The LDS church, which Mormons call "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", prints out copies of the King James Version of the Holy Bible. A Bible Dictionary is provided in the back of many editions. On page 681 of their 1993 edition, it reads:
When one speaks of God, it is generally the Father who is referred to; that is, Elohim. . . The personage known as Jehovah in Old Testament times, and who is usually identified in the Old Testament as Lord (in capital letters), is the Son, known as Jesus Christ, and who is also a God.
Mormons are right when they say that Jesus is Jehovah, but notice that Jehovah and Elohim are identified as two distinct gods. There is a major flaw in this kind of thinking. A careful study of these names in the Bible, will reveal that they are interchangeable names for the one true God. An example of this can be found in Deuteronomy 4:35.
Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none beside him.
When read with the actual Hebrew names for Lord and God in this passage, it reads:
Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that Jehovah he is Elohim; there is none beside him.
Mormon Theology forces this passage to say that God the Son is God the Father, which is of course, contradictory. Notice also that it says there is none beside him, not them - which is what it would have to say if Jehovah and Elohim were different beings.
Other passages you can look up are Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 100:3, and 1 Kings 18:39.
Mormonism teaches that Jehovah and Elohim are names of two separate gods. The Bible teaches that there is only one God.
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The Mormon Religion was officially founded by Joseph Smith Jr. on April 6. 1830 after the Book of Mormon (BOM) was published in that same year.
Joseph Smith Jr. was born in Vermont on December 23, 1805. He claimed that when he was 14, he received a vision from God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees near his home where he received instructions not to join any of the Christian churches because they were all wrong.
Three years later, Smith claimed that an angel named Moroni (a character found in the BOM) appeared to him in his bedroom whom he said revealed to him that he was selected to translate "Reformed Egyptian" (a language that does not exist) from gold plates into old English. These plates were supposedly hidden near Palmyra, New York and are said to be written around the 4th century. The BOM was named after Moroni’s father, Mormon. Mormons view the BOM as sacred. No one is able to study the original plates because Joseph Smith claimed the angel took them back on May 2, 1838 (History of the Church 1:60).
Smith had a scribe named Cowdery. Smith did not actually translate directly from any plates. Rather, in his writings, he said he placed a "seer stone" in a hat and covered any light from entering it as he placed his face in the hat. According to Martin Harris, “By aid of the seer stone, sentences would appear and were read by the Prophet . . . , and when finished he would say, ‘Written,’ and if correctly written, that sentence would disappear and another appear in its place, but if not written correctly it remained until corrected,” Smith said, “By the power of God I translated the Book of Mormon from hieroglyphics".
Despite such methods of translation, there have been at least 3,913 changes made in the BOM from the time it was first published. Joseph Smith stated, “I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.” Smith also claimed that John the Baptist appeared to him on May 15, 1829 while he was translating the BOM, and instructed him to restore the church by preaching the only true gospel.
Mormons regard the BOM as sacred writings, and view it in higher standing than that of the Holy Bible. Mormon Missionaries will ask you to pray that it is true. (See our page Pray to Know)