Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

I hope one day you will strive to look beneath the surface past your reflection, and see what is ingrained in almost every verse of the scriptures. I hope that instead of choosing to pick and choose and twist the scriptures to your view you will look to see how they work together. I hope this obsession of yours doesn’t bring greater hatred into your heart.

Now, I recommend that any Christian do NOT take at face value what Ricardo says.  He is absolutely lying here about the Mormon faith.

By the way, if you couldn’t defend Mormonism in the first place

I didn’t say that I couldn’t, I just said that I wouldn’t waste my time trying to convince you that you’re wrong. Jesus Himself could appear to you in person and tell you that you’re wrong about the Mormons and you wouldn’t listen.

Your defense is your testimony

Where did I say that? You can’t quote me as saying such because I didn’t say anything like that. Here’s what I said (slightly altered to be more clear):

I think I’ve made it perfectly clear that I don’t intend to argue with a
contentious person such as yourself, who will never go away conceding anything. That doesn’t mean that I couldn’t [invalidate your claims about the Book of Abraham] or that my testimony
is merely a facade; it just means that I think it would be
absolutely pointless talking to you.

Yet here I am trying to educate you on the value of reading what people actually say. But I digress.

This is true, and yet you believe something as shallow as a feeling in your chest as confirmation of anything?

That, and I’ve spent a fair amount of time doing my homework. But, hey, maybe if you tell me to “open my eyes” with a little more self-righteousness I’ll be convinced. That last sentence was sarcasm, in case you couldn’t tell.

and there is nothing that can defend against the fact that Egyptologists
confirmed the Book of Abraham is a fraud through direct translation of
Smith’s original papyri.

Again, absolutely there is. Again, I’m not going to waste my time trying to convince you that you’re wrong. That would be an exercise in futility. There are plenty of Mormons on the internet willing to put up with you (go find some). I’m not one of them. Now, stop putting words in my mouth. Work on your reading comprehension skills. Finally, don’t be so angry and hostile. That way, you won’t get reactions like mine. I am done talking with you. For reals.

Joh 6:28-29  Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?  (29)  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 

Only the Mormon fantasizes that his righteousness is something other than a filthy rag. If the rich young man couldn’t enter heaven, despite following God and the commandments all his life, why would the Mormon be saved, who even celebrates materialism as a sign of God’s good graces towards him? It is not a matter of not trying to be good or not being good… it is a matter of an impossibility, as Christ stated Himself, for man to ever be considered “good.” And this is why salvation can never be allotted due to merit, because no Mormon will ever be able to do “all that he can” and ascend to the highest level to become a polygamous god. He will always fall short. His righteousness will always be a dung heap. He will never have room to boast of his superiority over any other, because the law has shown that we are all under sin and have fallen short of the Kingdom of heaven. Of course, this isn’t a huge problem for the Mormon, since they believe in lesser levels of heaven anyway. Everyone is getting in to heaven, save for a small minority of the really evil who will be sent to outer darkness,  but works will determine if you get to go to the highest heaven or to one of the lower levels. I wonder if Hitler will enter the Celestial heaven? After all, he was offered Mormon baptism and sealed to his wife by the LDS. 

I’ll also address the Baptism and Holy Spirit claims. The Thief on the cross was in paradise with Jesus Christ the moment he passed. He was not baptized, did not learn any secret handshakes, and never waited in spirit prison for some Mormon to be baptized in his name so that he may exit. Another example: Cornelius and his family. They were filled with the Holy Spirit before they were even baptized! So the LDS has all these laws and formulas that the Bible utterly ignores, and then they pretend that their absurd beliefs can be defended by the Bible! 

Regarding the deity of man. The religion of the Bible is and always has been a monotheistic religion. The quote from Pslams continues with: “…But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.” It is not that those men who would die are gods, or gods in embyro, as the Mormons like to believe. They are magistrates who are clothed in divine authority as sanctioned by God’s commandments. Christ’s argument is one of “How much more than?” His claim to being God as the exalted Messiah is even greater than the mere magistrates who stood as representatives of God.  

The scripture is clear, and cannot be broken: 

Isa_44:8  Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. 

And yet, the Mormons imagine that the “Godhead” is a heavenly stake Presidency, with 3 different “Gods” working together, and that they themselves shall ascend to the Celestial and become the “only God” of their own planets.