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Show priesthood in them honor God, and those who reject it reject God."-New Witness for God, p. 187. <br> 2. "He that rejects it will be damned."-Pratt's Works, Paper 1. <br> 3. "When he" [Joseph Smith] "spoke, he spoke by the power of an endless Priesthood, which was upon him; and that is the power by which Brigham speaks."…"When a man of God speaks, let him speak what he pleases, and let all Israel say, Amen."-Journal of Discourses, Vol. I, p. 348, President Jedediah M. Grant the speaker. <br><br> Compare with that: <br> "Now let us all who may hear these doctrines" [the Adam-God doctrines] "pause before they make light of them or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation."-Journal of Discourses, vol. I, p. 51, Brigham Young speaking. <br><br> President George Q. Cannon, in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, April 5, 1897, alluding to "the Thatcher Episode," and to doubts regarding the Priesthood, said: <br><br> 4. "I would just as soon think of heaven entering into chaos and of the throne of God being shaken to its foundations as to think that the Priesthood of the Son of God had gone wrong in its authority or that the Lord would permit such a thing." <br><br> FIFTH-The Mormon Church teaches a doctrine of God that is antagonistic to the Scriptures, dishonoring to the Divine Being and debasing to man. It teaches that God is an exalted man who was once as we are now, and who is forever changing, ever advancing, becoming more and more perfect, but never becoming absolute perfection. <br><br> CLAIMS <br><br> 1. "God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted Man (and sits enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret."-Journal of Discourses, Vol. VI, p. 3, First Column, Sermon by Joseph Smith. <br> 2. "It is the first principle of the gospel to know….That He was once a man like us; yea, that God Himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did."-Same, Second Column. <br> 3. "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's."-Doctrine and Covenants, Sec. 130:22. <br> 4. "In the beginning the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it. When we begin to learn in this way, we begin to learn the only true God and what kind of a being we have got to worship."-Journal of Discourses, Vol. VI, p. 5, Sermon by Joseph Smith. <br> And you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves…the same as all Gods have done before you,-namely, by going from one small degree to another and from a small capacity to a great one."-Same Sermon, p. 4. <br><br> SIXTH-Mormon authorities have taught and many still teach that Adam is God, the Supreme God, the Creator of this World, our God, and the only God with whom we have to do; and that Jesus Christ is his son by natural generation. <br><br> CLAIMS <br><br> 1. "He" [Adam] "is our Father and our GOD, and the only God with whom we have to do….When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in his own likeness. He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is the Father? He is the first <br> [Continues on next page.] <br><br> |
