Mormon President and Prophet, Gordon Hinckley died yesterday. The question is often asked "why do Christians believe that Gordon HInckley was a false prophet"? This is because, in Scripture God gives very clear "acid" tests for truth. For example, one of the awesome things about Scripture is that God bases the veracity of a prophet on the fact that if they give a prophecy and it doesn't come to pass (even one time) then that person is clearly a false prophet (Deut. 18:20-22).
Another test of a prophet is their consistency with what God has already revealed about himself in the Bible (Deut. 13:1-4, Isaiah 8:20). For example, the Bible teaches that there is only one God (Isaiah 43:10, 44:6,8, Deut. 6:4). Yet, Mormonism teaches that God is just a man who through exaltation became a god. He had a father who had a father who had a father.... and you have to learn to be gods yourselves the same as all gods have done before you (Joseph Smith, King Follet discourse). It is true that Mormons use the same terminology as Christians. The problem is that they pour entirely different meanings into those words. Mormon prophets use the same terminology as biblical Christianity but have a corrupt theology about God and how we can know God. And as one of my heroes said, "if you are wrong on any one of those two points you are wrong enough to lose your soul".
Some might be wondering "why does it matter"? Why can't we just let people believe what they want. That is a fantastic question! It is because the truth by nature is exclusive. Jesus said "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6). And it is clear in Scripture that if you don't hold to the Bible's teaching about Jesus then you don't have God (2 John 1:9). Maybe it would be best to quote Hinckley on this one....
"In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints 'do not believe in the traditional Christ.' 'No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they 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.'" (LDS Church News Week ending June 20, 1998, p.7 )
Let us pray for the Spirit of God to move among the Mormon people and pray for laborers to bring the true Gospel to them. For only the true Gospel is the power of God unto salvation!
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