Please,I want to know if I'm wrong...?

Question

These are the things I heard about Mormonism.If they are wrong correct me.I want to think of them as Christian.
#1. Adam is the ascended God of this earth.
#2. Jesus and Lucifer are brothers.
#3. As man is ,God once was. As God is ,man can become.
#4. If we follow all the Mormon tenets,we can become God of our own planet someday.
#5. There is a Father and Mother God in heaven creating souls through intercourse.
#6. When there was war in heaven between Jesus and Lucifer,all the souls that stayed neutral get Black skin when they are born on earth.
I'd like to know if these are true or if my friend is pulling my leg.A lot of us don't know what goes on in heaven.

Answer 1

Adam was made out of dirt by God, the one and only God. Yes Mormons believe falsely.
Jesus is God incarnate, Lucifer is His creation, not His brother.
Yes Mormons believe falsely.
No, God is the only God, there is no other anywhere ever.
Yes, Mormons believe #3 too, falsely.
We don't become God's because to be God is to be the one and only who created everything. We are creatures, and we never become God.
But again, Mormons believe #4 and knock on our doors to ensure their own divinity some day. False belief again.
God is not a gender as if he needed a female god to procreate. God speaks as a male, but He is complete without spouse.
Mormons believe wrongly again.
Black folks are like brown folks are like white folk etc. We all come from Adam and Eve. But, Mormons did and do believe false things about the black race, and only recently in their history did blacks suddenly gain some significant acceptance. Again, all of this comes as a result of believing things which are not Scripture as though they were. Mormons need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ, the only God and Savior of mankind, or they will be lost. It is not the Gospel Mormons believe, but the notorious shyster, Joe Smith.

Answer 2

Here's your answers:

1. No, Mormons do not believe that Adam is God.

2. Mormons believe that God the Father created all things, so He created both Jesus (God the Son), Lucifer (Satan), and all mankind. Jesus and Lucifer are "brothers" in the sense that God the Father created both of them. It doesn't imply any special affinity or friendship between Jesus and Lucifer. Obviously, they are on opposite sides of the whole good/evil divide.

3. Mormons believe in the Bible, which teaches: "To him that overcometh will I [Christ] grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." So we believe that we can become like God through the power of Christ, but not that we will ever be greater than God. We will always worship God the Father and Christ the Son. To use traditional Christian terminology (and not terminology that only Mormons understand), it would probably be more accurate to say that Mormons believe they can become angels in the next life.

4. See #3. I don't think Mormons really know the details of what "sitting with Christ on his throne," as the Bible describes it, means.

5. Again, I don't think Mormons would claim to have all the details here. "Creating souls through intercourse" is definitely not Mormon doctrine.

6. This is absolutely wrong. Mormons do not believe that blacks were less noble than whites in the pre-earth life. My wife is back, and she's as Mormon as anyone in my congregation.

I'd say either your friend is either pulling your leg, or is misinformed. You should be extremely careful when trying to learn about Mormons because there are many, many lies, distortions, and conspiracy theories. Anyone can publish anything on the web; there are many people in this country (and in the world) that are quite bigoted against Mormons.

To learn more about Mormons, feel free to visit my site at http://www.allaboutmormons.com .

Answer 3

It's been hard for me to figure these out as well. I've been taught that they believe all of these statements. Talking to Mormon's though, they say they don't believe them and I'm misunderstanding things.

For example, I was originally taught Mormons believe Adam and Lucifer were brothers because of quotes like this:
“Who will redeem the earth, who will go forth and make the sacrifice for the earth and all things it contains?” The eldest son said: “Here am I;” but he did not say “send me.” But the second one, which was “Lucifer, son of the morning, “ said, “Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth,…” (Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, p. 282)

When I ask Mormon's about it though, they say they do not believe Jesus and Satan are brothers. Some I have talked to say they were considered brothers, because God made both Jesus and Satan so they were called brothers, but not anymore? It's my understanding that Mormon's believe that God has a wife and have babies to create spirits to become babies on Earth, so I'm really confused what they believe there.

