So this is an episode I've wanted to do for a really long time. Do Mormons
worship a different Jesus? Because you hear that all the time.
Mormons worship a different Jesus. It's a false Jesus, it's a different--
that wasn't supposed to be Trump voice but-- it's a false Jesus, it's a different Jesus, it's
not the same Jesus. And so we're gonna confront it. Do Mormons worship a
different Jesus?
Okay. No. I mean it all depends on your point of view, right?
Like if you want, like there are things that Jesus does according to our beliefs
that he doesn't do according to other religious beliefs so so if they want to
say that that's a different Jesus, I guess they can. But he was a person who lived and we believe in him.
Right, I mean, yeah. It's just, it's weird. Different religions believe in different things.
Right. If you want to say it's a different Jesus, you can say it's a
different Jesus but but we're gonna explain what the differences are and
what we believe about Jesus. But even before that, I just want to be the guy, the
know-it-all like pushes his glasses up, "Ummm actually guys." Why'd you look at me? Pushes his glasses up!
Sorry David. I did that in another episode. Wait, can you just go, "Um actually" and do it? Um actually...
Well I just wanna say when you really get down to it most Christian
denominations believe in a different Jesus than each other, right? Some
Christian denominations believe in what's called the harrowing of hell--
after Christ died he literally went down to hell like the physical place and
rescued Adam and Eve and stuff. Other Christians go,
"That is ridiculous heresy, Jesus did not set foot in hell." And so by that definition,
that's a different Jesus, right? Yeah. You know you've got the Methodists believing
more of a free agency, free will Christ that you know, he lets people choose.
Calvinists believe that Jesus already chooses who's going to heaven or hell
before. Those are two different Jesus's. So you can really get caught up into the
semantics of different Jesus, different Jesus but do we believe in a different
Jesus you could say yes and no. It is the Jesus of the New Testament but what we
know about Jesus with his restored gospel, we have more and that's why it's
different. So Jesus christ according to the Mormon faith is son of God.
Shocker!!! He's the Son of God! Oh my gosh. And that's really the basis of
everything we believe about Jesus is that he's the Son of God, he's not God
the Father, he's God the Son, they're separate, they're separate beings. He leads
us to the Father. Right. And he calls his father God. He calls the Father God and
we call the Father God so we're kind of just, we have the same Godhead belief as
Christ. Our Father is God and He is our Savior Jesus Christ. He was the only
begotten Son though so we view Christ as our older brother but we're not on the
same like level of divinity by any means but he was the only begotten Son of God.
He's the firstborn. Yeah. I think like the way that I always like to say that
is he's only begotten in the flesh, right? Cuz we're all begotten spirits of God but
he was the only one-- we both-- everyone at Earth has a father and a
mother, right? An earthly father and earthly mother. Jesus had a earthly
mother but not an earthly father, he had a heavenly father so it's, you know,
because of that, which is also cool but because of that, because he had an earthly
mother he could die but because he had a heavenly father he could resurrect. The
more you know. But it's cool that Jesus had, you know, half and half like divine
and earthly because that means he was still able to be tempted but he was able
to not sin and he was able to be resurrected. We believe that Jesus lives
today, you know. All Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected but
we believe that he is actively engaged in this world and all of our lives that
he directs modern apostles and prophets. We believe, when we say Jesus is alive,
we mean that he is, he didn't like after his resurrection go, "Alright.
You're on your own for a couple thousand years. I'll come back, just see what's going on."
He's actively involved. Is he here on earth though? Well-- if he wants to be. Jesus can come to earth
anytime. The second coming is a-- it's a scheduled one-- yeah, the second
coming and coming a second time are different, right?
So the second coming is a grand event you know, like with many things that are
going to happen. It's not just the next time Jesus comes, Jesus-- he
came after he died, you know, when he was crucified after he resurrected, came to
earth. Even Thomas was like, "Yeah no, I don't buy it" until he realized, "Oh Jesus is
here" you know, Jesus appeared Joseph Smith, he went all over the world so we know
that Jesus, the second coming isn't that Jesus coming a second time.. So
we believe that after Christ was resurrected he visited more people than
just the Jews. He visited people in the Americas and that's where Christ's
ministry came in that way, found in the Book of Mormon, ya know, which is
really cool that he cares about everyone. It just makes sense to me like why would
he just stick to Jerusalem? I mean I've seen pictures, it's not that cool.
Did I just start a war? Our comments are going to be-- there's going to be one Palestinian guy that's like,
"I agree." No, I'm kidding! It's great that he visited the Jews but it makes sense that he'd go-- I mean the
gospel's for the whole world at the end of the day and so it makes sense that he'd go
to other places in the world to share it. And his apostles,
yeah, right after he was gone, they they went out to preach to other
places but they didn't get to, you know, parts of far Europe, they didn't get to
Australia, they didn't get to the Americas, you know, so it makes sense that
Jesus would go to places to his other children, the people he also died for
and say, "Here I am." And we read in the Book of Mormon the
account when Jesus comes-- The spirit felt when you read, you get to
understand why. You definitely know why he was, you know, he went to other
places. So read The Book of Mormon. We mentioned earlier that Jesus is the
Son and he refers to his father Heavenly Father as God but we also believe that
Jesus is Jehovah, also known as the god of the Old Testament which is something
fairly unique to Mormonism. Yeah. I think, I think we know that God is the
Father and Jesus Christ is the savior and he established his church, even in
the Old Testament, there was priesthood authority, there was these things and
he came in the flesh in the New Testament. So it is the same person.
