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"I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity" (Moroni 8:18).

"For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and in him there is no variableness, neither shadow of changing? And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not a God of miracles" (Mormon 9:9-10).

"Here, then, is eternal life--to know the only wise and true God. And you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves--to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done--by going from a small degree to another, from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you are able to sit in glory as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power." - King Follett Discourse

Moroni and Mormon describe God as immutable and unchanging. The KFD shows something else. How can Mormons believe that God is at the same time immutable and changing, that from all eternity he was as he now is, but he somehow evolved from a mere mortal?

If God evolved, Moroni and Mormon are wrong. If God didn’t evolve, the KFD and Joseph Smith is wrong. Which is it?

The answer is not complex. it is just hard to accept that the original author of the Book of Mormon text was himself a retired minister trained in seminary and having lived a life preaching the Gospel. Rigdon and Smith took his writing and turned it into the means for one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated upon unsuspecting but seeking souls. But by their fruits (the life of Smith as prime example) we can know them. Joe Smith was a sexual predator of even married women. He was a peepstone liar and false prophet. The fictional book he used was written by someone who had vastly more familiarity with what the Bible says than Joe Smith ever understood in his short life of debauchery.