Who is the True Jesus?

The current (2023) President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, Jeffrey R. Holland, has declared: “A Trinitarian notion [was] never set forth in the scriptures because it is not true.”

We must read and compare and decide for ourselves who is telling the truth!

What about Jesus of Mormonism? Who is he? Is he a man who became a god (as Mormonism says, and that all mankind can also become) or is He God who became a man to die in our place and pay our sin-debt, as the Bible teaches?  What does the Mormon Church actually teach about who Jesus is?

From The Gospel through Ages, an LDS Melchizedek Priesthood Manual, (pp. 14-15), we learned: “Jesus is man’s spiritual brother. We lived with him in the spirit world as members of that large society of eternal intelligences, which included our Heavenly Parents and all the personages who have become mortal beings upon this earth… In that spirit–creation (where we were born) we became children of God, Jesus was the “first-born” and so he is our elder brother…Our Heavenly Father proposed as a center of the plan of salvation that one of His sons be appointed to be the Savior of the world…Appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the World was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to become the Savior of mankind. At the great council, he proposed a new plan of salvation...”

[Note: Lucifer’s plan was rejected by the great council and thus Jesus was chosen as a Savior, over Lucifer.]

— Rauni and Dennis Higley (Long time Mormons prior to salvation, the Higley’s H.I.S. ministry continues ministering to Mormons).