I don't know if they think God has flesh and bones, or if he is Spirit, because of quotes like these:
The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also;…
(Doctrine and Covenants 130:22)

And then Ammon said: Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit? And he said, Yea. And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in earth? (Alma 18:26-28)

I don't know if they believe God changes or not because of quotes like these, so I don't know if they believe God is an exalted man or not:

…for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see. (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345)

For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity (Moroni 8:18)

I can't seem to get an answer for sure. Usually, (I think) I end up offending them with my questions and they stop talking to me before I understand.

When I try to point out differences between our religions as I understand, they send me e-mail and say I hate Mormons. Honest - I don't. I do think there are differences, but I have a hard time understanding what they really believe.

It's been the same for the other statements, so I really don't know what they believe.

Answer 4

1. false
2. SPIRIT "brothers", as we are ALL of us spirit "brothers and sisters" thru our Heavenly Father. However, since he fell and became Satan, he is no longer a child of God.
3. Perhaps, and yes.
4. Who knows?
5. If we have a Heavenly Father, then why not a Heavenly Mother, but intercourse? I don't know about that. It's not important.
6. War, yes. Neutral souls are black, that's some people's opinion, but only a few. Not church belief.

Answer 5

#1) Mormons believe that Adam is right up there, and is "transfigured" (sort of like ascended) They also believe that he is a God, but not the same (at least to us) as Jesus is. He is not really discussed that much by Mormons. They do not believe that he is the God o this world. Satan, in fact, is considered the god of this world. Albeit not one who is to be worshiped.

#2) Yes. They believe we are all brothers and sisters to both of them as well.

#3) Yes. Mormon doctrine and scripture.

#4) Yes. Mormon doctrine. Not necessarily just one planet though.

#5) Mormons believe that God and a heavenly mother give birth to our spirit bodies. They do not say how this is done, but some people speculate.

#6) Not Mormon dotrine. It was once a widely held belief by most Mormons that black skin was the mark of Cain, but it is not church doctrine.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

You should not think of them as Christian because they are not and they do not recognize the historical christian church as valid. The president a few years ago at the April conference said that the God of Mormonism is not the one of the Bible. To that I agree with him!
1. Absolutely true. JD 1 pg 50,51
2. Absolutely true. Not found in the Book of Mormon though
3. Absolutely true. The quote is not exactly correct: As God is, so man may become. This is a quote from a church president and it reflects where they are at. This teaching is not found in either the Book of Mormon or the Bible.
4. Absolutely true. This teaching is not found in either the Book of Mormon or the Bible.
5. Absolutely true. This teaching is not found in either the Book of Mormon or the Bible.
6. Absolutely true. This teaching is found in 3 Nephi and it also talks about when a person truly repents, his skin will become white. Get a Book of MOrmon put out before 1978 to see what the passage looks like before they changed it. Have a look in the Journal of Discourses where the leaders of the church expound that passage. Pretty racist stuff!

Answer 8

As a lifelong Mormon, here are my responses to your questions. While you are semi correct, there are many inaccuracies with your assumptions.

#1 No. Adam is not the ascended God of this earth. God is God and we believe in God the Eternal Father, and we believe that his only begotten Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. We do belive that Adam was the first one born to the earth with a body of flesh and bone, followed by Eve.

#2 We believe that all of the souls that come to the earth are spiritually begotten in the pre-mortal world, and that we all come to earth in the time appointed to us for that. So, in a sense, we are all brothers and sisters. We are Christ's brother and we would be Lucifer's brother in that same sense as well. And, considering this concept, Christ and Lucifer would be brothers as we all are spirit brothers and sisters.

