Last time, I talked about Alyssa Grenfell and how I’m responding to a video that she did based on the truth about religion. This time, we’re going to be looking at some of her claims. Before she fully begins, she states that she often hears that Mormons aren’t Christians and how she never experienced true Christianity. She kind of circles back to this point (which we’ll discuss in a later post), but does not address the point I will be making today. 

Alyssa believed in Mormon revelations – essentially the fact that God would speak to her and guide her. As she got older, she said she began to realize:

“I kept having the experience of God leading me astray, which felt very confusing because I didn’t think God could lie.” 

Alyssa compares this feeling to people predicting the rapture, or civil wars, or anything that they predict came from God and never actually happened. Which, let’s be honest here. I don’t think that God gave those people premonitions. After all, God is the only one who knows when the rapture will happen (Matthew 24:36). So it’s not a great argument to begin with, but let’s continue.

Alyssa gives personal examples of how she got revelations that she would serve her Mormon mission in Italy (that God directed her to go there), but the Mormon church ended up assigning her to Denver. Another example was how she asked God about a relationship she had in college, and she felt that God was telling her they would get married (and it turns out he was not the one she married). Her last example is that her father (as all Mormon fathers) give a blessing (something they say is from God) that she would be a high school English teacher, and she ended up hating it and leaving that career. All of these Alyssa described as really strong feelings. 

Later on in the video, she explains that realistically, all of these premonitions were just her feelings and emotions, and did not come from God (because her argument is that God does not exist). Which, that would have to be the only explanation she can come up with if she is an atheist.

She said this started making her question as a Mormon whether God was real or if Jesus was her Saviour, but she hadn’t made her mind up yet. Remember how she said that she refutes the idea she never experienced true Christianity? The closest she gets to the point I’m about to make is that Mormonism is just another sect of Christianity. Which, I will strongly diasgree with. However, the point I am going to make is that the god of Mormonism is not the God that Christians worship. 

Joseph Smith (who made Mormonism) could not make up his mind on whether God was one person who chose to manifest himself as the father, son, or holy spirit, and in 1844 he spread polytheism. Today, Mormons believe that other gods, like Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Heavenly Mother (God’s wife) exist. Joseph Smith said:

“We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea and take away the veil, so that you may see…. It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know…that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did.”

Joseph Smith believed in a god who was once man, organized things that were already made (i.e. did not create the world), and became god of the universe by being a good man, and keeps evolving and becoming better. We know from this that this cannot even remotely be the same person that the Bible says is God. God is one person (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), He has always been God, is the Alpha and Omega (beginning and end), and created all things in this world from nothing. He is sovereign and unchanging. Numerous Biblical texts confirm these claims, including Genesis, Acts, Hebrews, 1 Corinthians, and many more. 

The very strong feelings that Alyssa said that she felt came from God when she was younger did not come from the Christian God – as the Mormon god and the Christian God are not the same. So, in the end, I agree with her that those things that she thought God lied about were just her feelings – but we disagree on the why behind it. 

Next time, we’ll chat further about why she doesn’t believe God exists. 

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Source: https://mbcpathway.com/2016/06/01/do-christians-and-mormons-worship-the-same-god/