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GALAXY TEACHINGS

Adam the Son of God Who Fell to Earth

Gods on Other Planets– Neal A. Maxwell, 2001

Gods on Other Worlds – New Era 1971 

Martin Harris’ Moon Visit – William Lin, 1902

Moses’ Security Clearance & Other Inhabitants – Neal Maxwell, 1996

Multiple Gods and People from Other Planets 

Sun & Moon Inhabited – Brigham Young, 1870

No Man Will Go To Moon – Joseph Fielding Smith, 1961

No Man Will Go To Outer Space – Joseph Fielding Smith, D. Michael Quinn

Planets in Our Solar System are Inhabited, Fallen Kingdoms – Orson Pratt, 1878

Retroactive Salvation for Other Jurisdictions – Bruce McConkie

Ten Tribes Flying into Space – Joseph Smith, Juvenile Instructor

Wafting Through Space as a God – Orson Whitney

 

GARDEN OF EDEN

Brigham Young: Garden of Eden is in America

Conflicting Location for Eden in Mormon Canon – Moses, D&C, Doctrines of Salvation

Fig Aprons & Hiding from God – Temple Ceremony Script

Garden of Eden in America, Adam was a Travelin’ Man – Joseph Fielding Smith, 1954

Garden of Eden in Missouri – John A. Widstoe, 1987

Garden of Eden in Jackson County, MO – Wilford Woodruff

Garden of Eden in MO, City of Enoch Now Gulf of Mexico – Diaries of Wilford Woodruff

 

GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE

Adam & Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – Joseph Fielding McConkie

Garden is Where Jesus Paid for Sins – Marion G. Romney, 1982

Gethsemane and the Atonement, Jesus Secured Our Salvation – Thomas Monson, April 2012

Jesus Suffered in Gethsemane, not the Cross – LDS.org

Railing on Jesus  Bruce McConkie declared Jesus paid for sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, not on the cross at Calvary. His accusation mimicked those who hurled insults at the Lord when He hung on the cross.

 

GARMENTS

Did Jesus Wear Temple Garments? — Heber C. Kimball

Garments are Protection – Boyd K. Packer

Garments Provide Physical Protection – Russell Nelson, 2002

Meaning Behind Occult Mormon Temple Garments Update!

LDS Garments: Outward Expression of Inward Commitment

LDS Garments Mimic Good Luck Charms

LDS: No Garments Means Losing Blessings

Rituals and Garments Worn for Rest of Life – Encyclopedia of Mormonism, LDS.org

 

GENEALOGY

Book of the Law of God

Family History Work and Genealogy for Our Salvation & for the Deceased – LDS.org

Lehi ‘Discovers’ his Genealogy – 1 Nephi 5:16

 

GENTILES

Grafting in Whom – 1 Nephi 10:14

 

GOD 

A Progressive God is a Changing God

Adoration for Deity not Needed – Lowell L. Bennion, 1988

Adoration for Deity not Needed, More Questions – Lowell L. Bennion, 1988

An Unchanging Changeable God

Becoming a god – Spencer W. Kimball

Begat Mankind – Brigham Young, 1865

Beholding God

Biblical God Dumped For Mormon Gods  

Book of Mormon God Can’t Save

Can God be Evil? L. Tom Perry told audience at BYU Devotional that God’s plan included the idea he deliberately instituted evil in the beginning of time.

Could God be Evil?  Update

 Can’t Lie – Ether 3:12

Can’t Number All Sins – Mosiah 4:29-30

Changes His Mind – D&C 56

Comparing Glory of God Mormons v. Christianity

Conditional Love of LDS God  – Heber J. Grant

Conference Quote: Rejecting Mormon God is Idol Worship  — D. Todd Christofferson

Damnable Heresies: God Had Two Sons

Defining ‘Eternal’ – Joe Smith’s definition of God being eternal is far different than what the Bible says!

