Why would God tell Joseph Smith JR the Creeds were an
abomination and professors were corrupt and the then give Joseph Smith the Book
of Mormon which agreed with these Creeds and professors?
Pearl of Great Price
, Joseph Smith History
19 I was answered
that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who
addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that
those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of
men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
Here are Joseph Smith statements against the Creeds and the
Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith: Many men say there is one God; the Father, the
son and the Holy Ghost are only one God! I say this is a
strange God anyhow—three in one, and one in three! It is a curious
organization. . . . All
are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism.
It would make the
biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big
God—he would be a
giant or a monster.“
(History of the Church * Volume 6 Page 476 * 1844
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits
enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret... …I am going to tell you
how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all
eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may
see. … It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the
character of God and
to know...that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is
eternal life - to
know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn
how to be Gods
yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as
all Gods have done
before you... (“King Follett Discourse,” Journal of
Discourses 6:3-4, also in
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 345-346, and History
of the Church, vol.
6, 305-307,)"
"I have always declared God to be a distinct personage,
Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the
Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute
three distinct personages and three Gods," (Teachings of Prophet Joseph
Smith, p. 370)
Why does the Book of Mormon agree completely with the 4th
and 5th century creeds and completely disagree with the
teachings of Joseph Smith?
The Book of Mormon was written anciently for our day. It was prepared by the hand of the Lord over a period of more than a thousand years, by seers who were writing and speaking to future readers. They saw, understood, and spoke to us in the last days. "Behold I speak unto you as if you were present," Mormon wrote. The records were preserved for another fifteen hundred years to come forth in their purity for our generation. Joseph Smith taught, "Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none" (History of the Church, 2:52).
The Book of Mormon was written anciently for our day. It was prepared by the hand of the Lord over a period of more than a thousand years, by seers who were writing and speaking to future readers. They saw, understood, and spoke to us in the last days. "Behold I speak unto you as if you were present," Mormon wrote. The records were preserved for another fifteen hundred years to come forth in their purity for our generation. Joseph Smith taught, "Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none" (History of the Church, 2:52).
2 Nephi 31:
21 And now, behold,
my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name
given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now,
behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end.
Amen.
Alma 11:
44 Now, this
restoration shall come to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both
male and female, both the wicked and the righteous; and even there shall not so
much as a hair of their heads be lost; but everything shall be restored to its
perfect frame, as it is now, or in the body, and shall be brought and be
arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the Father, and the Holy
Spirit, which is one Eternal God, to be judged according to their works,
whether they be good or whether they be evil.
Mormon 7:
7 And he hath brought
to pass the redemption of the world, whereby he that is found guiltless before
him at the judgment day hath it given unto him to dwell in the presence of God
in his kingdom, to sing ceaseless praises with the choirs above, unto the
Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are one God, in a
state of happiness which hath no end.
The Testimony of
Three Witnesses
And the honor be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, which is one God. Amen.
Oliver Cowdery
David Whitmer
Martin Harris
Doctrine and
Covenants 20 :
28 Which Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost are one God, infinite and eternal, without end. Amen.
2 Nephi 26:12 And as
I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ,
it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ,
the Eternal God;
3 Nephi 11:17 Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High
God! And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him.
Moroni 7:22 For
behold, God knowing all things, being from everlasting to everlasting , behold,
he sent angels to minister unto the children of men, to make manifest
concerning the coming of Christ; and in Christ there should come every good
thing.
2 Nephi 27:23
For behold, I am god;
and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same
yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it
be according to their faith.
2 Nephi 29:9
And I do this that I
may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that
I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have
spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is
not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that
time henceforth and forever.
Moroni 8:18 For I
know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is
unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity.
Mormon 9:9 For do we
not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever , and in him there
is no variableness neither shadow of changing?
Mormon 9:19
And if there were
miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an
unchanging Being? And behold, I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would
cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.”
Hebrews 12: 8 Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
2 Nephi 19:9 And I do
this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and
forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And
because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak
another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of
man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.
Moroni 7:22
For behold, God
knowing all things, being from everlasting to everlasting, behold, he sent
angels to minister unto the children of men, to make manifest concerning the
coming of Christ; and in Christ there should come every good thing.
Mosiah 3:5 For
behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the Lord
Omnipotent who reigneth, who was, and is from all eternity to all eternity,
shall come down from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a
tabernacle of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty miracles,
such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the blind
to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of
diseases.
3 Nephi 19:
18 And behold, they
began to pray; and they did pray unto Jesus, calling him their Lord and their
God.
Mosiah 5:15
Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding
in good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you
may be brought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal
life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who created
all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. Amen.
2 Nephi 11:6-7. "And my soul delighteth in proving unto
my people that save Christ should come all men must perish. For if there be no
Christ there be no God; and if there be no God we are not, for there could have
been no creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in the
fulness of his own time."
An abridgment taken
from the Book of Ether also, which is a record of the people of Jared, who were
scattered at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, when they
were building a tower to get to heaven—Which is to show unto the remnant of the
house of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; and
that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off
forever—And also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the
Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations—And now, if there
are faults they are the mistakes of men; wherefore, condemn not the things of
God, that ye may be found spotless at the judgment-seat of Christ.
Translated by Joseph
Smith, Jun.
Mosiah 4: 9 Believe
in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and
in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in
earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can
comprehend.
Mormons follow a different Christ then Christians...
The traditional Christ
of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I
speak as been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. He
together with His Father, appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the year 1820,
and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the matters of God
than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages." (Church News,
June 20, 1998, p70) Gordon B. Hinckley
Mormons also follow a different Jesus than Book of Mormon
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