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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism Unmasked/Chapter 4
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- 1 Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn"
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- 1.2 Claim The author states that "not only does the LDS church teach that there are three gods in the Godhead, but that there are other gods as well."
- 1.3 Claim The author claims that the LDS church teaches that "God has not always been God."
- 1.4 Claim The author states that the Old and New Testaments say that there is "only one absolute, holy God."
- 1.5 Claim The author states that Joseph Smith taught that God was once a "finite man on another world."
- 1.6 Claim The author states that the Bible cannot be used to attribute human characteristics (body parts) to God, and that John declared that "God is a spirit."
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Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn"
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The author states that "not only does the LDS church teach that there are three gods in the Godhead, but that there are other gods as well."
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Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (1979) 576-77.
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The author claims that the LDS church teaches that "God has not always been God."
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The author states that the Old and New Testaments say that there is "only one absolute, holy God."
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The author states that Joseph Smith taught that God was once a "finite man on another world."
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Joseph Fielding Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (1977) 345-46.
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"God is a man"
Summary: Critics object to the LDS position that God has a physical body and human form by quoting scripture which says that "God is not a man" (e.g. Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Hosea 11:9).
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The author states that the Bible cannot be used to attribute human characteristics (body parts) to God, and that John declared that "God is a spirit."
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John 4:24
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God is a Spirit?
Summary: Critics object to the LDS position that God has a physical body by quoting John 4:24: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
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