Healing the Complete Man

From the last topics we seem to have trancended onto the topic of God's power at work today. Christianity is a living, active faith, based on the eternal, living and everlasting God - YHWH

In anycase, here are questions I have often wondered about, and will hopefully try to answer in the next post:

Can God heal the complete man? Does this include amputees?

Why are some babies born with deformaties?

If we believe so hard in an equal, love enveloping God, why does He not give everyone an even chance to know Him? And why isn't everyone healed when they accept Jesus - afterall shouldn't the body reflect the state of the soul?

Anyone think they can have a crack at these?!

Gal 1:8-9

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

An answer to mormonism

I've recently been trying to understand what the mormon church teaches (it is not the church of our God), and I thought I might share some things I have been thinking about. My next post was going to be on the nature of God and then hopefully on to how sin entered the world through Adam - giving a breif history of the pre-flood era and the characters of Enoch, Methuselah and Noah.

I was actually quite angry with what the mormon faith says about our Heavenly Father, I have heard nothing so preposterous in all my life. It is a sham. They even claim that God lives on a planet called 'Kolob'. Spell that backwards and I think it sums up the story that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young tried to sell. Without God there is nothing, He needs nothing, and to Him alone be the Glory as He has no equal. In anycase here is a response I prepared to a posting I saw citing that Joseph Smith was the Elijah that was to straighten the paths for God's return to His temple.

The scripture states that the next time Christ returns will be to the mount of olives, and the witnesses for this will be the church (the body of Christ). There is no longer a path to prepare for the restoration is a work that lies in the hands of Yeshua HaMassiach (Jesus Christ). Joseph Smith could not have been a prophet with the spirit of Elijah as he bears a false witness to the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Check out 1 John 2:22...* Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.* Please don't take offence at this, but challenge me with scripture if you feel I'm wrong.

On the surface this seems quite a simple verse, and does not cause any problems. That is until we dig deeper. You see the problem lies with the mormon interpretation of the Nature of God. This is what the scripture says:

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." Deut 6:4 (Known as the Shema)

"for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me," Isaiah 46:9

"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God." Psalm 90:2

“For I the Lord do not change;" Malachi 3:6

"But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:23-24

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:1-3

"This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God." John 5:18

We see throughout scripture (there are a lot more passages to show this) that Jesus is the only expression of the eternal Father that we can see - it was the miracle of salvation that God himself became flesh and dwelt among us. God describes Himself as light, and that in Him there is no darkness. Jesus was that light in the flesh, in the dark world.

Joseph Smith could not have seen God - even Stephen in Acts 7:55 only saw Jesus (notice the phrasing 'Glory of God') because God is spirit. The three are distinct expressions of the Holy God (Elohim), Yahweh - but Christ is the name of the only begotten (see Hebrews) son of the most High God. We will never be more than human, never be more than a living soul (1 Cor 15). We are not co-equal with the eternal God, the unchanging one, the ancient of days. We are as grass before Him, and many will be consumed when the day of the Lord comes.

By the way, the Revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev 11) talks of two witnesses who will come to Israel at the time of the tribulation - it is most likely that these will be Elijah and Enoch as neither of these yet have tasted death, and it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment.

We also could not have pre-existed in any sense (because we are not begotten), and Jesus is not the brother of satan as LDS teaches. Jesus is YHWH (I am becoming what I am becoming). God has no equal, and therefore can have no opposite. God is light and life, outside of His grace is death and darkness.

By this reasoning I declare that Joseph Smith was a false prophet, and the church of LDS is a sham. I'm sorry if this offends, but it is the truth.

Please challenge me if you disagree.