OxyMormonic teachings are bits of doctrine taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which as complete concepts, contain two or more sub-components that contradict each other -- yet at the same time composing the whole of the doctrinal thought. How can that be? Simply stated, OxyMormonics are religious double-speak that present an internal conflict in the individual; a practically unobtainable goal, or level of perfection that is impossible in human terms.


OxyMormonics - A Word Picture



Some time around 4th grade, science is introduced into our school curriculum, and a very common and popular science experiment is performed using small magnets.


As children we learn that magnets have two poles; a North pole and a South pole. We also learn that two like magnetic poles will oppose each other, but two unlike poles will attract each other.


In OxyMormonics, two magnets are forced together with their like-poles touching -- fighting the process with all the strength they posses. This process is not accomplished through science or nature, the magnets are forced together through brute strength, and are then welded together. Now you have two magnets stuck together with their like-poles touching (against their nature), but the rules of OxyMormonics say, “They are together, so they were meant to go together!”


Examples of OxyMormonics In Action



Doctrine of Salvation

“For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” - 2 Nephi 25:23


Doctrine of Humility

“Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble.” - Alma 32:16


Doctrine of the Bible

  1. 1. “We believe the Bible to be the word of God, as far as it has been translated correctly.” - 8th Article of Faith

  2. 2. “...the Gentiles shall say: ‘A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.’”
    ... “Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written.“ - 2 Nephi 29:3,10 (2 Nephi is said to have been written in 559 B.C. - the Bible was canonized and first called ‘The Holy Bible’ in 367 A.D. - this is a special kind of OxyMormonic, it is an anachronistic-OxyMormonic).


Doctrine of Jesus’ Birth

  1. 1. “And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost.” - Alma 7:10a

  2. 2. President Joseph Fielding Smith declared: "Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!" - Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, page 18.


Those examples are some of the most astounding and fundamental OxyMormonics:

1. The Book of Mormon says that Jesus was born in Jerusalem, when the Bible and historic evidence proves he was born in Bethlehem, and it also says

2. Jesus was born of a virgin, while LDS church President/Prophet/Seer Joseph Fielding Smith said that Mary had sexual relations with a man (God). Was she a virgin or not? If you put your faith in Mormonism, you have to believe that she was both a virgin at the time of Christ’s birth, but also had intimate physical, sexual relations with a man (God), yet remained a “virgin.” These two things are not possible in the real world.


Wait, there is a third one in there ... God is a man. But according to President Hinckley, “I don't know that we teach it.” So does God have “a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's” (Doctine & Covenants 130:22) or not?


For more OxyMormonics, go to the OxyMormonic Of The Week (OMOTW) pages.

 
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Overriding Cognitive Disharmony

The human mind is designed to alert you to contradictory ideas. Two ideas that contradict each other are identified automatically in the human mind, and it is up to you how you deal with that disharmony. Do you resolve the conflict, by identifying which idea does not fit correctly into your world view, or do you allow someone else to teach you to accept the contradictory ideas as compatible?


The LDS Church’s teachings and experiential learning process re-wires the subjects mind to accept contradictory information as being harmonious.


“We are saved by grace, after all we can do” is an excellent example. The Oxford English Dictionary says this about grace:


  1. 2. (in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.


Precisely because the Bible is translated from Hebrew and Greek to English, it is rational to expect that the words chosen for the English translation serve to represent the meaning of that word as commonly accepted in English. There are certainly cases where meanings of words are not direct in translation, but in most cases you can go back to the source material, as with the Bible, and look at the original words and discern the intent for yourself -- this is not possible with the Book of Mormon (but it is possible with the Book of Abraham!)


The LDS church’s True to the Faith pamphlet has this to say about the definition of grace:


  2. “...effort is required on our part to receive the fulness of the Lord’s grace and be made worthy...”


Which definition makes sense in the English language? Also note, the word ‘fulness’ is used as a device to stop your thinking process; it is what is called a “Thought Terminating Cliche’” and is used with great effect throughout Mormon doctrine.


Why would the LDS church do this to people, specifically attack the cognitive recognition and resolution circuitry of the human brain? This raises serious questions about the ethics and goals of the LDS church.


This short-circuiting of these cognitive triggers in the brain results in a sort of logical “hardening,” where foreign concepts (concepts that do not match LDS concepts) bounce off the hardened mind like bullets off of Superman.


Up is down and down is down. Left is right, and left is up. God is man, and man is God. Grace is free, after you pay for it.


Is reality reality, or is reality what you are told it is? You decide!