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THE NATURE OF GOD
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There is but ONE GOD. The BIBLE states that there has been, and
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presently is, and always will be only ONE GOD. History and the BIBLE
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show that the Jewish people always believed in ONE GOD of the
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UNIVERSE. The Jewish nation; However, was lured, time and time again,
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into going after "other gods" that were worshipped by the people
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surrounding Israel. That was the sin GOD hated and punished them for
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practicing. (Jeremiah 2:11 11:9-13 19:13)
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In direct contrast, MORMONISM has a basic belief in many gods. The
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Father, Son and Holy Ghost (in Mormonism) are three separate gods.
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There were gods before them and will be gods to follow: "If we should
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take a million worlds like this and number their particles, we should
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find that there are more gods than there are particles of matter in
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those worlds." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, Vol 2, page 345 [Feb 1855] Orson
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Pratt
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"Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son, and the Holy
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Spirit are only one God. I say that is a strange God, anyhow - Three
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in one and one in three. It is a curious organization ... all are to
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be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the
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biggest God in all the world ... he would be a giant or a monster."
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TEACHING OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH, page 372; HISTORY OF THE CHURCH,
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Vol 6, page 476
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"In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the
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Gods, and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world
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and people it." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, JOSEPH SMITH, Vol 6, page 5;
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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, Vol 6, page 308
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Mormons will say they worship only one God; But, whether they
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worship them or not, believing in the valid existence of many gods --
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of the same authority and reality of the one God -- makes you a
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polytheist!
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False Prophets have always led the people of history (and the
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current peoples of the earth) to go after other gods (Deuteronomy 13:1
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to 13). God's strongest wrath was then and is now upon people who
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worship or believe in other gods (Jeremiah 16:10 to 13 and 22:8 & 9).
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Mormonism teaches that "Father God" is married and has many wives:
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"In the heaven where our spirits were born, there are many Gods, each
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of whom has his own wife or wives, which were given to him previous to
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his redemption while yet in his mortal state." THE SEER, Orson Pratt,
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page 37
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Look up John 10:34 used by Mormons to justify a belief in "many
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Gods". Jesus, there, is quoting Psalm 82 in which the judges were
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referred to as "gods" -- but were wicked and unjust and "die like all
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men".
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Anytime the word "gods" occur in the BIBLE it must be verified in
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context as referring to the idols, satanic princes or counterfeit gods
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- (Isaiah 41:23 and 24 and 45:20).
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IN CONTRAST The BIBLE states throughout there is but ONE GOD! Look
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up these verses:
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ISAIAH 43:10-11 "Before me NO god was formed, nor after"
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44:6-8
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"I am the first and the last, beside me no other"
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45:5-6
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"I am the Lord, and there is no other"
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45:18-22 "HE created the heavens and earth-there is no other"
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DEUT 6:4
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"Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord"
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32:39
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"There is no god beside me"
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PSALM 86:10
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"Thou alone art God"
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MARK 12:29
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"Jesus said, the Lord our God is one; no other"
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GAL 3:20
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"God is one"
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JAMES 2:19
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"You believe God is one - you do well"
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EPH 4:5-6
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"One God and Father of us all"
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I COR 8:4-6
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"There is no god but me"
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GOD IS INFINITE: The BIBLE states that God has always been the same
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from all time in eternity past and does not change. In direct
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opposition to this, the Mormon Church has the basic belief that God
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was once a man, with many gods before Him and many gods to come after
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Him. They further believe that God is progressing to higher levels of
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power and ability: "God himself was once as we are now, and is an
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exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens ... it is necessary
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that we should understand the character and being of God, and how He
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came to be so; for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We
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have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will
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refute that idea, and will take away the veil, so that you may see ...
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he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself the Father of us all,
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dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ did. "TEACHINGS OF THE
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PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH, page 345; JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES Vol 6, page 3;
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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, Vol 6, page 305
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"As man is, God once was; as
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God is, man may become." THE GOSPEL THROUGH THE AGES, Milton R.
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Hunter, pages 105 & 106
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"Our Eternal Father has attained His position of exaltation and
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Godhood by obedience to the great law of progression ... was once a
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mortal man who passed through a school of earth-life similar to that
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which we are now passing." THE GOSPEL THROUGH THE AGES, Milton R.
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Hunter, pages 12 & 104
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"Through modern revelations we learn that the universe is filled
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with vast numbers of intelligences, and we further learn that Elohim
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is God simply because all of these intelligences honor and sustain him
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as such --- But God acquired the honor and sustaining influence of
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'all things'. It follows as a corrolary that if He should ever do
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anything to violate the confidence of 'sense of justice' of these
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intelligences, they would promptly withdraw their support, and the
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'power' of God would disintegrate --- He would cease to be God. Our
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Heavenly Father can do only those things which the intelligences under
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Him are voluntarily willing to support Him in accomplishing." THE
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FIRST 2000 YEARS, W. Cleon Skousen *,pages 355,356 *=FREEMEN INSTITUTE
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PRESIDENT & B.Y.U. Professor
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Mormonism teaches that God is confined to a body of flesh and
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bones. He is at a particular place at a particular time. The Mormon
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"god" is a SMALL "god". You can have tremendous faith in a god - BUT,
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if that god is not THE GOD, then all that tremendous faith is
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meaningless. Elijah once challenged the priests of "another god" to
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start a fire, and the "god" who was able to do so would be recognized
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as THE GOD. The priests for this wooden idol, with great faith and
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efforts prayed and prayed to their god to bring down fire to prove his
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godhood. Elijah even became somewhat sarcastic when he asked a
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rhetorical question of "Maybe your god is asleep? Maybe you should cry
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out louder to wake him up?". After all these efforts, nothing
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happened! It didn't matter if the priest and believers of that "god"
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had a great faith because the OBJECT of that faith was incapable of
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fulfilling the promise of that faith. The ONE and TRUE GOD fulfills
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our prayers.