Degrading God’s Omnipotence – History of the Church 6:311

Deliberate vs Reckless Faith

The 9th Article of Faith Declares God is always changing and the Church approves of it.

Didn’t Fight Their Battles for Them – Brigham Young, 1857

Ditching the Biblical God for Ba’al

Does God have Goals?

The God of the Bible is sovereign. There’s nothing He needs, but His desire is for us to follow Him as in the days of Joshua and 512 years later with Elijah. Having the type of goals Mr. Renlund spoke of implies there’s something He’s lacking, and a chance of failure.

Does He Change, Moroni 8:18 Says No – Brigham and Joseph Says Yes

Done Creating – Orson Pratt 1852

Don’t Use God’s Name Too Much – Joseph Fielding Smith, 1954

Dualism/God Needed Satan – D&C 29:39 (Mormon Dilemma 709)

Earning God’s Companionship – Young Women’s Manual

Exalted Man, Trinity is 3 Gods – Alma 11:44, TPJS, 345

Father Gods of Mormonism

Joseph Fielding Smith (10th LDS prophet) declared God has a father who had a father and so on. He also said they don’t know where it began or stops.

Finding Our Fulfillment in God  

Fulfills Dreams – Jeffrey R, Holland, 2007

Glory of God is Intelligence – Heber J. Grant, Gospel Standards

God Always Knows Your Name

God Alone Heals Us

God and Man are Immortal – Joseph Smith, 1844

God Became Flesh Because of Man’s Faith

God in Our Midst

God is a Spirit— Joseph F. Smith

God is God Because He Fathered Children

God is Spirit, Who is He in the BoM – Alma 31:15

Pre-Conference Quote – God Speaks Through LDS Leaders

God the Father has Body of Flesh & Bones – LDS.org

God the ‘Great Spirit’ – Alma 22:9-11

God was Created, Man wasn’t Created – Brigham Young, Discourses

God was the God of Abraham – Mosiah 7:19

God Will Help If You Love Him Enough

Gods vs. God

God’s Intelligence v. God is Intelligence

God’s Interaction with Man

God’s Love: Conditional or Not – Ronald Poelman says Yes, Russell Nelson says No

God’s Love is Conditional – Russell Nelson, 2003

God’s Needs, (You) – LDS.org

Conference Quote: God Needs Help Bringing Members Back

God’s Omniscience & Omnipresence is Absurd – Orson Pratt

God’s Omniscience in BoM but not in Mormon Teachings – Moroni 7:22, Orson Hyde, 1853

God’s Power Goes to Everyone – Discourses Brigham Young, p 18

God’s Sovereignty

Have You Beheld Him?

How Do Mormons Know Which God They Worship? – Joseph Smith

Impotent God of Joseph Smith

Is God a White Man? – George Q. Cannon

Is God a White Man?  updated 2025

Joseph Smith Created God in His Own Image

Joseph Smith: Fools Believe God’s Power

Joseph Smith’s Ambiguous God

Joseph Smith’s Opinion Rejects God

Knowing He Exists – Joseph Smith Discourses

Latter-day Deceivers – Richard S. Scott and the lies he told about worshiping the Lord.

LDS: Character of God’s Commitment Changes

LDS Church Needs A Changing God   

LDS God Begat His Only Son with Daughter

LDS God Can Sin

LDS: Innocent Females Can See God— Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

LDS God Needs Help to Perform Miracles

LDS: Intelligence is Glory of God

LDS Told to Cease Worrying Who God Is

LDS: We Reject the So-Called Christian God

Man Created God in His Own Image, Won’t Worship God w/out a Father – Brigham Young Discourses

Metamorphosis of a False God

Mormon Elohim vs. Biblical Emmanuel

Mormon God Allows False Doctrine — Bruce McConkie

Mormon God Born and Raised on Another Planet— Kent Nielsen

Mormon God Can’t Fill Immensity of Space  – Joseph F. Smith

Mormon God Keeps Changing His Mind – Alma 46:21

Mormon God was a Sinner Like Us— Brigham Young

Mormon God’s Name is Ahman

Mormon God’s Word won’t Last Forever – Alma 37:21

Mormons Believe a God Who can’t be Trusted

Mormons Worship a Foreign God

Their 11th Article of Faith declares the right to worship their god in any way they please. Why would a Christian do such a thing?

