DOCTRINAL DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN MORMON DOCTRINE
AND BIBLICAL DOCTRINE
SEE: The Article,
TERMINOLOGY
DIFFERENCES
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SUBJECT
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MORMON DOCTRINE (LDS)
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BIBLICAL DOCTRINE
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GOD
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LDS
GOD HAD A BEGINNING
"We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity I will refute that
idea. ...god himself the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself
did..."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, 1844, Vol. 6,
p. 3.
"He [God] is our Father -- the Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we
are, and is now an exalted being."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7. p.
333.
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BIBLE
GOD IS ETERNAL
"The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and He drove
out the enemy from before you, and said, 'Destroy!'"
Deuteronomy 33:27 (NAS).
"Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting,"
Psalm 93:2
(NAS).
"Before the mountains were born or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting, You are God,"
Psalm 90:2 (NAS).
"Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who
can reverse it,"
Isaiah 43:13 (NAS).
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GOD
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LDS
GOD HAD A FATHER AND MOTHER
"We were begotten by our father in heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was
begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, he was begotten by
a still more ancient Father, and so on from generation to generation, from one heavenly
world to another still more ancient..."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, 1853, p. 132.
"Brother Kimbal quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a god
who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if he had not a mother; the one
would be as absurd as the other."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 9, p.
286.
". . . as the Prophet also taught, there is 'a God above the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ . . .'"
(LDS) Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966, p. 322.
"Implicit in the Christian verity that all men are the spirit children of an Eternal Father is the
usually unspoken truth that they are also the offspring of an Eternal Mother. An exalted and
glorified Man of Holiness (Moses 6:57) could not be a Father unless a Woman of the
like glory, perfection, and holiness was associated with him as a Mother. The begetting of
children makes a man a father and a woman a mother whether we are dealing with man in his
mortal or immortal state."
(LDS) Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966, p. 516.
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BIBLE
GOD IS SELF-EXISTING
"God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM'; and He said, 'Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I
AM has sent me to you.'"
Holy Bible, Exodus 3:24 (NAS).
"Before the mountains were born, or You gave birth to the earth and the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting, You are God."
Holy Bible, Psalm 90:2 (NAS).
"Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?:
Holy Bible, Habakkuk 1:12a (NAS).
"Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting."
Holy Bible, Psalm 93:2 (NAS).
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GOD
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LDS
GOD WAS ONCE A MAN
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder
heavens. That is the great secret."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, 1844, Vol. 6,
p. 3.
God ". . . is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man, a glorified, resurrected Personage
having a tangible body of flesh and bones, an anthropomorphic Entity . . ."
(LDS) Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966, p. 250.
"The Gods who dwell in the heaven . . . have been redeemed from the grave in a world which
existed before the foundations of this earth were laid. They and the heavenly body which they
now inhabit were once in a fallen state . . . they were exalted also, from fallen men to Celestial
Gods to inhabit their heaven forever and ever."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, 1853, p. 23.
SEE: The Article, THE GOD Of THE MORMONS WAS ONCE JUST A
MAN
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BIBLE
GOD IS NOT A MAN
"God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has he said,
and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Holy bible, Numbers 23:19 (NAS).
"Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should
change His mind."
Holy Bible, 1 Samuel 15:29 (NAS).
""'I will not execute My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. for I am god and not man, the
Holy One in your midst, and i will not come in wrath."
Holy Bible, Hosea 11:9 (NAS).
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GOD
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LDS
GOD HAS A PHYSICAL BODY
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder
heavens. That is the great secret."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses,
1844, Vol. 6, p. 3.
"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants,
1843, Vol. 130, p. 22.
"...what kind of a being do the Latter-day Saints worship? Let me reply according to my
understanding.. . . God the father is a material personal being; that he has a body and a spirit united
together; that his spirit with his body is material; that he is a personage just as much as every man in this
congregation is a personage; and let me go still further and say that he is a personage of flesh and of
bones. . . . god is a being, then, who has a tabernacle of flesh and bones in which his spirit dwells; and
this flesh, bones and spirit are material."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 19, p. 314
"Our God and Father in heaven, is a being of tabernacle, or, in other words, he has a body,
with parts the same as you and I have..."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p.
