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The Jesus WE KNOW contrasted to the "Jesus" of Mormonism
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The one true Jesus of the BIBLE, of all eternity God the Son, who
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died that we may have eternal life; who paid the price of all sins; who
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has entered our lives and is walking with us in a personal relationship
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day by day -- is not known in Mormonism. The Jesus of Mormonism is an
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entirely different "Jesus". Let's examine what the leaders and prophets
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- the foundation of the Latter Day Saints Church - have said:
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"When the time came that His First-Born, the Saviour, should come
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into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father Himself came and
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favoured the Spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any
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other MAN do it .... The Saviour was begotten by the Father of
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His spirit, by the same being who is the Father of our spirits,
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and that is all the organic difference between Jesus Christ and
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you and me"
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(BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of Discourses, 4:218)
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"The fleshly body of Jesus required a Mother as well as a Father.
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Therefore, the Father and Mother of Jesus, according to the
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flesh, must have been associated together in the capacity of
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Husband and Wife; hence the Virgin Mary must have been, for the
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time being, the lawful wife of God the Father."
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(ORSON PRATT, The Seer, pg 158)
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"Christ was begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that
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mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers ----- And Christ was
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born into the world as the Literal Son of this Holy Being; He was
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born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any
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mortal son is born of a mortal father. There is nothing
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figurative about his paternity; He was begotten, conceived and
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born in the normal and natural course of events, for He is the
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Son of God, and that designation means what it says."
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(BRUCE R. McCONKIE, Mormon Doctrine, pg 547,742)
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Brigham Young, to be consistent with his "Adam-God" doctrine,
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believed Adam was the literal father of Jesus Christ:
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"When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had
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begotten him in his own likeness. He was not begotten by the
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Holy Ghost. And who is the Father? He is the first of the human
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family ... Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by
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the same character that was in the Garden of Eden, and who is our
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Father in Heaven."
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(BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of Discourses, 1:50,51)
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As is evident in these statements, there is no Virgin Birth in
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Mormonism. On the other hand, the Bible clearly shows us:
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Matthew 1:18 Mary with child of the Holy Spirit
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1:20 That which is conceived in her is of the
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Holy Spirit
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1:23 Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a
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son
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Luke 1:35 The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
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power of the Most High will overshadow you
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Further, the "Jesus" of Mormonism was married in polygamy and had
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children. This had to be so to be consistent with the doctrines of
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Joseph Smith, Junior. As Joseph reports as a "revelation" given him by
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God on July 12,1843:
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"I am the Lord thy God .... obey the instructions I am about to
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give unto you .... if ye abide not that covenant, then ye are
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damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to
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enter my Glory .... verily I say unto you, if man marry a wife
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by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting
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covenant .... they shall be gods .... And again, as pertaining to
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the law of the priesthood - if any man espouses a virgin, and
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desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if
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he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no
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other man, then he is justified .... and if he have ten virgins
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given unto him by the law, he cannot commit adultery, for they
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belong to him."
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(JOSEPH SMITH, Doctrine & Covenants, 132:2,3,4,19,20,61,62)
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"It will be borne in mind that once on a time, there was a
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marriage in Cana of Galilee, and on a careful reading of that
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transaction, it will be discovered that no less a person than
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Jesus Christ was married on that occasion."
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(ORSON HYDE, Journal of Discourses, 13:259)
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"How was it with Mary and Martha, and other women that followed
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Him? In old times, and it is common to this day, the women, even
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Sarah, called their husbands 'LORD' .... Jesus was the bridegroom
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at the marriage of Cana of Galilee .... We say it was Jesus
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Christ who was married, to be brought into relation whereby he
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could see his seed, before He was crucified .... I shall say
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here, that before the Saviour died, he looked upon His own
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natural children, as we look upon ours."
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(ORSON HYDE, Journal of Discourses, 2:81,82)
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The Bible states that Jesus is God the Son -- eternally existent
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with God the Father -- yet Mormon doctrine says Jesus was a spirit
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offspring of the Father; that Lucifer was the second spirit offspring
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(THEY WERE BROTHERS?!); followed by billions more - or each of us, for
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instance. We are "brothers" and "sisters" of Jesus Christ. Jesus is not
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the only begotten Son in Mormon Theology:
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"It makes me think of that second person that came forth in the
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heavens when the voice went forth: 'Who will redeem the earth,
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who will go forth and make the sacrifice for the earth and all
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things it contains?'. The Eldest son said: 'Here am I'; but he
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did not say 'send me.' But the second one, which was 'Lucifer,
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Son of the Morning,' said, 'Lord, here am I, send me, I will
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redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the
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earth."
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(BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of Discourses, 13:282)
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"The appointment of Jesus to be Saviour of the world was
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contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called
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Lucifer, Son of the Morning .... this spirit brother of Jesus
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desperately tried to become the Saviour of Mankind."
