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TERM
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MORMON DEFINITION (LDS)
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BIBLICAL DEFINITION
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ADAM & EVE
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LDS
1. Version 1 - Current doctrine:
a. Adam is Michael the archangel (the Ancient of Days)
b. Son and daughter of God in the pre-existence on another planet
c. Sent to earth from the pre-existence by God to be the father and mother (progenitors) of the human
race
d. Transgressed the command of God not to eat the fruit, but they did not actually sin, but "fell upward"
in their attempt to be like God, which is the goal of all Mormons
e. They had to transgress the command of God in order to know right and wrong and also to have the
ability to bear children
2. Version 2 - Former doctrine taught by prophet Brigham Young. Not official church doctrine but
was taught in the church for 120 years until declared heresy in 1976:
a. Adam is Michael the archangel (the Ancient of Days)
b. Adam fathered the spirits of all human beings in the pre-existence
c Adam helped to make the world
d. Adam is God himself and Eve is one of his wives
e. Adam was the father of Jesus Christ (his spirit and his mortal body)
NOTE: How this teaching was reconciled to the fall of Adam and Eve is unknown
SEE: ADAM
SEE: Adam was the spirit child of the Heavenly Father and born on
another planet [Mormon Doctrine]
SEE: Adam Is God And The Father Of Jesus Christ [Brigham Young's
aberrant teaching]
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BIBLE
Adam and Eve are the first human beings and were created and formed by God from the material
of the earth and He breathed into them the breath of life. They were not the son and daughter of God
procreated on another planet. They disobeyed the command of God to not eat the fruit of the tree
resulting in their sin and resultant expulsion from the garden, their separation from God and their
spiritual and physical death. Adam is not the archangel Michael.
SEE: ADAM
SEE: Master Article List - ADAM
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ANGELS
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LDS
Before the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ:
a. Spirits from the preexistent world who had not yet come to earth to be placed into human
bodies
b. Disembodied spirits who had lived on earth but had not yet been resurrected with bodies
c. Translated human beings such as Enoch, Elijah, the Three Nephites and the apostle John
After the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ:
a. Persons who have died and been resurrected with divine bodies
b. Unmarried Mormons (male and female) who become servants to married Mormons
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BIBLE
Angels are a special group of created spiritual beings who are not related to human beings and are
not the same as human beings. There are holy angels, and there are unholy angels who rebelled against
God along with their leader Satan.
SEE: ANGELS
SEE: Master Article List - ANGELS
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ATONEMENT
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LDS
1. Provides for forgiveness of sins to Adam and Eve
2. Removes the "effects" of the fall of Adam and Eve from human beings
3. Provides the means so that sins can be "conditionally" forgiven to human beings through the measure
of their works
4. Accomplished in the Garden of Eden when Jesus Christ sweat great drops of blood, not on the
cross
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ was never born in a preexistent life, He has always existed
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GOD - birth
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LDS
God had a father and mother
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BIBLE
God is self-existing from eternity
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GOD - body
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LDS
God has a body of flesh and bone
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BIBLE
God is a Spirit
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GOD - creator
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LDS
God cannot create, He organizes existing matter into different forms
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BIBLE
God created everything that is "ex-nihilo," from nothing
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GOD - dwells in the heart
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LDS
Version 1 - God dwells in the heart
Book of Mormon, Alma 24:36
Version 2 - God cannot dwell in the heart
Prophet Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants, 130:3
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BIBLE
Spirit of God dwells in the heart
Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 3:16
Jesus Christ dwells in the heart
Ephesians 3:17
Holy Spirit dwells in the heart
1 Corinthians 6:19, Romans 8:9
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GOD - existence
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LDS
God has not always existed
SEE: The Article, The God Of
Mormons Was Once
Just A Man
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BIBLE
God has always existed
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GOD - home
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LDS
God lives on a planet
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BIBLE
God has His throne in heaven
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GOD - Jesus Christ are the same person
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LDS
Version 1 - . God and Jesus Christ are the same person
Book of Mormon, 1830 edition (changed in current editions)
Version 2 - God and Jesus Christ are separate persons
Joseph Smith (King Follett Discourse)
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BIBLE
God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are one God within the godhead as members of the
Trinity
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GOD - man
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LDS
God is an exalted man
SEE: The Article, The God Of
Mormons
Was Once
Just A Man
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BIBLE
God is not a man
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GOD- omnipotent
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LDS
God is not all-powerful
SEE: The Article, God Is Not
Infinite, Omniscient, Omnipotent or Omnipresent
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BIBLE
God is all power
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GOD - omnipresent
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LDS
God cannot be everywhere at once
SEE: The Article, God Is Not
Infinite, Omniscient,
Omnipotent or Omnipresent
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BIBLE
God fills the heavens and the earth
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GOD - omniscient
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LDS
God does not know everything
SEE: The Article, The God Of
Mormons Was Once
Just A Man
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BIBLE
God is the source of all knowledge
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GOD - one god
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LDS
God is one of an infinite number of other gods
SEE: The Article, Mormons Are
Polytheistic, Believing In An Infinite Number Of Gods
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BIBLE
Only one God exists
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GOD - polygamy
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LDS
God is a polygamist
SEE: The Article, Polygamy Is A
Necessary Practice To Obtain Salvation
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BIBLE
God does not have a wife
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HOLY GHOST - mind
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LDS
Version 1 - Holy Ghost undefined as an "it"
Book of Mormon 1830
Version 2- Holy Ghost is the Mind of God
Lectures On Faith, Doctrine and Covenants 1835
Version 3 - Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit
Joseph Smith, King Follett Discourse 1844
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BIBLE
The Holy Ghost is a "King Jamesian" misnomer and should properly be referred to as the Holy
Spirit, who is part of the Godhead as the third person of the Trinity and is a spiritual being
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HOLY GHOST - indwelling believer
