Lifting The Veil

Mormons teach that Jesus Christ “had to learn who He was” after His birth and progressively became divine, a view that directly contradicts clear biblical teaching and historic Christian doctrine. The Bible opens with the profound declaration in John 1:1 (NIV): “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This Word is Jesus Christ, fully God, co-eternal with the Father, and the Creator of all things (John 1:3). To suggest that Jesus was a man who only later “progressed” to deity denies His eternal, uncreated nature as affirmed in Colossians 2:9: “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Hebrews 4:15 tells us Jesus was “tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.” While Jesus experienced genuine human temptation and suffering, the idea that He had to “learn obedience” because He was initially ignorant of His divine mission (Hebrews 5:8) misunderstands the text. His learning reflects His genuine humanity living u...

Let’s be clear: the atonement of Jesus Christ—the once-for-all sacrifice that paid for the sins of the world—happened on the cross. It was not some quiet, inner spiritual event in a garden. It was public, bloody, brutal, and final. That’s what the Bible teaches plainly. That’s what Christians have believed for 2,000 years. So how did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) come to teach that the atonement happened primarily in the Garden of Gethsemane? The answer lies not in Scripture, but in the theological inventions of Joseph Smith and later LDS leaders who reinterpreted the events of the Passion week to fit a different gospel. While Mormons do not deny the cross outright, they shift the focus to Gethsemane as the location where the “real” suffering for sins took place. This is deeply problematic, not only because it contradicts the biblical record, but because it distorts the very heart of the gospel: the cross of Christ. According to the Bible, Jesus Himself cons...

One of the most sacred truths of the Christian faith is that the blood of Jesus Christ is entirely sufficient to cleanse us from all sin. The Bible declares it without ambiguity: “The blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7, NLT). But not all religions that claim to follow Christ believe that. Mormonism, officially known as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, does not affirm that the blood of Jesus alone is sufficient. In fact, its doctrine says quite the opposite. Historically, and even doctrinally today, Mormon teaching claims that there are certain sins the blood of Christ cannot cover unless other conditions are met—including, at one time, the shedding of the sinner’s own blood. Brigham Young, the second president of the LDS Church and its most influential early prophet, publicly taught the doctrine known as blood atonement: "There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come.....