PUZZLE #33 - Unchangeable

"For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity." (Moroni 8:18 Page 526)

God is not a being which changes. He is unchangeable FROM all eternity TO all eternity. FROM all eternity in the past, TO all eternity in the future, He is an
unchangeable being. He does not change. He has always been God, and He will always be God.

Mormonism teaches that our God was once a man, and that their god progressed over time until he became A god. That doesn't agree with this passage from the Book of Mormon which emphatically states that God has never changed, and never will. How can Mormonism teach that God was once a mortal man, while their Book of Mormon teaches that He has always been God and never anything but God? It's a PUZZLE to me.

Can this doctrinal discrepancy just be pushed aside and ignored? Ask yourself and your friends how this contradiction can be rationalized. This verse is not vague. Its meaning is clear. God has always been God, from eternity past to now, and He will continue to be God for eternity into the future. Unchangeable is unchangeable. Unchangeable is not a word you can use to present the Mormon idea of God having once been a man.

The Book of Mormon was first in a series of texts which Joseph Smith and associates produced and presented to the world under the guise of divine authorship. It put
Joseph Smith into the self-proclaimed office of "The Prophet". Revered as such by his followers, he used his later 'revelations' to subdue and manipulate the people by claiming that God was the one giving directions.

Leaving behind decidedly 'Christian' ideas and doctrines found in the Book of Mormon, he moved with confidence into such bizarre doctrines as polygamy and communal ownership of property. Those who got in the way were swept aside with the words, 'thus saith the lord'. The doctrines found in the Book of Mormon were faded
memories, and few Mormons ever noticed that his new ideas were visibly at odds with the earlier, more Christian doctrines of Mormonism.

Today, nothing has changed. Point to a contradiction between the doctrines of the Book of Mormon and the teachings of the Mormon church, and most Mormons will tell you that it doesn't matter because they have a living prophet of God at the head of their church.

Would that be a prophet of the God who is unchanged FROM eternity TO eternity, or a prophet of A god who was once a man? For which god (if any) does the Mormon prophet work?