Our series on the Mormon Church was not about political issues or Mormon bashing–but an honest look at the beliefs of a religious system that uses the same words as the historical, biblical Christian faith, but that has, by their own writings, VERY DIFFERENT meanings in those words. This is not a small issue, as […]
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From our Bible-based study of the Trinity, we have established so far that all three members of the Trinity are God and all three are Persons. Having said that, how do these persons exist? This was one of the early and most important challenges for the early church to figure out because, in part because […]
Last week we started our study of the Trinity and we could see from the Bible passages that God the Father is God, God the Son is God, and God the Holy Spirit is God. All of them in the Bible are described with the attributes of God. This week the lesson looks at what […]
In a recent television interview, Pastor Rick Warren was asked his opinion about the Mormon Church and he graciously replied that he had a problem with their view of the Trinity, that it was not the Biblical view. I appreciated that because it cut to the core of the difference between the Mormon Church and […]
Why do the Mormons believe that God the Father has a physical body in contrast with the Biblical Christian view that God is Spirit? This and many more views about God that differ from are based on how each church interprets the Bible. The lesson notes that follow show the difference, plus give some extra […]
The Mormon Church celebrates the resurrection and therefore Easter, but their celebration of it has a totally different meaning to them than it does to Biblical Christians. They can say they believe in Jesus and the resurrection and that he died for people and rose, but they put totally different meanings into all these terms. […]
Last week, several people commented to me that a Mormon would probably not be comfortable in our upcoming series. I greatly appreciated the comment and it got me to thinking and praying. I realized after time with the Lord and discussion with others that I needed to clarify the audience our class is for. After […]
Easter is coming and Christians recognize this as the central event of their faith. It is also a key area where, though the same words are used, Mormons and Biblical Christians mean two very different things. This week we started on our study of it when we talked about the Mormon view of original sin […]
Here are the copies of the notes from class, just click on an image to download the full-size PDF:
The Christian church has one book of ultimate authority and that is the Bible. In addition to having only one book, Christians believe that our canon of scripture is closed–this means that nothing more can be added to it; that nothing can be taken away and that no leader can contradict the content of the […]
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