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Just in case there are readers who really don't know anything about Mormonism except how Mormons behave in public, as a Christian for forty years and well read in the documents and teachings of Mormonism I am obliged to share at minimum the following opinion:

These three aspects of Mormonism are what I would term the most eggregious, blasphemous infact: First, that Mormonism teaches Jesus was not God with us until the resurrection;

Second, Mormonism teaches that the god they worship was once a man and gained the attributes of godhood in a similar fashion that they believe their jesus gained godhood, by atonement for a whole world; such a false assertion regarding the One God --as God has spoken of Himself-- is clear blasphemy;

Third, Mormonism is founded upon the fundamental lie that Christian Salvation ended on earth with the death of the last Apostle, and was not re-established until Joseph Smith came along, 1700 years later; this directly contradicts what Jesus told His Apostles, and insults the Integrity of God, as if the god Mormons believe in was unable to keep His promises!

One might ask why these are particularly eggregious teachings. Look at the name the LDS have chosen, representing themselves as the Church of Jesus Christ. Mormonism makes this claim while not believing in the Jesus of the Bible, as defined in John's Gospel, to start with.

Once a person sets out to found a new religion but try to cammandeer Christianity in the bargain, there is no other way to establish the false religion without blasphemies. And Mormonism is full of blasphemies, from the assertion that they have a 're-established Melchizedek priesthood' to the assertion that to enter Heaven you will have to have Joseph Smith's approval. There is now ONLY one Melchizedek Priest alive at a time and that is Jesus Christ now alive forever more, so His priestly role is not forfeit to Mormonism.

And the leadership of Mormonism lies. Yes, lies. The recently departed 'prophet' at the head of Mormonism, Gordon B. Hinckley, when asked in a 1990's interview with Time Magazine about the Lorenzo Snow couplet derived from the teachings of Joseph Smith, regarding how god came to be god, stated that he didn't know that they teach that couplet! [The couplet states, in essence 'As we are now, god once was. As god is now we may become.' Not more than 20 months separated that lie and his own assertion of the Snow couplet at the Mormon General Counsel!

So when a Momronism apologist avoids answewring a direct question about Mormonism, knwo that this type of deception is taught to their membership, especially in missionary training. [Reference the Millett lessons on deception linked occasionally at FR from a missionary training class.]

There is no doubt that Mormons (the people individually) are sincere, as illustrated by their mighty effort to behave in the best good fashion they can, doing many good works in communities. But Buddhists are sincere also, and peaceful to a fault, but they are sincerely wrong when they deny the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Mormon doctrine, by holding to a differnt jesus and eschewing the Jesus as described in the Bible wihtout the drek of Joseph Smith interposed, Mormon doctrine is leading away from Salvation through the Grace of God and 'at' the hope 'to be saved after all that they can do.' That is 'another gospel' not the Gospel of Salvation as Paul taught the foolish Galatians regarding their swallowing a different message about God's plan.