Mormon ? Why do you believe that Jesus is a created being?

Question

(not picking on Mormons...want to know why you believe what I was told) Please back up your belief with Bible scripture.

Answer 1

John 1:1 "In the beginning was that word, and that word was with god: and god was that word. .... And the Word was with God"

Mormons believe that "The Word" was Jesus Christ.

There are 2 problems here.

#1. you're splitting hairs over things that God has not made clear in revelations, and
#2. You're trying to learn about Mormons from people who like to slander them.

If you want to learn about Mormons, ask Mormons.

Answer 2

I don't believe all of the LDS doctrines on Christ, but here is the scripture that supports this doctrine:

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
-Colossians 1:15

This verse obviously doesn't apply to the creation of Christ's physical body, since he was born long after many generations of people. No, it has to refer to his "spiritual creation" (the transfer from an "intelligence" to a "spirit body", rather) as the LDS Church refers to it.

The fun thing about LDS doctrine is that it provides all sorts of provisions that allow everything in the Bible to support the church's views. Jesus WAS a created being, as evidenced in the Bible verse above. But what about the other Bible verses that say Jesus is eternal? OH YEAH, those are talking about, uh..., well, you see, there are intelligences and spirit bodies, which aren't quite spirits, but almost. Of course, the words "intelligence" and "spirit body" don't appear in scripture until 1842 (in the Mormon D&C), but it allows Christ to be both created AND uncreated. Thus there's no contradiction and the church is true, see?

Answer 3

Simply put, far beyond an infinite time that we can comprehend, all intelligences were without spiritual form until God the Father created them into spiritual entities. Intelligence was, and is eternal.

Jesus Christ, or Jehovah as known in the Old Testament, was God's first spiritually born Son. Sometime afterward, the rest of us were born spiritually. Adam and Eve were the first mortal born intelligences and all of us followed suit.

Jesus Christ was the Only Begotten in the flesh by our Eternal Father, yet the first born in the spiritual form.

Answer 4

Not sure of what you are meaning with this question. Mormons believe, with all of Christianity, that God the Father through a process not fully understood, conceived of the virgin Mary and she brought forth a son. This son, Jesus Christ, was born of the flesh and therefore was "created" of sorts as a being of flesh and blood. Christ came to earth in that manner, to take upon himself a body of flesh and blood and live his life in perfection. As part of God's plan, Christ was crucified, sacrificed his life, and atoned for the sins of all mankind. In that sense, Christ's physical body was "created."
However, Mormons do not believe that God "created" Christ's spiritual intelligence as that existed from time through eternity. It always did exist and always will.

Answer 5

What do you mean by "created being"? Jesus is a spirit son of God, the first born, and the only begotten son of the Father in the flesh. All of us were with the Father before we were born. All of us were born into mortality for this portion of our development. We are eternal beings. We will continue our existence after mortality. Jesus is like we are with the exception of having an eternal Father for His mortality as well as for his spirit. As far as we are concerned, He had no beginning nor end. He is eternal, as we are, in that we were before mortality and will be after mortality. His power and authority is without beginning of days or end of years. It always has been and always will be. That power and authority preceded Him, belonging to God the Father before Christ was born, spiritually or physically.
If that answers your question, then great. If not, then you will need to clarify for me.

Answer 6

Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God (Rev 3:14).
He was the first one born of God's children (Heb 1:6, Col 1:15).

Answer 7

Why should I limit my evidence to teh Bible? We use more than the Bible, we also have the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine & Covenants and teh Pearl of Great Price. IF we beleive something, it's in one or more of these books.

What do you mean by "created being"? He was a MORTAL being, He was born as a human mortal being, and WE are all created from the dust. Jesus had a mortal body same as us. And our bodies were CREATED in teh Garden of Eden. And before He was born into mortality, where WAS he? What was His "job description" before the earth was created and filled with people. I mean, it wasn't until Adam and eve ate the fruit that they were in need of a Saviour.

Answer 8

particular, his human physique replaced into created interior the womb of the virgin Mary by skill of the organic approach of sperm and egg (and don't rule out a astonishing experience now everyday as Inverto fertilization). we do no longer believe that the fetus of Jesus replaced into an alien implant. And ya.. the Bible does help it. Luke a million:35 And the angel replied and pronounced unto her, The Holy Ghost shall stumble upon thee, and the flexibility of the optimal shall overshadow thee: for this reason additionally that holy factor which would be born of thee would be referred to as the Son of God. Do you believe that Jesus replaced into no longer created interior the womb of Mary? and would you Biblically help your hypothesis? did no longer think of so, sigh. perchance you may spend slightly greater time "information" the Bible quite than attempting to p.c.. different faiths aside?

Answer 9

Jesus is ofcourse a creation because it came in the duality of Birth / Death by taking a body and took birth on earth. Whoever souls taking body and incarnate on earth is creation of the supreme Father. Therefore jesus also a creation.

Answer 10

If you mean, out of nothing, then no. He was an intelligence that was organized into a spirit by God, just like the rest of us.
We believe that we are all eternal beings. Intellegence is some form that cannot be created or destroyed. (That's as far as I go, I've never understood quantum physics or any of that kinda stuff.)