Nice People, But...

Do You Know What Mormons Really Believe?

MORMONISM IS NOT

WHAT YOU THINK

Here are some beliefs Mormons resist

telling you at first...

• The LDS Church is the only true church. The Lord told Joseph Smith personally that all other churches are an "abomination." Any non-Mormon church is automatically part of the "church of the devil." No other church has the valid priesthood. The devil has even made a pact with many Christian pastors to teach Christian doctrines about the Trinity and salvation by grace. But in public we say that all religions are good and have some truth.

• There are many gods. We deal with three of these distinct gods from the council of the gods: Elohim, Jehovah, and the Holy Ghost.

• God, the Father,was once a man like us. His name is Elohim, and he had a literal father before him. (That means there is a god even higher than God the Father!)

• We can progress to become gods of our own worlds just like the god Elohim.

• Jesus is the brother of the devil, not his creator.

• Jesus was not born of a virgin. Elohim had sexual relations with his daughter, Mary, to bring about the conception of Jesus. (Not all Mormons are familiar with this teaching.)

• We are not permitted to pray to Jesus, but only to another god named Elohim.

• Celestial heaven is near a star called Kolob.

• The Bible contains doctrinal errors.

• Polygamy is an eternal principle. Mormons still believe in polygamy, but just can't practice it right now.

• Black people were cursed with their black skin because of their inferiority in the pre-existent life.

• Native American Indians are really Israelites who were cursed with red skin because of their sin.

• The current prophet, Gordon B. Hinkley, is a prophet in exactly the same sense as Moses or Ezekiel in the Bible. He has authority to write new scripture.

• The first LDS prophet, Joseph Smith, saw God the Father in the flesh.

• Adam did not sin when he ate of the forbidden fruit, but was merely choosing to obey a contradictory command from Jehovah.

• Jesus shed his blood to offer us the potential to be forgiven if we successfully stop our sins permanently.

• We cannot be saved (forgiven) by grace alone through faith alone.

• Secret temple rituals where one learns secret names and secret handshakes contribute to one's exaltation in the celestial kingdom. No non-Mormon is worthy to go inside a dedicated temple.

• No one who pays less than 10% of their income to the LDS Church is allowed inside a functioning temple.

• It is possible to eventually become perfect by progressing a little bit at a time through eternal progression.

This is only part of the outrage.

Before you leap, know what

you are getting into.

If LDS members deny any of the above, as they occasionally do, they are being dishonest. I lived it as a Mormon myself, so I know what I am talking about. Extensive documentation for the above can be found at www.mrm.org .