Thursday 30 January 2014

More Apologetics! The Mormons 2

In Doctrine and Covenants 130:22 (supposed revelations given to Joseph Smith), The father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man‘s, the son also. It is clear that a distinction between the body of the Father‘s, and the body of Jesus is made. Let us test this with what the Bible proclaims.

In this time we will look at the Father because the Bible clearly teaches the incarnation of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ who has been Fully God for all eternity (as Spirit) took on humanity (man), and walked among this darkened world. He had two natures, fully God and fully man, but still one person, the one person of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible says in John 1:14a kjv, And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us ~

When it comes to the Father, the Bible never talks about the Father having or taking on a human nature or a body like man. If the Father has never had a human nature or a body like man, then He must only be Spirit because Jesus said in John 4:24kjv, God is a Spirit (made clear by the Lord that God is a Spirit) and in Luke 24:39kjv, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have (speaking about Christ's human nature).

To add to what has been said already, the Bible says that God was never created because He is the Creator and eternal (Genesis 1:1; Psalm 24:1; Isaiah 37:16; Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalm 90:2; 1Timothy 1:17).

God says He is the only God and there were no other gods before Him and none after Him (Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 43:10).

These scriptures expose another false Joseph Smith doctrine that the Father was just a man like we are, before he became a god, and that we have the potential of becoming a god, like Him.

Joseph Smith's doctrine of  "The Father has a body" is heresy and he lowers God to a created man like us who became a god of many gods, and the potential for us to do the same.

The Bible teaches the God of the Bible is the Eternal, Sovereign, All powerful, All knowing, Omnipresent, Creator, One and Only God (always and forever) who is Spirit.

The Called by Dr. Steven J. Lawson