Mormons say verbally that they believe in one God. They even claim to worship only one God. But their writings show that they believe in many Gods.
God the Father was once a man:
All men in pre-existence were the spirit children of God our Father, an exalted, glorified, and perfected Man (Mormon Doctrine,
p. 751). I wonder who created this Man?
Joseph Smith said: "God himself (Elohim) was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! ... 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 take away the veil, so that you may see .... (Mormon Doctrine, p. 321). Since Elohim (the current Heavenly Father) was once a man,
he had a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Father too. Elohim's wife (once a human female) also is supposed to have exalted to Heavenly
Mother. The LDS teaches that earthlings are their spirit children. When she was once a human female, she also had a Heavenly Father and
Heavenly Mother (before Elohim).
The Heavenly Father has a body of flesh and bones:
Therefore we know that both the Father and the Son are in form and stature perfect men; each of them possesses a tangible body, infinitely
pure and perfect and attended by transcendent glory, nevertheless a body of flesh and bones (Articles of Faith, p. 38).
God the Father had a Father:
... there is "a God above the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ .... Hence if Jesus had a Father, can we not believe that he had a Father
also?" (Mormon Doctrines, p. 322).
There is also a Heavenly Mother, who is also a Deity:
Implicit in the Christian verity that all men are the spirit children of an Eternal Father is the usually unspoken truth that
they are also the offspring of an Eternal Mother .... that man is the "offspring of celestial parentage," and that "all men and women
are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity (Mormon Doctrines, p. 516).
And you have all the gods that LDS faithful hope to be exalted into a position of.
They will each become Gods of their own worlds and give birth to spiritual
children of their own. This is taught in their Gospel Principles Handbook.
Those who receive exaltation in the celestial kingdom through faith in Jesus Christ will receive special blessings ... They will
become gods. Gospel Principles, Chp. 47 p. 302.
Bretheren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in
the universe." Past Living Prophet and President Spencer W. Kimball, quoted in the Doctrine & Covenants Student Manual, p. 358.
And here is the foundational passage for your doctrine of godhood: Doctrine and Covenants (D&C) 132:19,20. These verses describe the
final destiny of faithful Mormons: They shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their exaltation and glory in all
things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever. Then shall
they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting because they continue; then shall they be
above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto
them. D&C, 132:19,20.
According to the Bible, there is only ONE God on earth and/or everywhere else.
Isaiah (43:10) "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me".
Isaiah (44:6) Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no God.
Isa 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is
there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Isa 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isa 45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over
unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto
thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else.
Isa 45:21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who
hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there
is none beside me.
How much clearer does God have to be? I don't know how He could say this any clearer. He says it over and over and over again in
Isaiah. He said there were NO gods formed before Him (wouldn't God remember his own father if He had one?) He said there will be no
gods after Him. He said He is the FIRST...He is the LAST. He knows of no other gods besides Himself.
As far as the other gods mentioned in the 1st commandment, God was not speaking of real gods like Himself. In Exodus, when Moses was
given the 10 commandments, God spoke to Moses about the other nearby nations.
Exodus 34:11 "I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.( vs.13) Break down
their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. (Asherah was the name of the wife of El, the chief Canaanite
god.) Do not worship any other god, for the Lord whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." In vs. 15-16, God goes on to warn Moses
not to eat the sacrifices made to the false gods.
Mormons often use John 10-34 and Psalms 82-6 to show that there are gods. But these verses talk about the prophets of God who were viewed as
being gods by the Israelites. But these prophets were not gods since the Bible clearly shows that there is only ONE God.
Thus, you can see that the Mormons (LDS) do not teach the great truths of the Holy Bible.
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