Mormonism is not a cult, but is the one true Christian Church

Mormonism is not a cult, but is the one true Christian Church. On the other hand, the "historical" Christian churches today are apostate, and cling to creeds that are pagan philosophy mixed with scripture.

In the news we find a Baptist Pastor, a "Dr." Jeffress, who says Mitt Romney is not a Christian because he is a Mormon. This is because Mormons do not believe the Trinity doctrine that says there are three Gods in one. This constantly repeated accusation from Protestants and others is utterly silly! In actuality, the Mormon Church is the one true Christian Church, and the older "historical" Christian churches cling to pagan philosophy as the mark of their Christianity! This is the absurdity that we get from people who have never read and studied history, but go about spouting the nonsense they were taught in a school of religion designed to make a career out of preaching the Gospel (which is supposed to be available without money or price).

You see, the older "historical" Christian churches cling to the creeds, which were formed centuries after Jesus and the Apostles died, and were formed by Churchmen who had mixed the pagan philosophy into their definition of God, and which definition or creed was sanctioned by the Roman Emperor as a political move the unite his fracturing Empire. The Christian part of the creed: The Father, Son and Holy Ghost + the pagan philosophy part of the creed: there is only one, immaterial God = an impossible, unscriptural mixture!

Where did this pagan philosophy come from? When Christianity sprang into the world, it was a tiny but growing belief amidst a world awash in the Classical philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus.
After the deaths of the Apostles (100AD), in Alexandria, Egypt, the scholars (Philo, Plotinus, Origen, Athanasius, etc.) busily merged pagan philosophy, Judaic and Christian concepts together, in the centuries after the Church was left without Apostles with general authority over the church.

In the preface to Edward Gibbon's History of Christianity, we read: "If Paganism was conquered by Christianity, it is equally true that Christianity was corrupted by Paganism. The pure Deism of the first Christians . . . was changed, by the Church of Rome, into the incomprehensible dogma of the trinity. Many of the pagan tenets, invented by the Egyptians and idealized by Plato, were retained as being worthy of belief."  

The creeds were formed by men infatuated with Classical pagan philosophy in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Jerome, the translator of the Bible into Latin even altered the text, left out many things, and added words to "improve" the writings of the Apostles, so as to make the text appear to support their philosophical notions. John 4:24 is an example of text alteration where Jesus is quoted as saying that "God is a spirit", to the woman at the well, which does not even fit in with the subject he was speaking about (worship through the Spirit). A modern Prophet of God, in retranslating this verse, corrected the verse, and left out the Neo-Platonic concept inserted by Jerome.

Thomas Jefferson wrote about the absurdity of 3 Gods in one, the product of a creed that was a mix of philosophy and scripture; " Nor was the unity of the Supreme Being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government, wielded at the will of the fanatic Athanasius. The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus [a mythical 3 headed hound], with one body and three heads..."

The scriptures say that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one: " For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." (1 John 5:7) It means they are one in purpose, that they bear the same record. It does not mean that they are three Beings in one.

So what is the nature of God? They are three distinct, separate Beings. At the baptism of Jesus, Jesus came forth out of the water; the Father spoke from heaven bearing witness of His Son;and the Holy Ghost descended from heaven in the form of a dove. Three separate Beings, each doing his part; one in purpose, bearing the same record.

The Prophet Joseph Smith described the Father, Son and Holy Ghost as follows: "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.  Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us." (D and C 130:22) The Father and the Son are Resurrected, Perfected, Exalted Men.

The Apostasy of the Historical Christian Churches, and the Fallacy of their Creeds

As thinking men have intently read the New Testament, and marveled at the miracles of Jesus and the Apostles, and the gifts of the ancient church, and then looked around today at the historical Christian churches, they have come to a conclusion: something has changed! Yes, indeed, something has changed an awful lot. Jesus instituted one church, with Apostles, Prophets, Seventy, and later other offices, such as bishops, with gifts and miracles. Today there are hundreds of Christian sects operated by priests for hire, spouting creeds and absurdities of philosophy, with no more revelations, miracles, gifts, etc.

And the Lord Jesus Christ himself confirmed this very truth, that the historical Christian churches have fallen away, and are apostate and dead. For this reason, the Father and the Son appeared to a young man and called him to be a Prophet, to restore again the Church of Jesus Christ on the earth. In 1820, in answer to Joseph Smith's question, which church should he join, Joseph was told by the Lord, "I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: 'they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.'" (JS-History 1:19) Not only are the "historical" Christian churches unacceptable to the Lord, but their creeds are an abomination in the sight of God.

And yet it is by the measuring rod of these abominable, pagan-influenced creeds that "Dr." Jeffress judges Mitt Romney to not be a Christian! What utter silliness!

The Good News: Christ's Church Has Been Restored

Well the bad news in all this is that the "historical" Christian churches are apostate. But the good news is this: the one true Church of Jesus Christ has been restored again on the earth, and anybody who desires to investigate it, find out for himself the truth, and join it by the baptism of water and of the Holy Ghost can! Anyone who wishes to enjoy pure Christianity, as it was enjoyed in ancient days, can do so today. The name of the Church is: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Look it up today!