Other religions
What about Mormonism?
Latter-day Saints talk about Jesus and use the Bible. So how is it different?
A young faith
Joseph Smith said an angel led him to gold plates buried in New York, which he translated as the Book of Mormon. The church began in 1830.
Latter-day SaintsThe Bible
God the Father has a body of flesh and boneDoctrine and Covenants 130:22
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God is spiritJohn 4:24
God was once a manJoseph Smith, 1844
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God has always been GodPsalm 90:2
Father, Son and Spirit are three separate beings
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There is one GodIsaiah 43:10
A different God
The words sound similar. The meaning underneath is very different.
- Horses and chariotsIn America before Columbus (Alma 18:9)
- Steel swordsMade in ancient America (Ether 7:9)
- Israelite ancestorsNative American DNA points to Asia
- Book of AbrahamThe papyri turned out to be ordinary Egyptian funeral texts
Claims that can be checked
The Book of Mormon describes great nations in ancient America. Archaeologists have not found them, or the horses, chariots and steel it mentions.
Book of MormonThe Bible
Cities and peoples not found
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Pilate, Caiaphas, King David's line found
No original plates to study
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Thousands of ancient copies
Compare the evidence
The Bible's places and people keep turning up. The Book of Mormon's don't.
Mormonism uses the name of Jesus, but describes a different God than the Bible does. Its checkable claims don't hold up the way the Bible's do.
Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.