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Just like with the rest of Mormon doctrine, these quotes from various people and times are contradictory https://www.mrm.org/christianity-quotes

Again, your Christ is not mine. Mine is one essence with the Father and the Spirit, not one of three separate beings (and also an entirely created being himself). The Father does not have a body of flesh and bones. He is not Elohim, a man born on another planet who eventually became a god himself by obeying the god of that planet. All of this is entirely foreign to the biblical faith. You've been ensnared in a belief system that would have you believe that the Apostles and Christ taught the things you believe today, but you couldn't be more wrong.

Sit down and read the entire Bible for yourself without the lens of Mormon doctrine. Read a modern translation like the ESV or LSB. Have you done that? Seek to understand it with fresh eyes as if you were a new convert who is eager to learn what the Word says.

Christ created everything, not only this world. Literally everything that exists was made by Him and is sustained by Him. He didn't organize pre-existent matter.

You need to escape from the false religion you are ensnared in and come to the true Christ, who is the only Christ that can save you. Your best efforts before God merit you absolutely nothing having to do with salvation or forgiveness of sins of any kind. You must trust wholly in the cross and the imputed righteousness of Jesus as the basis of your peace with God.

He kept God's law perfectly. You can't. He suffered the wrath of God in the place of sinners, taking upon Himself their penalty. The true gospel is that by trusting in Christ and what He has done, sinners can have peace with God forever. No mixture of my effort and God's grace (UNmerited favor) will grant me peace with a thrice holy God.

Are you the blessed man of Romans 4:8 to whom the Lord will not take your sins into account? Or is it the case that your sins will be imputed to you if you fail to deny yourself of ALL ungodliness. How are you doing?

D&C 82:7; “And now, verily I say unto you, I, the Lord, will not lay any sin to your charge; go your ways and sin no more; but unto that soul who sinneth shall the former sins return, saith the Lord your God.”

Isaiah 43:25; “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.”

God promises to not remember the sins of those who trust in the true Jesus. The false Jesus of Mormonism will forget them temporally, but then lay them back on your shoulders if you stumble in your walk with Him.

"The Nicean Creed that says all three are in one has no precedence in the Bible."

The Trinity is a biblical doctrine first and foremost. 1. Scripture teachers there is one God who created all things and has always been God. 2. Scripture teaches the Father is God, the Son is God, the Spirit is God. 3. Scripture teaches the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father, the Spirit is not the Father or the Son. Because of those three truths, I believe the the doctrine of the Trinity.

I won't try to convince you with anything because only a witness from the Holy Spirit can pierce the heart.

I don't know how much open minded study you've given to this as opposed to taking in all of the fear and hype. I don't need to read any other translations of the bible because the King James came before Joseph Smith and many other religious people have read it without turning to Mormonism.

There is but one God. All things came from Him.

I wish you peace, and perhaps well see each other at the judgment day.

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I'm concerned with actual LDS doctrine, not the superficial buzzword script missionaries give at the doorstep that uses a lot of evangelical language but radically redefines the terms. Many evangelicals are easily duped by such a presentation because they don't really know what they believe or why they believe it.

Organizations like mrm.org, carm.org, aomin.org and Apologia Church deal faithfully with what your church teaches and have done so for decades. How is dealing with actual Mormon sources, Mormons in their own words giving into fear and hype?

You don't believe there is but one God. You believe there are many many gods. Hinduism has roughly 330 million gods, but Mormonism has an infinite number of gods. Islam is way closer to Biblical Christianity than Mormonism is. Muslims at least believe there is only one God who created all things and is uncreated.

There can be no peace apart from the true Christ. The one you believe in now is an imposter and can only give you death at the judgement. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.