gdemetz wrote:Yes, that is correct. "As man is, God once was; and as God is, man may become."
This is a the kind of doctrine that makes a great sales pitch but says absolutely nothing. Mormons might as well have it as a short-hand sign off to their text messages. AmiGowaaGimmb.
The idea is, of course, that if you just study hard enough and long enough, eventually you will know everything. Any perusal of scripture will quickly inform the curious that a god will need to know every single thing about every and all things. This mangod will have to make everything that can be made.
It ain't gonna happen! My proof? Go to IKEA, buy a bookshelf, throw away the instruction manual(s), (yes, even the instructions in Korean with the numbered pictures), and put the shelves together without making any mistakes. See? can't be done. So how are you going to create worlds?
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love...you make. PMcC
It's a lot more than apostate Christendom has said! Once one realizes how little he really knows, and how much more there is to learn, then he is at a good starting point! Do you realize how close we are to actually creating life from scratch, or prolonging life for e extended periods of time, even on our own little world at this short period of time? God has been at this for a long time before you were ever born, and it is not a big problem for Him to create a world!
gdemetz wrote:It's a lot more than apostate Christendom has said! Once one realizes how little he really knows, and how much more there is to learn, then he is at a good starting point! Do you realize how close we are to actually creating life from scratch, or prolonging life for e extended periods of time, even on our own little world at this short period of time? God has been at this for a long time before you were ever born, and it is not a big problem for Him to create a world!
So, Mormon's are Christians even though; they don't believe in the Christ of traditional Christianity; they believe God was once a man; that there are many many Gods with multiple wives; and that we can also become Gods over our own planets.
But, the FLDS aren't Mormon's even though they believe in exactly the same restoration of exactly the same Gospel by exactly the same Prophet with exactly the same scriptures as the LDS.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
gdemetz wrote:Of course, they are "Mormons" also, but they do not belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS.
Taken to a separate thread.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
