MORMON GOD NOT ALMIGHTY
Joseph Smith was a Sabellian and so was the Book of Mormon. A Sabellian is a heretic who thinks the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not three persons but simply three names or roles for God. Smith was Sabellian even before he completed the Book of Mormon which is why he can be considered to be its true author. Later Smith lied that he always taught that God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit were three separate gods. Is that the kind of man who can be trusted with his claims about the Book of Mormon? What he said about it takes priority over what his witnesses said for he was the one with the book not them. He cannot even give us reasonable trust in his word.
The Mormons believe that though God is almighty and
omnipotent these terms only mean that he has most of the power over the world.
They believe in finitism. In an excellent exposure of the vicious Christian
theodicies of the free will defence and the idea that suffering is good for
discipline, a Mormon philosopher, R. Dennis Potter has argued that God does not
allow evil to happen at all but is doing his best to fight it. When something
terrible happens to you the reason is that God is away taking care of some worse
evil. His WebPage is entitled Finitism and the Problem of Evil. This theology
opens the door for the Mormon Church to survive God making false prophecies and
making mistakes. They can say he means well. But the answer is that God has
billions of spirit children who could help him. He could make a virus that makes
many men infertile to reduce the world population so that he will have a world
he can handle. God can alter time so that he can do a million years work in ten
minutes. The Mormon God is irresponsible and does not know how to handle power.
We would know better. The Mormon solution to the problem of evil fails. But
anyway, if their God is not literally omnipotent and there are strange laws in
the universe that decree that a man must live a normal life on an earth to
become a God and be baptised how can they be so sure of their gospel that they
would be willing to suffer and die for it? Remember, if the Gods sent Jesus to
atone for Adam’s sin which is a strange thing then how do you know that some law
just as odd didn’t force them to guide Smith to forge the Book of Mormon?
Maybe somebody should come up with a new Book of Mormon!
The Book of Mormon says that if Adam and Eve had not eaten the forbidden fruit it would be a sin for God commanded them to have knowledge and joy and that could not happen without this. Yet it was a sin to take the fruit. This contradicts Christianity which says that God will never make it a sin to do something and not do it at the same time. Is the Mormon God a God at all?
On the Holy Spirit
The Bible condemns those who offer you another Holy Spirit and not the one Jesus gave. Paul declared them anathema.
Mormonism teaches that the Holy Spirit never had a body and never will have one and yet he is a God. This is impossible if Mormon doctrine that only a being with a human body who marries for all eternity can be a God. One meaning of being a God in Mormonism is having a body to procreate for all eternity. The only hope is to say that the Holy Spirit is called divine and God but is not really.
These things amount to putting a non-divine person in you who is not a god. This is worse than anything the pagans came up with. It is pure spiritism. It is occult and an attempt to open yourself up to a ghost.
The Book of Mormon has the Holy Spirit directing a murder to get brass plates of scriptures...
The Mormon god is a sad racist
Book of Mormon
1 Nephi 11:13 (Mary) ". . . she was exceedingly fair and white."
1 Nephi 12:23 (Prophecy of Lamanites after
Christ) ". . . became a dark, and loathsome, and a filthy people,
full of idleness and all manner of
abominations."
1 Nephi 13:15 (Gentiles) ". . . they were white, and exceedingly fair and beautiful, like unto my people [Nephites] before they were slain."
2 Nephi 5:21 ". . . a sore cursing . . . as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."
2 Nephi 30:6 (Prophecy to Lamanites) ". . . scales of darkness shall begin to fall . . . they shall be a white and delightsome people." (Changed to pure and delightsome in 1981)
Jacob 3:5 (Lamanites cursed) ". . .whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins. . ."
Jacob 3:8-9 ". . .their skins will be whiter than yours . . . revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins . . ."
Alma 3:6 ". . . skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion. . ."
Alma 3:8 (Cursed) ". . .that their seed might be distinguished from the seed of their brethren . . .that they might not mix . . ."
Alma 3:9 ". . . whosoever did mingle his seed with that of the Lamanites did bring the same curse upon his seed."
Alma 3:14 (Lamanites cursed) ". . . set a mark on them that they and their seed may be separated from thee and thy seed. . ."
Alma 3:19 (Amlicites cursed) ". . . brought upon themselves the curse ..."#Alma 23:18 ". . . [Lamanites] did open a correspondence with them [Nephites] and the curse of God did no more follow them."
3 Nephi 2:14-16 ". . . Lamanites who had united with the Nephites were numbered among the Nephites; And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites . . . became exceedingly fair . . ."
3 Nephi 19:25, 30 (Disciples) ". . . they were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus; and behold the whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness . . . nothing upon earth so white as the whiteness thereof . . . they were white, even as Jesus."
Mormon 5:15 (Prophecy about Lamanites) ". . .shall become a dark, a filthy, and a loathsome people, beyond the description of that which ever hath been amongst us . . ."
Mormon 5:17 "They were once a delightsome
people . . ."
Pearl of Great Price
Moses 7:8 ". . . a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan . . ."
Moses 7:12 ". . . Enoch continued to call upon all the people, save it were [except] the people of Canaan, to repent . . ."
Moses 7:22 ". . . for the seed of Cain were black and had not place among them."
Abraham 1:21 ". . . king of Egypt [Pharaoh] was a descendant from the loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth."
Abraham 1:27 ". . . Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood . . ."
Finally
Christians say God does not do magic simply because he is present everywhere and knows all. Because he is here he can act just like I can act because I am here. They deny he is a magician. But the Mormon God who is not present everywhere but who is a man of flesh and bone who lives on a plant called Kolob can only affect this world by using occult power. It is exactly the same as what a pagan god would do. Like a pagan god he even has to fit in with other gods. For the Christian, this god can only be Satan himself for magic or the quest for psychic powers is a grave and dangerous sin. In theory at least it is about trying to overule God. Mormonism is not a religion or Christian but a branch of the occult.
