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The Teachings of Mormonism

The Teachings of Mormonism. Many Books, Gods, Prophecies, Wives, Priesthoods, Temples, Baptisms. LDS Standard Works. King James Version Bible or Joseph Smith’s own translation The Book of Mormon Doctrine and Covenants (orginally the Book of Commandments )

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The Teachings of Mormonism

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  1. The Teachings of Mormonism Many Books, Gods, Prophecies, Wives, Priesthoods, Temples, Baptisms

  2. LDS Standard Works • King James Version Bible or Joseph Smith’s own translation • The Book of Mormon • Doctrine and Covenants (orginally the Book of Commandments) • The Pearl of Great Price (containing the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, Matthew 24, some History of Joseph Smith, and the Articles of Faith)

  3. Changes to the Book of Mormon • Jerald and Sandra Tanner have found 3,913 changes to the Book of Mormon between 1830 and 1964. • Most are typo and spelling changes. • Some are significant. • Since then 2 Nephi 30:6 has been changed from “white and delightsome” to “pure and delightsome” as regards what would happen to Indians who convert.

  4. Current View of God • God used to be a man who became good enough to be a god. • He took his wives and created this world. • His wives bear spirit children who go into the bodies of babies when they are born. • Men today can become good enough to become gods. • Then they can take their wives and create their own worlds.

  5. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • 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;

  6. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • 2 Nephi 11: 7—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.

  7. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • 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.

  8. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • Mosiah 15: 2-5—2And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son—3The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son—4And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth. 5And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people.

  9. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • Mosiah 16: 15—Teach them that redemption cometh through Christ the Lord, who is the very Eternal Father. Amen.

  10. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • Alma 11: 26-29— • 26 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.

  11. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • Alma 11: 38-39— • 38 Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father? • 39 And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth, and all things which in them are; he is the beginning and the end, the first and the last;

  12. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • 3 Ne. 11: 27—And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name; for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one.

  13. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon is very Trinitarian. • 3 Ne. 11: 36—And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one.

  14. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon teaches that God does not change. • Mormon 9: 9-10—9For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing? 10And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not a God of miracles.

  15. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon teaches that God does not change. • Mormon 9: 19—if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable 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.

  16. The Book of Mormon on God • The Book of Mormon teaches that God does not change. • 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.

  17. The 1835 Lectures on Faith • The fifth lecture (¶2) teaches that God is a spirit. • “They are the Father and the Son: the Father being a personage of spirit, glory, and power, possessing all perfection and fulness. The Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, is a personage of tabernacle, made or fashioned like unto man, being in the form and likeness of man, or rather man was formed after his likeness and in his image.”

  18. The 1835 Lectures on Faith • The second lecture (¶2) teaches that God had no beginning. • “We here observe that God is the only supreme governor, and independent being, in whom all fulness and perfection dwells; who is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omnicient; without beginning of days or end of life; and that in him every good gift, and every good principle dwells; and that he is the Father of lights.”

  19. The Pearl of Great Price • The Book of Moses (1:6) teaches there is only one God (June 1830). • “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.”

  20. The Pearl of Great Price • The Book of Abraham (chapters 4 & 5) teaches there are many gods (published in 1842). • For example: Abram. 4:1—“And then the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went down at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth.”

  21. A Misunderstanding of Elohim • Joseph Smith was learning a little Hebrew but misunderstood the ending of the word elohim. • Elohim can be translated either God or gods. • The -im ending can either be intensive (thus God) or plural (thus gods). • Compare the -s ending in English which can either be possessive or plural.

  22. Doctrines & Covenants • D&C 130:22—“The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.” • Instruction given by Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Ramus, Illinois, April 2, 1843

  23. Problem with Book of Abraham • In 1835 Joseph Smith and others purchased four Egyptian mummies and several pages of papyri. • He claimed that the papyri contained works by Abraham and Joseph. • He “translated” the “Abraham” papyri. • Most of the work on the “translation” was done in 1835, but the book was not published until 1842 after some revision.

  24. Problem with Book of Abraham • Emma Smith sold the papyri and mummies in 1856 to Abel Combs, who later sold two mummies and some papyri to the Chicago Museum; they were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. • Other papyri found their way to Combs’s housekeeper and then to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1947. • In 1967 they were given to the Mormon Church after receiving an anonymous donation .

  25. Problem with Book of Abraham • These papyrii contained the originals from which the Book of Abraham had been “translated.” • However, they proved to be rather common copies of the “Book of the Dead” which was buried with mummies in ancient Egypt. • Their translation by Egyptian scholars is very different from that of Joseph Smith.

  26. Problem with Book of Abraham • Compare the identification of individuals in Facsimile No. 3 of the Book of Abraham with a similar picture in a Book of the Dead. Osiris Olimlah, a slave Prince of Pharaoh The dead man named Hunefer Isis Pharaoh Abraham Shulem jackal-headed Anubis Ma’at The dead man Hor From the British Museum web site

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