50
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BIBLE
GOD IS A SPIRIT
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit an truth."
Holy Bible, John 4:24 (NAS).
NOTE: Since Jesus Christ made the statement, He has more authority than the Mormon
prophets.
NOTE: The Book of Mormon also states that God is a spirit:
"And the king said: Is god that Great Spirit that brought our fathers our of the land of Jerusalem?
And Aaron said to him: Yea, he is hat great spirit, and he created all things both in heaven and in earth.
Believest thou this?"
Book of Mormon, Alma 22:9-10.
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GOD
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LDS
GOD IS A POLYGAMIST
"Each succeeding generation of gods follow the example of the preceding ones:
each generation have their wives who raise up from the fruit of their loins immortal spirits:
when their families become numerous, they organize new worlds for them... ...they place
their families upon the same...""
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, 1853, pp. 134-135
"Our Father Adam helped to make this earth, it was created expressly for him, and after it
was made he and his companions came here. He brought one of his wives with him, and she
was called Eve..."
(LDS) Prophet Brigham Young, Deseret News, June 18, 1873, p. 308
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BIBLE
GOD IS NOT MARRIED
The Bible is silent regarding the issue of God having a wife or God having many wives. God never
mentions a marriage in heaven and Jesus Christ never addresses the issue, even though Mormons
consider marriage in heaven and polygamous marriages to be an absolute necessity in order to obtain
the
highest exaltation to godhood.
God never mentions marriage or polygamy in relation to exaltation in the Old Testament and Jesus
Christ never mentions marriage or polygamy in relation to exaltation in the New Testament. In point of
fact, Jesus Christ notes that there is no marriage whatsoever in heaven in relation to angels and human
beings:
"But Jesus answered and said to them, 'You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the
power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in
heaven.'"
Matthew 22:29-30 (NAS).
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GOD
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LDS
GOD CANNOT CREATE FROM NOTHING
"..god never had the power to create the spirit of man at all."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer, Joseph Smith, Journal of discourses, 1844, Vol. 6,
p. 7
"Further, latter-day prophets inform us that God did not create the earth out of nothing, as is
supposed by much of traditional Christianity today. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught: 'There is
no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter' (D&C 131:7; see also D&C 93:33). Elder
Orson Pratt of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles commented: 'The materials out of which this earth
was formed, are just as eternal as the materials of the glorious personage of the Lord himself. . . .
This being, when he formed the earth, did not form it out of something that had no existence, but he
formed it out of materials that had an existence from all eternity: they never had a beginning, neither will
one particle of substance now in existence ever have an end. There are just as many particles now
as there were at any previous period of duration, and will be while eternity lasts. Substance had no
beginning; . . . the earth was formed out of eternal materials, and it was made to be inhabited
and God peopled it with creatures of his own formation,'"
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses,
Vol. 19, p. 286 (As quoted by Robert J. Woodford in "'In the Beginning': A Latter-day
Perspective,"
Ensign, January 1998.
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BIBLE
GOD CREATED EVERYTHING FROM NOTHING
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Holy Bible, Genesis 1:1 (NAS)
"Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth
and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it . . ."
Holy Bible, Isaiah 42:5 (NAS)
"For thus says the Lord, wo created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He
established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), 'I am the Lord, and
there is none else.'"
Holy Bible, Isaiah 45:18 (NAS)
NOTE: Isaiah 45:18 says that God FIRST created and then SECOND formed the earth. He
did not form the earth from existing material as does the Mormon god, but He created the material from
which He then formed the earth.
"Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all
things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created."
Holy Bible, Revelation 4:11 (NAS)
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GOD
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LDS
GOD IS NOT OMNIPOTENT,
OMNISCIENT or OMNIPRESENT
GOD IS NOT OMNIPOTENT (All-powerful)
"...god never had the power to create the spirit of man at all."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer, Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, 1844, Vol. 6,
p. 7.
GOD IS NOT OMNISCIENT (All-knowing)
"God himself is increasing in knowledge, power and dominion, and will do so, worlds without
end."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses, 1857,
Vol. 6, p. 120.
