Apologetics: Mormon Monday – Mormonism’s God Makes No Sense.

We’re back to the Mormons again. When I’ll get back to the Flippin’ Fatwa Friday series and finally finish Surah 2, I don’t know, but in the meantime, we’ll talk about the Mormons.

As I’ve mentioned before in a previous post, Mormonism is a henotheistic religion. That means that while they worship one god, they’re open to there being a ton of other gods. In the case of Mormonism, while they worship Elohim (a.k.a. Heavenly Father), they believe that, like Elohim, they can become their own gods after they die. In fact, the LDS church teaches that Elohim was once a man who, through obedience to whoever his god was, got promoted to god after he died.

As though that wasn’t bad enough, the Mormon version of the Trinity makes the problem even worse. According to Mormonism, the Trinity often is defined as three gods who are simply united in purpose. The Trinity is not three persons that make up one godhead as we Christians would think of it.

This poses a unique problem for Mormonism. Mormons claim that their version of God has all the same traits as our God, being omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. However, if their version of God was once a man who got promoted to godhood and now rules this planet with a bunch of other gods ruling their various planets, then he can’t be any of those things. The Mormon god can’t be omniscient, omnipresent, or omnipotent because he wasn’t always there.

Further, if the Mormon god was created, then it poses the question of “Why don’t we worship the one who created him?” But if that god was created, then it poses the same question, regressing into infinity unless we find the actual creator.

But even worse for Mormonism besides these two glaring problems is the fact that according to The Pearl of Great Price and Doctrines and Covenants the world was not created ex nihilo. They believe that the elements are eternal and that Elohim, with Jesus’ help, just arranged them to create the world.

Weird how that sounds oddly pantheistic, especially when you take into consideration the Elohim was once a normal dude. It also raises the question of who’s more powerful? The matter or Elohim?

Until next time,

M.J.