MORMON QUESTIONS
QUESTION ONE
- How can Jesus and Satan be brothers, when Jesus said, Only begotten Son? JN 3:16
If God is having spirit babies in heaven, Jesus and Satan are brothers, and your spirit was born in heaven how can Jesus be God’s only Son, when begotten means birth but you were birthed also?
Psalm 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Proverbs 30:4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Both upper scriptures speak of Son as singular, not plural.
The shadow, the type or picture of Father to son is Abraham and Isaac, what does God say?
Gen 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
If you understand marriage, a man marries a woman and they become one, when God told Abraham he would have a son, which woman was God speaking of when promised to Abraham, Sarah. the only son was Isaac, Hagar, Ishmael are Abrahams works, not God’s , not his plan
Abraham sacrifice of Isaac parallels or foreshadows God plan to sacrifice His son for our salvation. Rams head in thicket was the substitute for Isaac’s sacrifice.
QUESTION TWO
- Ask yourself the question, “How come I have no recollection or consciousness of being in heaven before birth since I was taught God’s ways in heaven? Yet Jesus prays”father glory me with the glory, I had with you from the beginning.
Jn 17:5 O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. which Jesus had recollection and consciousness of prior existence.
Jesus said to Pharisees,
Jn 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me, another scripture Speaks concerning his consciousness of prior existence.
QUESTION THREE
- Why Is Jesus God and equal to God, what did he say about Himself?
Jesus claimed Himself God
John 10:30 I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
The very issue the Jews took up stones and said, Jesus claimed himself equal with God, is confirm Jesus words,
if I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
The title I Am and added name of Abraham places a double emphasis on Jesus being God as scene Abraham before and scene by Abraham which means, Genesis 18,
Exodus 3 14,-15 makes all the titles, I AM that I Am, I Am, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob interchangeable, even God of Israel would work the same.
John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Why doesn’t Jesus rebuke Thomas for using the word “God” if he wasn’t God and equal.
Jn 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Jesus is even telling Apostles he are God are on the same plain or level of equal, as Jesus put himself there.
If Jesus wasn’t God would he have rejected the claims. like Paul and Barnabas did? Acts 14
Even given the name Immanuel means “God with us”
The shadow, type or picture in the O.T. would be the tabernacle or Temple in the middle of the tribes of Israel as the Tabernacle or temple are representative of God.
Another shadow, type of picture is when Moses sees the burning bush but not consumed,
Who is the fire? Is not God a consuming fire?
Deut 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
The bush would be Israel? as God with Israel, who wounds God with rejection, abuse, disobedience, spitting, slapping all in preparation of Crucifixion.
Isa 5 and Ez 16 give how much love God is willing to endure adultery to want to restore.
Even God proved Himself as giving prophesy, or foreshadows, as God made coats of skins for Adam and Eve so they can live, outside the garden, in hope for the seed, Son, Messiah or Christ.
QUESTION 4
- Trinity verse
Look at Isaiah 48:16
Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD (Father), and his Spirit (Holy Ghost), hath sent me.
Who was sent? JESUS
Jesus said, Have I spoken in secret? Jn 18:20
v17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
QUESTION 5
- If mans spirit (little gods) was born in heaven and taught there, then all man who are born are like Jesus who was called Emmanuel, “god with us” so we are all “God with us”
QUESTIION 6
- Gen 22:16 and Hebrews 6:13-14, God who can swear by no greater than himself, swears to Abraham a covenant. so if there are more gods, then why didn’t God swear by the other gods’ or swear on the gods coming into their universes?
