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I saved this some time ago but interesting thought and applicable when Mormons bellyache for our defending the Christian Faith.

As follows:

What would happen if I said that Joseph Smith, that is Miss Joseph Smith, taught the Law of Eternal REGRESSION - that we used to be Gods in the pre-existence, now we have regressed to humans, and if we are worthy, we can one day be vegetables?

And even worse, what if hundreds - even millions of Mormons started believing us?

“Now wait just a minute,” a Mormon might answer. That is not what Joseph Smith taught, and you’re not a REAL Mormon missionary.

He is absolutely right! “I would be teaching a counterfeit Mormonism and a counterfeit Joseph Smith.”

.....if even a few Mormon families were converted by us bogus Mormons, he, his Church leaders in Salt Lake City, and every other discerning Mormon would have the right to warn their own followers and the general public of the difference between our Joseph Smith and the genuine article......More than the right, they would have the responsibility to help their members avoid the trap of these “mock Mormon Missionaries.”

Hopefully, they would go beyond warning their members of our error. Perhaps they would even sit down with us and explain, from their scriptures and history why, even though “we believe in Joseph, too,” we were actually teaching an imitation Joseph Smith.

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I saved this some time ago but interesting thought and applicable when Mormons bellyache for our defending the Christian Faith. As follows: What would happen if I said that Joseph Smith, that is Miss Joseph Smith, taught the Law of Eternal REGRESSION - that we used to be Gods in the pre-existence, now we have regressed to humans, and if we are worthy, we can one day be vegetables? And even worse, what if hundreds - even millions of Mormons started believing us? “Now wait just a minute,” a Mormon might answer. That is not what Joseph Smith taught, and you’re not a REAL Mormon missionary. He is absolutely right! “I would be teaching a counterfeit Mormonism and a counterfeit Joseph Smith.”...Hopefully, they would go beyond warning their members of our error. Perhaps they would even sit down with us and explain, from their scriptures and history why, even though “we believe in Joseph, too,” we were actually teaching an imitation Joseph Smith.

Well, I don't think the original author of this -- or you, CAWW, realize how close he is to Mormon teachings!

If you look under the "Spirit" entry in LDS church-published Bible Dictionary, 1979 (p. 776) -- in back of Holy Bible, you'll find this entry:

"That is, ALL forms of living things--man, beast and vegetation--existed as individual spirits, before any form of life existed upon the earth. The spirit is in the likeness of the physical body, as demonstrated in Gen. 2:5; 1 Ne. 11:11; Ether 3:15-16; D&C 77:2; 129; Moses 3:4-7. Furthermore, all spirit is matter,but is more refined and pure than mortal element (D&C 131:7)."

So. If you take the infinite regression teaching of the Mormon church [look @ Doctrine & Covenant 93:29,33...which teaches WE are as eternal (past) as God/Jesus, etc. -- that spirits & intelligences & elements ALWAYS existed]...
...and couple it with this above eternal regression teaching...that vegetation & beasts were co-existent alongside us as fellow "spirits" once upon a time...and that we all have ALWAYS existed...

Well...sometimes esoteric macabre teachings that you think are so FAR out there...are actually mainstream Mormonism!