• Author: "Don't you believe the Father is a god?"
• Bishop: "Yes, of course."
• Author: "And the Son is a god?"
• Bishop: "Yes"
• Author: "And the Holy Ghost is a god."
• Bishop: "Yes"
• Author: "That's three gods."
• Bishop: "No, they're one God."
• Author: "But you just said each one is a god."
• Bishop: "Yes"
• Author: "Then, that's three."
• Bishop: "No, that's one"

(emphasis added)

• This is a bizarre manipulation of LDS belief.
• Imagine if the roles were reversed, with the "Mormon bishop" asking an Evangelical Christian these questions. It is hard to believe that the concept of the Trinity would produce a different set of answers.
• Note that the book does not have the "Mormon bishop" state that the three are "one in purpose," as any bishop would.

• Author: "But why? Why would you remain faithful to the Mormon god if that is not the God clearly talked about in the Bible?"
• "LDS" Cindy: "Because I like the Mormon God. I like the idea of God being a man just like us."

(emphasis added)

• This conversation would lead us to believe that a LDS woman "admitted" that she worships the "Mormon god" rather than the God of the Bible.

• Author: "That's why we need Jesus. He did it all for us. Paid the price for our sins. Cancelled out the debt against us. Opened up a way, free and clear, to eternal life."
• Elder "Steve": "That sounds nice. But that's not my faith."

(emphasis added)

• Latter-day Saints certainly agree that they need Jesus, believe that He paid the price for our sins, cancelled out the debt against us and opened up the way to eternal life. This conversation wants us to believe that a LDS missionary claimed "that's not my faith?"
• The issue here is the phrase "free and clear."
• The conversation is structured so that it appears that the LDS missionary is denying the need for Christ. Any Latter-day Saint would recognize this as being completely unrealistic.

• Mormons believe that everyone is a spirit child of Heavenly Father, including Jesus. What is a spirit child? We don't have the details.
• Our eternal nature was organized into a spirit person, whatever that is. We don't know the details. We don't know the process in which we became a spirit person.
• The difference between us is that Jesus is divine, while the rest of us are not.
• Why the emphasis on the word "literal"? Apparently, to once again call attention to the subject of "Celestial Sex."

• Jesus Christ's conception

• Latter-day Saints do not claim to know by what method a spirit is "born."
• Christ is the "eldest," but what this means is not also not clear. Is it a question of temporality? (i.e., He came first in time) Is it a rank? Does it describe His relationship to us? We simply don't claim to know, since time is only measured unto man.
• Latter-day Saints do believe that Christ was not created ex nihilo at some moment; He is eternally self-existent.

• Creation in Colossians 1:16

• There is only one God. Christ is one of three divine beings in the Godhead. They are one in purpose, not one in person. John 17꞉3, John 17꞉20-22
• Regardless of this, a creedal Christian ought not to have a problem with one God consisting of more than one Person.

• Godhead and the Trinity

• This statement is completely false.
• The Book of Mormon teaches that Christ's sacrifice was "infinite and eternal." (2 Nephi) It could not be exceeded in any sense. Christ suffered for the sins, griefs, and pains of all humanity (Alma 7), whether or not they repent.
• The benefits of that atonement are restricted if we refuse to do that which He asks of us to accept it (i.e. have faith, repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, and endure to the end.)

• Salvation by faith alone
• Neglect grace
• Early Christian views on salvation

• Again, note the emphasis on the word "literal." Latter-day Saints do not consider Jesus in any way to be Satan's "peer."

• Jesus Christ is the brother of Satan

• Latter-day Saints believe that only those who reject the atonement cannot be cleansed from all their sins. If one doesn't accept the atonement, then the atonement can't save him or her. But, that is a reflection on the sinner, and does not imply that Christ's atonement was "not able" to cleanse our sins.
• This is probably alluding to blood atonement.
• Jesus Christ Himself taught that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost was an "unforgivable sin." Matthew 12꞉31-32

• Unforgivable sin

• Latter-day Saints believe that there is no salvation without accepting Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Redeemer. Salvation is obtained by receiving Jesus and his atoning sacrifice. The statement presented in the book is nonsense. All save the sons of perdition are saved. All will be resurrected.
• A fullness of salvation requires accepting the words of ALL the prophets--including those who wrote the Bible, and including Joseph Smith.
• If one believes that you have to accept the Bible witness to be saved, then how can one fault Latter-day Saints for believing that another prophet's witness must also be accepted? LDS doctrine saves infidels and non-Christians in a resurrection of glory, and provides for their evangelization after death.

• Joseph Smith's status in LDS belief