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QUESTION
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MORMON SCRIPTURE
SAYS
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CONTRASTING MORMON
SCRIPTURE SAYS
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KING JAMES
BIBLE
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Is God An Exalted Man?
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NO!" Believest thou that this Great
Spirit, who is God, created all things." Alma
18:28. BOM
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YES! "The Father has a body of flesh and
bones as tangible as man's, the Son also..."
D&C 130:22
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NO!"God is a Spirit.", John 4:24 ; God is
not a man.", Num. 23:19
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Are The Father, Son And The Holy Ghost
One God?
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YES!"Which Father, Son and Holy Ghost are
one God, infinite and eternal."D&C 20:28
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NO!..."Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
comprise the Godhead. As each of these persons is a
God...a plurality of Gods exists." M.D. , pps.
576,577.
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YES!"For there are three that bear record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost, and these three are one." 1 John 5:7
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Is God Eternal?
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YES! "For I know that God is not a
partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is
unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity."
Moroni 8:18 BOM
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NO! "We have imagined and supposed that
God was God from all eternity. I will refute that
idea.." M. D. p.321
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YES!"The eternal God is thy refuge."
Deut. 33:27
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Does God Change?
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NO! "There is a God in heaven, who is
infinite and eternal, from everlasting to
everlasting, the same unchangeable God." D&C
20:17
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YES! "We believe in a God who is Himself
progressive,...whose perfection consists in eternal
advancement.." Articles of Faith, p.430
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NO!"For I am the LORD, I change
not." Mal. 3:6 NO! "God is
Spirit.", John 4:24 ; God is not a man.", Num.
23:19
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Is There A Plurality Of
Gods?
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NO!"The Father and the Son and the Holy
Ghost are one,""..and whoso shall declare more or
less that this, and establish it for my doctrine,
the same cometh of evil." 3 Nephi 11:27,40 BOM
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YES! "These three are the only Gods we
worship. But in addition there is an infinite
number of holy personages, drawn from worlds
without number, who...are gods."M.D. p.576,77
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NO! "I am He. Before me there was no God
formed, neither shall there be after me." Isaiah
43:10
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Can Men Be Gods?
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NO!"Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than
one God? And he answered, No." Alma 11:28,29
BOM
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YES! "Then shall they (those resurrected)
be gods, because they have no end." D&C
132:20
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NO! "Thus saith the Lord...besides me
there is no God." Isa.44:6
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Did God Create Man?
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YES!"And I, God, created man in mine own
image." Moses 2:27 P.G.P.)
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NO! "Man was also in the beginning with
God"..."For man is spirit." D&C 93:29,33
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YES! "And the LORD God formed man..."
Genesis 2:7
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Can God Be Seen?
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NO! "For without this (the authority of
the Priesthood) no man can see the face of God,
even the Father and live. D&C 84:22 (J.Smith
did not have Priesthood when he claimed to see
God.)
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YES! "And he (Moses) saw God face to
face, and he talked with him...Moses could endure
his presence." Moses 1:2, P.G.P.
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NO! "No man hath seen God at any
time...the only begotten Son...hath declared him."
John 1:18
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Is Jesus The One True God?
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YES! "Blessed be the name of the Most
High God. And they did fall down at the feet of
Jesus and did worship him. 3 Nephi 11:17 BOM
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NO! "Jesus Christ a separate and distinct
personage...three distinct personages and three
gods." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith by
J.F. Smith, page 370)
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YES! "Now unto the King Eternal,
immortal, invisible, the ONLY wise God..."
(Speaking of Jesus Christ) 1 Timothy 1:17
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Is Jesus Christ Eternal?
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YES! "..from all eternity to all
eternity, the Great I AM, even Jesus Christ."
D&C 39:1
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NO! "Christ, the Firstborn, was the
mightiest of all the spirit children of the
Father." M.D. p.590
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YES! "whose goings forth have been...from
everlasting." Micah 5:2
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Was Jesus Born Of A Virgin?
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YES! "And behold, he shall be born of
Mary at Jerusalem (!)...she being a virgin." Alma
7:10 BOM
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NO! "Christ was begotten by an Immortal
Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten
by mortal fathers." M.D.p.547
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YES! "When as his mother Mary was
espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she
was found with child." Matthew 1:18
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Is Jesus The Way To
Salvation?
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YES! "Behold, Jesus Christ is the
name...there is none other name whereby man can be
saved." D&C 18:23
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NO! "the President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints holds the keys of
salvation for all men now living..." M.D. p.411
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YES!"...one mediator between God and men,
the man, Jesus Christ." 1 Timothy 2:5
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Does Christ's Blood Cleanse Us From Al l
Sin?
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YES! "..salvation was, and is, and is to
come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ,
the Lord Omnipotent." Mosiah 3:18 BOM
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NO! "..for the blood of Christ alone
under certain circumstances will not avail." (for
atonement of sins) M.D. p.93
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YES!"...and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from ALL sin." 1 John 1:7
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Is Salvation By Grace, Not
Works?
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YES! "And we know that justification
through the grace of our Lord and Saviour, is just
and true." D&C 20:30
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NO! "That by keeping the commandments
they might be washed and cleansed from all their
sins..." D&C 76:52
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YES! "For by grace are ye saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of
God; Not of works..." Eph. 2:8,9
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Is There Salvation After
Death?
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NO! "For behold, if ye have
procrastinated the day of your repentance even
until death...the devil hath all power over you;
and this is the final state of the wicked." Alma
34:35 BOM
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YES! "..in relation to the dead...For
their salvation is necessary and essential to our
salvation...that they without us cannot be made
perfect." D&C 128:15
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NO! "And as it is appointed unto men once
to die, but after this the judgement." Hebrews
9:27
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IS Hell Everlasting
Destruction?
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YES! "yea, they were encircled about by
the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an
everlasting destruction did await them." Alma 5:7
BOM
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NO! "Whosoever, therefore receives God's
punishment receives eternal punishment, whether it
is endured one hour, one day, one week, one year or
an age." Plan of Salvation p.30 (Pamphlet
Distributed by Elders)
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YES! "And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up for ever and ever; and they have no
rest day or night." Revelation 14:11
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