This creed is a baptismal creed that puts together the basic beliefs of Christianity
So basically if you can stand up with someone and say this creed and believe it then you are brothers in Christ.
No matter what the denomination.
This is not true of Mormons.
Their belief system is in conflict with the apostle’s creed.
Some of these things the Mormon Church does agree with, but many of the very important ones they do not. We are going to go through and talk about this one person of the trinity at a time. (Of course the Mormons do not believe in the trinity, and no it is not specifically out lined in this creed or in the bible but the theology is there as we will see as we talk about this creed.)
I belive in God the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth
The first part of the creed talks about God. The creed describes God as Father, the almighty, and the maker of heaven and earth.
At first glance this seems reasonable. Of course Mormons will agree with this statement. After all this is the main description of God from the bible and Mormons after all are People who believe the bible.
1. The First Descriptor of God is that he is father. Any one who has heard a Mormon pray knows that they belief this after all they pray using the term heavenly father. It makes god more personal they will say. Something that all Christians should know is that Mormons use the exact same jargon as we do.
But first what do Christians mean with they say God the father?
First off the bible often times talks about God as our father. This is in a collective meaning not a personal meaning. Jesus is the only literal son of God, because Jesus is given equality with God.
We are the adopted children of God. We were created form dust, we are like God or Jesus or the spirit, but God longs to love us like children so he created a way for us to become his adopted sons and daughters. Gal 4:5-7, Eph 1:5, 2:19, Acts 15:17.
Mormons take this idea of fatherhood very seriously. God is not our adopted father but rather the literal father of our spirits. We are all the spirit children of God, or Elohim. In Moses 3:5 it says that:
And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;
The Doctrine and Covenants reaffirms this idea of Preexistence in 138: 56
Even before they were born, they, with many others, received their first lessons in the world of spirits
Christians take this descriptor of Father in a symbolic since of our relationship with God, that God has taken those that were not his children and made them his children.
Mormons believe we are the actual spiritual children of God, just like Jesus (more on the virgin birth latter).
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