The numbers below are from an official Mormon church publication. Notice how they use the sum of a 25 year span to make the number look significant. Breaking it down to an annual basis and to a per member basis demonstrates how little the Mormon church gives in charitable aid.
http://www.providentliving.org/welfare/pdf/WelfareFactSheet.pdf
Humanitarian assistance rendered (1985-2009)
Cash Donations $327.6 million
Value of Material Assistance $884.6 millionThe value of material assistance is a wild guess from materials donated by members and not directly out of the church's pocket. We will assume that it actually came from the church directly for simplicity.
Let's look at the numbers.
Total number of years: 25 years
Total amount of aid: $1,212.2 million (cash 327.6 + materials 884.6)Amount of aid per year: ($1,212.2 / 25 yr) = $48.5 million per year
Let's assume an average of 12 million members of the church over that 25 year time span.
($80.8 / 12) = $6.73 per member given in charitable aid per year!!!
Just so that this is clear - The Mormon church only gives out $6.73 in charitable aid per member per year.
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So how much help is the Mormon church now giving members and nonmembers?
Polygamy is against the law in all 50 states, but you'd never know it from the
way they boast about it on national television. A disturbing National
Geographic episode has been appearing on television titled “POLYGAMY USA!”
“Centennial Park”
is a polygamous closed community located in Arizona for Mormons. As with most
false religious cults, women are key influences in the group.
According to “POLYGAMY USA!,” women choose which husband and family they want to join. Mormons attend church once a week and only children 8-years of age who have been water baptized are allowed to attend religious services. Mormons are indoctrinated with sexually perverted dogma that claims polygamous relationships are needed to provide bodies for the “royal priesthood” which God intends to one day raise up upon the earth.
The truth is that Mormonism is a satanic cult, formed in 1830 by a 33rd degree Freemason named Joseph Smith. Mormonism's rituals and ceremonies are virtually identical to Masonic rites and rituals. The “POLYGAMY USA!” documentary claims that women and girls are not forced against their will to partake of polygamous marriages; however, it is abundantly clear that the Mormon religion is the driving force (brainwashing) that fuels the polygamy movement. Mormons prefer to live in small towns throughout the western mountainous United States in places like Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado because they are less visible in such remote places. Colossians 3:5-6, “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.”
Evidence that polygamy is NOT God's original intent for mankind is seen in the fact of jealousy. Repeatedly in the National Geographic “POLYGAMY USA!” documentary, Mormon women speak of dealing with JEALOUSY between other wives of their husband. Why would God create a man to have multiple wives who can never find complete fulfillment from their husband, because they have to continually fight off feelings of envy and jealousy? God created Eve as a help meet for Adam (Genesis 2:18). If God wanted Adam to have multiple help meets, then He would have created them, but He didn't. God made one woman, Eve, for Adam. This is God's divine plan for humanity... one man, one woman... joined in holy matrimony. Matthew 19:6, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” The fact that Mormon wives are jealous of each other is evidence that it's not God's plan. In a normal heterosexual marriage, a husband and wife are a team, making a life for each other, sharing one another's burdens.
A child is a gift from God, the
offspring of a husband and wife united together. A child has the traits of
both parents, the ultimate expression of the love between a husband and a
wife. How tragic when couples divorce and shatter that love which is
symbolized continually in the life of that child. Oh, how wicked is the sin of
divorce!!!
Mormon Sex-Based Religion
Mormons worship sex, not the God of the Bible.
It's important to understand that Mormon women seek a husband for RELIGIOUS REASONS. They don't seek a husband because they fall in love; but rather, they've been indoctrinated since childhood that God wants them to pick a family to join and do so. The reason is so they can produce babies to accommodate the royal priesthood (more Mormons). Could you imagine if Baptist's taught young girls to seek married men to marry, for the purpose of getting pregnant to produce more Baptists???!!! Mormonism is a sicko religion that is dangerous to society. A Florida judge who sentenced a gospel preacher to 10-years in prison for alleged tax evasion said in court that the minister is a threat to the community because of his Biblical teachings on the New World Order. What a joke! That preacher is NOT a threat to anyone. Mormons on the other hand ARE A MAJOR THREAT TO SOCIETY!!! The whole concept of getting pregnant by someone else's husband to produce more Mormons is evil, demented and satanic. Am I the only one who sees the threat? Mormons exploit Christianity, daring to call their wickedness a legitimate religion.
