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It translates "Hear Israel Jehovah our God Jehovah [is] one."
From: Deuteronomy 6:4

Deuteronomy 6:4 King James Version (KJV). 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

Deuteronomy 4
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him...

39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

There are not 2 or 3 Gods.

Mormons do not worship the Holy Trinity:

"God the Father is the Supreme Being in whom we believe and whom we worship. He is the ultimate Creator, Ruler, and Preserver of all things. He is perfect, has all power, and knows all things. He 'has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s.'" (Doctrine and Covenants 130:22).
God the Father

Christians worship the Triune God.
 
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When men and women are enlightened, they leave Mormonism to embrace truth.

2 Corinthians 6
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.



The Bible may hurt you with the truth, but it will never comfort you with a lie!
Some do leave the church, but most continue in the faith and get ready to go to the temple and take on a higher level of Christian living.
 
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Those are false gods.
When you read Hebrews 1:3 we learn 2 important things about Jesus and 1 extremely important thing about Jesus's Father and God.
Hebrews 1:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

1) Jesus is the 'express image' of God, his Father. That is why Jesus could tell Phillip that if you see me, you see the Father, not that we are 2 persons in the same person, but because I am the 'express image' of His person. IOW, I look just like what the Father looks like, so do not ask again to see the Father, just look at me and you will know what the Father looks like.
2) Jesus is sitting on the right hand of God in heaven now. God is sitting on the left had of Jesus and Jesus is sitting on the right hand of God. If you need a picture of what that looks like see a picture of Stephen looking up into the heavens at his martyrdom, and saying, I see Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Two persons, one standing on the one side of the other. Now in heaven, 2 persons sitting on the one side of the other.

1) If Jesus is the 'express image' of God, then God has to be the 'express image' of Jesus.
Here is the interesting thing: we know very well from the bible what Jesus now looks like and what kind of a body he has. So, we can know with a biblical assurance that God has the same kind of body that his 'express-image' son has.

So no, our Gods are not false Gods, they are the biblical Gods very well defined in the bible.
 
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1) If Jesus is the 'express image' of God, then God has to be the 'express image' of Jesus.
Here is the interesting thing: we know very well from the bible what Jesus now looks like and what kind of a body he has. So, we can know with a biblical assurance that God has the same kind of body that his 'express-image' son has.

So no, our Gods are not false Gods, they are the biblical Gods very well defined in the bible.


You know nothing. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit were all one in substance. At the incarnation, Jesus took on humanity which neither the Father nor the Spirit ever were. Though Jesus kept His divinity, neither the Son nor Holy Spirit became human. Jesus is the express image of God---God is no longer the express image of Jesus for He has no humanity in Him, they are the same in character. You serve false gods.
 
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Deuteronomy 4
35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him...

39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

There are not 2 or 3 Gods.

Mormons do not wordhip the Holy Trinity:

"God the Father is the Supreme Being in whom we believe and whom we worship. He is the ultimate Creator, Ruler, and Preserver of all things. He is perfect, has all power, and knows all things. He 'has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s.'" (Doctrine and Covenants 130:22).
God the Father

Christians worship the Triune God.
We worship God the Father who is one in purpose, not one of the same substance as some would have people to believe.:

(New Testament | John 17:9 - 26)

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
 
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Some do leave the church, but most continue in the faith and get ready to go to the temple and take on a higher level of Christian living.

You really want to expose your arrogance?

The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (or the Pharisee and the Tax Collector) is a parable of Jesus that appears in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke 18:9-14,[1] a Pharisee, obsessed by his own virtue, is contrasted with a tax collector who humbly asks God for mercy.
Pharisee and the Publican - Wikipedia
 
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It isn't the world who hates false gods.
God the eternal Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are not false Gods. They are one in purpose as we also should be.:

(New Testament | Romans 15:2 - 6)

2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(New Testament | 2 Corinthians 13:11)

11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
 
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God the eternal Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are not false Gods.

You're right. They aren't gods at all. There is only ONE TRUE GOD.

We believe in (Romans 10:8-10; 1John 4:15)
ONE God, (Deuteronomy 6:4, Ephesians 4:6).
 
