Joseph Smith is a False prophet

 

We, who by the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ have been delivered from the darkness of Rome’s traditions and every invention of men, now lift up our voice against a new and more perilous deceit that has arisen in these latter days. For as the Apostle Peter warned, “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them” (2 Peter 2:1). And Paul, by the same Spirit, thundereth: “Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8). This is no light matter. This is the very Gospel of our salvation at stake.

 

We stand upon sola Scriptura—Scripture alone—for the Word of God is “quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12), sufficient, perfect, and closed. Yet the followers of Joseph Smith boast of another Bible, another covenant, another revelation: the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the endless “prophecies” of men who claim the heavens are yet open. This is the first and fatal stroke against the Mormon error. The canon is sealed; the faith “was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3). To add thereto is to deny the sufficiency of Christ’s own word and to invite the curse of God. As Luther cried against every papal addition, so we cry against this new papacy of Salt Lake: “Here I stand; I can do no other.” The Bible needs no supplement; it needs no restoration. It is the pure, complete, and final testimony of the Triune God.

 

Second, behold the blasphemy against the Eternal One Himself. The God of Scripture is the only God, from everlasting to everlasting: “Before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me” (Isaiah 43:10). “I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me” (Isaiah 45:5). He is Spirit, immutable, infinite, the Creator of all things out of nothing (John 4:24; Malachi 3:6). Yet Joseph Smith, in his King Follett discourse, dared declare: “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man… He was once a man like us… You have got to learn how to be gods yourselves.” And their scriptures speak of “the Gods” organizing the heavens and the earth (Abraham 4), of a plurality of gods, and of men becoming gods through temple rites and eternal progression.

 

This is not Christianity; this is paganism revived and cloaked in Christian language! It robs God of His eternal glory and makes Him a creature who climbed to divinity. It denies *solus Christus* and *soli Deo gloria*, for if men may become gods, then the glory is divided and the Creator is no longer the sole Sovereign. This Mormon doctrine of eternal progression and plurality of gods is a direct denial of the First Commandment and of the very being of Jehovah. It is idolatry pure and simple—an abomination that maketh desolate.

 

Third, and most damnable, is the corruption of the Gospel itself. The true Gospel is *sola gratia, sola fide, solus Christus*: salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8–9). “Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law” (Romans 3:28). Man is totally depraved, dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1), unable to merit anything before a holy God. Election is unconditional; grace is irresistible; the saints persevere by the power of the One who chose them before the foundation of the world—all to the praise of His glory alone.

 

But Mormonism preaches another gospel: faith plus works, plus baptism for the dead, plus temple endowments, plus celestial marriage, plus obedience to every ordinance and law of the “restored church.” It promises “exaltation” whereby the faithful may become gods, ruling their own worlds, begetting spirit children in eternal progression. This is the very works-righteousness against which Luther thundered at the Diet of Worms and Calvin contended against the Schoolmen. It denies the finished work of Christ upon the cross. It turns the Savior into a mere elder brother in a pantheon of gods-to-be. It robs the believer of assurance and binds the conscience to endless rituals and genealogies. “If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9). Let every Mormon temple, every endowment, every claim of Joseph Smith as prophet be anathema maranatha!

 

Brethren, this is no mere difference of opinion. This is the Gospel versus a false religion that denies the eternal Trinity, the Creator-creature distinction, justification by faith alone, and the glory of the one true God. Over history many stood against the errors of their day with the open Bible in one hand and the hammer of truth in the other, so we declare: Mormonism is not a restoration but a falling away. It is another gospel. It leads souls to hell under the guise of light.

 

Repent, therefore, and believe the true Gospel: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). To God alone be the glory, now and forever. Amen.