Mormons Lie about Their Belief in Trinity

Mormons Not Dependent Upon God – BYU Professor James E. Ford

Mormons Settled for a Lesser God

Mystery of God, Contradictions in BoM, Bible – 1 Nephi 2:16, Ephesians 3:3-6

Name of God is Elohim, What is His Father’s Name – D&C 130:22

Natural Man – Heber C. Kimball, 1860

Obligated to Us When We Obey – Brigham Young Discourses

Omnipotence of God – D&C 19:3

One God in the Book of Mormon

One God or Many – Five Different Accounts in LDS Canon

One God or Three – 1 Nephi 13:41, Joseph Smith’s Teachings

Only God Gives Man Heart to Know Him — Joseph Fielding Smith

Only Unbelievers Doubt God’s Omnipotence

Our Creator’s Visit

Resurrected – Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation

Self Existent God of the Universe Could be Overthrown if Not Obedient – W. Cleon Skousen, 1953

Self Existing, Being Like Man, You’re a Fool not to Believe It – Joseph Smith Discourses

Spurning God for the Unknown

Taking God’s Divinity – Jeffrey R. Holland, 2000

Teaching Youth about the Godhead, Teachings on Your Own Divinity –  LDS.org

The Changing God of Mormonism

The Corruption of God – Joseph Smith

The Gainsaying God of Mormonism – contradictions of the Mormon god

The God of This World is Adam – Heber C. Kimball

The God That Doesn’t Change

The God Who Tempts Man

The Greatness of God

Why do women have to give birth for salvation?

The Immortal One

The Trinity in Doctrine and Covenants

The Weak God of Joseph Smith

Trading the True God for a Lie — Joy D. Jones

Trinitarian God in Early Mormonism & Evolving Revelations – Mosiah 7:27, Joseph Smith Lectures of Faith

Trinity Entails Stretching Scripture – Robert Millet, Gospel Scholars Series

Trust God, Not Yourself

Trusting God’s Wisdom

James 1:5 has served as the battle cry of Mormonism since its inception. Joe Smith claimed he went to the woods and prayed this verse in his search for the one true God.

Opposing Agendas of Good v. Evil

Instead of obedience until death, Joe Smith proved to be a man whose rebellion led to his death.

Wafting Through Space as a God – Heber C. Kimball

Was a Sinner Like Us – Milton Hunter, 1945

Who’s the Father of the Mormon God?  Harold B. Lee

Where is God’s Power, Aaronic Priesthood – Oscar McConkie

Who Came First, God Once a Man Like Us – Milton Hunter, 1945

Who Can Read Man’s Thoughts?  Joseph Smith

Who is Heavenly Father’s Father – Orson Pratt, The Seer

Who is the Mormon God, Jesus, God, Multiple Gods – 3 Nephi 1:14, D&C 20:19, Abraham 4:1

Who’s the God of This World?

Why the Mormon Elohim isn’t God

Why We Call Him Abba

Why Would LDS God Need Satan?

