Category: God

https://youtu.be/6SgFOOvZVB0 Last week we left off with the reading to John 10 where Jesus said “I and my father are one”. The next verse said that the Jews picked up stones to stone him because of the saying. The saga over the statement continues on in chapter 10. Now of all the passages in the New Testament that the LDS missionaries and apologists and defenders of the faith use, this is perhaps the most difficult for Christians to explain because of the way that it is said and done. And because it's not really an easy passage to understand without some research, even Bible-reading Christians have difficulty. The LDS pounce upon this as proof of one of their strange doctrines. The LDS believe, whether they make it clear or not…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjQraywbXo I've done a series of videos on the  subject of Mormonism dealing with some  of the problems with Mormon thought and  today I'm going to be dealing with  another problem and that is the idea of  Adam God. This is taken from a blog post  that I just put up so if you want to get  that I'll put the link to the post in  the description. Though a relatively young  religious movement, the Mormon faith has  experienced an extensive amount of  revision since its founding in the 1820s  to the 1840s by Joseph Smith. A number of  controversial doctrines were taught by  earlier leaders in the movement  especially by Brigham Young including  things like polygamy, blood atonement and  denial of inter-racial marriage. Throughout the years, many of these …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOuo8azY2c8 What we believe about God is probably the most important thing about us. Because our whole world view starts with our concept of God and what we think about God shape so many different elements of our lives. And so let's take a look at what Mormonism teaches about God so that we can compare our own beliefs. To begin with, Mormons believe that God has not always been God. At one point he was a man who lived on the world very much like us. And Joseph Smith put that like this.  “God himself was once as we are now... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for certainty the character of God… that he was once a man like us yea that God himself…