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To: counterpunch
Lots of people have claimed to be the Son, but this is the first I know of claiming to be the Holy Ghost. Isn’t that a bit hard for a living guy to pull off?

[Hey, this guy's only taking Joseph Smith literally. Smith taught toward the end of his life that "you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves...by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one...from exaltation to exaltation, until you...are able to dwell in everlasting burnings..." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 346-347, published 1938 by Deseret News Press, owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons)]

So, this guy's just chosen to start his "exaltation" as a "holy ghost" god...

I'm sure, as Smith says, he'll go from small degrees & capacities to others, maybe graduating from "holy ghost godhood" until he's "able to dwell in everlasting burnings" -- which Smith repeatedly said was the outcome for such godhood-seeking...and he thought that would be a positive thing!

8 posted on 07/03/2009 6:29:54 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

***So, this guy’s just chosen to start his “exaltation” as a “holy ghost” god...***

When does he build his own cathedral and staff it with his own choir?


17 posted on 07/03/2009 7:48:01 AM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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