Explaining the Trinity to Your Kids — Don’t Let Their Mormon Friend Pull Them Away

Sooner or later, most Catholic kids will hear something like:

“We believe in Jesus too — we just have more. We have the full gospel.”

What many Catholic parents don’t realize is this:
Mormon children are often taught to befriend your child and evangelize them.
It sounds friendly. But beneath the surface is a very different God.

The Catholic View: One God, Three Divine Persons

We believe in one God — not three gods acting as a team, but one divine nature in three divine Persons:

God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
They are not separate beings. They are not just good friends.
They are one eternal communion of love.

This is the Holy Trinity — not fully grasped by the mind, but revealed by Christ Himself.

Here’s the key:
When we do good, it’s not just us trying harder. It’s God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — working through us.
This is grace. It’s our cooperation with God’s divine life in us.

There’s nothing more fulfilling than doing God’s will for others.
We call this sanctifying grace — God’s own life poured into the soul.

The Mormon View: Three Separate Gods, Working Together

In Mormonism:

The Father is a separate being from the Son.
The Son is separate from the Holy Spirit.
Each is a “God” in his own right.
And human beings can become gods too — of their own worlds.
Here’s the problem:
This turns the devil’s lie in the Garden of Eden into a good thing.

“You can become gods,” the serpent told Eve.
That lie was the beginning of the Fall — separation from God’s will.
But Mormonism reframes it as the goal.

This is not a different take on Christianity.
It is a rejection of the Holy Trinity and a redefinition of God.

Same Christian-sounding words.
Very different meanings. That’s deception.

Why This Matters for Your Kids

In Catholicism, we don’t work our way to heaven like climbing a ladder.
We are transformed by grace — by God’s life dwelling within us.

In Mormonism, salvation is called exaltation — the idea that you can become a god yourself if you follow the rules and the “Plan.”

And in Utah, I’ve seen the cost of this mindset.
The pressure to appear perfect can lead to prescription drug abuse, and in tragic cases, even suicide.

It’s not that the grass is greener on the other side.
It’s just painted green — and that illusion is by design.

One teaches:

“It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” (Galatians 2:20)

The other teaches:

“You are a spirit child of Heavenly Father, and if you follow the plan, you can become what He is.”

Same vocabulary.
Very different gods.

A Place to Ask the Hard Questions

I’ve helped young Catholic kids wrestling with Mormonism. It’s not easy — but it’s possible.
That’s why I rebuilt www.UtahMission.com.

We now have an ASK & SEEK forum where anyone can explore these questions safely, without pressure or bias.

It’s not programmed to promote any one religion.
But because the Catholic Church is the Church Christ founded, the truth naturally leads home.

We don’t need to defend it.
We just need to point toward it.

Let the questions be asked. Let the truth speak.
Other faiths can’t do that honestly. They won’t like the answers they get.

But the Utah Mission gives seekers a place to land, a place to rest, and a place to come home.

~ God bless you. Keep your children rooted in truth. Don’t be afraid.