Is the Mormons Jesus the Biblical Jesus?

Is Mormonism’s Jesus the Biblical Jesus?
by Marvin W. Cowan


The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now emphasizes the fact that
they believe in Jesus Christ and they are therefore Christians. They do believe in a “Jesus Christ,” but is He the Jesus of the Bible?

The biblical Jesus said, “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets….” And the apostle Paul told
the Corinthian Christians that he was afraid if someone came preaching “another Jesus”, they would be deceived in the same way Eve was deceived by the serpent
(2 Cor. 11:3-4).

He didn’t think they could tell the difference between the true Jesus and a false one. Many who call themselves Christians today can’t tell the true Christ from a false one. Mormonism is among several religious organizations
that teach things about Jesus that are not in the Bible.
(For any who want to check the references in this article, LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie’s book
entitled Mormon Doctrine is frequently used and abbreviated as “MD.”)
The Bible teaches that Jesus is eternally God in John 1:1; Hebrews 1:8; and Philippians 2:6.

But LDS leaders teach that “Jesus became a God and reached His great state of understanding through consistent effort and continuous obedience
to all the Gospel truths and universal laws” (The Gospel Through The Ages,
p. 51).

Mormonism also teaches that in a pre-mortal spirit world, Jesus was the firstspirit baby born to Eloheim, who is God the Father and His unnamed wife (MD,
pp. 84, 392).

Jesus was named Jehovah in the pre-mortal spirit world. After His birth in the pre-mortal spirit world, Jesus’ brother, Lucifer, was born to our Heavenly
Father and Mother (MD, p. 192), and then all people who have lived or will ever live, were born as Jesus’ pre-mortal spirit brothers and sisters (MD, p. 84,
278).

“By obedience and devotion to the truth He (Christ) attained that pinnacle of intelligence which ranked Him as a God, as the Lord Omnipotent, while yet in
His pre-existent (pre-mortal) state” (MD, p. 129).


But McConkie also said, “Celestial marriage itself is an order of the priesthood…If a man gets the fulness of the priesthood of God, he has to get it in the
same way that Jesus Christ obtained it, and that was by keeping all the commandments and obeying all the ordinances of the house of the Lord,” which is an
LDS temple (MD, p. 482


Those who want to read more about the LDS view of Christ can do so in chapter three of Gospel Principles, published by the LDS Church.