GOD IS NOT OMNIPRESENT (Present everywhere at the same time)
"What is God? He is a material organized intelligence, possessing both body and parts. He is in
the form of a man, and is, in fact, of the same species... This being cannot occupy two distinct
places at once, therefore he cannot be everywhere present."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Smith, The Millennial Star, Vol. 6
SEE: The Article, GOD IS NOT INFINITE, OMNISCIENT,
OMNIPOTENT OR OMNIPRESENT
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BIBLE
GOD IS OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT
and OMNIPRESENT
GOD IS OMNIPOTENT (All-powerful)
"And looking at them Jesus said to them, 'With people this is impossible, but with God all things are
possible.'"
Holy Bible, Matthew 19:26 (NAS).
"Ah Lord God! Behold, You have made he heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your
outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You, who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays
the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O great and mighty God. The Lord of
hosts is His name . . ."
Holy Bible, Jeremiah 32:17-18.
"Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?"
Holy Bible, Jeremiah 32:27 (NAS).
"For nothing will be impossible with God."
Holy Bible, Luke 1:37 (NAS).
GOD IS OMNISCIENT (All-knowing)
"Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite."
Holy Bible, Psalm 147:5 (NAS)
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the
earth does not become weary or tired, His understanding is inscrutable."
Holy Bible, Isaiah 40:28 (NAS).
"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His
judgments and unfathomable His ways!"
Holy Bible, Romans 11:33 (NAS).
GOD IS OMNIPRESENT (Present everywhere at once)
"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You,
how much less this house which I have built!"
Holy Bible, 1 Kings 8:27 (NAS).
"Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?"
Holy Bible, Psalm 139:7, cf. 139:8-16 (NAS).
"'Am I a God who is near,' declares the Lord, 'And not a God far off? Can a man hide himself in hiding
places so I do not see him?' declares the Lord. 'Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?' declares the
Lord."
Holy Bible, Jeremiah 23:23-24 (NAS).
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GOD
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LDS
GOD IS ONLY ONE OF AN
INFINITUDE OF GODS
"After men...have become gods...they have the power then of propagating their species in
spirit; and that is the first of their operations with regard to organizing a world. Power is then
given to them to organize the elements, and then commence the organization of tabernacles.
how can they do it? Have they to go to that earth? Yes, an Adam will have to go there, and he
cannot do without Eve; he must have Eve to commence the work of generation, and they will
go into the garden, and continue to eat and drink of the fruits of the corporeal world, until this
grosser matter is diffused sufficiently through their celestial bodies to enable them, according to the
established laws, to produce mortal tabernacles for their spiritual children."
(LDS) Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 1852, Vol. 6, p. 275.
"The inhabitants of each world have their own personal father whose attributes they worship...
Thus will worlds and systems of worlds, ...be multiplied in endless succession through the infinite
depths of boundless space..."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, 1853, pp. 134 - 135.
"If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that
there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, p. 345.
SEE: The Article, MORMONS ARE POLYTHEISTIC, BELIEVING IN
AN INFINITE NUMBER OF GODS
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BIBLE
GOD IS THE ONLY GOD
"To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord, He is god; there is no other besides Him. . . .
Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is god in heaven above and on the
earth below; there is no other."
Holy Bible, Deuteronomy 4:35, 39 (NAS).
""'Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And
you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides me, or is there any other Rock? I know of none.'"
Holy Bible, Isaiah 44:8 (NAS).
"I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides Me there is no god. I will gird you, though you have not
known Me; that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other."
Holy Bible, Isaiah 45:5-6 (NAS)
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JESUS CHRIST
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LDS
JESUS CHRIST LIVED ON
ANOTHER PLANET BEFORE
COMING TO
EARTH
"Things were first created spiritually, the Father actually begat the spirits, and they were brought
forth and lived with Him. Then He commenced the work of creating earthly tabernacles, precisely as he
had been created in this flesh himself, by partaking of the course (sic) material that was organized and
composed this earth, until His system was charged with it, consequently the tabernacles of His children
were organized from the coarse materials of this earth. When the time came that His first born, the
Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came himself and favoured that
spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it. The Saviour was begotten by the Father
of His spirit, by the same Being who is the Father of our spirits, and that is all the organic difference
between Jesus Christ and you and me."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, p.
