This month’s Visiting Teaching Message was a recipe for confusion. The title for this lesson was ‘Created in the Image of God’, and it looks like their goal was for teachers to promote the idea all of mankind was created in the exact image of the Mormon god.
The article from which this lesson came from, briefly touched upon two other key Mormon doctrinal points, but at least one of them seemed to be totally out of place for the subject matter. Let’s take a look at what they said! This lesson, just as the others this year, is pretty short. Regrettably, it might be short in length, but it’s long on heresy.
Point 1 –
Each month they’ve asked teachers to consider how ‘knowing their ‘Family Proclamation’ will increase their faith in God’.
Our first concern about this is how the proclamation is bereft of any scriptural foundation. While the original statement made by Gordon B. Hinckley in 1995, promoted the idea marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God, they clearly state ‘the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children’.
The family unit is not central to the Lord’s plan of salvation!
Christ Jesus and Him crucified is the central theme of God’s plan of salvation!
How is knowing marriage is ordained of God supposed to increase someone’s faith in the Lord?
The proclamation was also filled with Christian verbiage about man being created in God’s image, but alas, they’ve mistranslated this very important biblical passage. They’ve independently decided God is an exalted man, and man was created in that exact image.
The truth of the matter is only Christ is the express image of God, not man. The passage in Genesis 1:26-27 is referring to God’s personality traits, not a physical likeness, because God is Spirit (John 4:24), and not man (Num. 23:19).
Point 2 –
They said ‘God is our Heavenly Father, and He created us in His image’, and quoted President Monson who reminded members they believe in a god who’s an exalted man.
This is not the God of the Bible! In addition, they also quoted Joseph Smith whom they said, ‘learned that God desires that His children receive the same kind of exalted existence of which He partakes’.
We ask:
Where in the Bible does it say this?
How does this tie in with their ‘family proclamation’?
Point 3 –
In the last part of this lesson, they quoted from the Book of Ether, found towards the end of the Book of Mormon. The passage they pulled from this book was about an experience one of their heroes supposedly had while building 8 barges to come to America when the Tower of Babel fell c. BC 2,600.
One of the main characters from this story is the brother of Jared who supposedly saw ‘the finger of God’, proving God is an exalted man. Putting the fallacious teaching aside for now, the real story here is how they focused so much of their time on 16 stones ‘God touched one by one’, providing light for those in the 8 barges sailing to the ‘Promised Land’. See Ether 3:1–17.
They’ve now portrayed the God of the Bible as an exalted man who performs magic tricks.
Never mind the fact they never give the ‘brother of Jared’ a name…
What does this story have to do with the true nature of God we read about in the Bible?
We’re asking that Christians don’t hesitate to hit their knees this month as LDS Visiting Teachers go out to Mormon homes throughout the world teaching these horrific lies! Pray that their minds will question the validity of these stories, and what these stories have to do with their personal relationship with Jesus.
How are these things going to grow their faith when they might be having problems in their marriage, or with a child, or any type of tragedy they might be living through?
dark
yuk. dark
go do your own visiting teaching
Would you mind specifying what’s so dark about Michelle’s post? Even if your concerns are valid, there’s not much that can be done to address them if nobody but yourself knows what they are.