Pretty sad when you think on it.
If you can't believe what the scriptures say, then what is there to believe?
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
(but he isn't really the Son of God)
God is the Father of Jesus Christ.
(but he isn't really the Father of Jesus Christ)
Jesus is the only begotten Son of God too.
(but he wasn't really begotten)
Mary conceived.
(but she didn't really conceive)
God is the Father of our spirits.
(but he isn't really the Father of our spirits)
We are His offspring.
(but we aren't really His offspring)
We were made in the image and likeness of God.
(but we weren't really made in the image and likeness of God)
The resurrected Christ has a body of flesh and bone.
(but he doesn't really have a body of flesh and bone)
Jesus Christ is in the express image of his Father's person.
(but he isn't really in the express image of his Father's person)
We can be joint heirs with Christ.
(but we can't really be joint heirs with Christ)
And on, and on, it goes.
Need a little help?
Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God. I say that is a strange God anyhowthree in one, and one in three! It is a curious organization anyhow. All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big Godhe would be a giant or a monster.
Joseph Smith, Teachings, p. 372; History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 476
"And virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit."
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.269
From the beginning of history the great masses of men have worshiped false gods.Those who believe the creeds of Christendom profess to worship an incomprehensible, unknowable, immaterial essence that fills that fills the immensity of space and is everywhere and nowhere in particular present.
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.270
"This view of God as an incorporeal, immaterial, bodiless, partless, passionless being is now and has been from the days of the great apostasy from God and Christ, in the second and third centuries, the doctrine of Deity generally accepted by apostate Christendom. The simple doctrine of the Christian Godhead, set forth in the New Testament is corrupted by the meaningless jargon of these creeds, and their explanations; and the learned who profess a belief in them are wandering in the darkness of the mysticisms of the old pagan philosophies."
History of the Church, 1:LXXXVI
"What is the church of the devil in our day, and where is the seat of her power? ...It is all of the systems, both Christian and non-Christian, that perverted the pure and perfect gospel ...It is communism; it is Islam; it is Buddhism; it is modern Christianity in all its parts"
Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah, p. 54-55
"The only real superiority of the apostate sects of Christendom over their more openly pagan counterparts is the fact that the Christian sects (though rejecting the doctrines, ordinances, and powers of the gospel) have nonetheless preserved many of the ethical teachings of Christ and the apostles"
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 240
Our beliefs and actions may differ from those of others, but we, as good Christians, do not criticize other religions or their adherents.
Joseph B. Wirthlin, Christians in Belief and Action, Ensign, Nov. 1996, p. 70
If that becomes the doctrine of the Church we will be worse than the Catholics who believe that you can pray a man out of purgatory. But they charge for it and we don't, so we would be more foolish than they.
Melvin J. Ballard, Three Degrees of Glory (Salt Lake City: Joseph Lyon & Associates, 1975), p. 26
