Since the Book of Mormon agrees on all these points with the Bible are they both wrong or is Joseph Smith wrong?
Joseph Smith said, "I will preach on the plurality of Gods… I have always and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of Deity, it has been the plurality of Gods. . . . 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 (Joseph Fielding Smith, ed. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 370; given August 15, 1844).
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name [not in the names] of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matt. 28.19).
The Book of Mormon agrees. "And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name; for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one" (3 Nephi 11:27).
Joseph Smith is not agreeing with the Trinity but the Bible and the Book of Mormon are teaching the Trinity.
"And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen" (2 Nephi 31:21).
Joseph Smith said, "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." (Joseph Smith's Sermon on Plurality of Gods as printed in History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 473-479).
Joseph Smith said, "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?" (Sermon on Plurality of Gods, Joseph Smith)
"Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee" (Ps. 91.9,10).
"Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God! And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him" (3 Nephi 17).
"To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me" (Is. 46.5,9).
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