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