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LDS
Version 1 - Holy Ghost indwells the heart
Doctrine and Covenants 130:22
Version 2- Holy Ghost cannot indwell the heart, because he cannot be everywhere at the same
time, He is not omnipresent
Apostle John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconcilliations, p. 76
Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 359
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BIBLE
The Holy Ghost is a "King Jamesian" misnomer and should properly be referred to as the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit dwells in the heart of every believer
1 Corinthians 6:19, Romans 8:9
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HOLY SPIRIT - power
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LDS
Holy Spirit is the power of God
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BIBLE
The Holy Spirit is part of the Godhead as the third person of the Trinity and possesses all the
attributes of Deity
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JESUS CHRIST - birth
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LDS
The spirit of Jesus Christ was born on another planet in a preexistent life
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ was never born in a preexistent life, He has always existed
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JESUS CHRIST - birth, his father and mother
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LDS
The spirit of Jesus Christ was physically conceived by God the Father and one of his wives
in a previous existence
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ was not born in a previous existence
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JESUS CHRIST - birth, his mother
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LDS
Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ are brother and sister
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BIBLE
Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, is a created human being, not the sister of Jesus Christ
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JESUS CHRIST - body, his father and mother
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LDS
The body of Jesus Christ was a result of a physical, incestuous sexual union of God and
Mary
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BIBLE
The physical body was "of the Holy Spirit" as a creative act
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JESUS CHRIST - brothers and sisters
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LDS
Jesus Christ, Satan and all human beings are literal brothers and sisters
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ created Satan and all human beings
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JESUS CHRIST - god
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LDS
Jesus Christ became a God during His pre-existence on another planet
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ has always been God as part of the Trinity
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JESUS CHRIST - polygamist
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LDS
Jesus Christ was a polygamist
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ was never married - the church is the bride of Christ
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MANKIND - birth
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LDS
The spirits of all mankind are born on another planet in a pre-existent life
SEE: The Article, The Spirits Of Human Beings Bave Existed In The Spirit
World For Thousands Of Years Prior To Their Appearance On This Earth
SEE: The Article, Human Beings Do Not Remember Their Previous
Spiritual Existence, Because When Their Spiritual Bodies Are Compressed, Their Memory Is
Squeezed Out Of Existence
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BIBLE
The spirits of mankind are created by God at conception and can become children of God by
adoption
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MANKIND - birth, father and mother
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LDS
The spirits of all mankind are fathered by God and born to the Mother Goddess(es) in a
pre-existent life on another planet that orbits the star Kolob
SEE: The Article, The Spirits Of Human Beings Are Fathered By the
"Heavenly Father," Born On Another Planet, Grow To Human Size And Are Then Sent To Earth
Where They Are Compressed In Size So They Will Fit Inside The Bodies Of Human
Babies
SEE: The Article, The Spirits Of Human Beings Bave Existed In The Spirit
World For Thousands Of Years Prior To Their Appearance On This Earth
SEE: The Article, Human Beings Do Not Remember Their Previous
Spiritual Existence, Because When Their Spiritual Bodies Are Compressed, Their Memory Is
Squeezed Out Of Existence
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BIBLE
The spirits of mankind are created by God at conception and can become children of God by
adoption
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MANKIND - blood atonement
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LDS
Mankind - some sins cannot be forgiven by Jesus Christ (murder, repeated adultery) so the person
must atone for those sins by committing suicide or having someone else shed their blood (which is
murder)
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BIBLE
Jesus Christ atoned for and will forgive all sins except for one, Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 12:31-32
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MANKIND - created and not created
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LDS
Version 1 - mankind created by the words spoken by God
Book of Mormon, Jacob 4:9; Alma 18:28, 34-36
Version 2 - mankind born and lived on another planet before coming to earth
Doctrine and Covenants 93:23, 29-33
Book of Abraham 3:18, 21-23
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BIBLE
Man and woman were created and formed by God at the creation of the world, and given life by
His breath
Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7, 21-23
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MANKIND - godhood
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LDS
Mormons can become gods in the next life
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BIBLE
Man cannot become a god in the nex life
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MANKIND - polygamy
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LDS
Polygamy is a necessary practice in order for Mormons to obtain exaltation and
godhood
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BIBLE
Polygamy is specifically denied to leaders in the church
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MANKIND - procreation in heaven
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LDS
Mormons will procreate children in heaven
SEE: The Article, When Exalted, Mormon Men Will Rule Their Own
Planets And, With their Many Wives, Father Spirit Children Forever
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BIBLE
There is no marriage or procreation in the next life
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MARRIAGE - necessity
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LDS
Version 1
Marriages were recognized as either civil marriages or church marriages. Civil marriages indicated that
the couple were "weak in the faith".
Doctrine and Covenants, sec. 101, 1835
Version 2
For a couple to be "sealed" properly in marriage for time and eternity, they must be married in the
temple. Persons who are not married cannot attain to a full exaltation to godhood, but will become
angels and will be servants to exalted Mormons.
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BIBLE
Marriage is not a sacrament of the church and can be solemnized as a civil marriage or a church
marriage. There will be no marriage in heaven.
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SALVATION - resurrection
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LDS
Salvation is defined as resurrection in the next life.
1. Resurrection to a lower level heaven, after a type of purgatory, for everyone except Mormons
2. Resurrection to an exalted level of heaven for most Mormons and possible godhood for the best
Mormons
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BIBLE
Salvation is reconcilliation to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, whereby a
person may escape the condemnation and judgment to hell and spend an eternity in a right relationship
with God in heaven.
SEE: The Article, WHAT IS SALVATION?
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