Yoga Symbol Used for LDS Youth Theme 

 

GODHOOD

Becoming a God Like Jesus – Heber C. Kimball

Becoming a Polygamous God on Another Planet – Orson Pratt

Becoming Gods – The Mormons on PBS

Conference Quote: Divine Natures Can Make Us Gods – Rubén V. Alliaud

Earning Godhood & Father Adam – Brigham Young

Eternal Increase – Heber J. Grant

Exalting Oneself Brings Damnation

Fallen Men to Celestial Gods— Orson Pratt

Germ of Deity Inside Each of Us – Brigham Young

Glory of God v. Glory of Self  Thomas Monson said their goal is godhood

God Created You to Become a God Like Him – Brigham Young

Godhood for Keeping Whole Law – Bruce McConkie

Godhood Inside Us is Promise of Exaltation – Dieter Uchtdorf, 2011

Godhood is Eternal Progression – Companion Study of NT

Godhood Means Embracing All Truth No Matter Where It Comes From – Brigham Young

Godhood Means Salvation – Spencer W. Kimball, Teachings

Godhood Possible Because Jesus Died

Godhood Status & Holy Spirit – Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Godhood Requires Procreation

Godhood Status is Polytheism

Inheriting the Earth in Godhood Status – D&C 45:58

LDS God Created Man to Become Gods – Brigham Young

LDS Lies about Godhood and Planets

LDS: Salvation Requires Calamities    Brigham Young said that salvation (godhood) is only available by going through calamities.

LDS Testify of Man’s Divinity

LDS Worship Their Divine Selves

Lies Mormons Tell About God

Lies that Bind and Blind — Bruce R. McConkie

Man’s Godhood Inheritance – BH Roberts

Mormon Godhood Is Pagan Not Christian

Mormon Gods Save Themselves

Mormons Reject God’s Holy Son

Mormons Serve Their Divine Self— Rosemary M. Wixom

Motivation of a Saint

No Godhood for Relying on Man – Brigham Young, 1853

No Planets for Godhood Status – Gospel Topics

Plural Gods of Mormonism Will Have All Power – D&C 132:19-20

Quest for Godhood Status

Believing we can become just like God is idolatry and it’s what got Adam and Eve booted from the Garden of Eden.

The Quest for Godhood Status  – Brian K. Ashton

The God I Worship— Rosemary M. Wixom

The Son of Man, Godhood Status – Carlos Asay, Presidency of the Seventy

Who’s Your Leader?

Joseph Smith convinced followers if they obeyed him they could become gods.

GODS

144,000 Gods – Bruce McConkie

Altars for Pagan Gods

Becoming as Gods, Knowing Good and Evil – James Talmage

Better to Worship False Gods Than No Gods at All – Bruce McConkie, Millennial Messiah

Blindly Following Unknown Gods  — Joy D. Jones

Brigham’s God is Joseph Smith

Council of Gods – D&C 121:32

Council of Gods   2024 update

Council of Gods Not in Bible, I Will Transpose & Simplify It For You – Joseph Smith

Dagon and Joseph Smith’s False God

Each God has a Father – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th LDS President

Eliza Snow’s Gods of Mormonism

False Teachers and False Gods

Joseph Fielding Smith taught that obedience leads to godhood status.

Gods Exist, Be One with Them – Brigham Young, 1859

Gods Multiply Through Inspiration of Wisdom – Parley Parker Pratt

Intelligent Beings Created to Become Gods – Brigham Young

Knowing Your Egyptian Gods, Joseph Gives Wrong Names to Egyptian Gods – Abraham 1:9

Lying Prophets, Learn How to be Gods – Joseph Smith

Men are Raised to be Angels or Gods – Bruce McConkie

Millions of Gods, Each Earth has It’s Own – Orson Pratt

Mormon Gods Save Themselves

Joseph Smith proclaimed men who become gods are saved.

Multiple Gods & People from Other Planets – Brigham Young

No Other Gods – Moses 1:6

Organized the Earth – Abraham 4:1

Personality of Your God – Orson Pratt

Plural Gods of Mormonism – D&C 121

Plural Gods of  Mormonism Again and Again… – D&C 132

Polytheism, Brigham Not Sure How Many Gods There Are – Journal of Discourses 7:333, 1859

