Is the Mormon religion man made?

Answer 1

It is problematic to say that any religion is "man-made," since this implies a judgment. Believers in that faith will always assert that their religion was created with the inspiration of a Deity or Divine figure (whether God, Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, etc) or a divinely inspired human who served as a prophet (Muhammad, Mahavira, Guru Nanak, Joseph Smith, etc). But from a skeptic's or an atheist's point of view, all religions-- Mormonism included-- are man-made, since there is no way to prove the existence of a deity, nor to prove the claims contained in the stories that are found in various scriptures.

That said, the answer to your question depends on which group of people you ask. From a Mormon believer's point of view, the religion was divinely inspired, not man-made, and the proof lies in the scriptures that were revealed to its founders. And from a skeptic's point of view, Mormonism was invented and its beliefs were then promoted by its leaders.