Whose Jesus is the Real Jesus…
The Mormons’ or the Bibles’?
By
Until
recently, Mormons would vehemently deny any association with the term ‘Christian,’
or, ‘Christianity.’ According to Mormon
teaching, Joseph Smith was searching for the ‘true
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appeared to
him in a vision and told him not to join any church because the ‘true
church was not on the earth’ (Gospel Principles, Pg. 110). In
this vision, Joseph Smith was also told that the teachings of present
churches were ‘an abomination in his sight’ (Joseph Smith History,
We are warned in II Corinthians
11:3-4 that even those with sincere devotion to Christ can be led astray
by those who preach a different Jesus, another spirit, or a different
gospel. Galatians
1:6-8 also warns against following those who would try to pervert the
Gospel, or preach another gospel and Paul warns of their eternal condemnation. |
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With limited time and space we cannot do a complete exploration of
the ‘different gospel’ of the LDS Church, but in the spirit of Easter, let’s
spend a little time comparing the ‘different Jesus’ of the LDS Church to the
Jesus of the Bible.
Just
who is the Mormon Jesus?
The
Furthermore,
Jesus’ birth was the result of a physical act of incest between God and Mary. “Thus,
God the Father became the literal father of Jesus Christ … Jesus is the only
person on earth to be born of a mortal mother and an immortal father.” (Gospel Principles, Pg. 64) “The fleshly
body of Jesus required a mother as well as a father. Therefore, the father and mother of Jesus, according to the flesh must have been
associated together in the capacity of husband and wife; hence the virgin Mary
must have been, for the time being, the lawful wife of God the father. We use the term lawful wife, because it would
be blasphemous in the highest degree to say he overshadowed her or begat the
savior unlawfully.”(The Seer by
Apostle Orson Pratt, Pg.158) Our LDS friends will claim that Jesus was born of
a ‘virgin,’ but they simply mean that prior to ‘Heavenly Father,’ Mary had no
physical ‘relations’ with a man.
As
if that wasn’t enough, the
In contrast, who is the Jesus of the Bible?
The
Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is
God and is the creator of all things – including Lucifer. Genesis
1:1 tells us that God created the heavens and the earth and John 1:1 reminds us that Jesus IS God
and was present at creation. When, in their thoughts, people accused Jesus of
casting out demons in the name of the devil in Matthew 12:22-28; Jesus knew their thoughts and claimed before them
that He was the Kingdom of God come unto them.
All
of the claims Jesus made about Himself, and all of the claims that others made
about Jesus is given validity in the fact that Jesus was born of a virgin
through a miracle of the Holy Spirit.
This was prophesied in the Old
Testament (Isaiah
Nowhere
in the Bible can the teaching be
found that Jesus was ever married, nor that He fathered children. The absence of something so significant as
Jesus’ ‘wife/wives’ and ‘children,’ from the Bible seems evidence enough that they did not exist. All of Jesus’ other physical relationships
are mentioned (Mother, brothers, and step-father – Joseph, cousin – John the
Baptist, etc.).
Conclusion
Though
the summary is somewhat brief, the evidence is clear – Mormons preach a
different Jesus just as Paul warned about in II Corinthians 11:4, and in so doing, they preach a different gospel
which Paul warned about in Galatians
1:6-10. Thus, claims of ‘Christianity’ by
the
During
this Easter season, let us rejoice that as CHRISTIANS, we worship a risen Savior -- God incarnate, creator of all
things. Let us pray for our Mormon
neighbors who have been deceived by a false gospel and worship a different
Jesus.
