Mormonism, is it Christian or is it an occult? There's over 17 million Mormons globally. As of
2023, over 68,000 missionaries. As of 2022, 173 temples and 24,277 churches as of 2022. If you
live anywhere in the United States and different parts of the world, you probably have come in
contact with people who are dressed really nice, very polite and they're good people who preach,
I believe a teaching that is not Christian teaching. Now the history of a Mormon church
is the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS believes that the Garden of Eden
was in Missouri near Independence. Around 600 BC, an Israelite named Lehi traveled with his family
to the Americas and his descendants formed two tribes, the Nephites and the Lamanites. Over time,
the tribes fought each other but in 33 A.D after Jesus's resurrection, Jesus Christ appeared to
Americas and preached to the Nephites leading the 200 years of peace before this conflict between
those two tribes resumed and then by 385 A.D a prophet named Mormon wrote the story of his people
on golden plates. After a major battle, Mormon's son Moroni added to the writings and sealed these
plates in 421 A.D. These writings became known as the Book of Mormon. Now we forward to 1820,
Joseph Smith has a vision and he claims that God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to
him and told him that all the existing churches were false. According to Smith, an angel Moroni
appeared to him and told him that there is a set golden plates containing the record of ancient
American people and then in 1830, The Book of Mormon gets published and the Latter-day Saints
organization is founded. In 1844, Joseph Smith gets murdered by a mob. So that's pretty much
like a little overview of the beginning and the history of a Mormon church. Now a lot of
these things are not historically accurate. Also the Bible is very clear that if an angel appears
and preaches you a different gospel than the one that disciples of Jesus, Jesus and Apostle Paul
preached that we have to reject that gospel but let's dive in a little bit deeper to understand
some of the fallacies and some of the beliefs of the Mormon church that are in contradiction
to the orthodox beliefs of Christians. The first big deal is the problem with the Mormon church.
So the big basic problem is that it teaches that major civilizations inhabited North America using
steel weapons, fighting great massive battles. No such steel weapons have been recovered. No
sign of vast civilization, great battles have been recovered. One of the biggest challenges
with the book of Mormon is not that it only contains a lot of things that are just not true,
historically they're not verified and they're just made up fairy tales but also there's a
big contradiction between the Book of Mormon and the Mormon doctrine. In the quorum.org website,
they highlight the difference between the book of Mormon how they teach that there's only one God
but the Mormon doctrine teaches that there are many gods. The book of Mormon teaches that also
the Trinity is one God. The Mormon doctrine teaches that the Trinity is three separate
Gods. The book of Mormon teaches that God is unchanging. The doctrine of Mormons teach that
God is increasing in knowledge. The book of Mormon teaches that God is a Spirit and then
the doctrine of Mormons teaches that God has a form of a man and so forth and so on about
eternal judgment and that hell is not eternal and then polygamy was condemned in the book of
Mormon but in the Mormon doctrine, the polygamy was taught and practiced. So there is a big
contradiction even within the Book of Mormon and the Mormon Doctrine. Is Mormonism Christian? No
and this is is why. Here are 10 reasons that makes Mormonism not a Christian faith and if
you are a Mormon, my goal is for you to research your own book and so that you will come to know
the truth and the Truth is Jesus Christ not the teachings that you've been taught by a Mormon
faith. Number one is Mormonism believes in many gods not in one God as in Christianity, Judaism
and even Islam. The father of Mormonism is one god of many gods and he has a wife goddess, the
heavenly mother. The second reason that Mormonism is not Christian is that Mormonism is based upon
eternal progression that means that everyone including Elohim Himself is in progression going
from one level of existence to another higher level. As it says, As a man now is God once was
and as God now is man may be. God Himself once was what we are now and is an exalted man and sits in
throne in yonder heavens, that is the great secret according to Joseph Smith. That is God was a human
man just like any human today, He progressed into being God the same way any human can progress into
being God. Now this idea is as old as Garden of Eden that we can become God and therefore,
I believe it's not scriptural and it's demonic. The Mormon god is Adam and the Mormon goddess
is Eve. For example, if you read in one of their teachings, it says I tell you that when you see
your father in the heavens, you will see Adam and when you see your mother that bear your spirit,
you will see mother Eve. When it comes to Jesus, they believe that Jesus our elder brother was
begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the Garden of Eden and who is our father in
heaven, Adam; Michael the archangel, the ancient of days, he is our father and our god and the
only god with whom we have to do and it's a total heresy. Mormonism number three rejects the virgin
birth. In one of their teachings, the being whom we call Father was the father of the Spirit of
the Lord Jesus Christ and he was also His father pertaining to the flesh, infidels and Christians,
make all you can of this statement. Mormonism teaches that Father came and had physical sex with
the young woman named Mary and that Jesus was the product of this relationship. The fourth reason
why Mormonism is not Christian is that Mormonism rejects the creation out of nothing. Gods plural,
organized matter and had now always God's organized matter that had always existed to
form the cosmos as we know it. Now Gods as plural we know that is not scriptural. There is no Gods,
there is God. One God in essence but in three persons and our God created everything out
of nothing but they believed that God created everything from an existed form. All intelligent
beings have always existed, Mormons believe. Intelligences are eternal, they only change
form and progress. Christianity teaches that God spoke all things into existence and God
created everything out of nothing. The fifth reason that Mormonism is not a Christian faith
is that Mormonism relocates Christ's main work from the cross to Gethsemane. Yes, you heard me
correctly. The great victory according to Mormons was not a substitutionary atonement for our sins
but a psychological struggle against cosmic evil forces which Jesus fought in the Garden
of Gethsemane. Mormons do not take communion, wine or grape juice. They take bread and water. Mormons
do not have cross's on their church buildings, words meaning that the cross is not where the
redemption, atonement took place. All of that happened in the Garden of Gethsemane. Now,
Garden of Gethsemane was very important but we as Christians believe in the power of Jesus's death,
His burial and resurrection. That's where the pinnacle, that's where the tipping point of our
redemption, that's where it happened. The sixth belief of Mormons is they believe heaven has
three levels and hell is mostly not forever. So Heaven has three levels. The first level is the
celestial kingdom. You have to be married in the Mormon temple to be in this highest tier.