Get this... in the documentary, National Geographic interviews some women who are all married to the same man. One Mormon woman said she hadn't seen her husband in SIX WEEKS because he has to work out of state to support his 5 wives and dozens of children. They said that their so-called husband leaves regularly for months at a time and they hardly ever see him. All this sacrifice to support 5 wives and dozens of children? My big question is this... What's so bad about each woman marrying her OWN husband and getting pregnant by HER OWN HUSBAND? Why the dire need for polygamy? The only answer is sexual perversion. Mormonism is a sex cult for unsaved, lustful, wicked men. Simple math tells us that if Mormon men are going to marry multiple wives, then there is going to be an imbalance between males and females. Indeed, that is a problem for Mormons. They deal with it by running a certain number of young men out of their groups. To Marry Multiple Wives, Mormons Have To Get Rid Of Young Men... Here's How It's Done!
The whole concept of polygamous marrying to produce children is a bogus fraud, because normal marriages could just as easily produce a large number of offspring. Whether five couples marry and each has five children, or one Mormon pervert marries five wives and they each have five children... either way there are twenty-five children! So where does Mormonism justify polygamy? They cannot! Mormonism is the sex-pervert's paradise, blatant false religion! Mormons lie about everything, deceiving and being deceived. Read online from ex-Mormons and prepare for some graphic sexual details of what really goes on in Mormonism homes.
The shocking documentary on National Geographic shows Mormon women admitting that DATING ISN'T ALLOWED in their closed community town, that is, “Centennial City.” Do you know why dating isn't allowed? I say it's because teenage girls and boys would marry each other instead of older married men. What kind of town doesn't allow dating? ONLY A SEX-PERVERTED MORMON TOWN! Young girls are brainwashed to pray for God whom they should marry, but they're NOT allowed to date!!! Talk about a religious satanic cult!!! They brag about this stuff on national television. Where is CPS? Where are the authorities? Those kids are controlled, led into polygamous relationships, and it's all done in the name of religion. Freemasons control the government and courts!
Even more shocking is that the apostate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, met with 300 area pastors in 2011 in San Antonio and told them all to vote for MITT ROMNEY (a staunch Mormon teacher in the cult). Romney was said to be the lesser of two evils. My friend, we should NEVER vote for evil, even if the lesser of two choices. The Lord never got involved with politics and there's no Scriptural command to vote. It's ok not to vote! If you voted for Mitt Romney, you're not right with God. You're a fool and an idiot for voting for a Mormon leader of a sex cult. Don't claim to love the Lord if you supported a sex-sicko Mormon to lead America's churches as U.S. President!!!
In the documentary, one women admits that she started praying at age 12, asking God who she should marry? Clearly, Mormonism teaches young girls from the earliest possible stages that they are supposed to live in polygamy. Mormonism preys upon young girls. Yet, Mormons hypocritically claim that women aren't forced to partake of polygamy. Mormon women are taught that God will reveal by faith which married man they are supposed to marry. Of course, it's not faith in the God of the Bible, because Mormons reject Jesus Christ as God almighty. Mormons diminish Christ, attacking His deity and Godhead. Mormons, like Jehovah's Witnesses (both Masonic religions) believe that Jesus and Lucifer are brothers (fellow archangels). Biblically, Jesus is NOT an angel, never was an angel, nor ever will be an angel. Jesus is almighty God, Who came in the flesh (John 10:33; John 1:1-3,14). Jesus is the Creator of the universe (John 1:3).
In the documentary one Mormon man states, “Religion is not a part of our life, it is our life!” If you pay close attention to the documentary, it is very clear how demented the whole thing really is. One Mormon woman said that she and her husband were seeking another woman “to expand their family.” Why can't each woman marry her OWN husband? Why does each man have to have multiple wives? The answer is sexual lust, perversion. Back in Bible days there was no welfare to support the poor, so women often married another married man if he was wealthy for financial security. Polygamy is against the law in all 50 states, yet Arizona does NOTHING to uphold the law.
