Mormonism Jesus (Jehovah) Lucifer

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• Introduction
• The Mormon view of Jesus is at least startling
  (if not repulsive) to those whose faith is rooted
  and grounded in the Bible's teachings. Most
  Mormons hold the following basic belief's
  regarding Jesus
• He is the God whose name is Jehovah in the Bible
• He was born as the result of God having sexual
  relations with Mary
• He is not the only son of God, in fact, Lucifer
  is one of His younger brothers
• Just as God (Elohim), Jesus continues to have a
  physical body
• Unlike Elohim, He somehow progressed to Godhood
  in the First Estate

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• Lesson Outline
• Jesus is Jehovah, one of the sons of God
• Physically fathered by Elohim
• Jesus inhabits a body of flesh and bones
• Progressed to Godhood in the First Estate

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• Jesus is Jehovah, Older Brother of Lucifer
• Position documented
• The story of Lucifer is the most terrible
  example of such apostasy. ... He pitted his own
  plan and will against the purposes of God. He
  strove to gain the birthright of his Elder
  Brother, Jesus the Christ. When his proposition
  was rejected, he forsook all that he had gained,
  .... He was no longer Lucifer, bearer of truth,
  who walked in light, but Satan, teacher of
  untruth, who slunk in darkness. He became the
  enemy of God and of all who try to walk according
  to the Lord's commandments. One-third of the
  spirits present in that vast assembly supported
  Satan and became enemies of the truth that they
  had formerly cherished. With him these rebellious
  spirits lost their fellowship with the valiant
  sons of God. Bruce McConkie (Apostle), Evidences
  and Reconciliations, p. 209

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• Similarly Satan had contended for the
  subservience of Moses. Satan, also a son of God,
  had rebelled and had been cast out of heaven and
  not permitted an earthly body as had his brother
  Jehovah. Much depended upon the outcome of this
  spectacular duel. Could Lucifer control and
  dominate this prophet Moses, who had learned so
  much directly from his Lord? Spencer W. Kimball
  (President/Prophet), Faith Precedes the Miracle,
  p. 87

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• Elohim Physically Fathered Him
• Position documented
• And so, in the final analysis it is the faithful
  saints, those who have testimonies of the truth
  and divinity of this great latter-day work, who
  declare our Lord's generation to the world. Their
  testimony is that Mary's son is God's Son that
  he was conceived and begotten in the normal way
  that he took upon himself mortality by the
  natural birth processes that he inherited the
  power of mortality from his mother and the power
  of immortality from his Fatherin consequence of
  all of which he was able to work out the infinite
  and eternal atonement. Bruce McConkie (Apostle),
  The Promised Messiah, pp. 472-473)
• When the time came that His first-born, the
  Saviour, should come into the world and take a
  tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured
  that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting
  any other man do it. The Saviour was begotten by
  the Father of His spirit, by the same Being who
  is the Father of our spirits, and that is all the
  organic difference between Jesus Christ and you
  and me. Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
  volume 4, p.218

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• Jesus Continues to Have a Flesh and Blood Body
• Position documented
• He was the Son of our Heavenly Father, as we
  are the sons of our earthly fathers. God is the
  Father of our spirits, which are clothed upon by
  fleshly bodies, begotten for us by our earthly
  fathers. Jesus is our elder brother spirit
  clothed upon with an earthly body begotten by the
  Father of our spirits. --Brigham Young
  (President/Prophet), Journal of Discourses,
  volume 10, p. 2

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• Progressed to Godhood in the First Estate
• Position documented
• During his pre-mortal life Jesus Christ rose
  to the status of Godhood. At that time he was
  foreordained to be the Savior of this world.
  Father Abraham was privileged to see in vision
  the grand council in heaven that was held prior
  to the peopling of this earth, and he saw, as the
  Lord showed him, "many of the noble and great
  ones." --Milton R. Hunter (Seventy), LDS
  Conference Report, October 1949, p. 69
• Refuted
• John 11-3
• Hebrews 138