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MILTON R. HUNTER (First Council of 70)
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The Gospel Through the Ages, pg 15 [1958]
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"Jesus Christ is also of our species .... I have heard sectarian
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priests undertake to tell the character of the Son of God, and
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they make him half of one species and half of another, and I
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could not avoid thinking at once of a mule."
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(BRIGHAM YOUNG, Journal of Discourses, 4:217)
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"There is no impropriety .... in speaking of Jesus Christ as the
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elder brother of the rest of human kind."
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(JAMES TALMAGE, ARTICLES OF FAITH, pg 473)
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In Mormonism, Jesus was a created being:
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"Jesus is man's spiritual brother. We dwelt with Him in the
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spirit world as members of that large society of our eldest
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brother."
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(MILTON R. HUNTER, Gospel Through the Ages, pg 21)
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"The devil is a spirit son of God who was born in the morning of
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pre-existence."
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(BRUCE R. McCONKIE, Mormon Doctrine, "Devil", 1966 edition, pg
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192) "There are three Gods - the Father, Son and Holy Ghost."
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(BRUCE R. McCONKIE, Mormon Doctrine,"God", pg 317)
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The REAL JESUS, the ONLY Son of God and God the Son, is proclaimed
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throughout the BIBLE! Look up these references and tie-ins of Old and
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New testaments declaring Jesus' Divinity and NOT being created:
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LOOK UP and COMPARE WITH
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Psalm 24:10 I Corinthians 2:8
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Psalm 45:6,7 Hebrews 1:8
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Isaiah 8:13 I Peter 2:8
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Isaiah 40:3 Matthew 3:3
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Malachi 3:1 Matthew 11:10
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Psalm 102:27 Hebrews 13:8
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James 1:17
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Psalm 102:25 Colossians 1:16
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Psalm 102:26 Matthew 24:35
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2 Peter 3:7,10
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JOHN 1:1-3,14
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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
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the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All
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things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made
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that was made .... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
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us, (and we beheld His glory, the Glory as of the ONLY begotten
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of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
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COLOSSIANS 1:15
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"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
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creature" [Here 'firstborn' does not mean first 'spirit-child',
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rather a position of high honor - see verse 18, Hebrews 12:23,
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Revelation 1:5, and Psalm 89:27]. The next verses, 16 and 17,
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tell us, "For in Him were all things created, that are in heaven,
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and that are on the earth .... All things were created by Him,
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and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things
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consist."
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HEBREWS 1:10
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"Thou, Lord (Jesus), in the beginning hast laid the foundation of
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the earth, and the heavens are the work of thine hands."
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In Isaiah 44:24 God tells us that He "stretched forth the heavens
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alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself." Jesus, who IS the
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TRUTH and God the Father "have no lies within them" and are INCAPABLE OF
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TELLING A LIE. Jesus is God the Son, eternally One with the Father and
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the Holy Spirit, and not to be confused. God the Son is not God the
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Father and God the father is not God the Holy Spirit, but each entity is
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a part of the ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD.
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ISAIAH 9:6
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"For unto us a child is born .... his name shall be called
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Wonderful Counselor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
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Prince of Peace."
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MICAH 5:2
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"Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
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MATTHEW 28:18
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"And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, 'All power is given
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unto me in heaven and in earth.'"
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PHILIPPIANS 2:6-10
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"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
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equal with God: .... was made in the likeness of men .... became
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obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God
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also hath highly exalted him .... That at the name of Jesus every
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knee should bow ...." Compare to Isaiah 45:22,23 for if Jesus is
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not God, then we worship two (or more) Gods! The Mormons,
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basically, do not worship Jesus, or pray to Him, only "through"
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Him.)
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COLOSSIANS 2:9
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"For in Him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily"
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HEBREWS 1:3
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"... The express image of His person ...."
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JOHN 5:23
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"That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the
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Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father
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which hath sent Him."
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JOHN 20:28
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"And Thomas answered and said unto Him, 'My Lord and my God.'"
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Jesus used the same descriptions of himself; I AM, ALPHA and OMEGA,
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FIRST and LAST; as used by God the Father:
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JESUS SAYING GOD
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JOHN 8:58 I AM EXODUS 3:14,15
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REV 22:13,16 ALPHA AND OMEGA REV 1:8 & 21:6
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REV 1:17 REVELATION 21:6
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2:8 FIRST AND LAST ISAIAH 44:6
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22:13 48:12
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Jesus is GOD the SON! Eternally God and not after, or created by, or
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a spirit child of God! Our Jesus is NOT the "Jesus" of Mormonism, and we
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are empowered, if we have accepted the true Jesus into our hearts, to
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give Thanks unto God for selecting us to reveal His True Son to us.
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HALLELUJAH and AMEN !!!
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For more information see below:
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