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“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.” John 14:6

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Latter-day Saint teaching makes claims about God, Jesus, the Bible and salvation. We set the Church's own words beside Scripture, word for word, with respect for every reader.

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Ten doctrines, every one sourced

Where Latter-day Saint teaching departs from the Bible

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God was never a man

Latter-day Saint teaching says the Father has a body of flesh and bones and that, as man now is, God once was. The Bible says God is spirit, is not a man, and has been God from everlasting.

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There is one God, not many

The Doctrine and Covenants promises the exalted that they shall be gods, and the Book of Abraham speaks of the Gods organizing the earth. Through Isaiah, God says he knows of no other god, before him or after him.

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Jesus is the eternal Creator, not our older brother

The Church teaches that every person lived before birth as a spirit child of heavenly parents, Jesus among them as the firstborn. The Bible says everything that was made was made through Jesus: he is the Creator, not one of the created.

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Saved by grace, not after all we can do

The Book of Mormon says it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do, and calls people to deny themselves of all ungodliness. The Bible says salvation is the free gift of God, not of works, so that no one can boast.

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The Bible was not corrupted

The eighth Article of Faith accepts the Bible only as far as it is translated correctly, and the Book of Mormon says plain and precious parts were taken from it. The manuscripts show the Bible we read is the Bible the apostles wrote.

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The church never vanished

Joseph Smith said he was told every church was wrong and every creed an abomination, because the true church had fallen away. Jesus promised that the gates of Hades would not prevail against his church and that he would be with it always.

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Test the messenger by the message

Joseph Smith said an angel named Moroni led him to the gold plates. The Bible says that if even an angel from heaven brings a different gospel, it must be rejected, and it tells us to test the message by Scripture, not by a feeling.

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The Book of Abraham does not match its papyri

Joseph Smith presented the Book of Abraham as a translation of Egyptian papyri. Fragments of those papyri were found in 1966, and the Church's own essay says they do not mention Abraham and do not match the translation.

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Exaltation through temple marriage is not the gospel

The Doctrine and Covenants says the highest degree of the celestial glory requires the new and everlasting covenant of marriage. Jesus said that in the resurrection people neither marry nor are given in marriage.

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Now is the day of salvation

Latter-day Saints perform baptisms for the dead so that people who have died can accept the gospel in the spirit world. The Bible says it is appointed to die once and after that the judgment, and even the Book of Mormon says this life is the time to prepare to meet God.

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Reason 1What the Church teaches about the Father.

Reason 2The promise of exaltation.

Reason 3What the Church teaches about our origin.

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Beliefs, history and the Book of Mormon

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In the Church's own words

What Latter-day Saints believe

Before we disagree with anyone we should describe their faith as they would. Here are the Church's core teachings, in its own scriptures and publications, with what the Bible says beside them.

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How the church began

The Church's claims rest on events in Joseph Smith's life. Its own essays now discuss the hard parts openly, so we quote them.

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The Book of Mormon tested

The Book of Mormon presents itself as the history of ancient peoples in the Americas. Here is what can be checked.

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