Mormonism Teaches
SALVATION:
Salvation in its full sense means that mortals can progress to become gods. [Mormon Doctrine, p.237; Doctrine and Covenants 76:52-58]
It is only through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where people can find salvation.
[Mormon Doctrine, p. 670]
Salvation by grace alone only pertains to the resurrection of the body and not to eternal life in the kingdom of God.
[Mormon Doctrine, p.671]
GOD:
God the Father has a physical body of flesh and bones.
[Doctrine and Covenants 130:22]
The Father had a father, who had a father, and so on from generation to generation. [The Seer, p. 132]
God the Father developed spiritually, meaning He did not eternally exist as God. [Eternal Progression - Study Guide #4, p. 1; Mormon Doctrine, p. 589]
There is more than one god.
[Abraham 4:1-5:21]
JESUS:
Jesus was born as a spirit child to the Father in a pre-existence.
[Mormon Doctrine, p. 278]
Jesus was the first spirit that was born to heavenly parents and is ours and Satan's elder spirit-brother.
[Doctrine and Covenants 93:21; Abraham 3:22-28; Moses 4:1; Mormon Doctrine, p.192]
HUMANITY:
We are all literally spirit-children of God being born to parents previous to being born to our mortal parents.
[Bible Dictionary, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, p 776; A Marvelous Work and A Wonder, p. 40; Abraham 5:7]
We can progress to become gods. [Mormon Doctrine, p. 751; The Seer, pp. 103,117]
Bible Teaches
SALVATION:
The teaching that mortals can become gods originated from Satan. Read Genesis 3:1-5
It is only through God's grace and mercy where one can find salvation. Read Romans 3:20-28; Romans 11:6; Galatians 2:16,21
Salvation is a gift of God. Those who are saved become heirs and will sit together in heavenly places. Read Titus 3:5-7; Ephesians 2:4-9
GOD:
The Father does not have a physical body. God is spirit.
Read John 4:24; Numbers 23:19
God the Father did not have a father. He existed as God eternally.
Read Isaiah 44:6-8; 43:10
God the Father did not develop spiritually. He is the unchanging God.
Read Malachi 3:6; Psalm 90:2
There is only one God.
Read Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:18
JESUS:
Jesus was not born as a spirit-child to heavenly parents. He is the eternal creator of all things, including all the spirit beings in existence. He is the one and only eternal God. Read Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 1:17-18 compare with Isaiah 44:6; John 1:3,10; Colossians 1:16-17
HUMANITY:
We did not exist as spirit-children prior to being born here on earth. Read Genesis 2:7, 18-25; Job 38:1-7; Zechariah 12:1; 1 Corinthians 15:46
As finite creatures we will never become infinite gods the same as our Father is. Read Isaiah 40:25; 43:10; 44:6-8; 45:18; Psalm 45:17; 48:14
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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)