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You're right. They aren't gods at all. There is only ONE TRUE GOD.

We believe in (Romans 10:8-10; 1John 4:15)
ONE God, (Deuteronomy 6:4, Ephesians 4:6).

Yes although there are other Gods there is only one God for us and that is God the Father.
 
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Yes although there are other Gods there is only one God for us and that is God the Father.

John 20
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Matthew 14
33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

Revelation 14
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
 
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John 20
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.

Matthew 14
33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

Revelation 14
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Yes there are other Gods, but to us there is one:

(New Testament | 1 Corinthians 8:6)

6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
 
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You really want to expose your arrogance?

The parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (or the Pharisee and the Tax Collector) is a parable of Jesus that appears in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke 18:9-14,[1] a Pharisee, obsessed by his own virtue, is contrasted with a tax collector who humbly asks God for mercy.
Pharisee and the Publican - Wikipedia
Why is getting ready to go to the temple and get ready to live a higher commitment to Jesus Christ, obsessing in our virtues?

If we obsess in something, it is a zeal for Christ and helping him in his work. Now I am sure you are going to some how call that heresy, so show me how doing the Lords work is heresy?
 
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You're right. They aren't gods at all. There is only ONE TRUE GOD.

We believe in (Romans 10:8-10; 1John 4:15)
ONE God, (Deuteronomy 6:4, Ephesians 4:6).
In Hebrews God the Father calls his Son Jesus, God. That means that Jesus is God, And we know now that Jesus has a God too because God the Father says that He, Jesus's God is going to anoint his God Son Jesus's head with the oil of gladness (and here is an interesting verbiage) 'above his (Jesus his God Son's) fellows'. Wow, there were other people similar to Jesus? Like his fellows that Jesus is friends with or something like that?
Hebrews 1:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

BTW, who is God the Sons fellows, as mentioned by God the Father?
 
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Some do leave the church, but most continue in the faith and get ready to go to the temple and take on a higher level of Christian living.

Mormon temples don't teach a higher level of Christian living. It's deception.

The Bible teaches God's people everything they need to know.
 
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In Hebrews God the Father calls his Son Jesus, God. That means that Jesus is God, And we know now that Jesus has a God too because God the Father says that He, Jesus's God is going to anoint his God Son Jesus's head with the oil of gladness (and here is an interesting verbiage) 'above his (Jesus his God Son's) fellows'. Wow, there were other people similar to Jesus? Like his fellows that Jesus is friends with or something like that?
Hebrews 1:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

BTW, who is God the Sons fellows, as mentioned by God the Father?

Why is it that when you say this, you make it sound like Jesus has a God that is different from ours??? Jesus calls the Father God---that is His God, and Jesus is also God Himself. Why does this seem to confuse you? His fellows are His human contemporaries.
 
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Why is it that when you say this, you make it sound like Jesus has a God that is different from ours??? Jesus calls the Father God---that is His God, and Jesus is also God Himself. Why does this seem to confuse you? His fellows are His human contemporaries.
It is not confusing to me, it is confusing to you. Here is why:

We say Jesus is a God and we say that God the Father is a God . That makes 2 Gods, adding the Holy Spirit, you have 3 Gods. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

But when you talk about them, you talk of them as Persons. 1 God made up of 3 Persons. They are not Persons, they are Gods. That is why we are polytheists because we believe in 1 God that is made up of 3 Gods. We don't try to twist away from polytheism, we endorse it. We endorse it because the bible endorses it also.

This scripture endorses polytheism because you have 1 God talking to another God and anointing the other God's head with oil.
2 straight-forward Gods. Add God the Holy Spirit and you get 3 straight-forward Gods.

I don't like what Sabellius tried to do with the Godhead in 220ad, and I don't like how Athanasius countered Sabellius and Arius in 325ad and came up with 1 God (just like Sabellius) in 3 Persons (like Sabellius except Sabellius used 3 roles or modes, or masks) . The word 'Persons' is also not biblical.

Hebrews 1:8-9 lends itself to polytheism and not to trinitarianism.

Jesus's fellows are not his human contemporaries, they are his spirit brothers, since this anointing was done before the incarnation of Christ onto this earth.
 
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