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1) What is the Church?



Mormons believe:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true Church; all other churches are "wrong", all their creeds an "abomination", and all who profess them are "corrupt" (Joseph Smith?History 1:19, The Pearl of Great Price).

Christians believe:

The one true Church is the mystical, spiritual Body of Christ made up of all those from various denominations or churches (Acts 15:35-41; 20:28; 1 Corinthians 11:19; 12:13ff.; and Ephesians 4:4-13).



2) Are there other Gods?



Mormons believe:

There are many gods who create and rule over other worlds, and worthy Mormons may become gods there some day. On those worlds, worship excludes the God of our world (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 576-7; Joseph Smith, The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 346-7; Abraham 4:1, The Pearl of Great Price; and Gospel Principles, 290).

Christians believe:

There is only one God who created and rules over everything in existence. To think that God did not create something like some other world is to simply devalue and weaken God (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 4:39; Isaiah 40:12-20; 43:10; 44:6-8 and 24; and John 1:1-3).



3) About the Trinity:



Mormons believe:

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate gods, who are one in purpose and nature, but not in a Being they share eternally (Ibid.).

Christians believe:

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons, who are eternally one in purpose, nature, and Being (Ibid.; Matthew 3:16; 4:10; and 28:16-19).



4) Are men and God the same nature or species?



Mormons believe:

The nature of these gods is identical to the nature of man, and as such these humans had to become gods; they haven?t always been gods (Smith, The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 345; Thomas C. Romney, The Life of Lorenzo Snow, 46; and Doctrine and Covenants 130:22).

Christians believe:

God has His own unique nature that man, a created being by definition cannot ever have. God is God by nature, and not by obtainment (Psalms 90:2; Hosea 11:9; Acts 14:15; Galatians 4:8; and 2 Peter 1:3-4).



5) Is God married?



Mormons believe:

God the Father has at least one wife by which we on this world were all literally born as spirit children prior to taking on our tangible bodies of flesh and bones via our mortal parents (McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 516-7; and Brigham Young, The Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, 50).

Christians believe:

Since God is not a man by nature it is impossible for Him as God to even have a wife. It is just as impossible for God to lie. Further, God does not even have a body that He would need to produce us. Marriage requires partiality, receiving counsel from the other partner, and compromise. But God cannot do these either. Finally, He does not need anything, let alone a wife, to become God (Ibid.; 1 Kings 8:27; and Hebrews 6:18).



6) Does the Father have a Father?



Mormons believe:

God the Father had a Father whom He followed as Jesus had followed Him in order to become a god (Smith, The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 373).

Christians believe:

There is no other God before God. He is not so weak that He needed to serve and receive counsel from some other God in order to become God; He always was God (Ps. 90:2; Isa. 40:12-20; and Isa. 43:10).



7) Is there anything that the Father did not create?



Mormons believe:

Thus God the Father did not create the planet that His Father had already created. No God for any world created all worlds. No God for any world created intelligence, matter, or the laws that govern them. These are eternal. Any person, including a God for any world, eternally existed as intelligence, and not as God (Ibid.; and Doctrine and Covenants 93:29; 131:7-8; and Abraham 3:21-24).

Christians believe:

There is only one Being who created and rules over everything in existence. To think that God did not create something like some other world is to simply devalue and weaken God (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 4:39; Isaiah 40:12-20; 43:10; 44:6-8 and 24; John 1:1-3; and Acts 17:28).



8) Is there anything that the Son did not create?



Mormons believe:

Jesus being the literal son of exalted human gods obviously did not create all things either. That is why He is referred to as Lucifer?s as well as our elder brother in the pre-earth life (Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel through the Ages, 15).

Christians believe:

Jesus existed prior to becoming man as "the only begotten God" (John 1:18, New American Standard). As such, He created everything that was ever created from the very beginning (John 1:1-3). To relativize this creation to only concerning the things of this world devalues and cheapens Jesus, who has not only the nature of man (1 Timothy 2:5), but also the nature of "God over all blessed forever" (Romans 9:5).



9) Does the Son receive the same worship as the Father?



Mormons believe:

Jesus is not worshipped equally with the Father, since Jesus is not our begetter. Jesus is not even directly prayed to. Prayer is directed only to the Father in the name of Jesus (BYU Devotional [March 2, 1982], 17, 19, and 20).

Christians believe:

Since Jesus is God by nature, He is worshipped equally with the Father. Jesus receives both worship and prayer, and we are commanded to do so (Mt. 4:10; 28:16-19; Jn. 5:18-23; 14:14 [NAS]; Acts 7:59; 1 Cor. 1:2; and 1 Jn. 5:13-15).


10) What role do good works play with our standing before God?



Mormons believe:

Good works are a necessary requirement of salvation and right standing before God (2 Nephi 25:23; Alma 5:27-28; 11:37; 34:33-35; Moroni 10:32; Doctrine and Covenants 42:18; 58:43; 82:7; 2nd Article of Faith; and Gospel Principles, 75-77).

Christians believe:

Salvation is a free gift that must be received through faith alone, and this automatically is demonstrated by the overall good life produced by it (Romans 4:5; 11:6; Galatians 3:11, 23-26; Eph. 2:8-10; 1 Jn. 5:10-13).