Polytheism, Abraham’s Account of Creation

Polytheism, Gods in a Fallen State – Orson Pratt, The Seer, p 23

Purpose of LDS Church: Become Gods— Dallin H. Oaks

Redeemed Gods – Orson Pratt, The Seer, pp 23-24

Reproduce Just Like We Do Here On Earth – Millennial Star

The Many Gods of Mormonism Revealed the Holy Ghost to Joseph – D&C 121:25-28

The One True God, Only Men Who Become Polygamists – Brigham Young, 1866

Three Male Deities in Presidency of Godhead

Ye are gods

GOLD and SILVER

Gold & Silver Compose – Brigham Young, Discourses

 

GOLDEN PLATES

Running w/ Golden Plates – Andrew Hedges, 2001

Were the Golden Plates Real – D&C 17:1-4

Where are the Gold Plates – Bruce McConkie

Where are the Golden Plates?    2024

Where are the Gold Plates?

Where are the Golden Plates, More Questions – Bruce McConkie

The Weight of Gold – James Talmage

 

GOOD FRIDAY

Good Friday is Pagan – Joseph Fielding Smith

Why Mormons Don’t Observe Good Friday 

Why Mormons Can’t Observe Good Friday 2022

 

GOSPEL 

Accursed of God

Any Other Gospel to be Shunned – Joseph Smith

Ashamed of the Gospel?  Bruce McConkie

Conference Quote: LDS Doctrine Doesn’t Change

Exalting a False Gospel of False Gods

Fullness of the Gospel – D&C 20:9

Gospel and Our Righteousness Brings Peace

You can find the statement above on the Church’s Gospel Topics section.

Gospel Cannot Change – Church News, 1965

Gospel, Don’t Share – Abraham 1

Gospel Hobbies are Dangerous to Church – Bruce McConkie

Gospel is Code of Laws – Joseph Fielding Smith

Gospel is Simple – New Era, L. Tom Perry

Gospel Never Changes

Gospel Ordinances – Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Gospel Preaching to the Dead

Gospel Standards Key to Good Judgment – Gregory A. Schwitzer

How to Define the Gospel – Bible v. LDS — James Talmage

Joseph Smith Completed Jesus’ Gospel — Tad R. Callister

LDS: Gospel Can’t be Found on Earth – Joseph F. Smith

LDS Gospel is Gospel of Works and Repentance

Russell Nelson, General Conference 2021

Mandatory Sacrifice to Know His Word

Mormons Preach Law of Carnal Commandments — Brigham Young

Problems Believing Other Gospels

Questioning the many problems that arise with the golden plates.

Problems with Believing Other Gospels   2024

What are Gospel Ordinances?

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? Melissa Brown

What’s the Greatest Commandment; Do You Know?

Who Was the Gospel First Given To & When – Mark Petersen

 

GRACE

Falling from Grace in 147 BC

Grace is a Lie – Spencer W. Kimball, Miracle of Forgiveness

LDS: Grace Must Be Earned — Bruce McConkie

Grace Provides Resurrection, Not Salvation – LDS.org

Grace vs. Works

It’s Grace, Not Works

Grace Can’t Be Earned! — Bruce McConkie

LDS Contradictions: Grace Doesn’t Save, Works Can’t Save

LDS and Christian Amazing Grace Lyrics Compared

LDS: Gospel is a Code of Laws– Joseph Fielding Smith

LDS: Grace Earned by Conforming

LDS Reject Jesus’ Fulfillment of Grace

Mormon Grace Must Be Earned

Mormons Believe Jesus’ Grace is Obedience to the Law

Mormons Must Conform to Earn Grace — Bruce R. McConkie

No Salvation Through Grace – Spencer Kimball

What’s the Price of a Free Gift?

 

GRAVEN IMAGES

Seagulls, Joseph, Brigham & Hyrum – Mosiah 12:36

 

GREAT APOSTASY

Contradictions in Great Apostasy Teachings – Bruce McConkie

Great Apostasy & Christian Hymns, Why does the Church Sing Them

Great Apostasy Lies, God’s Servants ALWAYS on Earth – Joseph Fielding Smith

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