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<div class="head">Exposé of Mormonism</div>
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<div class="subhead">17. Mormon Gospel Teachings</div>
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<H3>The following Questions will be answered according to the
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1978 edition of <i>Mormon Gospel Teachings</i>.
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<br>And then compared to the Bible.</H3>
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<h3 style="text-align:left">17A. What kind of being is God according to Joseph Smith?</h3>
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<blockquote><p>"…God is like a man in form." —‍Teaching of the Prophet Joseph Smith. p. 345.</p>
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<p>God is a glorified and perfected man, a personage of flesh and bones. Inside his tangible body is an eternal spirit."</p> <p class="exindent2"><i>Doctrine and Covenants 130:22</i>.</p></blockquote>
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<p><b>The Bible teaches:</b></p>
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<p>"…for I am God and not man." —‍<a id="si-Hsa 11:9" onClick="return mV('Hsa',11,9);">Hsa 11:9</a></p>
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<p>"God is not a man that he should lie." —‍<a id="si-Num 23:19" onClick="return mV('Num',23,19);">Num 23:19</a></p>
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<p>"God is <i>Spirit</i>." —‍<a id="si-Jhn 4:24" onClick="return mV('Jhn',4,24);">Jhn 4:24</a></p>
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<p>"For I am the Lord, I change not." —‍<a id="si-Mal 3:6" onClick="return mV('Mal',3,6);">Mal 3:6</a></p>
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</blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align:left">17B. Are we all literal children of our heavenly Father according to Joseph Smith?</h3>
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<p>Yes,</p>
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<blockquote><p>"…All men and women are…literally the sons and daughters of Deity…Man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal (physical) body."</p>
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<p class="exindent2">Joseph Smith, <i>The Origin of Man</i>.
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<br>Improvement Era Nov. 1909 pp. 78-80.</p></blockquote>
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<p><b>The Bible Teaches:</b></p>
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<p>Man was created out of the earth by God, he <i>became</i> a living soul when God breathed into him the breath of life.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man <i>became a living being</i>."</p>
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<p class="exindent2"><a id="si-Gen 2:7" onClick="return mV('Gen',2,7);">Gen 2:7</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Man was created natural, then spiritual.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"…The first man, Adam <i>became</i> a <i>living soul</i>. The last Adam became a <i>life-giving spirit. However</i>, the <i>spiritual</i> is not first, but the <i>natural</i>, then the spiritual."
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<p class="exindent2"><a id="si-1Cr 15:46-47" onClick="return mV('1Cr',15,46,47);">1Cr 15:46-47</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Men and women are not literal sons of Deity, they become sons of God when they are born again.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Those who are led by the Spirit of God are <i>sons</i> of God."</p>
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<p class="exindent2"><a id="si-Rom 8:14" onClick="return mV('Rom',8,14);">Rom 8:14</a></p></blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align:left">17C. Was Adam and Eve's fall a blessing? Because of it, would man have joy?</h3>
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<p>Yes, according to <i>Mormon Gospel Teachings</i>, "Great blessings resulted from the transgression."</p>
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<blockquote><p>Eve said after her transgression, "…if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created…And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin. But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."</p>
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<p class="exindent2">2 Nephi 2:22-25</p></blockquote>
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<p><b>The Bible Teaches:</b></p>
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<p>Adam and Eve's sin <i>did not bring blessings or joy</i>, it brought pain, toil, physical and spiritual death to all generations.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your <i>pain</i> in childbirth."</p>
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<p class="exindent2"><a id="si-Gen 3:16" onClick="return mV('Gen',3,16);">Gen 3:16</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>"The to Adam He said, "…Cursed is the ground because of you…thorns and thistles it shall grow for you…and to dust you will return."</p>
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<p class="exindent2"><a id="si-Gen 3:16-19" onClick="return mV('Gen',3,'16-19');">Gen 3:16-19</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned."</p>
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<p class="exindent2"><a id="si-Rom 5:12-14" onClick="return mV('Rom',5,'12-14');">Rom 5:12-14</a></p></blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align:left">17D. Jesus Christ died on the cross, and rose from the dead in three days, in order for us to be saved from sin.</h3>
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<p>Please refer to 7F and following, in this book, and read, how you can be redeemed from your sins.</p>
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