Also if you are a woman, your husband has to call your name and your salvation is really up to him
so you better treat him right. The second level of heaven is terrestrial kingdom, it's that you
get Jesus in this kingdom but you don't get the Father. It's the lower great experience meant
only good people go there. The lowest level of heaven is telestial kingdom. Telestial glory will
be reserved for individuals who received not the gospel of Christ neither the testimony of Jesus.
So these individuals will receive their glory after being redeemed from the spirit prison which
is sometimes called hell. Notice that hell is not eternal in Mormon teaching. Number seven reason
why Mormonism is not Christian faith. Mormonism has different scriptures. They do carry around
King James Bible but it's not very important to them. They will give you a book of Mormon and even
that is not their main source of belief. Their main books are the Doctrine and Covenants and the
Pearl of Great Price and so the Bible does tell us in Revelation that anybody who adds to this book
or who subtracts it you know their name would be subtracted from The Book of Life and so it is very
dangerous. As I mentioned in the beginning, The Book of Mormon has a lot of errors and it has even
contradictions to the doctrine of Mormonism and therefore as Christians, we don't accept it as a
scripture. The eighth reason that makes Mormonism not a Christian faith is that Mormonism believes
salvation through works. In Mormon salvation, there is really two parts. The first one is
resurrection. God provides grace for people to be resurrected and the second one is the exaltation,
is you have to work for the highest level of celestial kingdom. As we mentioned, that's the
highest level of being in heaven and there are a few things that you need to do. Number one is you
need to be water baptized. Number two is you need to receive the laying on of hands to be confirmed
a member of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then
if you are a man, brethren, you must receive the Melchizedek priesthood and magnify your
calling in the priesthood. Also you must receive the temple endowment and we must be married for
eternity either in this life or in the next. So there's a lot of requirements for you to
reach the highest level of celestial kingdom but hey don't worry because if you don't reach that,
you get a little lower level where you just get Jesus but not the Father and don't worry,
you can even get even lower level and even if you go to hell, you can always graduate from hell to
go to the lowest level of heaven, very convenient. The ninth reason why Mormon faith is not Christian
faith is that Jesus's blood is not sufficient for all sins. Murder requires that the guilty shed his
or her own blood. According to Mormon doctrine, men may commit certain sins that according to
his light and knowledge will place him beyond the reach of the blood of Christ. If then he would be
saved, he must make sacrifice of his own life to atone so far as in his power lies that for sin,
for the blood of Christ alone under circumstances will not avail meaning,
the blood of Jesus is not enough for some sins. You're going to have to kill yourself to make an
atonement for some sin since the blood of Jesus can't reach it. That is not in the Bible but it
is in the Mormon doctrine. The tenth reason is that Mormons do not pray to Jesus. If you look at,
you will see that though they pray to the Father in Jesus name but they don't pray to Jesus. So
these are just few ten different errors in a Mormon faith that contradict with the scripture. I
want to remind you that we cannot follow teachings that contradict with the teachings of Jesus,
the teachings of the prophets of the Old Testament and the teachings of the apostles and anyone who
rises, who claims to have an angel visitation or claims some mysteries and some secrets that nobody
has ever heard about and that everybody is wrong, the orthodox Christian faith is wrong and now this
one person who has it all figured out, who has more contradictions in their own book than you can
count, those teachings should be rejected and we should place our faith in Jesus, in the scriptures
that are given to us by inspiration of God and not false way or fall into deception by all other
heretical teachings. If you're watching this video and you are a Mormon, I want to encourage
you to research your faith, to study your faith and my desire is that the Holy Spirit will lead
you away from deception into the truth. If you are a Christian and you have Mormon friends,
continue to pray for them and you maybe even share this video with them and hopefully God will remove
scales out of their eyes so they will come to know Jesus, the true Messiah, the Savior of the world,
the Son of God. Thank you for watching this video. Share this with other people. Hit like,
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