Reason 3: Jesus is the eternal Creator, not our older brother

all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother.

The Church's own words Gospel Topics essay, "Mother in Heaven" · source

³All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

John 1:3 (WEB) · context

¹⁶For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Colossians 1:16-17 (WEB) · context

⁵⁸Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

John 8:58 (WEB) · context

²³For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.

2 Nephi 25:23 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

³²Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

Moroni 10:32 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁸for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, ⁹not of works, that no one would boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (WEB) · context

⁵But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Romans 4:5 (WEB) · context

⁵not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:5 (WEB) · context

⁸We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

Articles of Faith 1:8 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

²⁸Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.

1 Nephi 13:28 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁸The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

Isaiah 40:8 (WEB) · context

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matthew 24:35 (WEB) · context

¹⁹I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”

Joseph Smith—History 1:19 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

¹⁸I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Matthew 16:18 (WEB) · context

²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Matthew 28:20 (WEB) · context

³Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Jude 1:3 (WEB) · context

⁴And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Moroni 10:4 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁸But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Galatians 1:8 (WEB) · context

¹⁴And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:14 (WEB) · context

¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Acts 17:11 (WEB) · context

¹Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:1 (WEB) · context

None of the characters on the papyrus fragments mentioned Abraham’s name or any of the events recorded in the book of Abraham.

The Church's own words Gospel Topics essay, "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" · source

Latter-day Saint and non-Latter-day Saint Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham

The Church's own words Gospel Topics essay, "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" · source

Scholars have identified the papyrus fragments as parts of standard funerary texts that were deposited with mummified bodies.

The Church's own words Gospel Topics essay, "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham" · source

²²When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:22 (WEB) · context

¹In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees; ²And in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter into this order of the priesthood [meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage]; ³And if he does not, he cannot obtain it.

Doctrine and Covenants 131:1-3 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Matthew 22:30 (WEB) · context

⁷Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

Revelation 19:7 (WEB) · context

¹⁵And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

Doctrine and Covenants 128:15 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

²⁷Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Hebrews 9:27 (WEB) · context

³²For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

Alma 34:32 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

²For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:2 (WEB) · context

¹We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

Articles of Faith 1:1 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

²²The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.

Doctrine and Covenants 130:22 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁴Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Deuteronomy 6:4 (WEB) · context

³⁹For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

Moses 1:39 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

²²Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;

Abraham 3:22 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁷⁰These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical. ⁷¹And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of the church of the Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even as that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.

Doctrine and Covenants 76:70-71 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁸We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

Articles of Faith 1:8 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁹We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

Articles of Faith 1:9 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

⁶Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

Proverbs 30:6 (WEB) · context

¹Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth, until the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in righteousness.

Doctrine and Covenants 13:1 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org

²⁴But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. ²⁵Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7:24-25 (WEB) · context

⁵¹Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

Matthew 27:51 (WEB) · context