Is This Your Jesus?

Notice, no Cross on the spire

I’ve had a number of friends who were Mormons. They make excellent neighbors, as long as you don’t try to “out-neighbor” them. You will lose, every time. Think thank-you gifts for thank-you gifts, and you get the idea.

And yet, for their good morals and clean living and good neighborliness, they pose as Christians and we dare not consider them anything of the sort. Apprising Ministries (via Diekmann) has an excellent post on “The Jesus of Glen Beck,” written as a “spot the real Jesus” format. Here’s what the Mormon Jesus would say:

I am the Jesus Christ of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). My original Church went through a total apostasy and I took the Priesthood from the earth. In 1820 by one account—as there are nine different accounts—I appeared, with Heavenly Father, to Joseph Smith who would be the prophet to restore my Church. I told him that everything the historic Christian Church had taught was an abomination in my sight and that all who believe in those doctrines are corrupt. I am the spirit child who was born first to Heavenly Father, whose name is Elohim, and who has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s.

Elohim was once a man who lived on the planet Kolob. He died and was resurrected by his father—after earning his way to godhood—as did his father before him, and so on back. Heavenly Father pro-created all of us through sexual relations with one of his celestial wives, and we are all his spirit children. I was born first; next was Lucifer, and then on down the line comes you. When the head of the gods—of which there are countless numbers—called a council of the gods I came up with a better plan of salvation than my brother Lucifer did. So I became the Savior for Heavenly Father’s children on earth. I was conceived for my earthly mission when Heavenly Father came down and had sexual relations with his daughter the Virgin Mary.

I sweat great drops of blood for your sins in the Garden of Gethsemane. Then on the cross I finished my work; and because of that atonement, all persons on this earth are going to be resurrected. And so now you have a chance to earn your way to becoming a god, just like me, by working the Gospel Principles taught by the Mormon Church. But be careful because my blood was not sufficient to cover some of your sins as my prophet Brigham Young once taught for me. He said, “There’s not a man or woman who violates the covenant made with their God that will not be required to pay that debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out. [And y]our own blood must atone for it.”

This is nothing short than the most detestable blasphemy, and sadly, it is supported from statements from Mormon teaching and doctrine. This description is not a smear campaign, “analysis” or any kind of interpretation. It is what Mormons teach about Jesus.

We can commend Mr. Beck for his beliefs, if we want; for his patriotism, to be sure; for his reformed life; but we dare not imagine that his religious beliefs are close to Christianity. Enjoy Mr. Beck as a neighbor, but do not be fooled. His God is far, far, different than the Triune God believed and confessed by the Prophets and Apostles and Martyrs.

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