The False Gospel of Latter-Day Saints Is Oppressive and Confusing

The gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints differs from orthodox Christian teaching. The Bible teaches there is one God who is spirit (John 4:24). He created heaven and earth.

He is in control, self-existent, unchanging, and good. He has eternally existed as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. LDS teaches that God was once a man. He progressed to become God the Father.

Christians believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the second member of the Trinity. He is fully man (John 1:14) and fully God (Colossians 2:9). LDS believes Jesus preexisted, but not as God. They deny His full deity.

Christians believe that one God exists as three omnipresent persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. LDS believes only the Father is God and rejects the Trinity. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not omnipresent.

Evangelical Christians believe God saves people by undeserved favor through faith because Jesus took their place on the cross and paid their penalty (Ephesians 2:8-9). God brings people to Himself through His grace because they cannot save themselves (Romans 1–3).

LDS teaches that God saves everyone. It also teaches that individual salvation is through faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Spirit, and living a righteous life. All these things enable eternal progression.

Christians believe the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity who has always been God. LDS believes the Holy Ghost has a personality and becomes God through eternal progression.

Christians believe Christ took sinful people’s place on the cross and atoned and paid the penalty for their sins in full (2 Corinthians 5:21). The LDS rejects the atonement as the basis for salvation.

Christians believe the true church of Jesus Christ consists of all true Christians (1 Corinthians 1:2). Local churches are true believers who worship God together (Romans 16:5). The LDS teaches that only it is the true church.

Christians believe in life with Christ after death for believers (Philippians 1:23) and eventually with God in the New Heaven and New Earth. God will separate unbelievers from Himself and punish them eternally (2 Thessalonians 1:9).

LDS teaches that those who obtain eternal life can progress to achieve deity. Those who do not cannot and will not be with God and Christ in the eternal realm.

Christians believe God made people in His image, and they begin to exist at conception.

LDS believes people existed before they became human beings and were spiritually born on a planet near Kolob, the Great Star.

Christians believe the Bible is the only infallible authority for faith and life.

LDS teaches that Scripture includes the Bible, The Book of Mormon, The Doctrines of the Covenant, and the Pearl of Great Price, all interpreted together. It also teaches that the sitting President of the Church is infallible while acting as a teacher and prophet.¹ 

Although Latter-day Saints profess to be Christians, they are not. Their “restored gospel” is an adulterated makeover. LDS followers are clean-living, moral people, but false teaching traps them in an oppressive, confusing, false religious system. What is your takeaway? See additional free spiritual growth resources for Christians.

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