One of my favorite part of the New Testament is when Jesus heals a leper
and he says, "See thou tell no man but go to the priests and shew thyself" and you
do that because when he went to the priest, he was he could
pronounce people clean or dirty, right? So Jesus heals the man, he goes to the
priest to be declared clean, kind of showing like, "The priest with the law
declares who's clean but I just cleaned you and then the priest is gonna already
see that you're clean," right? So he's kind of putting himself above the law. Why?
Because he made it. Let's talk about grace for a second because a lot of
people say Mormons don't understand grace, alright? And I think it's,
I think it's-- it could be taught better within the church as well. It could. Well, the
thing is we have so much, I mean what's it say and D&C how Jesus, you know,
when he was growing up on earth, he like ascended grace for
grace. In 'Come, Come, Ye Saints," grace shall be as your day. Grace is everywhere in
Mormonism. Doctrine and Covenants 76, known as the vision which is basically my
favorite part of Doctrine and Covenants, maybe my favorite chapter in all of scripture.
So most people think that grace is, you know, we're all sinners and God gives
us grace to get to heaven. That's really ultimately what gets us there, you know?
You accepted Jesus as your Savior, you're trying to follow him but grace is what
gets you there and that's true. So it's that and plus more. So grace also means
that everyone will be saved from from eternal damnation, right? Everyone will be
saved. The righteous covenant keepers and those who would have accepted the
fullness of the gospel if they had it go to the celestial kingdom.
That doesn't mean that everyone else goes to hell. That's not how God works.
The rest of the people who who are honorable people but blinded by the
craftiness of men, as it says in the Doctrine and Covenants, go the Terrestrial
Kingdom which is still amazing and those who were wicked who were, you know,
murderers, bad people, people who wear Crocs, those people-- they go
to hell and they have to repent and they have to confess that Christ is you know
the Son of God and numerous things and then they go to the Celestial Kingdom,
right? Well, what's the hell you're talking about?
The hell is like a hell of guilt but you know I haven't been there but it
doesn't, it doesn't give us that much about it but we know there is a
hell. But it most likely, I'm confident going to say, it is not like a bunch of
demons with like pitchforks and like Hitler and Bin Laden playing backgammon
and like flames and like, it's more of like the extreme guilt knowing
that you did something horrible. Yeah. I always thought of it as more of a state
of mind than anything. Yeah. I think that's another fair way to put it. Yeah and so
that's how big grace is. Grace doesn't just get you to heaven, grace goes after
you die, so everyone can go to place that would be comfortable for them.
Our evangelical friends and our Baptists and Calvinist friends and our Catholic
friends, if they rejected the fullness of the gospel in this life like they had
the chance and they said, "Yeah, no, I don't want it," the terrestrial Kingdom is what
they're expecting because they believe they're going to live with Jesus right
but they don't believe that God has a body, they believe God has more of an essence,
right? So they're not thinking they're going to be living with
God as a physical person, right? Which he doesn't reside in the terrestrial Kingdom.
They don't believe they're going to become gods like we become in the
Celestial Kingdom. So what they're expecting is what they're going to get.
They're expecting to be with Jesus and life's gonna be chill, there'll be angels--
that's what you're gonna get in the Terrestrial Kingdom. So the coolest part
is that even without the fulness of the gospel, that grace is still going to
be amazing for them because they're going to get what they expect. People
who wear crocs, they can't. Most importantly, Jesus saves animals. Maybe not most importantly but
that's a great part. For me most importantly. We know that from Doctrine and Covenants section 77. Yeah, that
is a trippy section but we can take away that animals are saved, your pets are going to be in
heaven. Which is so cool! Look at the little fish! He's been alive for like two years, this one fish.
Amazing. "Oh, get a bigger tank, get a bigger tank!" We see in the comments.
We have a bigger tank, put him in here and he's still alive, alright?
Doctrine and Covenants 88 also says that Jesus resurrects the earth. That is
so cool! The earth, like everything's going to perish but the earth doesn't transgress the law
which is, we won't get into that, that's a whole thing, but Christ literally raises
the earth in all the works of the father's hands so he is quite literally
the savior of matter. He's the savior of existence, everything. He resurrects it,
brings it all up. That is a big Jesus we follow. Ya. Our Jesus is huge, his
grace goes on, it abounds forever like this is a huge Savior and so people
think that Mormons have this small Savior, "Woah, he's got a body, walked up to
Joseph, gave my five." That's not how it worked. Our Jesus-- it is hard to even
fathom how huge he is. So he's a savior of the world like literally. Literally he saved the world.
So, do we believe in a different Jesus? The answer, you could probably say yes and no.
But we believe in, I may say, the true Jesus and that's what matters because he
is our Savior and this is his church so no matter what Jesus you believe in. The
fact of the matter is that he's the Savior of the world and each of us and
that's really what matters and if you agree with that then maybe-- am I
extorting Jesus for a like on this video? I don't want to do that.
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