Smart Mormons?
Mike Jensen wrote an article about Mormon theology and seemed very impressed with the Mormon idea of a war in heaven over free agency and liberty. But just because something sounds good doesn't mean it is biblical. Mormonism teaches that we all lived with God before we were born, that Jesus and Lucifer were spirit brothers, and that Jesus and Lucifer presented different plans for saving us. But where does the Bible actually teach that? The Bible never says Jesus and Satan are brothers. It never says we all lived with God before coming to earth. It never says Jesus and Lucifer presented two different plans of salvation. And it never says the war in heaven was a battle over human freedom. The Bible gives us a very different picture of Satan. Isaiah 14:13–14 says: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God... I will be like the most High.” And Jesus said about Satan: “He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth” (John 8:44). That...