218.
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BIBLE
JESUS CHRIST LIVED IN HEAVEN
BEFORE COMING TO
EARTH
"'No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.'"
Holy Bible, John 3:13 (NAS)
"'For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.'"
Holy Bible, John 6:38 (NAS).
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JESUS CHRIST
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LDS
JESUS CHRIST WAS PHYSICALLY
CONCEIVED BY GOD THE
FATHER
"The birth of the Savior was a natural occurrence unattended with any degree of mysticism,
and the Father God was the literal parent of Jesus in the flesh as well as in the spirit."
Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr, Religious Truths Defined, p. 44.
"Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was
God!"
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation,
Vol. 1, p. 18.
"And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the
same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing
figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural
course of events."
(LDS) Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1979, p. 742.
NOTE: Mormons believe that God the Father procreated the spirit of Mary in time
passed on his planet by means of a literal, physical and sexual union with one of His wives. He
He also had a literal, physical and sexual union with Mary in order to father Jesus Christ, which
means that God the Father had an incestuous relationship with Mary in order to bring about the
birth of Jesus Christ. It is also claimed that God the Father was also married to Mary, which it
is claimed legitimizes the incestuous relationship. It is also apparent that God the Father
engaged in
polyandry** by marrying Mary who was already espoused to Joseph.
**Polyandry is defined as having two or more husbands at the same time. In the case
of Mary she would have been espoused to Joseph, which was considered to be a marriage, and
also married to God the Father. It is unknown by any Mormon prophet as to what temple the
marriage of God the Father and Mary took place by which it was legitimized, because
marriages were not performed in the Jewish temple.
SEE: The Article, THE FATHER OF JESUS CHRIST
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BIBLE
JESUS CHRIST WAS OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT
"The angel answered and said to her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most
High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy child shall be called the So of God.'"
Holy Bible, Luke 1:35 (NAS)
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. . . . But when he had
considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, 'Joseph, son of
David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the child who has been conceived in her is of the
Holly Spirit.'"
Holy Bible, Matthew 1:18, 20 (NAS)
NOTE: Mormons reject a Trinitarian godhead and postulate a singular personage of god with
a physical body and the ability to procreate by sexual union. As a consequence they are left with the
only possible manner in which Jesus Christ could have been conceived and that is by an immoral,
incestuous relationship of God the Father with his own daughter Mary and shatters the biblical claim
that Mary was still a virgin after her conception. Orthodox Christians are not faced with that difficulty,
because they do not believe that the conception of Jesus Christ was a sexual act, but was a creative act
by which the Holy Spirit as an equal and representative member of the singular godhead caused to exist
within the womb of Mary the elements of the physical body of Jesus Christ, which also preserves the
claim that Mary was a virgin even after her conception.
Mormons attempt to justify the actions of their god by stating that he married Mary, therefore the
sexual act was legal, however, since Mary then married Joseph after the birth of Jesus Christ, she
then became a polyanderer because she was married to two husbands at the same time. Even if
Mormons could produce Scriptural evidence of a marriage between their god and Mary, which they
cannot, that would not change the incestuous nature of his conduct The second attempt to justify the
actions of their god, causes Mormons to propose that he can declare his act to be moral or immoral
depending on the circumstances. That is the reasoning that they use to claim that David and Solomon
were justified for practicing polygamy. The conflict between that belief and the fact that the Book of
Mormon condemns David and Solomon for polygamy is said to be resolved by the claim that in
one
instance they engaged in that conduct on their own, which was condemned, while on the other hand
they engaged in that conduct by the direct command of God by which they were justified. The
Mormon
god changes his own moral code at will in order to cover his own actions.
