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“By and large, Mormons are an honest, clean, decent, industrious and patriotic lot.”

Agreed.

I still believe they are a cult, and that there are serious credibility issues with Mormon writings.

I am told they believe that we will all be gods some day, and thought “that is odd”.

Then I stopped and thought, in most mainstream Christian religions, it is believed that God’s plan is to raise all his (saved) children with perfect bodies, and that they will all live forever, adoring Him.

Hmmmm...essentially, like gods.

So I am willing to give them a pass, especially on the “fruit of the tree” issue.

“By and large, Mormons are an honest, clean, decent, industrious and patriotic lot.”
I agree. They are deeply committed to their parishoners including financial when necessary, but they are generally highly financially successful themselves. They suppport the America Conservatives support and are less Leftest than my local USA Presbyterrian churches who have given to Acorn for their so called,feed the hungry program.

It has fit a need for Glenn Beck-maybe it was the alcholic recovery program? Who knows. But he doesn’t prothosolize his beliefs which is far better than the anti-God left.

Hmmmm...essentially, like gods.

Not so much, actually.

Unless you've spotted a verse that says we will also be able to literally create from nothing, then we won't be gods. We will be more human than we are now and as human as God originally created Adam and Eve. That's the Christian theology on the point.

Now, from the point of view of the text usually cited here, what we will be will be sufficiently improved that to us as unimproved, we may as well BE gods, but that's only a relative observation, not an objective truth. See the difference?

So I am willing to give them a pass, especially on the “fruit of the tree” issue.

But wait!! There's MORE!!

2 Nephi 3:12 Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins write; and the fruit of thy loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins of Judah, shall grow together,

2 Nephi 3:18 And the Lord said unto me also: I will raise up unto the fruit of thy loins; and I will make for him a spokesman. And I, behold, I will give unto him that he shall write the writing of the fruit of thy loins, unto the fruit of thy loins; and the spokesman of thy loins shall declare it.

Joseph Smith Translation Gen. 50: 27 Thus saith the Lord God of my fathers unto me, A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins, and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins; and unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren.

Joseph Smith Translation Gen. 50: 31 Wherefore the fruit of thy loins shall write, and the fruit of thy loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins of Judah, shall grow together