloved son who had valiantly and perfectly fought the battles of life and brought about the great Atonement through his suffering and death.” (
lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=4a10ef960417b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1)
Now, you were saying?
I was saying that I obtain my understanding of LDS doctrine from the scriptural canon of the LDS Church, which we call the standard works, not from any other source. In my blog post I had explained what that is. If you have any comments on that, please continue.
In John 10:30, Christ states that “The Father and I are One.”
And in John 17 Christ states that:
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one, as we are.
21 That
they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;
that they may be one, even as we are one:
Now you were saying?
The teachings on the Holy Trinity are not false. How can you claim that the “revelation” of a doubting occultist/Gnostic is true and turn you nose up at the truth laid forth in the Bible.
I was turning up my nose at the false theology of apostate Christendom, not at the Bible. Please don’t twist what I say. Christianity is apostate; that is why it has all those false doctrines in it. Joseph Smith was a true prophet who came to rectify those errors.
I am not anti-Mormon nor am I a Mormon apostate. . . . I have not once quoted an anti-Mormon, either.
You must think that people are very stupid. All the trash that you have posted above comes straight out of anti-Mormonism. You did not come to that conclusion just by reading the LDS website.
I was never and will never be a member of the church founded by Joseph Smith in the 19th century.
You mean you will not have the privilage. And what did you think I should do about that?
zerinus
You may do so right there in the comment section of my blog if you wish. I do not delete posts unless they contain profanity or vulgarity.