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JESUS CHRIST
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LDS
JESUS CHRIST BECAME A GOD IN
THE PRE-EXISTENCE
"During his pre-mortal life Jesus Christ rose to the status of Godhood. At that time he was
foreordained to be the Savior of this world. Father Abraham was privileged to see in vision
the grand council in heaven that was held prior to the peopling of this earth, and he saw, as
the Lord showed him, 'many of the noble and great ones.'"
(LDS) Milton R. Hunter, of the First Council of the Seventy, LDS Conference Report,
October 1949, p. 69.
NOTE: It is a mystery how Jesus Christ could have achieved godhood during the time
of His pre-existent life, since He had not as yet gone through the successive experiences that
the Mormon church says are absolutely necessary to be qualified to attain that position. Jesus Christ
obtained His godhood prior to living His mortal life, prior to being married (without being married in
the Temple), prior to having children, prior to having a polygamous relationship, prior to His physical
death and prior to His resurrection. The same problem exists in relation to the Holy Ghost, who never
obtained a mortal body, but also became a god in His pre-existent life. LDS theology has no
explanation as to how Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit obtained their godhoods, when God the Father
had to go through the full course of successive experiences in the "Eternal Progression" to obtain His
godhood.
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BIBLE
JESUS CHRIST HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOD
"For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders;
and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace."
Holy Bible, Isaiah 9:6 (NAS)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the
beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into
being that has come into being."
Holy Bible, John 1:1-3 (NAS)
"Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.'"
Holy Bible, John 8:58 (NAS)
"'Now Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world
was. . . . Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that
they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the
world'"
Holy Bible, John 17:5, 24 (NAS)
"Have this attitude in y ourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form
of god, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of
a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men."
Philippians 2:6-7 (NAS)
"For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for
Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."
Holy Bible, Colossians 1:16-17 (NAS)
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JESUS CHRIST
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LDS
JESUS CHRIST, SATAN and ALL
HUMAN BEINGS ARE BROTHERS
AND SISTERS
"We were born as spirits, and we dwelt in the presence of our Eternal Parents; we lived before
our mortal birth. As spirits we were in all respects as we are now save only that we were not housed in
mortal bodies as is the present circumstance. Christ was the Firstborn of all the heavenly host;
Lucifer
[Satan - ed.} was a son of the
morning: each of us came into being as conscious identities in our appointed order; and Christ is our
Elder Brother."
(LDS) Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah, Vol. 1, p. 21.
"But according to our understanding and teaching, Satan is a person with a spirit body, in form
like that of all other men. He is a spirit brother of ours and of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our Elder
Brother in the spirit world."
Apostle Joseph F. Merrill, LDS Conference Report, April 1949, p. 27.
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BIBLE
JESUS CHRIST IS NOT RELATED
BY PATERNITY TO SATAN OR
HUMAN BEINGS
Jesus Christ existed as part of the Trinitarian godhead from eternity, therefore He was not
procreated by means of a sexual union between God the Father and Mary, and is not a part
of the human race from that standpoint. In Orthodox Christian theology, the spirits of human
beings are not procreated sexually by a union between God the Father and His many wives, but they
are created. Jesus Christ was neither procreated or created.
Satan was a created angelic being, therefore he is not related to human beings.
"You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in
you."
Holy Bible, Ezekiel 28:15 (NAS)
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JESUS CHRIST
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LDS
JESUS CHRIST WAS A
POLYGAMIST
". . . God the Father had a plurality of wives. . . . The Son followed the example of his Father,
and became the great bridegroom to whom kings' daughters and many honorable wives were
to be married."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, 1853, p. 172.
"The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples,
causing his crucifixion, was evidently based on polygamy. . . . a belief in the doctrine of a plurality
of wives caused the persecution of Jesus, and his followers."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Jedediah M. Grant, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1,
pp. 345-346.
"A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his
followers."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p.
346.
". . . that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his
wives, and that he begat children."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, p.210.
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BIBLE
THE BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST IS
THE CHURCH
"For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I
might present you as a pure virgin."
2 Corinthians 11:2 (NAS)
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that
He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present
to Himself the church, in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be
holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. he who loves
his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
Christ also does the church, because we are members of his body. For this reason a man shall leave his
father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is
great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church."
