Is there more than one Mormon god? According to Joseph Smith and his writings from the BoM, there’s only one.
Alma 11:26-29; “And Zeezrom said unto him: Thou sayest there is a true and living God? 27 And Amulek said: Yea, there is a true and living God. 28 Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God? 29 And he answered, No.”
The following revelation was given to Smith in Fayette, NY as early as 1829. According to his report, there is only one God.
D&C 20:19; “And gave unto them commandments that they should love and serve him, the only living and true God, and that he should be the only being whom they should worship.”
Upon receiving the Egyptian papyri from a traveling salesman in 1835, Smith took the opportunity to hear God’s revelation about its text. In the book of Moses we find God told Smith there’s only one God.
Moses 1:6; “And I have a work for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten; and mine Only Begotten is and shall be the Savior, for he is full of grace and truth; but there is no God beside me, and all things are present with me, for I know them all.”
This coincides with what the Bible tells us (and Mormons too!), which by the way they have on their official website.
Isaiah 43:10-11; “Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.”
Despite repeated warnings, Joe Smith insisted his other revelations told him the following about the multiplicity of gods. According to the rest of the Egyptian papyri, Smith claims that many gods organized the earth.
Abraham 4:27; “So the Gods went down to organize man in their own image, in the image of the Gods to form they him, male and female to form they them.”
In July 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois Smith was told men can become gods
D&C 132:37; “Abraham received concubines, and they bore him children; and it was accounted unto him for righteousness, because they were given unto him, and he abode in my law; as Isaac also and Jacob did none other things than that which they were commanded; and because they did none other things than that which they were commanded, they have entered into their exaltation, according to the promises, and sit upon thrones, and are not angels but are gods.”
Orson Pratt continued on with the false teachings of polytheism in his speech from 1855. The most striking of his comments included his false interpretation of Isaiah 43:10-11.
Journal of Discourses 2:345-346; “…“how are you going to get along with the passage, in Isaiah, where the Lord declared that, “There is no God before me, nor shall there be any after me?” How can we believe this, when we believe in the revelation given through Joseph Smith, which says there are many Gods, and that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are Gods, and that all good men in this Church shall become Gods?… Perhaps some may suppose that it is translated improperly. But you will find the same thing in the Book of Mormon, translated by the Urim and Thummim; the same things are also contained in the new translation of the book of Genesis, given to Moses, where the Lord declares that, “There is no God besides me.” In these expressions, God has reference to the great principles of light and truth, or knowledge, and not to the tabernacles in which this knowledge may dwell; the tabernacles are many and without number, but the truth or knowledge which is often personified and called God, is one…
This explains the mystery. If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds. But the attributes of Deity are one; and they constitute the one God that the Prophets speak of, and that the children of men in all worlds worship.” – Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, February 18, 1855
Regardless of the repeated denials of being polytheists, Mormons have clearly qualified as such. You don’t have to trust and believe in the other gods to be a polytheist. Simply believing there’s more than one is sufficient enough.
Also see: Isaiah 44:6, 45:6
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