2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
RCM
What makes you think this doesn't apply to your teachers and leaders?
Matthew 7:21-23
21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART from ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE lawlessness.'
And again, this appears to apply more to our critics than it does to us. Faith alone is an invitation to practice lawlessness.
2 Corinthians 11:4
4 For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel
2 Timothy 3:5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
And again, you all ought to consider if you aren't preaching another Jesus, not the one from the Bible. You call clearly bend his teachings to your own will.
The mormon god is not the Biblical God,
And this is what it ultimately comes down to. It doesn't matter that the scriptures agree with our theology more than it does yours. You all are the arbiters of truth. After we cite the scriptures that support our doctrine, your only escape is to make biased claims such as the one you just made. Such a statement is true ONLY because you say it's true.
Mormonism worships an unbiblical God
This is the same thing you just said. Saying it louder doesn't make it any more true.
Do you know what the law of non-contradiction is? If something is true, that which opposes it is false!
No duh. Really? Isn't that what I've been saying all along. We cannot both be right. We can both be wrong, but if we are right, the other must be false. So far, all I see from our critics are claims that they are right because they say they are right. Their religion does not conform to the teachings of the Bible. There is no such thing as faith alone. Faith in God and in His Son requires action on the believer's part or he cannot be saved. That's what Jesus taught and yet you all wrest the scriptures trying to escape and find another way into heaven.
Joseph Smith in the King Follett Discourse (given on General Conference) taught that God was once a man
And He was, just like Jesus was once a man. Jesus is God, isn't he? (Note: this is classic deflection. You can't win one argument so you bring one up you think you can win as if winning the new argument adds any validity to the one you can't)
and that he became a God,
No such claim is made in the King Follett discourse. The purpose of the discourse was to dispel the idea that God is some giant floating blob outside of space and time, but that like Jesus, he has a physical body and looks just like we do. He never said that there was ever a time when God wasn't God, but there was a time when God didn't have a body, just like there was a time when Jesus didn't have a body.
No one becomes a god. We all have to learn to BE gods.
that you have to learn how to become gods
That's your paraphrasing of the text. It's not what Joseph Smith said.
Right there, with that one sentence, Joseph Smith reveals that Mormons do not worship the God of Exodus 3:14, and that he, Joseph Smith was not a prophet of the Biblical God of Exodus 3:14!
Except, right there, you've reworded the text to fit your animus. It's not what he said and it's not what he meant. Once again, our critics devise false doctrine and then insist that we must defend something that we have never believed nor ever taught.
The mormon definition and doctrine of god comes 3000 years after Moses wrote Exodus, from Joseph Smith in the King Follett discourse and is contradictory. (You want to claim that the KFD is not central to your doctrine? Your prophet stated this at General Conference, and it is core doctrine!)
Again, you're not even close. The KFD is central do our doctrine, you're idea of what Joseph Smith said, isn't.
Mormons who argue that their beliefs should be accepted as truth do so by rejecting true truth from the discussion, case in point!
Except you haven't made a case. You invented one but it's baseless.
