Christians: Did you know Mormons are polytheists. They think God has a father and grandfather. Your thoughts?

Question

I'm an atheist by the way.

Answer 1

Mormons believe a lot of things... that being said, Mormons' beliefs aren't necessarily any weirder than other fringe groups' beliefs, or even than a lot of mainstream beliefs.

Having spent a lot of my life in the Mormon culture, I can say that despite these unorthodox beliefs, they are kind and reputable people. If these beliefs help them to be the way they are, then I have no problem with their beliefs.

Answer 2

Mormons aren't polytheists. We believe in one God. It doesn't state in mormon doctrine that he has a father or grandfather. That being said, we do recognize other gods, but that's advanced, advanced doctrine that has no place per se. Oh, and Mormons are Christians by the way.

Answer 3

Kait, a question for you: If God is a spirit, then what was the point of Jesus's resurrection? Why did He ascend into heaven WITH a body, if heaven is a spirit realm, inhabited by a Spirit god?

EDIT: Thank you for that answer, Kait. However, it doesn't really address the question as far as I can determine. One of Jesus's main purposes was to overcome physical death so that all mankind could be resurrected as He was. If heaven is a spirit realm, and God has no body, then why did Jesus make such a big deal about uniting His spirit with His perfected body for all eternity? And why did He promise us that we would be resurrected with perfected bodies for all eternity if a body-less state is more desirable (i.e. if that is the state that God exists in)?

Do you see what I'm saying? The "God is a spirit" belief is in direct contradiction to one of the central purposes for which Jesus came to the earth.

Answer 4

Polytheism is the the belief in and the worship of multiple Gods. Monotheism is the belief in and the worship of one God. I won't speak for Mormons, but for myself. I fall somewhere in between. I believe in multiple Gods, but I only worship one. This type of belief is called Henotheism.

Answer 5

God, if he has a Father, he also had grand Fathers. True Monotheist believe that God had no father, no son, biologically; Some groups among monotheists have taken the father-son allegory to be a real relationship, thus they are in grave error.

Answer 6

they dont question the mormons the same say they dont question their own religion or anybody elses.

I think its likely that if one is wrong, all others could be equally wrong. All for the same reason.

Answer 7

I think the Mormons are closer to the truth than you are.

Answer 8

Polytheists WORSHIP more than one god, we don't worship any god but ouro heavenly Father. So, we are not polytheists.

The BELIEF that there are other gods does not mean WORSHIP of those gods.

Answer 9

The Mormans are very wrong.
Mormons believe these things about God: that He has not always been the Supreme Being of the universe, but attained that status through righteous living and persistent effort. They believe God the Father has a “body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s.” Though abandoned by modern Mormon leaders, Brigham Young taught that Adam actually was God and the father of Jesus Christ. Christians know this about God: there is only One true God (Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 43:10, 44:6-8), that He always has and always will exist (Deuteronomy 33:27, Psalm 90:2, 1 Timothy 1:17), and that He was not created, but is the Creator (Genesis chapter1, Psalm 24:1, Isaiah 37:16). He is perfect and no one else is equal to Him (Psalm 86:8, Isaiah 40:25). God the Father is not a man, nor was He ever (Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Hosea 11:9). He is Spirit (John 4:24), and Spirit is not made of flesh and bone (Luke 24:39).

An answer for Beta_fishy (with all due respect)
The hypostatic union is the term used to describe how God the Son, Jesus Christ, took on a human nature, yet remained fully God at the same time. Jesus always had been God (John 8:58; 10:30), but at the incarnation Jesus took on human flesh - He became a human being (John 1:14). The addition of the human nature to the divine nature is Jesus, the God-man. This is the hypostatic union, Jesus Christ, one Person, fully God and fully man.

Jesus' two natures, human and divine, are inseparable. Jesus will forever be the God-man, fully God and fully human, two distinct natures in one Person. Jesus' humanity and divinity are not mixed, but are united without loss of separate identity. Jesus sometimes operated with the limitations of humanity (John 4:6; 19:28) and other times in the power of His deity (John 11:43; Matthew 14:18-21). In both, Jesus' actions were from His one Person. Jesus had two natures, but only one person or personality.

The doctrine of the hypostatic union is an attempt to explain how Jesus could be both God and man at the same time. It is ultimately, though, a doctrine that we are incapable of fully understanding. It is impossible for us to fully understand how God works. We, as finite human beings, should not expect to be able to comprehend an infinite God. Jesus is God’s Son in that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35). But that does not mean Jesus did not exist before He was conceived. Jesus always has existed (John 8:58; 10:30). When Jesus was conceived, He became a human being in addition to being God (John 1:1,14).

Jesus is both God and man. Jesus has always been God, but He did not become a human being until He was conceived in Mary. Jesus became a human being so that He could identify with us in our struggles (Hebrews 2:17) and, more importantly, so that He could die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins (Philippians 2:5-11). In summary, the hypostatic union teaches that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, that there is no mixture or dilution of either nature, and that He is one united Person, forever.

Recommended Resource: The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns.

Answer 10

seems reasonable to me -- why, did you think you had a better idea?