Holy Bible, Ephesians 5:25-32 (NAS)
"Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the lamb has come and His
bride has made herself ready."
Holy Bible, Revelation 19:7 (NAS)
"And I saw he holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride
adorned for her husband."
Holy Bible, Revelation 21:2 (NAS)
"The Spirit and the bride say, 'Come.' And let the one who hears say, 'Come.' And let the one who is
thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost."
Revelation 22:17 (NAS)
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MANKIND
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LDS
THE SPIRITS OF MANKIND WERE
PROCREATED AND LIVED ON
ANOTHER PLANET BEFORE
COMING TO EARTH
"This doctrine that there is a Mother in Heaven was affirmed in plainness by the First
Presidency of the Church. . . they said that 'man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly
parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father,' that man is the 'offspring of
celestial parentage,' and that 'all men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and
Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity.'"
(LDS) Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1979, p. 516.
SEE: The Article, THE SPIRITS OF HUMAN BEINGS ARE
FATHERED BY THE "HEAVENLY FATHER," BORN ON ANOTHER PLANET, GROW TO
HUMAN SIZE AND ARE THEN SENT TO EARTH WHERE THEY ARE COMPRESSED IN
SIZE SO THEY WILL FIT INSIDE THE BODIES OF HUMAN BABIES
SEE: The Article, THE SPIRITS OF HUMAN BEINGS HAVE
EXISTED IN THE SPIRIT WORLD FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PRIOR TO THEIR
APPEARANCE ON THIS EARTH
SEE: The Article, HUMAN BEINGS DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR
PREVIOUS SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE, BECAUSE WHEN THEIR SPIRITUAL BODIES ARE
COMPRESSED, THEIR MEMORY IS SQUEEZED OUT OF EXISTENCE
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THE SPIRITS OF MANKIND ARE
CREATED AT BIRTH AND MANKIND
CAN BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD
BY ADOPTION
"Then the Lord formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul."
Holy Bible, Genesis 2:7 (NAS)
"If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, 'The first man, Adam,
became a living soul.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but
the natural; then the spiritual."
Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:44b-46
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those
who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man,
but of God."
Holy Bible, John 1:12-13 (NAS)
"For all who are being led by the Spirit of god, these are sons of god. For you have not received a spirit
of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out,
'Abba! Father!'"
Holy Bible, Romans 8:14-15 (NAS)
"For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ
have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man,
there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then
you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise."
Holy Bible, Galatians 3:26-29 (NAS)
"But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so
that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba! Father!'
Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God."
Holy Bible, Galatians 4:4-7 (NAS)
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MANKIND
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LDS
MANKIND CAN ATTAIN TO
GODHOOD IN THE NEXT LIFE
"There is a statement often repeated in the church, and while it is not in one of the Standard
Church Works, it is accepted as Church doctrine, and this is: 'As ,an is, God once was; as God is, man
may become,'"
(LDS) Apostle LeGrand Richards in a letter to Morris L. Reynolds, dated July 14, 1966 (as
quoted in the Salt Lake City Messenger #87, November 1994.
"Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods.
There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows
how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one
of us 225,000.
Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an
heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in
the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then
they become sons of God, and then they go forward with their great program—they go beyond
the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Spencer W. Kimbal, "The Privilege of Holding the
Priesthood," Ensign, November 1975.
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BIBLE
MANKIND CANNOT ATTAIN TO
GODHOOD IN THE NEXT LIFE
"God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He
not do it? Or has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it
good?"
Numbers 23:19 (NAS)
"Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His
mind "
1 Samuel 15:29 (NAS)
NOTE: Since God says that He is not now a man, and is not descended as a son of a man
(Numbers 23:19), then His statement directly opposes the Mormon claims that God is an exalted man,
that He is the progeny of another exalted man and that He was once a literal, physical man.
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MANKIND
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LDS
MANKIND PROCREATE CHILDREN
IN THE NEXT LIFE
". . . the Gods were to be parents of spirit children just as our Heavenly Father and Mother
were the parents of the people of this earth."
(LDS) Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel Through the Ages, 1958, 9. 20.
