[I]t was just in October 2010 when two Mormon leaders  felt it was necessary to expound on an old sermon, point by point, by Mormonism’s thirteenth President Ezra Taft Benson called “The Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet.”

In this message, Benson reminded his audience that the Mormon prophet “is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything,” including “civic matters.”

Benson insisted that “those who would remove prophets from politics would take God out of government.” This sermon closed with a stern warning: “The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed; reject them and suffer.”…

Mormonism was founded on the premise that it alone represents true Christianity and that all other professing Christians are part of a “great apostasy.” The Book of Mormon claims that there are only two churches, the church of the Lamb of God and the church of the devil.

You can be sure that Mormons certainly do not hold that their  church is the latter. Mormon founder Joseph Smith, a man who claimed he saw God, taught that God was once a man, and that faithful Mormons can become Gods in the next life.

A popular couplet in Mormonism states, “As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become.” Mormon leaders have insisted that true salvation (“exaltation,” or eternal life), can only be found within Mormonism. Some leaders, such as James Talmage and Spencer W. Kimball, have described the Christian view of salvation by grace through faith as a “pernicious” doctrine  “originated by Satan.”

Anyone who thinks the Mormon Church is moving towards theological orthodoxy is misinformed. (Online source)

Bill McKeever

See also:

MORMONISM DECLARED WAR ON CHRISTIANITY

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS VS. THE GOSPEL

THE gOD OF GLENN BECK