There is no way to make sense out of life without a knowledge of the doctrine of premortal life. The idea that mortal birth is the beginning is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
Boyd K. Packer, “The Mystery of Life,” Ensign, 10/83.
Well, can a single Mormon show me from scripture where people first exist as spirit children of a man-god and then are born mortal? If that was so, why do we not remember a pre-mortal existence? And if man was already existing as a spirit, then why did God have to create man — i.e., Adam and Eve? It is really quite easy to make sense out of life by reading what the Bible says about our beginnings, our need to please God while living, and the FACT that there is no chance of salvation after death.
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think that they [Jesus and his followers] were Mormons.
Jedidiah M. Grant, Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, pp.345-46.
When I read the Bible it tells me two things: (1) Jesus was persecuted by the Pharisees and Sadducees because he up-ended their world of legalistic false teachings. (2) Jesus was not married; nowhere in the Bible does it even hint at such a thing. Not only that, God takes a very dim view of polygamy, as I demonstrated in this article, which means to be a polygamous man Jesus would have to be sinning and therefore not God in the flesh. By the way, Joseph Smith invented the doctrine of polygamy to cover up his multiple adulterous affairs.
And now, behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech. And if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record. But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our language; therefore he hath prepared means for the interpretation thereof.
Mormon 9:32-34, Book of Mormon.
This one is actually quite funny because of how it is nothing but a way of excusing away mistakes and lies. Never has there been any evidence of a language known as “Reformed Egyptian,” and since the Egyptians were enemies of the Hebrews why would they use their enemy’s language rather than their own? And why is there no evidence of Egyptian or Hebrew found in the Americas at the time these “Hebrew” people were supposedly over here? And why would they alter a language, Hebrew, that would be considered more sacred that Egyptian? And if they needed larger plates, why didn’t they make them larger? And even if they are using another language, why would it have “imperfections” in the transcribing process?
Here Joseph Smith again broke with existing false traditions. It had been taught that God created the earth out of nothing, by the fiat of his word. Instead, Joseph declared that the earth was made from existing materials. That is, the earth was organized rather than created. Latter-day Saints always speak of the “creation” of the earth in that sense.
John A. Widstoe, Joseph Smith – Seeker After Truth, Prophet of God, pg. 158
Genesis says “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Notice it says “in the beginning;” meaning there was no beginning of previously existing matter to create out of — the creation WAS the beginning.
Some have said that I was very presumptuous to say that Brother Brigham was my God and Saviour, Brother Joseph was his God and the one that gave Joseph the keys of the kingdom was his God which was Peter. Jesus Christ was his God and (the) Father of Jesus Christ was Adam.
Journal of Wilford Woodruff, April 10, 1852.
So according to Woodruff, and the entire LDS, there are multiple gods and multiple saviors. Can the LDS then explain why all through the Bible it says over and over again that there is one God? 1 Timothy 2:5 says there is ONE God, and ONE Savior to mediate between God and man, and that Savior is Jesus Christ. Isaiah 43:11 says there is only one God, and that there is no other savior. Do the LDS really want another person to be their god and savior?!?!
When it comes to the LDS — the Mormon Church and its leaders — one can never run out of unbiblical, shocking statements.
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