"What blessing is available only to those who are exalted in the highest degree of the celestial
kingdom? (See D&C 131:4; 132:19-20. You may need to explain that the phrases 'an increase'
and 'a continuation of the seeds forever and ever' mean that those who abide in the covenant
and are exalted in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom will have spirit children in the
eternities.)
(LDS) "The Kingdoms of Glory," Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Gospel
Doctrine Teacher's Manual, from the Official Web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, copyright © 2007, www.lds.org
SEE: The Article, WHEN EXALTED, MORMON MEN WILL RULE
THEIR OWN PLANETS AND, WITH THEIR MANY WIVES, FATHER SPIRIT CHILDREN
FOREVER
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BIBLE
MANKIND ARE NOT MARRIED IN
THE NEXT LIFE
"But Jesus answered and said to them, 'You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the
power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in
heaven.'"
Holy Bible, Matthew 22:29-30 (NAS)
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MANKIND
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LDS
POLYGAMY IS A NECESSARY PRACTICE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN EXALTATION
AND GODHOOD
"From the . . . Revelation, given through Joseph, the Seer, it will be seen that God has actually
commanded some of his servants {the Mormon Priesthood} to take more wives, and... if they
refused to obey this command, after having the law revealed to them, they should be damned.
This revelation, then, makes it a matter of conscience among all the latter-Day Saints; and they
embrace it as a part and portion of their religion, and verily believe that they cannot be saved and
reject it."
(LDS) Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 13, 1853.
"Some quietly listen to those who speak... against the plurality of wives, and against almost
every principle that God has revealed. Such persons have half-a-dozen devils with them all the time.
You might as well deny "Mormonism", and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of
wives. Let the Presidency of this Church, and the Twelve Apostles, and all the authorities unite and say
with one voice that they will oppose the doctrine, and the whole of them will be damned."
(LDS) Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 5, p. 203, 1856.
"Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will
be damned..."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham young, Deseret News, November 14,
1855.
"We are told that if we would give up polygamy--which we know to be a doctrine revealed from
heaven, and it is of God and the world for it--but suppose this Church should give up this holy
order of marriage, then would the devil, and all who are in league with him against the cause of
God, rejoice that they had prevailed upon the Saints to refuse to obey one of the revelations and
commandments of God to them... Will the latter-day Saints do this? No; they will not to please
anybody."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, p. 239,
June 3, 1866.
"The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into
polygamy. ...I heard the revelation on polygamy, and I believe it with all my heart, and I know it
is from God..."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, p. 269,
August 19, 1866.
"Some people have supposed that the doctrine of plural marriage was a sort of superfluity, or
nonessential to the salvation of mankind. In other words, some of the Saints have said, and
believe that a man with one wife, sealed to him by the authority of the priesthood for time and eternity,
will receive an exaltation as great and glorious, if he is faithful, as he possibly could with more
than one. I want here to enter my protest against this idea, for I know it is false... Therefore,
whoever has imagined that he could obtain the fullness of the blessing pertaining to this celestial
law, by complying with only a portion of its conditions, has deceived himself. He cannot do it.
When that principle was revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith,... he did not falter, although it
was not until an angel of God, with a drawn sword, stood before him and commanded that he should
enter into the practice of that principle, or he should be utterly destroyed, or rejected...
I understand the law of celestial marriage to mean that every man in this Church, who has the
ability to obey and practice it in righteousness and will not, shall be damned, I say I understand it
to mean this and nothing less, and I testify in the name of Jesus that it does mean
that."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Joseph Fielding Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 20, pp.
28 - 31, 1878.
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BIBLE
POLYGAMY IS SPECIFICALLY
DENIED TO LEADERS IN THE
CHURCH.
"An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable,
hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love
of money."
Holy Bible, 1 Timothy 3:2-3 (NAS)
"Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own
households."
Holy Bible, 1 Timothy 3:12 (NAS)
"For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in
every city as I directed you, namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having
children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion."
