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<div class="head">Redi-Answers on Mormon Doctrine</div>
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<div class="subhead">The Father</div>
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<P><b>THE CURRENT TEACHING OF THE MORMON CHURCH:</b></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><p>Father-God has a body of flesh and bones, and was once a man like us.</p></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<div class="center">"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits inthroned in yonder heavens!…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." <br><br>Joseph Smith, Jr., HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 6:305.</div>
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<P><b>WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES ABOUT THE FATHER:</b></P>
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<P><B>1. THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH THAT GOD IS A GLORIFIED MAN WITH A BODY OF FLESH AND BONES.</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td1">For I am God, and not man.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Hsa',11,9);">Hsa 11:9</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">God is not a man.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Num',23,19);">Num 23:19</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">God is a Spirit.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Jhn',4,24);">Jhn 4:24</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td3">For I am the Lord, I change not.</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Mal',3,6);">Mal 3:6</a></td></tr>
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<P><B>2. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYONE LIKE GOD.</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td1">O Lord, there is none like Thee.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('1Ch',17,20);">1Ch 17:20</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td3">There is none good but one, that is God.</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Mar',10,18);">Mar 10:18</a></td></tr>
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<P><B>3. THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD.</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td1">For there is one God.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('1Ti',2,5);">1Ti 2:5</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">I am the Lord and there is none else</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',45,5);">Isa 45:5</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">There is none beside me.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',45,21);">Isa 45:21</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">I am God, and there is none else.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Isa',45,22);">Isa 45:22</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">One God and Father of all.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Eph',4,'4-6');">Eph 4:4-6</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td1">…Thou art God alone.</td>
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<td class="td2"><a onClick="return mV('Psa',86,10);">Psa 86:10</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="td3">See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no God with me.</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Deu',32,39);">Deu 32:39</a></td></tr>
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<P><B>4. WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE ANOTHER GOD.</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td3">Thou shall have none other gods before me.</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Deu',5,7);">Deu 5:7</a></td></tr>
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<P><B>5. GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD.</B></P>
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<tr><td class="td3">For thou shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:</td>
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<td class="td4"><a onClick="return mV('Exd',34,14);">Exd 34:14</a></td></tr>
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<div class="cite2"><p class="bibliobox"><strong>Bibliographic Information:</strong><br>Author: Grieshaber, Erich and Jean Grieshaber<br>Title: "Father"<br>Work: <em>Redi-Answers on Mormon Doctrine</em><br>Date Added: 1 Jul 2002</p></div>
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