From the article:
Mormons are so materialistic that they insist that the same unchanging laws govern both the natural and the supernatural. They also deny the virgin birth, since their materialism leads them to speculate that Jesus is literally begotten by the immortal Father rather than conceived by the Holy Spirit.
By treating the spiritual as a dimension of the material, Smith overcomes every trace of dualism between this world and the next. Matter is perfectible because it is one of the perfections of the divine. Even heaven is merely another kind of galaxy, far away but not radically different from planet earth. For Mormons, our natural loyalties and loves have an eternal significance, which is why marriages will be preserved in heaven. Our bodies are literally temples of the divine, which is why Mormons wear sacred garments underneath regular clothing.
This should not be taken lightly. The Mormon metaphysic calls for the revision of nearly every Christian belief. Still, not all heresies are equally perilous. If Gnosticism is the paradigmatic modern temptation—spiritualizing Jesus by turning him into a subjective experience—Mormonism runs in the exact opposite direction. If you had to choose between a Jesus whose body is eternal and a Jesus whose divinity is trivial (as in many modern theological portraits), I hope it would be an easy choice.
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“The Mormon metaphysic calls for the revision of nearly every Christian belief”.
Yet mormons demand that Christians accept them as Christian. What’s wrong with this picture?
Has someone already pointed out that the god of MoronISM had to earn the attributes of godhood, that only matter is eternal and the god(s) of MormonISM do not have a temporal past eternity? And yet the MomronISM apologists on FR will boldly proclaim that they worship the God of the Bible. With such deception and blindness is it any wonder that they practice moronism taqqiya?