Subject: Apostles, Prophets? An Office for Today? |
Bible Note: Joe I think we are on Mormons because you said they worship Jesus. The point I'm trying to make clear here is while they worship someone they have named Jesus, the Jesus of Mormonism is not the Jesus of Scripture. The god of Mormonism is not the God of Scripture. People and things are known by their definitions, when we change the definitions we don’t change the person nor the object, but rather we are then defining someone or something different. For instance if we have a man name J. W. Smith the things we know about him (what defines him to us) make him different than another J. W. Smith that we might meet later. If our J. W. Smith has red hair and 6 feet tall then he is different that J. W. Smith with blond hair and is 5 ft. 9 inches tall. This is very important! Jesus when he was on earth said many will come claiming to be me but I am the only truth and only way. Mormons have defined a god, a Jesus and a religion, it sounds very logical and right because it was formulated by man to be appealing to man. In Mormonism hard to understand things of scriptural Christianity like the Trinity which simply can not be completely understood by man and seems illogical, have been carefully crafted to have understandable and believable explanations. The purpose of man has been explained in ways that appeal to man more so than true Christianity. Salvation once again is explained in ways that make it more appealing to man's logic and understanding. However redefining something to make it more believable or more understandable does not make it correct, what is correct is the definitions given in the Bible and this is exactly where Mormonism departs from the truth. EdB |