Quetzalcoatl Part 1

I am not sure how much information about Mormon beliefs everyone reading this will have but I will try to explain things as I go along. Please feel free to send me any questions you may have.

Mormons believe that the people from the book of Mormon were MesoAmericans. MesoAmericans basically lived in Mexico and southward toward South America. 

If you are a Christian, or honestly even if you are not, but have grown up in Western culture, I want you to think about something without blinders here. If you call someone an "ol' serpent" or a "dragon lady" what does that usually entail? Does it bring you warm, fuzzy feelings and make you think that person is a great person? Not typically, no. Actually, generally it typifies the devil, someone that can't be trusted, or someone that is mean and nasty. Even in the Bible, that term is generally referring to satan. Who deceived Eve? A serpent.

Mormons will try to explain this away with the serpent Moses lifted up in the wilderness to signify Jesus. 

Okay, let's hold on a moment and look at this. 

Here are some pictures of the typical idea of Quetzalcoatl. 

Here is an example of the typical idea of Moses in the wilderness. 

These do not seem like similar ideas in the least. 

In mythologies, serpents typically represented fertility or rebirth due to the nature of them shedding their skin and in a sense being reborn. Hermes staff can be used to symbolize healing, however Hermes is the god of merchants, weight, oratory, literature, athletics, and thieves. He also guided souls of the dead to the underworld. Not quite Christ like. 

There is the Kundalini, a form of serpent used in eastern religions and traditions. It is the indwelling spiritual energy living within us. It is a coiled up serpent that nourishes the tree of life within us. Sounds similar to the Eve story, doesn't it? This is also sometimes depicted similar to the picture of Hermes' staff.

There is ouroboros, a Greek, tail devouring serpent that represent cyclicality and eternal return. In Egypt it is used when Ra meets Osiris in the underworld and in the text two serpents coil around the head and feet of a god with their tails in their mouths and it represents the beginning and end of time. There is Mucalinda, the buddhist king of serpents. He has multiple heads and for the little available info that can be found on him, is far from Christ-like. 

To go even further, you can look at the fact that Quetzalcoatl isn't even a snake. No, he is a feathered serpent. 

When you think of feathered serpent, what do you think? Typically a dragon which is a symbol of satan. In the bible, the whore of babylon sits on a multi-headed dragon.

If you try extremely hard, you could possibly tie Quetzalcoatl to serpents and if you try even harder you could perhaps link that to healing and then try to tie it back to Christ but you have to be looking for it. You can make almost anything line up and seem true if you are trying hard enough. However, if you step back and look at it with a non-bias eye, Quetzalcoatl could much more easily be lined up with satan than with Christ.

I will discuss this further in my next post.

(*Please note, the photos are not mine.)

Feeling The Truth

One thing that Mormon missionaries, or Mormons in general will do if trying to convert you to Mormonism is they will ask you to pray about Mormonism and feel if it is right. People will often do this, thinking if it is wrong that they would feel it in their spirit.

There are a few issues with this. One, the devil comes as an angel of light. So, why would we, as humans, think we can figure out that it is the devil? Would we not think it is an angel of light? In most instances, yes we would. Not only is the devil disguised as an angel of light, but he is a lot older than us and has been fooling humans for a long, long time. Longer than we, as individuals, have been alive. So to think we could out-strategize the devil is, well, naive.

Furthermore, the Bible says in 1 John 4:1 to "...believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (KJV). This is referring to more than just praying and feeling if it is okay. You are to actually try or test the spirits against the Word of God.

Do not, I repeat, do not test this against the inspired version that the mormons use. The inspired version was made by Joseph Smith so you should not use it to test what he said. (Though I'm sure there are areas that still contradict.) Instead, I would suggest using the KJV (or even the New KJV), or get a direct translation Hebrew/Greek to English Bible and read the actual words. These direct translations can be difficult if you have not studied the Bible much and/or you are not good with old English or the literal translations of words. However, if you are knowledgable in regards to language or Hebrew and/or Greek, then this is also a great way to go.

So, in order to test the Mormon church against the Word of God, take the Bible and compare what the Bible says to it. Or the Pearl of Great Price. Or the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon was what I used to compare to the Bible and the fallacies abound. Read them SIDE BY SIDE and compare them WORD FOR WORD.

It's amazing how easily the devil can change the entire meaning of a scripture simply by moving the location of one or two words.

You can also search other areas of this blog where we do this exact thing for you and point out some of the fallacies. We, of course, have not scratched the surface of the errors and contradictions that abound.

You cannot trust what you feel. The Bible explicitly says, in Jeremiah 7:19 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (KJV). Are you really going to hinge the eternal salvation or damnation of your soul upon feelings that came from a desperately wicked place? I would strongly advise against it.

This is no easy or simple or laughing matter. This is eternal, take the time to read the Word. You owe it to your soul to find the truth God has already given you. All you need to do is seek it.