Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Is Mormonism Just Another Flavor of Christianity?

Many people have come to the belief that Mormonism is just another flavor of Christianity, like baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, etc. But is that really true? Let's look at one of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity and compare it with what Mormonism, aka Joseph Smithianity, teaches. We will examine the Trinity. One of the most important qualifiers on determining if a religion is Christian or not should be the Trinity, the belief in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as three distinct persons, yet coming together as one God. The trinity is eternal and has therefore always existed. Mormonism, on the other hand, teaches that God the Father (or in Mormon lingo, Heavenly Father) is a created human being just like us, only he was created on another planet in a galaxy far far away, a very long time ago. But, he was "good" and earned his way into an exalted status as a "god." Mormons teach, that we can also eventually be "gods," if we are good Mormons. Now, heavenly father having reached godhood was put in charge of his own planet. (by whom? i do not know, and i don't believe Mormons do either. at least I've never heard them or anyone else explain it.) He created it and gave birth to spirit babies. The first being Jesus, the second being Lucifer, also known as Satan. According to Mormonism, Jesus and the devil are brothers. Already, you can see that this is extremely different than biblical Christianity since both God the Father and God the Son are created beings. Not eternal as the Bible proclaims. The reason that Lucifer, according to Mormonism, was banished from heaven was because he was jealous that Jesus was chosen to be the Messiah. This completely flies in the face of what the Bible actually teaches. The holy spirit, according to Mormonism, is entirely separate from God and is its own being. In conclusion, one of the most important aspects of Christianity is perverted beyond recognition in Mormonism. Yes, they do have their own version of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but have it so perverted from what the bible clearly teaches. To substantiate their lack of credibility from the Bible, Mormon leaders made up their own "bibles." (book of Mormon, pearl of great price, etc...) To answer the question that I started with, NO!!! Mormonism is completely different than Christianity and would more accurately be called a denomination of Hinduism, since Hinduism believes in countless gods and Mormonism believes that we can all be gods. So, the next time you hear of a Mormon calling himself (or herself) a christian, you will now that in all actuality, they couldn't be much more different.

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