Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Mormon heresy...

The major heresy of Mormonism is summed up in its central theological axiom, the doctrine of the law of eternal progression. To believe in and teach this doctrine is to be so separated from Christian orthodoxy that the unrepentant adherent is consigned to a Christless eternity. It is stated as follows:
As man is, God once was,
and as god is, man may become.
Roll that through your mind a time or two. This all starts with the LDS teaching that there are great numbers of planets scattered througout the vastness of outer space which are ruled by countless exalted men-gods who once were human like us. This may sound like Battlestar Galactica to the average person, but upon this axiom is base the entire theology of Mormonism: from the temple rituals for the living to those for their dead; from the teaching that families are forever to the pressure on parents to send theri youth to the mission field across the world.

The Mormon people are committed to a controlled program that maps out their entire lives as they seek their own exaltation and godhood, their own planet to rule and reign over.

The Mormon Jesus

To the Mormon, jesus was our elder brother who pointed the way, but he isn't The Way as we Christians understand it. To the Mormon, Jesus was the god of the Old Testament, but once he took his physical form, the had to justify or earn his own spiritual salvation through his works while int he flesh, just as each of us must. Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel. His death on the cross provided a general salvation, whereby all of us will be resurrected to be judged for our own works. Yet Paul says in Colossians 2 that Jesus removed those lawas and ordinances that were against us, nailing them to the cross.

It is no wonder that you will never see a cross on a Mormon chruch -- not when you see that Mormons cannot deal with its gift of grace. This is the same reason they use water for communion. They call it The Sacrament, but that water washes away the reality of the blood shed for us at the Cross of Christ.

Of course, this is just the tip of the Mormon deception iceberg.

Let me close with these thoughts:

The Mormon view of God is different than that of Christians. They believe God evolved from a mortal man.

Mormons believe and teach polytheism. Polytheism is the belief in the existence of more than one god. Mormons believe there are literally millions of gods.

Every male Mormon is striving to become a god himself. This is easily found in the writings of Joseph Smith Jr. and Brigham Young.


In the end, it boils down to who are you going to trust -- the guys who are working their hardest to become gods, or God who completed the work on the Cross, dieing for your sins, and through His graces offers you salvation? Don't mistake the Mormon zeal for Truth.

Galatians 2:16:
Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

3 comments:

Chris Hafner said...

My folks, very strong Protestants as they are, were bizarrely Mormon when I was born.

Roughly six weeks later, when the Mormon church decided to cancel Easter because it interfered with a church event, they decided to quit the church and haven't regretted it a day since.

They were Mormon for about a total of six months and said it was very ... strange.

IdahoGal said...

I would like to hear my testimonies about people who have experienced Mormonism and how their lives have changed, also how the people of the past in Mormon treatment now .. as after the fact. Out of my 60 years of life, 12 of them i spent being a good Mormon, the rest after have been truly complex and with other christian believers there is common ground, but with Mormonism, you are truly set apart, and more so after leaving.

p4t said...

Though I appreciate the blog, and am aware Mormonism is false, I don't believe that the premise of the blog is accurate in that all LDS fault lie within its axiom 'as man is god once was...' &c.

This is simply not the case. The axiom is simply fruit borne from its real problem and points to the place wherein each of its faults stem.

Thus the entire problem within mormonism is the that of it being a false Gospel. This is the basis and fundamental position of mormonism, that at gound zero within mormonism its message is simply a false Gospel, or, concisely another gospel when there is no other Gospel for mankind at all other than that of the Scriptures. Upon this basis alone there is enough evidence that it is to be condemned; Galatians 1:6-12.

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