Titus 2:11-12; “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age.”
General Conference, ‘The Perfect Path to Happiness,’ Sunday Morning Session, October 2, 2016
Looking at Thomas Monson’s speech at General Conference reminded me of all the warnings Paul gave to new believers in Galatia, and the more I read, the darker my outlook became for the Mormon people. Today we’re taking a quick look at a couple of key items in his speech you can access at the embedded link above.
‘I testify of the great gift which is our Father’s plan for us. It is the one perfect path to peace and happiness. …
Essential to the plan is our Savior, Jesus Christ. Without His atoning sacrifice, all would be lost. It is not enough, however, merely to believe in Him and His mission. We need to work and learn, search and pray, repent and improve.’
How could ‘all be lost’ without Jesus’ sacrifice if work is needed to live the ‘perfect plan of happiness’?
What is included in Jesus’ sacrifice?
If ‘all would be lost’, what exactly, would be lost?
What part of salvation did Jesus’ sacrifice cover?
What is included in the ‘work’ Mormons must do for salvation?
Is there a comprehensive list somewhere giving detailed information of everything required?
It seems that Mormon salvation is a moving target. No matter what you’ve done to achieve their standard, there’s always ‘one more thing’ still left undone.
Clearly, Jesus’ work on the cross for us was insufficient if Mormons feel they still have work to do.
‘We need to know God’s laws and live them. We need to receive His saving ordinances. Only by so doing will we obtain true, eternal happiness.’
Is there a list of these laws? What about the saving ordinances? Are they different than the Laws?
In the OT, Pharisees had a comprehensive list of 613 laws one was required to obey in order to receive salvation. Is this included in the Mormon god’s laws and ordinances?
Paul, being a Benjamite himself, meant that he was on the council of Pharisees, so he definitely knew the Law. He came from the upper echelon of Jewish families, and had a good grasp on what it meant to leave his family for Jesus. Consider what he wrote telling new believers what was at risk if they held onto the traditions encased with the Law.
Galatians 5:1-4; “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.”
To ‘fall from grace’ is the worst thing that could happen to a believer, yet this is what happens when you try to mix the Law with grace. We could spend a lifetime discussing just this one topic within this idea, however we’re cutting this short with the hope you as a Mormon, will study this on your own.
Mr. Monson also declared Mormons have the truth and are required to share it with others.
We are blessed to have the truth. We have a mandate to share the truth. Let us live the truth, that we might merit all that the Father has for us…” – Thomas S. Monson
Truth in Mormonism is far different than orthodox Christianity. If truth is predicated on what the God of the Bible says, Mormonism is anything but truthful. Every doctrine they espouse is diametrically opposed to biblical standards.
Please, don’t forget to pray for these dear, dear people. Pray that God will cause them to think about their prophet’s word and begin to question his measure of truth.
With Love in Christ;
Michelle
1 Cor. 1:18
As most rank-and-file Mormons stand-up during their monthly fast-Sunday testimony meetings and in rote-fashion declare their devotion to the Mormon Jesus and his creator Joseph Smith, they are, either, ignorant of the proclaimed canon theological destiny of every worthy Mormon elder and his temple-endowed wife of becoming as great as the Mormon father-god and his goddess wife, the heavenly mother, who were once a mortal man and woman born on some planet in the cosmos, who worked their way to Mormon father-godhood and goddess-motherhood just as their formerly human father-god and mother-goddess did eons of time before them, or they know about this ultimate theological destiny and just don’t want to venerate the real polytheistic Mormon theology in front of Christians who might accept Mormonism.
You see, what I didn’t fully understand for 30 years of my life, as I spouted the canned false theology of Mormonism, from the Book of Mormon, as a Mormon missionary to many struggling Christians, was that the Mormon Jesus, the biologically produced son of the Mormon father-god of this earth, is just another Mormon messiah, named Jesus, in the long polytheistic line of Mormon messiahs, called saviors, produced sexually in biological fashion by the long succession of Mormon father-gods and mother-goddesses. The Mormon grandfather-god, proclaimed by Joseph Smith in his “King Follett Discourse,” is the father of the current Mormon father-god, whom all worthy Mormon elders are to equal in greatness by each of them becoming Mormon father-gods, with a capital G! YES! This is real Mormon theology! Each worthy elder, and his wife or wives, are to work their way to the highest degree of Mormon heaven, called exaltation, and when they are resurrected they are to be made into father-gods and mother-goddesses by a preexisting council of Mormon father-gods. Sounds like Greek mythology, doesn’t it? Then, each newly ordained Mormon father-god and mother-goddess will limitedly create their own earth and billions of procreated spirit children, their versions of Adam and Eve, and their own version of a messiah savior, just like the one-and-only Jesus of the Holy Bible, who is without beginning or end, from everlasting to everlasting.
You see, real Mormon theology, according to Mormon prophets Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and Lorenzo Snow, states that the Mormon Jesus came only to provide a resurrection for all of the children of the Mormon father-god; that is, a new body that is regarded as salvation from death, the only free gift Mormon’s claim was offered by Jesus through his death on the cross. The atonement of Jesus to Mormons is not the shedding of his precious blood for all of the sins of the world, past, present, and future. Jesus, according to Mormon theology, atoned only for what the Mormons call “Adam’s and Eve’s transgression. Mormon theology does not regard what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden as a sin. They regard what Adam and Eve did as a “necessary step” in the production of a humankind by every Mormon father-god, through which every Mormon world must proceed for the cycle of Mormon godhood, with a capital G, to continue. Brigham Young proclaimed in LDS General Conference, in 1865, that “there are as many Gods as there are stars, and as many saviors as there are Gods.” He clarified his statement later in saying that, “every star is a glorious world.”
So, real Mormon theology, as stated in the Mormon Church’s most recent 20th Century declaration of LDS theology, “Lesson 21-Man May Become Like God,” from the 1984 LDS Melchizedek Priesthood Handbook, “Search These Commandments,” is totally different from what full-time Mormon missionaries tell the struggling Christians, investigators to Mormonism, about Mormon theology, doctrine, and history, which they swear in the name of their Mormon Jesus (who allows them to lie) is the truth. I have “Lesson 21-Man May Become Like God” available as a PDF document to send to any, and all, readers of this commentary. Struggling Christians who would consider studying Mormonism need to know the truth about Mormon theology before they hear the Mormon knock at their doors, or receive invitations from Mormon friends and associates to learn more about Mormonism. Please contact me at 571-309-8789 and leave your email address on voicemail and I will send out copies immediately. You can also find a PDF copy of “Lesson 21” on the MormonThink.org website under Mormon theology, which you are able to download.