MORMON DOCTRINE VERSUS THE BIBLE
a. They have added to the Word of God. They claim other equally inspired books are The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
a. "Add thou not unto His Words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar" (Proverbs 30:6).
b. "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man (including Joseph Smith) shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book" (Revelation 22:18).
MORMONS TEACH SALVATION BY WORKS.
a. In the Articles of Faith of the Mormon Church it is stated, "The sectarian dogma of justification by faith alone has exercised an influence for evil since the early days of Christianity" (1925 ed., p. 479).
b. "Salvation" to the Mormons is received through following a system of rules. Their requirements for salvation are:
(1) .Belief in Christ; (2). Public Confession; (3). Water Baptism; (4). Laying on of Hands; (5). Obedience to the Ordinances of the Church.
c. They believe Christ was created . . . in the same way that we were created. They teach men existed in eternity past as spirit beings. Later on we were given physical bodies. Christ was simply another spirit being before He came to earth.
If Christ is only one of us, what would that make us? Their book A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel answers the question for us. "God Himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens" ( p. 190 ) . This teaching is complete blasphemy against the clear teaching of the Word of God. A religion such as this could never be considered "Christian" by the Lord Jesus Christ!
How different this man-made system is from God's way of saving man through the Lord Jesus Christ. John 1:12 says,
"As many as received Him, to them gave He power ( the right) to become the sons of God, even to THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME."