#3 We believe that the souls of men (women) have a divinely appointed purpose for coming to the earth. That is, to gain a mortal body and to learn faith in God and to live by faith and keep God's commandments. We belive as we do this, that we all can learn and grow and progress; that progression can be through the eternities. We can continue to grow and progress after death, but the most important progression must occur while in mortal life. Again considering this concept, one can progress eternally. With that in mind, we believe that one can progress to the point of knowing what God knows and becoming like him. So in that sense, we can "become Gods." However, it should be noted that God himself is living eternally and likewise "progressing" in asense that he too is not stagnant, but living in the eternities and a dynamci being. So, as we progress in the eternities, so is God and God will always be greater than us. We will never become "co-equal" with God. He will always be God to us.

#4 This answer goes along with my answer for #3. As we progress in the eternities, we too may become perfect and progressed to that point where we too may become a God over some celestrial realm. Again note, that our God will still be God over us and that we never overtake or become co-equal with him.

#5 We believe that we are spiritual begotten of God in the pre-mortal world. See answer to # 1 and 2. However, how exactly that is done has not been revealed to us. Mormons do not know how we are spiritually begotten in the pre-mortal realm. However, some have speculated that if God is an unchangeable God, that it must surely be done in the same way physical offspring are begotten here on earth. Again however, that is just speculation. We do not know how this is done exactly. A mystery of God.

#6. While we believe that there was a "war in heaven" where the souls in heaven choose to follow Jesus Christ or Lucifer, we do not believe that the blacks choose to follow Lucifier. That cannot be true as Mormons believe that all those that choose to follow Christ are born to this earht. We believe that those that choose to follow Lucifer do not get t come to earth, nor do they receive physical bodies due to not being able to be born. In other words, the followers of Luficer are the demons and devils and are spirits only. Thererfore, since blacks, whites, and any other race are born to this earth, they followed Christ.

Hope that helps clarify things.

Answer 9

Many of those questions can be answered by reading their teaching manual, Gospel Principles.

Brigham Young, their 2nd prophet, taught that Adam was God. But, many Mormons today contest that very strongly.

They do believe Jesus and Satan are both spiritual offspring of God and His wife.

They do believe that God was once a man on another planet who became God and that if Mormon's are faithful to the Church and their covenants that they make in the temples that they too can become as God is.

They believe that God is married. They believe there's a Heavenly Father as well as a Heavenly Mother that - in some way - organize eternal intelligences into spirit children.

And the LDS Church once banned African Americans from their priesthood because they believed that *****'s were cursed.

Some LDS leaders have taught that people are born of a particular race because of their position on the war that took place in Heaven. If a person was loyal in the war, they were born to white Mormon families. But, if they were not - then they were born to other non-white families.

Here are some links to substantiate all of this if you're interested:

http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,11-1-13-1,00.html

http://www.mormonquotes.com/

Answer 10

1. nope, they don't believe that.
2. yes, just like we are all Jesus' brothers and sisters
3. Yes
4. I don't understand what you mean by followint all the "mormon tenets"
5. Yes, there is a Heavenly Father and Mother.
6. Nope. They do not believe that.

I suggest to you that you go to www.lds.org and find your answers there. Latter Day Saints is the real name of the church, not mormons. if you want the truth of what LDS members believe then ask one of them, or me because i'm one, and you will find out what they believe. don't ask preachers, and bashers of other faiths because they don't know.


by the way, don't go to this site http://www.mormonbeliefs.com this is not a church made website, from some of the stuff i read, it is most likely another website of lies against the Mormons made by someone who doesn't even have a clue.

Answer 11

1.god created adam from the dust of the earth.
2.Lucifer was one of gods angles.he was trying to take control and god casted him out of heaven,
3.no man cannot become god,some times people think they are god but their not.
4.no we cannot become god,god is our heavenily father.we cannot take his place.
5.no there is not a mother god in heaven,the church that god has on earth is classified as the mother.
6.we don't no what goes on in heaven,but no matter what color your skin is you are still brothers in the eyes of god.
can't you read?get you a bible and start reading at the front of it and read till you read it all and you might just learn something.and no my skin is not black,it is as white as yours.