Secrets Mormons Don't Want You To Know

Copyright ©2011 by Richard and Cindy Benson

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Mormon Doctrine
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When I was an 11-year-old girl, I received the shock of my life.

I had been born and raised in a Mormon home and I felt that made me special. I was always thankful to God for that privilege. My life-long goal was to go on a Mormon mission, get married to a wonderful Mormon man, bear children, then live forever in our celestial kingdom as a goddess along with my eternal husband.

But all those dreams began to unravel the day my 53-year-old father brought home a 15-year-old girl and told us he had to take her as his second wife in order to fulfill the law of eternal progression towards his own godhood.

One day we were a happy family, and the next day devastation struck—and my life was sent spiraling.

Later in the book I’ll tell you the whole story but first I want you to see some secrets about the Mormon religion that Mormons really don’t want you to know.

I pray that you will be blessed.

In Christ’s love,

Cindy Benson

Secret 1

“Three glorified, exalted, and perfected personages comprise the Godhead or supreme presidency of the universe… They are: God the Father; God the Son; God the Holy Ghost… each God in the Godhead is a personage, separate and distinct from each of the others…Each occupies space and is and can be in but one place at one time…”
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Joseph Smith said:

“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.”
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Bruce McConkie added:

“Three separate personages—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost—comprise the Godhead. As each of these persons is a God, it is evident, from this standpoint alone, that a plurality of Gods exist.”
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“There are three Gods—the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost…”
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Joseph Fielding Smith agreed:

“I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods… I have it from God, and get over it if you can.”
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“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (1 John 5:7)

See also Genesis 1:26; 11:7, Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 28:19.

Secret 2

“God used to be a man on another planet…”
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“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” (Psalm 90:2)

Secret 3

“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. Where was there ever a son without a father? And where was there ever a father without first being a son?”
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“…before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.” (Isaiah 43:10)

Secret 4

Brigham Young taught that the number of Gods is uncountable.
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“…there is an infinite number of holy personages, drawn from worlds without number, who have passed on to exaltation and are thus gods.”
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“…you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves… the same as all Gods have done before you.”
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Joseph Smith said:

“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.
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“In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.”
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“If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.”
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“The Gods who dwell in Heaven… have been redeemed from the grave in a world which existed before the foundations of this earth were laid… They were exalted also, from fallen men to Celestial Gods to inhabit their Heaven forever and ever.”
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“The celestial beings who dwell in the Heaven… having been filled with all the fulness of these eternal attributes, are called Gods, because the fulness of God dwells in each. Both the males and the females enjoy this fulness.”
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“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” (Isaiah 45:22)

See Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4, Psalm 86:10, Isaiah 43:10-11; 44:6,8; 45:5-6,18,21; 46:9, Mark 12:29, 32, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 John 5:7.

Secret 5

“As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become.”
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“…that man is the offspring of God… having within him the seeds of godhood and thus being a god in embryo…”
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“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself…We are created… to become Gods…”
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“…you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves…”
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“…man is the king of kings and the lord of lords in embryo.”
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“Each one of you has it within the realm of his possibility to develop a kingdom over which you will reside as its king and god.”
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“To know God, we must know ourselves. All the personal attributes which are ascribed to God… we find in ourselves… Mormonism does not tend to debase God to the level of man, but to exalt man to the perfection of God.”
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“Each command we obey sends us another rung up the ladder to perfected manhood and toward godhood; and every law disobeyed is a sliding toward the bottom where man merges into the brute world.”
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“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” (Revelation 21:3)

See also Revelation 20:6.

Secret 6

“Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power.”
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Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. (Isaiah 44:6)

Secret 7

“We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will now refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see… he was once a man like us…”
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“Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, and mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point where He now is.”
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“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar to that through which we are now passing. He became God—an exalted being—through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey… Thus He grew in experience and continued to grow until He attained the status of Godhood. In other words, He became God by absolute obedience to all the eternal laws of the Gospel…”
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“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” (Psalm 90:2)

See also Habakkuk 1:12, Hebrews 13:8, Psalm 93:2, Revelation 1:8.

Secret 8

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens… he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did; and I will show it from the Bible… The Scriptures say it, and I defy all the learning and wisdom and all the combined powers of earth and hell together to refute it.”
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“God himself, the Father of us all, is a glorified, exalted, immortal, resurrected Man!”
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“He is our Father—the Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are and is now an exalted Being.”
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“GOD IS AN EXALTED MAN… our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.”
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“What man is, God has been and what God is, man seeks to become.”
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“False creeds teach that God is a spirit essence that fills the immensity of space and is everywhere and nowhere in particular present… God the Father is a glorified and perfected Man, a Personage of flesh and bones...”
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“…for I am God, and not man…” (Hosea 11:9)

See 1 Samuel 15:29, Romans 1:22-23.

Secret 9

“Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, and mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point where He now is.”
³⁴

“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar to that through which we are now passing. He became God—an exalted being—through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey… Thus He grew in experience and continued to grow until He attained the status of Godhood… He became God by absolute obedience to all the eternal laws of the Gospel...”
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“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19)

Secret 10

“…the Gods were to be parents of spirit children just as our Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother were the parents of the people of this earth.”
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“Mortal persons who overcome all things and gain an ultimate exaltation will live eternally in the family unit and have spirit children, thus becoming Eternal Fathers and Eternal Mothers… Godhood is not for men only; it is for men and women together.”
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“In the Heaven where our spirits were born, there are many Gods, each of whom has his own wife or wives… Each God, through his wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters… for each father and mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever.

“As soon as each God has begotten many millions of male and female spirits, and his Heavenly inheritance becomes too small, to comfortably accommodate his great family, he, in connection with his sons, organizes a new world… where he sends both male and female spirits to inhabit tabernacles of flesh and bones…

If the Father of these spirits… had secured to himself, through the everlasting covenant of marriage, many wives… the period required to people a world would be shorter… in proportion to the number of wives… if it required one hundred thousand million of years to people a world like this… it is evident that, with a hundred wives, this period would be reduced to only one thousand million years.”
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“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” (Hebrews 9:27)

Secret 11

“And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God… and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God…”

And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord’s time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God…”
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“…Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” (Matthew 6:9)

Secret 12

“To create is to organize. It is an utterly false and uninspired notion to believe that the world or any other thing was created out of nothing…”
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“And then the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went down at the beginning, and they, that is the Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth.”
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