One
man in
Arizona was sentenced to 200 years in prison for downloading 20 dirty
pictures; yet Mormons break the law boldly, arrogantly and blatantly and the
state of Arizona does nothing. Centennial Park's cult leader tells people to
butt out and mind their own business, but they're all breaking the law by
living in polygamy! It is the
law's business. Mormons are powerful, rich and have Masonic connections which
place them, literally, above the laws of our land. Many elite Jews who are not
Mormons come to Salt Lake City, Utah to partake of secret ceremonies in their
private temples. Are they sex rituals?
Joseph Smith's Perverted Gospel Was Sex
The cult leader of Centennial Park said, and I quote, “I am trying to preserve and promote the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by Joseph Smith.” HERESY! BLASPHEMY!!! Joseph Smith was an unsaved pervert who is burning in the fires of Hell forever!!! Joe Smith was as messed up as they come! Mormonism couldn't exist without sex! Literally, the entire religion is based upon the premise that polygamy is necessary to please God, to populate the earth with more bodies for Mormons to earn their wings in Heaven. The lame belief is that spirits in a lower celestial state are waiting for earthly bodies, to come live as a good procreating (sexualized) Mormon here on earth, and earn their way into a higher celestial state in eternity. He who scores the most sex and begets the most offspring wins! I'm not exaggerating. Mormon women are viewed and treated as commodities.
Men who have the most sex and conceive the most children are esteemed as gods in Mormonism. I'm not joking about “gods.” Mormons deny Christ's deity. Instead, they believe that each Mormon will one day become as a god, like Christ was a god they say. They absolutely deny that Jesus Christ was almighty God in the flesh. Mormonism supports the New Age concept of achieving human godhood through enlightenment. The entire Mormon religion is sex perversion, and it's sad that it's protecting under corrupt U.S. laws. Those young girls in Mormonism are brainwashed to the point of praying at age 12 for God to show them which married man to shack up with and have babies. The “POLYGAMY USA!” film actually exposes and tells on the Mormons. Any moron from CPS can see that those children are being inducted into a sex religion. But Freemasons are untouchable! Mormonism is synonymous with Freemasonry, Judaism and Zionism! In fact, Mormonism is rooted in Kaballah.
The gospel of Jesus Christ,
according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-4, teaches that Jesus DIED, was BURIED and
then miraculously RESURRECTED three days later. That's the good news of Jesus
Christ and it has NOTHING to do with sex! Mormon theology is blatant proof
that even the strangest teachings can be passed off as religion. This world is
evil (1st John 5:19) and Mormonism is about as evil as it gets!
Mormonism Perverts The Meaning Of Motherhood
Mormons totally pervert the meaning of motherhood, teaching women that they're all supposed to marry other married men (with few exceptions). Literally, Mormon women are taught that they are baby machines for Mormon men, and that God is pleased by more babies. But it goes much darker than that. Mormon women are also taught that they are supposed to take the sperm of a stranger for the sake of strengthening the Mormon cause. The documentary calls it “PLACEMENT MARRIAGE,” where women are randomly assigned to a married man to be his mate. The film says repeatedly, almost as if the Mormons are apologizing or admitting guilt, that no one is forced against their will to live in polygamy. That's like saying that Hitler's youth weren't forced to fight, they did it freely of their own willing volition. Mormon girls are indoctrinated in a closed community of other Mormons, having no other options. Effectively they are indeed forced.
Another thing I picked up on in the documentary was quite a few Mormon women saying that they never dated as a teenage girl. They're taught at age 18 to get into bed with a married man and be his whore. They grow up being brainwashed to jump into a married man's bed when they turn 18. They look forward to it. It's part of their upbringing. It's not just a religion to them, it is their life. Mormonism is not a religion to Mormons, it is a polygamous lifestyle! The documentary also shows how Mormon leaders have winter dances and other infrequent planned events to encourage (force) young girls to choose a husband. It's not voluntary if you really look at all the psychological manipulation that goes on. What surprises me is that Mormons can continue to get away with what they're doing, parading it on national television and boasting that they're openly breaking the laws of Arizona by practicing polygamy. Despite claiming that they're honest people who mind their own business, the fact of the matter is that those children are being indoctrinated from birth to live in polygamy. Only the privileged few get the wives, the rest are excommunicated and driven out of town. Mormonism is nothing less than a gigantic orgy.
