It is altogether correct in the translation. Our text says, “And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father.” The Apostles have discovered that there were Gods above, for Paul says God was the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Funny that Joe's own JST revision changed by dropping the "and" preceding "his father", which contradicts Joe's claim about our God having a God/Father above him. But Joe apparently forget that he did that as he proclaimed this gross error to the crowd in the grove.
Exactly that!
The 1832 New Testament Revision (JST) of John’s Book of Revelation does not reflect Smith’s later commentary of the plurality of gods made in 1844 about the same verse in question. Smith failed to keep his 1844 plural god translation straight with his 1832 version which exemplifies how the “Father” *is* the Father of Christ rather than the Father having a Father as expressed in his corrupt 1844 teachings:
KJV Rev 1:6 wrote:And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father
Joseph Smith wrote:
My object was to preach the scriptures, and preach the doctrine they contain, there being a God above, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am bold to declare I have taught all the strong doctrines publicly, and always teach stronger doctrines in public than in private. John was one of the men, and apostles declare they were made kings and priests unto God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It reads just so in the Revelation, Hence the doctrine of a plurality of Gods is as prominent in the Bible as any other doctrine. It is all over the face of the Bible. It stands beyond the power of controversy. A wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein.
That idea is nowhere to be found in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, the church Fathers, Rabbinical Judaism, Philo's writings, the gnostic writings, the Kabbala, or any other Judeo/Christian text, however orthodox or heterodox. Joe was utterly full of shinola.
Joseph Smith wrote:If Abraham reasoned thus— if Jesus Christ was the son of God, and John discovered that God the Father of Jesus Christ had a Father, you may suppose that he had a Father also.
And Mormons today are upset and wonder why the Christian world has a problem with Mormonism claiming to be Christianity! It’s NOT all over the face of the Bible and there is no God above the Father! That is corrupt Mormon doctrine that has nothing to do with the Bible. Do recall that we discussed this in your thread entitled The Root.
Joseph Smith wrote:
I want to reason a little on this subject. I learned it by translating the papyrus which is now in my house.
Uh huh. That papyrus says no such thing.
If you can believe it, the so-called prophet Joseph Smith pretended to “translate” the papyrus by the gift and power of God afforded him by direct revelation:
God wrote:
Behold, there shall be a record kept among you; and in it thou shalt be called a seer, a translator, a prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ, an elder of the church through the will of God the Father, and the grace of your Lord Jesus Christ, D&C 21:1
Behold, here is wisdom; yea, to be a seer, a revelator, a translator, and a prophet, having all the gifts of God which he bestows upon the head of the church. D&C 107:92
I give unto you my servant Joseph to be a presiding elder over all my church, to be a translator, a revelator, a seer, and prophet. D&C 124:125
And yet, we can PROVE Joseph Smith was a false translator who pretended to translate by the power of God because the Book of Abraham and all the translation materials and documents associated with Smith’s translations are 100% false.
We know the papyrus is what caused Smith to shift from the doctrine of one God to the plurality of Gods.
I testify and know with all my mind and heart that Joseph Smith was a liar. I defy the whole Mormon church to try and refute me!
The Church today is a lost cause. Modern Mormonism really is no worse or better than original Mormonism. Every member of the Church would be better off to leave and begin their lives anew.
Joseph Smith wrote:Many men say there is one God; the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are only one God! I say that is a strange God anyhow—three in one, and one in three! It is a curious organization. “Father, I pray not for the world, but I pray for them which thou hast given me.” “Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are.” All are to be crammed into one God, according to sectarianism. It would make the biggest God in all the world. He would be a wonderfully big God—he would be a giant or a monster.
Even when I was a TBM, I thought this was a rather crass, asinine thing to say, even if he were correct.
Joseph Smith created his own monster for the people of Nauvoo and his words are just as real today as they were then.
My response?
Mormonism wrote:
THE CHURCH OF A GOD ABOVE, THE FATHER OF OUR LORD Jesus Christ OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
PS. The board spell check does not allow the name Jesus Christ to be capitalized which is perfectly fitting seeing he is the low God on the totem pole. Jesus bows his knees to his Father as his Father bows his knees to his Father and so on forever, infinite gods that cannot be numbered, quantified, or visualized because nothing can contain the infinite.
