Are we Different?

So over the weeks I have seen a lot of LDS bloggers and others complain about how Christians say that Mormons “have a different Jesus” or “Don’t have the Jesus of the Bible”. Well as most Christians and pastors and people who look into the difference in the two beliefs, they understand this to be truth. This is one of the reasons Christians are called anti-Mormon, but it’s not anti-Mormon it’s fact. We believe in two different God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Also we believe in two different origins of man. In a attempt to make it clear, here is a chart that I have used from the book “Mormonism Unmasked”.

One God of the Bible	Plural Gods of Mormonism
God The Father
Infinite	Finite
Always God	Became God
Absolutely Holy	Achieved Holiness
All Knowing	Achieved Knowledge
Eternal Perfect	Achieved Perfection
All Powerful	Attained Power
Only Creator	One of Many Designers
The Son (Jesus)
Eternal	Procreated by God and Wife
Creator	Our Brother
The Holy Spirit
Eternal	Procreated By God and Wife
Creator	A Spirit Brother
Human
Created on Earth	Same Species as God
Spiritually Adopted Children	Born to God and Wife

When you look at this you can see that there are two different things. That’s why we say the LDS has two different God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.

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Teachings of Thomas S. Monson (Part 1)

So today I got my copy of “Teachings of Thomas S. Monson” and I know I said that I would read a chapter a week and talk about it but the book is not set in chapters but sections of teaching. 

But as I started to look at the sections of teaching, a section stood out at me and made me think.  The section was on Heavenly Father in which I was to believe that how the LDS called God.  But in the New book there is no section titled Heavenly Father but is found under God the Father.

Now I understand that Mormon teachers and other have called God, God but I was always to believe that the most common name said by most Mormons that I have talked to was “Heavenly Father”.  I could be wrong on this but again the times I have been to temple square and talked with Mormons in Duchesne Utah, one of those been the bishops wife, all never called God, God the Father but called him Heavenly Father.  Even as I write this I hear on the radio a Mormon call God, “Heavenly Father”. (The Bible Answer Man www.equip.org: Just a note, The Bible Answer Man is doing October on the Mormon Faith)

But this also made me think about what has been going on in the LDS faith lately with things like the Mormon Defense League  and even the LDS website.  it is only what I can call a white wash job done by the Mormons.  It seems to me and a lot of other Christians that the LDS are trying to look so much Christianity that the every day person would not notice one from the other. We saw this about 3 years ago with the last presidential election.  I’m just saying. 

I am not saying anything other that this is the first time I have seen this written that Heavenly Father is not called Heavenly Father but God the Father. 

I can’t wait to get more into this book and I will be hitting on this section more and basing it on the bible.

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