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The Gospel for Life
7 Reasons Why Mormonism and Christianity Are Not the Same pt.2
3. View of man. According to Mormon theology, men and
women are the spirit sons and daughters of God. We lived in
a premortal spirit existence before birth. In this first estate
we grew and developed in preparation for the second estate.
In this second estate we walk by faith. A veil of forgetfulness
has been placed over our minds so we don’t remember what
we did and who we used to be in our premortal existence.
Our purpose in this life is to grow and mature in a physical
body to prepare us for our final eternal state.
Mormons do not believe in human depravity. We are not
implicated in Adam’s fall. We are basically good in our eternal
nature, but prone to error in our mortal nature. The human is
a being in conflict, but also a being with infinite potential.
4. View of God. In Mormon thought, God has a physical
body. According to Doctrine and Covenants, “The Father has
a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son
also;” but “The Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and
bones, but is a personage of Spirit.”
Whether God the Father is self-existent is unclear. There was
a long procession of gods and fathers leading up to our
Heavenly Father. Brigham Young once remarked, “How many
Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time
when there were not Gods and worlds.” What is clearer is
that the Mormon God is not a higher order or a different
species than man. God is a man with a body of flesh and
bones like us.
Mormons do not believe in the Trinity. They affirm the unity
of three personages, but the unity is a relational unity in
purpose and mind, not a unity of essence. The three
separate beings of the Godhead are three distinct Gods.
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