Introduction

If you cannot agree on who God is, then nothing else you may agree on has any meaning. Do Mormons worship the same God that Christians do? This is a fundamental that cannot be overlooked. In Deuteronomy 6:4-5, God tells His people that they are to worship Him only, for He is the only true God. And Jesus said that this was the most important commandment! (Matt 22:36-38). How does this revelation from God compare with the revelations of Joseph Smith?

LDS Gods vs. the Biblical God

One of the most important teachings in LDS lore is "the" account of Joseph Smith's first vision (depending on which one of the various versions you hold to be "the" account). It is partially quoted under the banner on the page you were just on. Why is it so important? Because it subtly sets up the reader (or hearer) for Mormonism's most heretical teaching - the belief in a plurality of gods. Much more than a mere misunderstanding of the Trinity, the LDS belief in the existance of more than one god is outright Polytheism. It is difficult, at times, to get a Mormon to admit to their teachings. As we will see, however, the same is not true of their church - or their "prophet".

"I wish to declare I have always and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of the Deity,
it has been the plurality of Gods."
(Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith pg 369)

Beyond this irreconcilable problem, you may want to see just some of the other unorthodox characteristics of the main Mormon God. The following are taken straight from LDS sources. Judge, rightly, for yourself whether the LDS church leads its followers to other gods.

• Joseph Smith stated, "I wish to declare I have always and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of the Deity, it has been the plurality of Gods" (History of the Church 6:474). 
• Brigham Young, the second prophet and president of the LDS Church, said, "How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods..." (Journal of Discourses 7:333). 
• Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt taught, "We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by a still more ancient Father, and so one, from one generation to generation" (The Seer, pg. 132). 
• Joseph Smith declared, "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 345). 
• Mormon Apostle John Widtsoe stated, "God and man are of the same race, differing only in their degrees of advancement" (Gospel Through the Ages, pg. 107). 
• Mormon Apostle Parley P. Pratt's stated,  "God, angels, and men are all of the same species, one race, one great family..." (Key to the Science of Theology, 1978 ed., pg. 21). 
• Joseph Smith stated, "We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see" (Teachings, pg. 345). 
• Joseph Smith taught, "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's" (D&C 130:22). 
• Brigham Young said, "Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so" (Journal of Discourses 6:345).
• LDS Apostle James Talmage stated that "neither God the Father, nor any actual person of any one member of the Godhead can be physically present in more than one place at one time" (The Articles of Faith, pg. 39). 
• According to Joseph Smith, "The idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man's heart is an old sectarian notion, and is false" 
  (D&C 130:3).