17-Disputations on Mormonism (or the Church of Latter-Day Saints) for Christian Unity in the Honor of the Self-Existent Christ in Reformed Apologetics

by MIKE PETILLO, 

DMin in Pastoral Apologetics, 2013

Lead on, O King eternal,
The day of march has come;
Henceforth in fields of conquest
Thy tents shall be our home:
Through days of preparation
Thy grace has made us strong,
And now, O King eternal,
We lift our battle song.
Lead on, O King eternal,
Till sin's fierce war shall cease,
And Holiness shall whisper
The sweet amen of peace;
For not with swords loud clashing,
Nor roll of stirring drums,
But deeds of love and mercy,
The heav'nly kingdom comes.
Lead on, O King eternal,
We follow, not with fears;
For gladness breaks like morning
Where'er thy face appears;
Thy cross is lifted o'er us;
We journey in its light:
The crown awaits the conquest;
Lead on, O God of might.  (TH, 488).

 

 The Eternal Christ
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 1.  Mormonism teaches the authoritative standard works devoid of the Scriptures alone in orthodoxy are because the Mormon Church has authority over the supremacy of the sole infallible authority that are the Holy Scriptures.  

2.  The standard works used over the supreme infallible authority of the written Word are the following authorities in Mormon thought: a.) the Bible, b.) the Book of Mormon, c.) Doctrine and Covenants, d.) Pearl of Great Price and e.) Speeches of current Presidents of the Church of Mormon are also equivalent with the Holy Scriptures.

3.  The Holy Scriptures are contained in the 66 books of the Protestant, Christian, Evangelical and Reformed collection of books that teach us justification by faith alone and foredetermined demonstration of a living, active and working faith.

4.  Mormonism teaches that the King James Version is the only accurate version of the Bible, but as a Reformed Orthodox theologian and historian I recognize the preference of the KJV, NASB, NKJV, and ESV as worthy versions of the Holy Bible.  Every version fails at some extent because it is a copy of a copy, but I reject those who deny the inerrency, infallibility, supremacy, and God-breathed inspiration of the Scriptures and the perpetuity of the exaltation of the self-existent deity of Jesus Christ as God the Son in human flesh and other conservative interpretations of the sacred Word by the guidance of the Spirit of God in practical hermeneutics for God's unending glory.

5.  Mormonism teaches that the Bible is full of errors, but the Bible refers to itself as purely perfect and without any error due to its supernatural and superintendent inerrant nature of the 66 books alone that are preserved by the Spirit of God for how someone is right with God through Christ alone and practical predestinarian living for Jesus until we see Him in eternal glory.

6.  Mormonism teaches that those who hold to "sola scriptura" are spiritually foolish, but we see Jesus holding to the Old Testament Scriptures over Pharisaical traditions.

7.  The apostles held to the Old Testament Word as God-breathed along with the words and divine testimony of Jesus Christ that were no doubt recognized as God-breathed inerrant Scriptures.

8.  Mormonism claims to restore the divine truth of biblical Christianity, but it plainly and clearly contradicts the plain testimony of the Scriptures.  For example, Mormon thought rejects the eternal self-existence of Jesus Christ. Without the eternal Incarnate Word in practical faith it is worthy of eternal condemnation and a identification of antichrist religion that enslaves men to hell with the further degree of exaltation of man to godhood.

9.  How do Mormons claim to restore lost truth from the Bible when they claim it is full of errors?  Isn't it the Mormon church over the written Word instead of the written Word over the Mormon church?

10.  If the Bible is only valuable in light of Mormon teaching only, why is monotheistic Trinitarianism denied for polytheism?

11.   Mormonism teaches that there are many gods but the deny the One in Three and Three in One in biblical Christianity that is what the Bible teaches.

12.  Mormonism teaches three separate created gods, but they deny the one in essence and three in person.

13.  Mormonism teaches three created persons: namely, the father, son and spirit.  But the Bible teaches that the Father, Son and Spirit are three self-existent Persons in one Being.  To worship something created is idolatry and no "God" at all but a "God" made in man's corrupted image from a depraved mind of darkness with doctrines of hell.

14.  Mormonism teaches God the Father is an exalted man, but the Father of Lights never became man but the only Person in the Triune Godhead who became man was God the Son.

15.  It is said that God the Father of Mormonism had physical relations with the Virgin Mary, but this denies the miraculous and supernatural conception of the Virgin Mary by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit where God spoke into existence the incarnation through His holy yet sinful mother.

16.  Mormonism teaches that the Triune Godhead is not omnipresent, but this denies the nature of God as eternally self-existent.  What am I saying?  I am saying the holy Triune Godhead is from everlasting to everlasting, because He always was, is and always shall be as the eternal Triune I AM: namely, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

17.  God the Father is alleged to also have a father, but this is theological flawed and denies the eternal aseity of God the Father and the meaning of what God is and how He is eternally different from His creation as from everlasting to everlasting.  Without this doctrine in high spiritual ascent by God's Spirit and Word there is no other proper Scriptural understanding of the nature of God the Father through the approbation of the perpetuity of Scripture.

 

 The Self-Existent Christ 

Rides in Jerusalem

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, Holy, Holy, all the saints adore thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.
Holy, Holy, Holy, though the darkness hide thee,
Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
Only thou art holy; there is none beside thee
Perfect in power, in love, and purity.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy Name, in earth and sky and sea;
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!  (TH, 87).