2000 – Resolution on Mormonism-A non-prophet religion

WHEREAS God’s Word declares, “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son” (2 John 9), and

WHEREAS the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LOS), Gordon B. Hinckley, recently made a statement regarding Jesus Christ in which he said, “The traditional Christ of whom they [professing Christians] speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. For the Christ of whom I speak has been revealed in this the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. He together with his Father, appeared to the boy, Joseph Smith, in the year 1820, and when Joseph left the grove that day, he knew more of the nature of God than all the learned ministers of the gospel of the ages” (Church News, June 20 1998 p7), and

WHEREAS Hinckley has clarified that Bible believers and Mormons believe in two different and distinct Jesus’. Our Jesus is the Eternal God while the Jesus of Mormonism is altogether different. Among Mormonism s peculiar and non-biblical features for Jesus are:

  1. He was sired by the “heavenly Father” as his first-born son in the premortal realm.
  2. He is the elder brother of Lucifer and of all human beings.
  3. He was married to Mary and Martha, per much traditional Mormonism.
  4. He endured “suffering the atonement” principally in the Garden of Gethsemane, to guarantee immortality for everyone.
  5. After his resurrection he visited the Western hemisphere and proclaimed his “gospel” there.

WHEREAS when Hinckley was challenged by a Baptist leader about the ‘Jesus’ question, LDS spokesman Mike Otterson said, “We believe that we have more information on the life of Christ than the Christian community already has. That does not mean that we don’t embrace the New Testament account.” It would appear the Latter-day Saints want to, deceptively, have their cake and eat it too!

WHEREAS the ‘Jesus’ of Mormonism has declared everything that the Bible teaches, and hence what we believe about Christ, to be an abomination; this ‘Jesus’ of Mormonism is the enemy of Christianity.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, the members of the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America, meeting at Bethel Baptist Church on June 20-22, 2000, do hereby without any mental reservation, declare Jesus Christ to be the Eternal God and our Saviour who paid the price in full for our sin. As the Eternal One crucified and risen, Christ and Christ alone gives us eternal life.

We also issue a warning to God’s people to beware of the attempts of Mormonism to lead millions astray and also to be discerning of Mormonism’s insidious advertising via the media even going so far as to offer a free copy of the KJV of the Bible. MORMONISM, WHICH PREACHES A FALSE CHRIST AND DECEIVES MANY, IS A CULT THAT IS OUTSIDE THE REALM OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST.

Mormonism is a non-prophet religion that honors Joseph Smith rather than our precious Lord Jesus Christ.