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The Christ of Mormonism (Real Mormonism)
Mormon Coffee (Mormonism Research Ministry) ^ | March 14, 2011 | Aaron Shafovaloff

Posted on 03/25/2011 9:19:12 AM PDT by Colofornian

Written by a local ex-Mormon Christian friend of mine: —

This is the Christ of Mormonism:

1. He lives as a humanoid god on a star near Kolob along with his father god, bound by the physical world; he does not transcend the material.

2. He is the brother of satan.

3. He had to earn his own salvation while he was on earth.

4. He offers his “grace” only to those who work hard enough.

5. He is not from everlasting to everlasting, but was created a finite time ago by his father god, who in turn was also created by his own father god, who in turn was created by his own father god, so on and so forth

6. He is not the greatest being possible.

7. He is finite.

8. His blood is not powerful enough to wipe away any sin.

9. He aided his father in creating earth by organizing already existing matter; he is not capable of creating things out of nothing.

10. He must submit to a moral law that existed before he did.

11. You can one day become just like him.

This is the Christ of the Bible:

1. He is a spirit being that transcends space and time.

2. He is the brother of no creature; He is God, from everlasting to everlasting. No one can claim kinship with Him except those He purchased for Himself on the cross. And He is not the same type of creature they are. He is not a creature, He is God.

3. Jesus is the Author of Salvation; to say that He needed to earn His salvation is absurdity.

4. He offers His sovereign grace to whomever He sovereignly chooses; we are all tainted by sin and vile in His holy eyes. Therefore, no one is more worthy than any other human being. Thus, His grace that He offers is given unconditionally. His grace is true grace, a beautiful gift.

5. He is from everlasting to everlasting. He was never created, and Has been in relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever.

6. He is the greatest being possible, the Most High God. There is no one like Him and there is no one who will ever be anything like Him.

7. He is infinite, both in essence and in His divine perfections.

8. His blood is powerful enough to wipe away any sin, regardless of heinousness and duration. The only sin that cannot be forgive is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; and this is not because the blood of Christ is not powerful enough to wash it away, but because God has so sovereignly decreed that all persons who blaspheme the Holy Ghost should not receive forgiveness.

9. He created everything that exists out of nothing by the mere word of His mouth.

10. There is no external law that He submits to; He is the Author and the Source of the Law.

11. No one can ever come near to obtaining the glory and excellency of Christ.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Ministry/Outreach; Other Christian; Theology
KEYWORDS: bible; christianjihad; evangelicalbigots; jesuschrist; jihad; lds; mormon; notthiscrapagain
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To: Notary Sojac
"The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

Well, hey. Why stop there? Both Moses & David were effectively guilty of manslaughter each.

And Saul (to be Paul) was persecuting the early Christian church; hence, he was part of the ugly atmosphere that stoned Stephen to death. Why Paul even called himself "the chief of sinners."

So imagine that. Such "sinners" darkening the doors of either God's church or approaching God in constant conversation and praise.

You know. There just might be room for you, after all. (Unless, of course, you know how you're going to justify your sin in God's eyes when you encounter Him face-to-face).

81 posted on 03/25/2011 12:22:48 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Paragon Defender
Read it but then research it from both sides. All is not always as it seems.

At LEAST you are no longer claiming that the data is WRONG, and then not being able to produce any evidence to the contrary.


Oh; you AREN'T claiming the data IS wrong; are you?

82 posted on 03/25/2011 12:24:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: william clark

Not translated correctly ya know...


83 posted on 03/25/2011 12:26:02 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: scory
I will attempt no rebuttal nor will I answer any posting that wants to contend about these matters. Contention is from Satan - not God.

CONTENTION came DIRECTLY from JOSEPH SMITH and his satanic PERSONages.

HE is the one who claimed that ALL of Christiandom was abominable and apostate.

(Now is your chance for a comeback and say that GOD told him that.)

84 posted on 03/25/2011 12:27:34 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: scory
Contention is from Satan - not God.

And False Teachings come from SLC in great volume!

85 posted on 03/25/2011 12:28:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Paragon Defender
Although the links says “Real Mormonism” it is being posted by a well known anti-Mormon propagandist.

And, every assertion is completely TRUE!

86 posted on 03/25/2011 12:29:16 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SZonian
Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt - "We have also proved that both God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ inherit their wives in eternity as well as in time." The Seer, p. 172 (1853)

Ah, Lds "apostle" and Mitt Romney ancestor Orson Pratt.

BTW, from where did the Mormon god "inherit" his wife?

Where did she come from?

Did some Mormon god from another planet trade her for a wife to be named later?

87 posted on 03/25/2011 12:29:30 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: BlueMoose

Did you post this link for Mormonism, or against it? Surely the latter, as it confirms the truly bizarre, twilight zone beliefs of Mormonism.


88 posted on 03/25/2011 12:30:15 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: scory
If against then drop it.

Oh shut up!

Tell your legion of ~50,000 brainwashed "Missionaires" to DROP their yearlong obession with pounding on doors!

89 posted on 03/25/2011 12:31:04 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Notary Sojac
Had it not been for these councils, we might have been without a Trinity even unto this day

Might, maybe, could be, perhaps.

BAH!

90 posted on 03/25/2011 12:33:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: svcw

The LDS Jesus is the Jesus of the Bible.


91 posted on 03/25/2011 12:34:42 PM PDT by Paragon Defender (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil....)
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To: sasportas

Whens Shirts is all ya got, pretty much you are done...


92 posted on 03/25/2011 12:35:29 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Notary Sojac
When we take into consideration the fact that a belief in the Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation, how unfortunate it was for the world that this doctrine was not established until the year 1274.

HA ha ha!

You REALLY should the BOOK that trinity is based upon!

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

93 posted on 03/25/2011 12:35:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Notary Sojac
Nice that you go around quoting an embittered man who didn't like the way one dinky church treated his pastor-father (Robert G. Ingersoll).

Bitter soil is so solid to build upon, eh?

94 posted on 03/25/2011 12:37:09 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Elsie

Since the facts of the Trinity run all through the Bible...


95 posted on 03/25/2011 12:37:27 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Tread EZ
I don't know why the abuse of another’s religion is accepted on FR.

Sorry, but since when is TELLING THE TRUTH about something considered ABUSE?


Can you find any 'abuse' HERE?


Joseph Smith continues: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (, p.270).
 
Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (, p. 119).
 
Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" ( 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" ( 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" ( 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (, vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" ( 10:230).
 
Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (, p. 255).
 
Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (, 18:172).
 
President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (, vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (, 10:127).
James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (, p.182).
 
President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (, vol. 3, p.282).
 
More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (, p.316).
 
President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).
 
President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (, vol. 2, p.196).
 

96 posted on 03/25/2011 12:38:16 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Paragon Defender

Um...

No.


97 posted on 03/25/2011 12:39:09 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: magritte
Dear, sweetie Maggie.

Never a kind word for us poor, beleagered Evangelicals; but always supporting the downtrodden MORMONs.

What UP with a nice, Noahide girl like you anyway?

98 posted on 03/25/2011 12:40:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: magritte; greyfoxx39

Ya better watch out! He’s in tattle-mode today!


99 posted on 03/25/2011 12:41:00 PM PDT by Paragon Defender (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil....)
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To: SZonian

Not surprising that you come to the defense of a false accuser.


In a twisted reality that would be the case. However in reality I have never done such a thing. How’s things in your alternate reality today? Doing well I hope.


100 posted on 03/25/2011 12:43:11 PM PDT by Paragon Defender (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil....)
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