Please understand that the polygamy which existed in the Old Testament was NOT religious based sex! Mormons have turned sex into a religion!!! Mormonism's gospel is saturated with sex, sex, sex! Joe Smith's perverted views are the foundation of Mormonism. In view of the fact that same-sex marriage is about to be made federal law, I am convinced that polygamy is also going to be legalized for Mormons. Mormons try to give the false impression that they're just like any other Americans, hard-working and decent people. Although many are hard-working and successful people, they are not honest about their religious faith. The fact that polygamous Mormons have to live in closed communities speaks volumes. The fact that Mormon temples are off limits to the public and rituals are secret speaks volumes! Truth and righteousness need no cloak. Only evil needs to be kept secret! The truth is that Mormonism is an organization within an organization, like Freemasonry, where a small inner group of elite and wealthy men live in sexual debauchery at the expense of the outer group. Mormon temples even contain beds (which aren't used for napping purposes).
Sexual perversion is rampant in America. Homosexuals are allowed to marry and that's ok with mainstream society. Gene Simmons (Jewish) brags of having had sex with 4,897 women and that is ok with mainstream society, making him a star on TV. Every form of sexual immorality is tolerated in America, even pedophilia and bestiality. Britney Spears shamelessly holds a world record for having only a 72-hour marriage! Yet American society shows no mercy when a Jim Bakker or Jimmy Swaggert sins even once. I'm not going easy on sin, I'm pointing out that Americans are wicked hypocrites who are bigoted, hateful and biased against Christians, the Bible and righteousness. People should be outraged over Mormon towns of polygamists, where children are taught that men should have a dozen wives (and some have more than that!). Polygamy historically has been caused by the exploitation of the poor. Basically, a poor woman marries for security. Mormonism does it for religious reasons, exploiting naive and gullible women.
At present, as of 2013, 12 states have legalized same-sex marriage and the number is increasing quickly. At the time of Roe vs. Wade in 1972, 37 states already allowed abortion legally. As soon as most states approve of gay-marriage, it will become federal law. Preachers who faithfully preach the Word of God will be demonized on the same scale as the Ku Klux Klan. Already we are seeing this across the country.
Polygamists Practice Big Love In Arizona
By HARRY PHILLIPS and JOSEPH DIAZ
Aug. 14, 2007Welcome to Centennial Park — population 1200 — a tiny speck in the vast Arizona desert. A place where everyone considers themselves to be typical, All-American families in every way except one: the residents here practice polygamy.
Ariel Hammon, 32, his wife Helen, 30, their seven children, Ariel's second wife Lisa, 20, and their two children — all twelve squeeze into a tiny two-bedroom cottage with just 1400 square feet of living space. As the kids grow and the family adds more wives and babies, the house will only get smaller.
Mormons often choose to live in closed communities...
The Centennial Park group is a fundamentalist Mormon group, with approximately 1,500 members, who broke with Leroy S. Johnson, the senior member of the "Priesthood Council" and leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. However, there is no formal relationship between the FLDS Church and the Centennial Park community. The group is also known as the “Second Ward”, "The Work of Jesus Christ" and "The Work."
SOURCE: Centennial Park group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Smith allegedly received the gold Nephi plates (the book of Mormon) from the angel Moroni. Even if the so called angel, “Moroni,” really did appear to Joseph Smith, he is still accursed because the gospel of the Book of Mormon is very different from the gospel of the Bible. Since the Book of Mormon does not conform to the standard of the Bible, it is NOT Christian, but condemned being a new and false gospel.
The Mormon religion is straight out of the pits of Hell. Mormonism denies the deity of Jesus Christ. Mormonism teaches that a person must be baptized to go to Heaven. Mormonism is a sexually degenerate cult that is known for pedophilia and abuse. There are many more links down below. Mormonism has the wrong jesus, not the Jesus of the Bible Who is Almighty God (John 10:33; Revelation 1:8).
- “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from
him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is
not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed.” (Galatians 1:6-8).
- “Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.” (Colossians 2:18).
