The other major religion founded in a channeled revelation is The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, the Mormons. There are several varied accounts of Joseph Smith’s claim recounted in The Pearl of Great Price to have seen a vision of God the Father and the Son in 1820 when he was 14 or 15 years old. In that vision the Son told him that all the sects were wrong and not to join any of them. He then claims that in 1823 the angel Moroni reveled to him the location of golden plates that he would not be allowed to retrieve until four years later. The writings on these plates, which could only be seen by faith,were then translated by the help of a seer stone, later called Urim and Thummim,which was placed into a hat that Smith would then bury his face into and then dictate what was to be written. This became the Book of Mormon which was published in 1830. Smith claimed additional revelations which were complied into Doctrines and Covenants. These two books plus Pearl of Great Price and the Bible, if correctly translated, are their sacred texts.

The differences between Mormon doctrine and Biblical revelation once again demonstrates its actual origin. Among the more serious heresies: God, Elohim,was once a man who achieved deity and faithful Mormons can do the same (As man now is, God once was. As God now is, man may be); Jesus is a created being from the sexual union of Elohim and Mary, and is the brother of Lucifer; salvation is by faith and good works and Mormon rituals. Mormonism presents a different god with a false gospel.