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To: colorcountry

http://www.bcmmin.org/evolut4.html

I found this link very interesting in comparing Christianity/Bible with The Book of Mormon and revelations of J.Smith. One excerpt:



Joseph Smith at the April 1844 general conference taught that the Father was once a man like us before becoming a God.

- God an Exalted Man --- I will go back to the beginning before the world was, to show what kind of being God is. What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear,...God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!...you would see him like a man in form ­­ like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man;...it is necessary we should understand the character and being of God and how he came to be so; for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity(5). I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see....(April 1844, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, by Joseph Fielding Smith, p. 345; History of the Church 6:305)


213 posted on 04/30/2006 8:47:46 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: bonfire

Good link. The reference is also one that the Church recognizes as "official." You have to be careful of that. They must be "official sources."

It is strage however, that they keep referring us to www.fairlds.org and farms.byu.edu when it plainly states on those websites that these two sources are not "officially" recognized as representative of LDS beliefs.


214 posted on 04/30/2006 9:04:07 PM PDT by colorcountry (He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.)
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