Do Mormons think they that they will become gods? [Open Thread]

Mormon answers ^ | 2010 | Jeff Lindsay

[Mr. Jazzy]

“Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings. and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power. And I want you to know that God, in the last days, while certain individuals are proclaiming His name, is not trifling with you or me.” (LDS President Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol.6, Ch.14, p.305-6)

Sure sounds to me like old Joe thought that HE was just as good as God, but you just need to LEARN how to be a god, like all the other gods.

[Elsie]

There is no WAY we could know what MORMONs think; but we sure DO know what MORMONism has written: namely D&C 132:58-66

Oops!

D&C 132:15-20

[restornu]

When the critics make these claims, they never explain what LDS doctrine really is and what it is not. We absolutely DO NOT believe that we will ever be independent of God or no longer subject to Him.

So what you are saying is that The LDS Heavenly Father is subject to another God and that the LDS Heavenly Father is somehow not independent of the God that he worshiped when he was a man on another planet.

Do I have this correct?

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Abraham 3

17 Now, if there be two things, one above the other, and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or a star may exist above it; and there is nothing that the Lord thy God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it.

18 Howbeit that he made the greater star; as, also, if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal.

19 And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all.

[P-Marlowe]

I’ll take that as a “YES”.

[Godzilla]

Oh I have resty, many times over in the context that you apparently fail to do. Note carefully how he differentiates between Zoe and bios. mormons get the two mixed up and in this page he destroys the concept of pre-existance. And where does man get Zoe from resty in Lewis’ world. Certainly not from mormon temple ordinances, works or rules.

[restornu]

I already answered you it is not yes!

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I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all.

[Religion Moderator]

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