Mormonism teaches a damnable plan of salvation
which leads to Hell. Water baptism is required by Mormons to be saved.
However, the Bible rejects such nonsense. Water baptism is NOT required for
salvation.
Some of the Most Blasphemous and Damnable Mormon Doctrines
- “We believe in a God who is Himself
progressive, whose majesty is intelligence; whose perfection consists in
eternal advancement—a Being who has attained His exalted state by a path
which now His children are permitted to follow, whose glory it is their
heritage to share. In spite of the opposition of the sects, in the face of
direct charges of blasphemy, the Church proclaims the eternal truth: 'As man
is, God once was; as God is, man may be.'” (LDS Apostle James E.
Talmage, Articles of Faith, Ch.24, p.430 - p.431, LDS Collectors Library '97
CD-ROM)
- “'It is the first principle of the gospel to
know for a certainty the character of God,' the inspired word continues,
'and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with
another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the
Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did.'
The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked
out his salvation by obedience to the same laws he has given to us so that
we may do the same.” (LDS Apostle Bruce R.
McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p.64, LDS Collectors
Library '97 CD-ROM)
- “Thus, on this beautiful spring morning in the
Sacred Grove, Joseph Smith witnessed the renewal of God's dealing with his
children in accordance with the great gospel plan of redemption. Upon this
occasion God the Father and his Beloved Son Jesus Christ appearing as
glorified Resurrected Beings unto a chosen servant of God, made known once
again the state of immortality which man will attain in preparation for the
next estate of eternity; that also the world once again could know the
reality of the personal nature of God the Father and his Beloved Son.” (LDS
Apostle Alvin R. Dyer, Conference Report, April 1963, p.49 - p.50, LDS
Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM)
- “As we stretch our imaginations to absorb the
limitlessness of the creations of God we turn to a favorite song: If you
could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye, And then continue onward with
that same speed to fly, D'ye think that you could ever, through all
eternity, Find out the generation where Gods began to be? Or see the grand
beginning, where space did not extend? Or view the last creation where Gods
and matter end? Methinks the Spirit whispers, "No man has found 'pure
space,'" Nor seen the outside curtains, where nothing has a place. The works
of God continue, and worlds and lives abound; Improvement and progression
have one eternal round. There is no end to matter; there is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit; there is no end to race.” (LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.250, LDS
Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM)
- “God: Creator And Ruler Of Many Worlds—While
it is true that evolutionists may be divided between theistic and atheistic
groups, yet most of those professing belief in God consider him to be an
indefinable force, essence, or power of an incomprehensible nature.
According to revelation, however, he is a personal Being, a holy and exalted
Man, a glorified, resurrected Personage having a tangible body of flesh and
bones, an anthropomorphic Entity, the personal Father of the spirits of all
men.”
(D. & C. 130:22- 23; Moses 6:51, 57; Abraham 3:22-24; Jos. Smith 2:16-19.)"
- “We are members of the family of the Eternal
Father. He is a glorified and exalted and eternal Being, having a
resurrected body of flesh and bones. His name is God, and the kind of life
he lives is God's life. His name is also Eternal, and the name of the kind
of life he lives is eternal life. Eternal life is God's life, and God's life
is eternal life. We are commanded to be perfect as he is perfect and to
advance and progress until we become like him, or in other words, until we
gain eternal life. Thus Joseph Smith said, "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, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and
from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace from exaltation to
exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able
to dwell in everlasting burnings and to sit in glory, as do those who sit
enthroned in everlasting power." (Teachings, pp. 346-47.) Christ our Lord
has so obtained, thus enabling him to say to the faithful: "Ye shall be even
as I am, and I am even as the Father.” (3 Ne. 28:10.)" (LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah,
Vol.1, p.23 - p.24, LDS Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM)
- “I will prove that the world is wrong, by
showing what God is. I am going to inquire after God; for I want you all to
know Him, and to be familiar with Him; and if I am bringing you to a
knowledge of Him, all persecutions against me ought to cease. You will then
know that I am His servant; for I speak as one having authority.” ... “I
will go back to the beginning before the world was, to show what kind of a
being God is.”
