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Chapter 8 |
Claims made in Chapter 7: The Godhead
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The Book of Mormon teaches that God is a spirit. | God is a Spirit [needs work] | |
173 |
The Book of Moses says that God created the earth, but the Book of Abraham says that "the Gods" created the earth. |
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177 |
God is "just an exalted man." |
conclusion that the creedal view of God is automatically "better." | |
178 |
There is a "Heavenly Mother." |
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180 |
Jesus Christ was conceived through a physical act rather than by the power of the Holy Ghost. |
of no details beyond this, save that God the Father was Jesus' literal Father; there is nothing allegorical about Jesus' parentage. |
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183 |
1 Nephi 13:40 was changed from "Christ is the Eternal Father" to "the Lamb of God is the Eternal Father and the Savior of the world." | [[Book
of Mormon textual changes#Significant changes|Book of Mormon textual changes—Significant changes]]||
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183 |
1 Nephi 11:18 was changed from "the mother of God" to "the mother of the Son of God" | [[Book of Mormon textual changes#Significant
changes|Book of Mormon textual changes—Significant changes]]||
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183 |
1 Nephi 11:21 was changed from "the Lamb of God, yea, even the Eternal Father" to "the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal
Father."||Book of Mormon textual changes—Significant changes||
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183 |
1 Nephi 11:32 was changed from "the Everlasting God" to "the Son of the everlasting God." | [[Book of Mormon textual changes#Significant
changes|Book of Mormon textual changes—Significant changes]]||
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185 |
The Lectures on Faith state that God is a spirit. | Lecture 5 teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit" | |
185 |
The Lectures on Faith were removed from the Doctrine and Covenants. | Lectures on Faith removed from Doctrine and Covenants | |
187 |
The Book of Mormon teaches that God is "unchangable," but LDS leaders taught otherwise. | Unchanging Nature of God | |
188 |
The Lectures on Faith indicate that there are only two personages in the Godhead, and that their mind is the Holy Spirit. | [[Lecture 5
teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"]] | |
190 |
LDS leaders can't explain why the Holy Ghost should be denied a body since the Father has one. | Identity of the Holy Ghost [needs work] | |
190 |
The Holy Ghost can't be a God since he doesn't have a body. | Identity of the Holy Ghost [needs work] |