Holy Bible, Titus 1:5-6 (NAS)
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MANKIND
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LDS
"BLOOD ATONEMENT" DOCTRINE:
SOME SINS CANNOT BE COVERED
BY THE ATONEMENT SO A
PERSON MUST COMMIT SUICIDE
OR HAVE ANOTHER PERSON
(MORMON) TAKE THEIR LIFE BY
SHEDDING BLOOD
"It is true that the blood of the Son of god was shed for sins through the fall and those
committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, p.
54, 1856
"There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their god, that will not be
required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for
it..."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p.
247, 1856
"I know when you hear my brethren telling about cutting people off from the earth, that you
consider it is strong doctrine, but it is to save them not to destroy them... I know there are
transgressors, who, if they knew themselves, and the only condition upon which they can obtain
forgiveness, would beg of their brethren to shed their blood, that the smoke thereof might ascend to
God as an offering to appease the wrath that is kindled against them, and that the law might have its
course."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer president Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
Vol. 4, p. 53
"Men, who have been warned and forewarned, but who will associate with the wicked and
take a course to commit whoredom...with a view to gratify their cursed passions; we will take them and
slay them before this people."br>
(LDS) Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, p. 173, 1857
"This is loving our neighbor as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation
and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, p.
220, 1857.
"Let me suppose a case. Suppose you find your brother in bed with your wife and put a javelin
through both of them, you would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be
received into the kingdom of God. I would at once do so in such a case; and under such
circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her
heart, and I would do it with clean hands."
(LDS) Prophet, president and seer Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p.
247, 1856.
"I could refer you to plenty of instances where men have been righteously slain, in order to
atone for their sins."
(LDS) Prophet and President Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, p.
220, 1857.
NOTE: Some of those sins are: murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, using the name of the
Lord in vain, marriage to a person of the black race, covenant breakers, apostasy, lying,
counterfeiting, condemning Joseph Smith or consenting to his death. The simple fact is, if the sin of
lying requires that a person be killed to atone for his own sins, then every single Mormon is required
to shed their own blood to atone for that sin, since there is no human being, either Mormon or
otherwise, who has never lied.
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BIBLE
HUMAN BEINGS CANNOT ATONE FOR THEIR OWN SINS. ONLY JESUS
CHRIST HAS THE POWER AND AUTHORITY TO ATONE FOR SIN.
It is apparent from biblical Scriptures that human beings do not have the ability or power
to justify themselves in the presence of a Holy God and do not have the ability or power to
remove the penalty for their own sins by means of their conduct or the shedding or their own blood,
which was the reason that Jesus Christ came to die. The biblical Scripture states that human beings
are already dead in their sins, unable to respond to God or atone for those sins.
"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in
the sons of disobedience.
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of
the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which he loved us, even when we were
dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and
raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages
to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a
result of works, so that no one may boast."
Holy Bible, Ephesians 2:1-8 (NAS).
". . . but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and
the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we confess or sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness."
Holy Bible, 1 John 1:7, 9 (NAS).
"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness
and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the
blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God ad Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave
Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own
possession, zealous for good deeds."
Holy Bible, Titus 2:11-14 (NAS).
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SALVATION
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LDS
SALVATION IS DEFINED AS
RESURRECTION IN THE NEXT LIFE
Mormons define salvation (resurrection) as two types:
1. General Salvation, 2. Personal Salvation
GENERAL SALVATION is actually a Universal Salvation and applies to all human beings,
even those who are not Mormons, because all human beings will be resurrected in the next life to
occupy one of the three levels of the Mormon heaven.
PERSONAL SALVATION applies to Mormons only and not only guarantees resurrection, it
also involves some measure of "exaltation" in which a person is elevated to one of the higher levels in
heaven, and for the most faithful Mormons, entrance into the highest Celestial level of heaven
where they will obtain their godhood.
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BIBLE
SALVATION IS RECONCILLIATION
TO GOD THROUGH THE DEATH
AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS
CHRIST, WHEREBY A PERSON MAY
ESCAPE THE CONDEMNATION
AND JUDGMENT OF GOD TO HELL
AND SPEND ETERNITY IN A RIGHT
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IN
HEAVEN
SEE: The Article, WHAT IS SALVATION?
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