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"If God possesses a form, that form is of necessity of definite
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proportions, and therefore of limited extension and space. It is
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impossible for Him to occupy at one time more than one space of such
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limits." ARTICLES OF FAITH, James E. Talmage, pages 42 and 43
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"I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all
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description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me,
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calling me by name and said, pointing to the other -'This is my
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Beloved Son. Hear Him!" PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, Joseph Smith 2:17
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"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's.
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DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS, 130, v:22
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"God himself is increasing in knowledge, power, and dominion and
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will do so, worlds without end." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, Prophet
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Wilford Woodruff, Vol 6, Pg 120
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"We were begotten by our Father in heaven; the person of our Father
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in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and
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again, He was begotten by still a more ancient Father ...." THE SEER,
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Orson Pratt, Page 132
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The BIBLE states throughout that GOD IS INFINITE! We ask that you
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look up these proofs:
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II CHRONICLES 6:18 "Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot
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contain thee."
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PSALM 41:13 (90:2) "God is from everlasting to everlasting"
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PSALM 102:25-27
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"created heavens, always the same without end"
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PSALM 139:4-8
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"Omniscient and Omnipresent"
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JEREMIAH 23:24
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"I fill heaven and earth"
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HOSEA 11:9
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"I am God, and not man"
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MALACHI 4:39
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"I do not change"
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NEHEMIAH 9:6
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"made Heaven, Heaven of Heavens and all their host"
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PROVERBS 15:3
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"His eyes in every place"
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ACTS 17:27
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"He is not far from each of us"
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JOHN 4:24
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"God is Spirit"
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LUKE 24:39
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"A Spirit has not flesh and bones"
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HEBREWS 4:13
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"All things opened unto His eyes"
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I JOHN 4:12
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"No man has seen God at any time"
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I TIMOTHY 6:15
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"No man has seen, nor can see ..."
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JOHN 1:18
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"No man has seen God at any time"
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EXODUS 33:20
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"There shall be no man see me and live"
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It is clear that the BIBLE refutes the Mormon church's claims and
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the claims of its prophets and leaders in a most specific manner.
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Brigham Young, second Prophet and President of the Mormon Church
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taught that ADAM was "our Father and our God...": "When our father
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Adam came into the Garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial
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body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him ... He is our Father
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and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do ... When the
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Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten Him in
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His own likeness. He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is
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the Father? He is the first of the human family ...." JOURNAL OF
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DISCOURSES, Vol 1, page 50, April 9,1852
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"I have learned by experience that there is but one God that
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pertains to this people, and He is the God that pertains to this earth
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- the first man. That first man sent His own Son to redeem the world
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..." JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES, Vol 4, pg 1, June 29, 1856 Prophet &
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President Heber C. Kimball
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"How much unbelief exist in the minds of the Latter-Day Saints in
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regard to a particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which
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God revealed to me -- namely, that Adam is our Father and our God ...
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Our Father, Adam helped to make this earth, it was created expressly
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for him ... He brought one of his wives with him, and she was called
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Eve ... Our Father Adam is the man who stands at the gate and holds
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the keys of everlasting life and salvation to all his children.."
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DESERET NEWS, June 18,1873: Discourse by Prophet and President Brigham
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Young
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Today, the Mormon Church adamantly denies the "ADAM-GOD" doctrine
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taught, and as seen above, and affirmed by "Prophet" Brigham Young.
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There is overwhelming evidence that he did teach, believed and
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strongly defended this belief. By any, reasonable, interpretation of
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the BIBLE, Brigham Young must be classified as a FALSE PROPHET (see
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Deuteronomy 13:1 to 10 and 18:20 to 22 - also Jeremiah 23:16 to 17)
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ADAM is not OUR god and NEVER will be!
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The BIBLE states: "... then the Lord God formed man of dust from
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the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
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became a living being." (Genesis 2:7)
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GOD is ONE and ETERNALLY the same. Creator of the Heavens and the
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Earth ... All powerful, all knowing, all present. Despite the fact
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that HE is INFINITE, he knows every hair on our heads and has a plan
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for each of our lives (John 3:16 & 10:10). It is far better to have a
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small faith in THE TRUE GOD of the universe than to have a great faith
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in a small, counterfeit god.
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One should keep in mind that faith in a "counterfeit" god is really
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no more than a misplaced faith in the false prophet and the teaching
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of a false Prophet. Remember - a counterfeit - to be called a
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counterfeit - must "resemble" the GENUINE item. If there are many
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"counterfeit" gods, then there must be a REAL GOD, and HE is found in
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the scriptures and in everything that surrounds us.
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Computers for Christ - San Jose
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For more information see below:
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