Mormon God is not the God of the Bible

A Different God

Deut 13:1-3"If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or
the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known)
and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God
is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

False prophecies are not the only reason why we should reject a prophet. If the prophet tells us to follow after other gods then
we are not to listen to that prophet. Have the prophets of the Mormon Church taught us of the God of the Bible? Or have these
prophets instead encouraged us to follow after another god?

The God of Mormonism is not the God of the Bible. In the following quotes from L.D.S authorities we learn:
(1) There are 3 separate Gods in the Godhead.
(2) God himself was once a man as we are.
(3) God the Father has a body of flesh and bones.

Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.2, GODHEAD
On June 16, 1844, in his last Sunday sermon before his martyrdom, Joseph Smith declared that "in all congregations" he had
taught "the plurality of Gods" for fifteen years: "I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate
and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three
constitute three distinct personages and three Gods"

The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.4
There are three Gods: the Eternal Father, Elohim, to whom we pray; Christ or Jehovah; and the Holy Ghost who testifies of
the others and witnesses to us the truth of all things.

Journal of Discourses, Vol.6, p.3-4,
Joseph Smith, April 6, 1844
In order to understand the subject of the dead, for the consolation of those who mourn for the loss of their friends, it is
necessary that we should understand the character and being of God, and how he came to be so; 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 will take
away and do away the vail, so that you may see. These are incomprehensible ideas to some; but they are simple. It is the first
principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God and to know that we may converse with him as one man
converses with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself the Father of us all, dwelt on an
earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did; and I will show it from the Bible.

D&C 130:22 The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body
of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.

The Bible does not agree with these Mormon concepts.

The Godhead of Mormonism contains 3 Gods. The Godhead in Christianity contains only one God. God the Father of
Mormonism has not always been God and he has a body of flesh and bones. God the Father in the Bible has always been
God, he does not change and he does not have a body of flesh and bones.

Ps 90:1-2 Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born, or Thou didst give birth
to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

Isa 43:13 "Even from eternity I am He; and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?"

Isa 44:6"Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last, and
there is no God besides me.

In these 3 verses we have just seen that God has been God from everlasting to everlasting even from eternity. He is the first
and the last and there is no God besides him. If that does not mean he has always been God what does it mean?
If God was once a man like us and through eternal progression became God then he certainly changed a lot. You would have to
change a lot to be like God wouldn't you? The Bible says that God has not changed.

Mal 3:6 "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

So God has always been God and he does not change. As we will see he also does not have a body of flesh and bones.

John 4:23-24 "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such
people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

Luke 24:39 "See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as
you see that I have."

Jesus made both of the above statements. Speaking of the Father he said "God is spirit" Jesus also said "a spirit does not
have flesh and bones as you see that I have." So from Jesus we learn that the Father is spirit and that a spirit does not have a
body of flesh and bones.

The Book Of Mormon also states that God is Spirit.

Alma 18:26-27And then Ammon said: Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit? And he said, Yea. And Ammon said: This is
God.

Alma 22:8-11 And now when Aaron heard this, his heart began to rejoice, and he said: Behold, assuredly as thou livest, O king,
there is a God. And the king said: Is God that Great Spirit that brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem? And Aaron said
unto him: Yea, he is that Great Spirit, and he created all things both in heaven and in earth. Believest thou this? And he said:
Yea, I believe that the Great Spirit created all things, and I desire that ye should tell me concerning all these things, and I will
believe thy words.

The Book of Mormon tells us there are no other Gods.

Alma 11:21-22, Alma 11:28-29
And this Zeezrom began to question Amulek, saying: Will ye answer me a few questions which I shall ask you? Now Zeezrom
was a man who was expert in the devices of the devil, that he might destroy that which was good; therefore, he said unto
Amulek: Will ye answer the questions which I shall put unto you? And Amulek said unto him: Yea, if it be according to the Spirit
of the Lord, which is in me; for I shall say nothing which is contrary to the Spirit of the Lord. ……...
vs.28-29 Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God? And he (Amulek) answered, No.

Brigham Young taught that Adam was God:
The Mormon Church no longer believes that Adam was God. In fact they try to deny that this was ever taught. The problem is
that this doctrine is still in their own records spoken by their former prophet.

Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, p.50 - p.51,
Brigham Young, April 9, 1852
Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden of
Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and organize this
world. He is MICHAEL, the Archangel, the ANCIENT OF DAYS! about whom holy men have written and spoken--HE is our
FATHER and our GOD, and the only God with whom WE have to do. Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non-
professing, must hear it, and will know it sooner or later.

Adam God can also be found in
Journal of Discourses, Vol.5, p.331-332 (Desert News June 14th 1873, June 18th, 1873) (Mellineal Star, Vol.15, p.801& 825,
Vol.16, p.482, 530, 534, Vol.17, p.195)

Brigham Young's words are as good as scripture:
Journal of Discourses, Vol.13, p.95,
Brigham Young, January 2, 1870
The Lord is in our midst. He teaches the people continually. I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children
of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they
deserve.