1 Nephi 14:10
10 And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth.
In the true church there is but one God over this earth. In the church of the devil, there are many false churches and Gods. Some have been set up to emulate the true church of God and have mixed evil with good to fool those on the earth. Others worship dumb idols. And yet others worship the non-existence of God and as mentioned earlier science even when science itself has been corrupted with false teachings.
Doctrine and Covenants 93:24-25
24 And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come;
25 And whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning.
In the beginning, there was only god, to a believer, so believers must see god as the liar. That is part of why Gnostic Christians call god a vile demiurge.
Scriptures even back up that view.
Now, therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.
1Kings 22:23
Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets.
2 Chron 18:22
God being a God of goodness will not always allow the wicked to proper. He will not bless them in their evil ways but will confound the wicked that they prosper not. The above verses speak of Ahab, who was the most wicked of all the kings of Israel. He was married to Jezebel.
1 Kings 21:25
25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Jezebel
A Phoenician princess, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidonians, and wife of Ahab, king of Israel (
1 Kgs. 16:31). This marriage, more than any other single event, caused the downfall of the northern kingdom, as Jezebel introduced into Israel the worst forms of Phoenician worship in place of the worship of Jehovah (
1 Kgs. 18:4, 13, 19;
19:1–2; see also
21:5–25;
2 Kgs. 9). In
Rev. 2:20 the name is applied figuratively to a woman (or sect) causing great harm to the Church in Thyatira. See also
Athaliah.
Ahab
(1) Son of Omri, and the most wicked and most powerful of the kings of northern Israel; he married Jezebel, a Sidonian princess, through whose influence the worship of Baal and Asherah was established in Israel (
1 Kgs. 16:32–33;
2 Kgs. 3:2); and an attempt was made to exterminate the prophets and the worship of Jehovah (
1 Kgs. 18:13). We have another instance of Jezebel’s evil influence over Ahab in the story of Naboth (
1 Kgs. 21). During Ahab’s reign the kingdom of Israel was politically strong. After a struggle with Benhadad, king of Syria, in which Ahab was successful (
1 Kgs. 20), Israel and Syria made an alliance for the purpose of opposing Assyria. We learn from Assyrian inscriptions that the united forces were defeated by Shalmaneser Ⅲ, and Ahab then made an alliance with Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, against Syria and was killed while attempting to capture Ramoth-gilead (
1 Kgs. 22;
2 Chr. 18).
Do you blame the LORD for confounding wickedness and prospering righteousness?
Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people.
Jer 4:1 states:
Jeremiah 4:1
1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Again, it is because of the wickedness of the people that the LORD allows them to be deceived. The LORD will not prosper the wicked.
And if a prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet.
Ezekiel 14:9
For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.
Thessalonians 2:11
O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived. - Jeremiah 20:7
All your quotes deal with God's not backing the wickedness of the ungodly. God will not prosper the wicked in their evil ways but will send then strong delusion.
To me, God’s worse lie was to Adam and Eve. He told them they could eat of the tree of life and then reneged and in a real sense murdered them by denying them a remedy.
That pesky God sure works in mysterious ways.
I do agree that the church is evil and corrupt though.
I also think that those who believe in a supernatural god or Satan should seek help.
Regards
DL
God blocking the tree of life was for man's own good. Once man had become a fallen creature, he needed time to repent of his sins. Life then became a probationary state. A time for man to repent and turn from his evil ways and worship God. Had Adam and Eve partaken of the tree of life before repenting of their sin, they would have lived forever in a state of unrepentance and would not have received the mercy they needed. God blocked the tree to give them the opportunity to repent and come unto him.
Alma 12:21-30
21 What does the scripture mean, which saith that God placed cherubim and a flaming sword on the east of the garden of Eden, lest our first parents should enter and partake of the fruit of the tree of life, and live forever? And thus we see that there was no possible chance that they should live forever.
22 Now Alma said unto him: This is the thing which I was about to explain. Now we see that Adam did fall by the partaking of the forbidden fruit, according to the word of God; and thus we see, that by his fall, all mankind became a lost and fallen people.
23 And now behold, I say unto you that if it had been possible for Adam to have partaken of the fruit of the tree of life at that time, there would have been no death, and the word would have been void, making God a liar, for he said: If thou eat thou shalt surely die.
24 And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent; therefore this life became a probationary state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead.
25 Now, if it had not been for the plan of redemption, which was laid from the foundation of the world, there could have been no resurrection of the dead; but there was a plan of redemption laid, which shall bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, of which has been spoken.
26 And now behold, if it were possible that our first parents could have gone forth and partaken of the tree of life they would have been forever miserable, having no preparatory state; and thus the plan of redemption would have been frustrated, and the word of God would have been void, taking none effect.
27 But behold, it was not so; but it was appointed unto men that they must die; and after death, they must come to judgment, even that same judgment of which we have spoken, which is the end.
28 And after God had appointed that these things should come unto man, behold, then he saw that it was expedient that man should know concerning the things whereof he had appointed unto them;
29 Therefore he sent angels to converse with them, who caused men to behold of his glory.
30 And they began from that time forth to call on his name; therefore God conversed with men, and made known unto them the plan of redemption, which had been prepared from the foundation of the world; and this he made known unto them according to their faith and repentance and their holy works.