What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear, all ye ends of the earth. for I am going to prove it to you by the Bible, and to tell you the designs of God in relation to the human race, and why He interferes with the affairs of man. ... "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!
That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make himself visible,--I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form--like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with Him, as one man talks and communes with another. ...
"In order to understand the subject of the dead, for consolation of those who mourn for the loss of their friends, it is necessary we should understand the character and being of God and how He came to be so; for 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. ... "These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are simple.
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; and I will show it from the Bible. ... "I wish I was in a suitable place to tell it, and that I had the trump of an archangel, so that I could tell the story in such a manner that persecution would cease forever. What did Jesus say? (Mark it, Elder Rigdon!)
The scriptures inform us that Jesus said, as the Father hath power in himself, even so hath the Son power—to do what? Why, what the Father did. The answer is obvious--in a manner to lay down his body and take it up again. Jesus, what are you going to do? To lay down my life as my Father did, and take it up again. Do you believe it? If you do not believe it you do not believe the Bible.
The scriptures say it, and I defy all the learning and wisdom and all the combined powers of earth and hell together to refute it. 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, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings. and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power. And I want you to know that God, in the last days, while certain individuals are proclaiming His name, is not trifling with you or me." (LDS President Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol.6, Ch.14, p.305-6, LDS Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM)
- "Intelligent beings are
organized to become Gods, even the Sons of God, to dwell in the presence of
the Gods, and become associated with the highest intelligences that dwell in
eternity. We are now in the school, and must practice upon what we receive."
(LDS President Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, p.245, LDS
Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM)
- "This was the calling of Joseph Smith. He
taught anew that God was in the form of man; that man was made in the image
of God; and he taught the principles of justice, mercy, charity, and
forgiveness. ... He taught the truths that the Prophets before him had
taught; and he went
beyond them. ... Joseph Smith taught
men to look up to heaven and conceive of a God in the form of man. He taught
them that they could become like their Father and God, who was 'an exalted
Man.' And what is more simple and reasonable? Don't you parents expect your
children to become like you? Or do you expect your children to be something
else than men and women? No. You men will see your sons become men;
you women will see your daughters become women.
Then God our Father—yes, and our Mother--in heaven, looking down upon this world—this school house in which their children are being educated—expect, and Joseph Smith taught it as a truth, that their children will be exalted, if they pursue the proper course, until they shall become divine beings themselves, worthy to stand upon that plane where stand their Father and their Mother in heaven. Like begets like; and the principle of eternal progress will make of man a God. (LDS Apostle Orson F. Whitney, Collected Discourses, Vol.5, May 8, 1898, LDS Collectors Library '97 CD-ROM).
Mormons deny the d
eity of Jesus ChristThe Deity of Jesus Christ is a
fundamental doctrine of the faith, yet Mormons deny Christ's deity.
Instead, Mormons promote man to the status of being "gods." Mormonism
is straight from Hell and must be exposed for the lies that it teaches. The Word of God proclaims that Jesus Christ is God (John 1:1-3,10,14). Isaiah 9:6 called Jesus the "Everlasting Father." John 10:33 reads,
"The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for
blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." The Jews were trying to kill Jesus because He was claiming to be God. They also tried to murder Jesus in John 8:57-59.
In fact, Jesus
professed Himself as Almighty God in Revelation 1:8, "I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and
which is to come, the Almighty. Jesus forgave sin as only God
can do (Mark 2:5). Jesus accepted worship as only God is entitled to
(Isaiah 42:8; Matthew 8:2). Mormons wickedly deny Christ's deity,
while selfishly proclaiming their own. Mormons have foolishly bought
into the Devil's lie that they will one day become gods. The Word of
God never teaches any such nonsense. There is and always will be only
one Living God (Deuteronomy 6:4).
The Deity of Man Promoted
"Mormons teach that man can become God, and that God was once a man:
God himself, the Father of us all, is a glorified, exalted immortal resurrected man!' (Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 322-23, 517, 643)'
'...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man and sits enthroned in yonder heavens...' (Journal of Discourses, V6, P3, 1844)
'As man is, God once was: as God is, man may become.' (Lorenzo Snow, quoted in Milton R. Hunter, the Gospel Through the Ages, pp. 105-106)
