:: 6 Mormon Beliefs

Here are some of the Mormon fundamental doctrines that the Mormon Church holds to. Although in my life time when talking to a lot of Mormons they might deny some of these doctrines but facts are facts.

God was once a man who lived on another planet

Nothing else comes close to it. We believe that God was once a mortal man on another planet who progressed by living in obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel he had on his world, then he died. He became a resurrected man and evolved to become a god. He is still married now (some early leaders say he is a polygamist) and created this world. We worship only the one true god, which is really one god among millions or billions or more. We believe that we will follow in God's footsteps by becoming perfect and we too will become Gods and Goddesses creating spirit children and peopling other worlds. The Mormon TV commercials showing family togetherness is the foundation for life in the next world - as a family - as gods. Reference: Journal of Discourses Vol. 6 Page 4, 1844. Joseph Smith speaking: "...you have to learn 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..." Reference: Journal of Discourses Vol. 6 Page 275, 1852. Brigham Young speaking: "After men have got their exaltations and their crowns - have become Gods..."

The origin of Jesus Christ

Jesus was begotten by physical union of God and Mary. Since God has a body of flesh and bones, he really had literal sex with Mary. The product of this union was Jesus, part man and part God. We believe Jesus was the first born in heaven by heavenly father and mother who created his spirit and our spirits using our "intelligence's" as a foundation for our spirits. Our "intelligence's" were floating around in the universe and needed to be organized into spirits. Since he was the first born spirit, and according to the Book of Abraham, his "intelligence" was better than the other "intelligence's" out there, he is the most important spirit creation. When Jesus received his physical body by the union of God and Mary, his spirit was put into his body like our spirits were put into our bodies. His body was special though because his father was a god. The rest of us have only regular dads.

We are co-eternal with God

We believe we have all existed for all eternity. First we existed as "intelligence's", which has never been defined, then we were given spirit bodies in a heaven by our eternal parents. Our "intelligence's" have existed forever just like the our God's has and we have been around him in one form or another forever. He has just simply progressed ahead of us. Reference: Journal of Discourses Vol. 6 Page 7, 1844. Joseph Smith speaking: "God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself"

Truth is determined by feelings

We believe we know the truth by our feelings. We do not rely on and we will disregard any facts that contradict what our feelings tell us is true. If something feels bad, like someone telling us that Joseph Smith was a fraud, then we know that Smith must of been a prophet since falsehoods create bad feelings and it feels bad when someone tells us that we have been duped. In other words, if we get a bad feeling, we are hearing bad things which must be lies. We feel good when we read the Book of Mormon, therefore it is true. Archeology, genetics, science, metallurgy, agriculture and animal studies are irrelevant since our feelings tell us it is a true book revealed by God. This good feeling applies to all aspects of our lives. We determine if we should do something or know the truth of something if we have prayed about it and have a good feeling about it.

What a Prophet said can be revised depending on the circumstances

We believe that when the Prophet, the head of our church, says something that is definitely wrong he was not being inspired at that time. He was only speaking as a man. We believe that the newer Prophets can override the older Prophets. We believe we have a prophet on earth today even though he never prophecies anything.

Reference: Ezra Taft Benson '14 Fundamentals in Following the Prophets' pgs 1-16, 1980: "Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence."

Saving our dead ancestors shows we are the only Christian church

We believe we have temples where we get the handshakes and passwords that allow us to become gods. We also baptize by proxy dead people so they too can become Mormons.

Since we have the name of Christ in our church - our church is the only true one.

Only the true church would have Christ's name in it. We ignore the fact that the Doctrine and Covenants and other books were published by the church when Joseph Smith had the church renamed for several years as the Church of the Latter-day Saints.

Conclusion

By just reading these six beliefs of the Mormon Church it should be crystal clear to you that Mormonism is something totally different from the historical Christian faith. We as Christians who have the biblical truth should pray and evangelize to the Mormons. We have a big mission ground in Mormonism to share the Love and the truth of Jesus Christ. It is faith ONLY in the True Jesus Christ that a man will have eternal life.