Mormon song #186 “Again we meet around the board of Jesus, our redeeming Lord, with faith in his atoning blood, our only access unto God.”
_____________________________________
A couple of things right out of the gatge Tadpole...
1. That “atoning blood” of your mormon jesus is said by mormons to have been sweated in the Garden of Gethsemenee..
Thats not what happened to the real Jesus..
2. This Mormon doctrine contradicts the words “our only access unto God.” in that song...
There is “no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God”
- Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p.190
and this one too...
“From the day that the Priesthood was taken from the earth to the winding-up scene of all things, every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are — I with you and you with me. I cannot go there without his consent”
(Brigham Young, October 9, 1859, Journal of Discourses 7:289).
Re: Joseph Smith stands at the gate to Mormon heaven.
Mormons teach that we are judged according to the law that is in effect while we are on the earth. We teach that Joseph Smith participates in the judgment insofar as to testify as to what law applied to us. Just as those that lived in the time of Moses would see him there testifying what law applied to that time. We don't teach that he judges us. Only that he provides the measuring stick by which we are judged.
If I get time later (maybe not even today) I will try to explain this better.