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Originally Posted by Basilissa
Jesus is God, dear.
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Interestingly, Joseph Smith originally believed it too, but Mormons today will tell you God and Jesus and the Holy Ghost are three separate, individual entities. Smith changed this view regarding the nature of God over time. One needs only to read the originals against the modern version to see the changes in theology (which is not hard to do as there are over 100,000 changes to theBook of Mormon).
Examples include:
And he said unto me, Behold, the virgin whom thouseest,
is the mother of God, after the manner of the flesh. (1 Nephi 3; 1830)
vs
And he said unto me: Behold, the virgin whom thou seest
isthe mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh. (current)
and
And the angel said unto me, behold the Lamb of God, yea,
even the Eternal Father! (1 Nephi 3; 1830)
vs
And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea,
even the Son of the Eternal Father! (current)
And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he wastaken by the people;
yea, the Everlasting God, was judgedof the world; (1 Nephi 11:32; 1830)
vs
And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he wastaken by the people;
yea, the Son of the everlasting Godwas judged of the world(current)
These last records…shall make known to all kindreds,tongues, and people, that
the Lamb of God is the EternalFather and the Savior of the world (1 Nephi 13:40; 1830)
vs
1 Nephi 13:40:These last records…shall make known to all kindreds,tongues, and people, that
the Lamb of God is the Son of theEternal Father, and the Savior of the world (current)
Then again, the Book of Mormon hasn't been fully corrected, and passages that reveal the Trinitarian belief can still be found in it today:
Behold, I am he who was prepared from the foundation of the world to redeem my people.
Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I am the Father and the Son. In me shall all mankind have life, and that eternally, even they who shall believe on my name; and they shall become my sons and my daughters.
And never have I showed myself
unto man whom I have created, for never has man believed in me as thou hast.
Seest thou that ye are created after mine own image? Yea, even all men were created in the beginning after mine own image. (Ether 3:14-15)
As you can see Sister, the Mormons are theologically a mess. But what kind of intelligence can one expect from a theology that was created by a charlatan who convinced a bunch of gullible fools that God told him to have sex with their wives?