Do mormons believe that some day they will some day become gods?

Question

Mormon missionaries came to my door and I asked them that and they TOTALLY blew the question off, but they did not deny it.. so, if someone could get me a biblical citation or some sort of concrete evidence, if it is true, you will definitally get the 10 points.

God was once a man like us.
God has a tangible body of flesh and bone.
God lives on a planet near the star Kolob.
God ("Heavenly Father") has at least one wife, our "Mother in Heaven," but she is so holy that we are not to discuss her nor pray to her.

We can become like God and rule over our own universe.

There are many gods, ruling over their own worlds.

Jesus and Satan ("Lucifer") are brothers, and they are our brothers - we are all spirit children of Heavenly Father

Jesus Christ was conceived by God the Father by having sex with Mary, who was temporarily his wife.

We should not pray to Jesus, nor try to feel a personal relationship with him.
"God" ("Jehovah") in the Old Testament is the being named Jesus in the New Testament.

In the the highest degree of the celestial kingdom some men will have more than one wife.

Before coming to this earth we lived as spirits in a "pre-existence", during which we were tested; our position in this life (whether born to Mormons or savages, or in America or Africa) is our reward or punishment for our obedience in that life.
Dark skin is a curse from God, the result of our sin, or the sin of our ancestors. If sufficiently righteous, a dark-skinned person will become light-skinned.
The Garden of Eden was in Missouri. All humanity before the Great Flood lived in the western hemisphere. The Ark transported Noah and the other survivors to the eastern hemisphere.


WOW! WHO KNEW!

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures alone quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.

(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation

(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.

(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God

(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God

(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth

(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak

(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am

(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him

(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father

(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God

(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.

(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah

(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him

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Answer 2

Almost everything you listed, we do believe.

We don't believe that God the Father had physical sex with Mary, contrary to what people might tell you.

Also, we are very encouraged to have a close relationship with Jesus Christ. He is our Brother, we love Him for everything He has done for us. Reading the Book of Mormon, praying, paying tithing, attending the temple, all things we are commanded and encouraged to do are ways to become closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We pray to our Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.
We do not know much about our Heavenly Mother, my guess is because our Heavenly Father does not want Her disgraced and disrespected as He is.
Doctrine and Covenants section 132 was revealed to the Prophet, and describes how one may become like our Heavenly Father.

Answer 3

I'm not a Mormon and I'm an Evangelical Christian. Before I say that it's true, let me explain something about Man. Man was created in God's image. The New Testament has wording that we are to be like gods, like Jesus. We become more and more like God when we grow. The Mormons take this concept one step further and see God as a former man, and that man will eventually be like God. They don't like to talk about it because they don't want to scare anyone away, so they try to sound just like main stream Christians, and they have many beliefs that are like Christians. I simply reject that Joseph Smith, all the so called Mormon prophets are true prophets of God and have new revelation. These prophets have distorted the Gospel, and there are so many false teachings that the Mormons have to cover them up. They used to not allow Blacks into the Temple.



"We must advance through stages to godhood. As man now is, God once was even the babe of Bethlehem, advancing to childhood thence to boyhood, manhood, then to the Godhead. This, then, is the 'mark of the prize of man's high calling in Christ Jesus.'"

Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p.5

Answer 4

Do we believe it? Yes we do, just as long as we live righteously.

Doesn't this contradict those Biblical scriptures that say there is no other god beside God? No, it doesn't.

How? I don't know, exactly. God knows, for He knows everything. How does the newer law of Christ not contradict the
Law of Moses, or the discoveries of Einstein not contradict the laws discovered by Newton? Because one law is higher than the other. Because of the same reasons that "Einstein" and "ancient science" "break" the familiar "I before E except after C" rule.[1] Just because they don't. I can't explain it, exactly.

And the Biblical reference(s)? That would actually be difficult, seeing as how our religion does not come exclusively from the Bible. In my attempt to do so nonetheless, there is Psalm 82:1 and 6, which mentions "gods", and says that God says we are "gods". (Jesus quotes this later in John 10:34-36.) Paul states in I Corinthians 8:5-6 that there are "gods many, and lords many," but to us, only "one God, the Father, [...] and one Lord Jesus Christ [...]."

There are other references. Paul states in Ephesians 4:13 that we can come unto a "perfect man". In 1 John 3:2, John states that "we shall be like him [i.e. God]". In Revelation 3:21, John states that if we overcome, we shall sit with the Savior in His throne, just like he did, in his Father's throne. Paul says in Romans 8:16-17 that we are children of God, and thus, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. There are still others, but I think those work better than some.

You may be saying, That doesn't prove it! Well, I suppose not. It is like, I suppose, trying to use Judaism to convert a Jew to Christianity. It is at least, I think, supporting evidence.

Why did they blow the question off, you may ask? Simple. Milk before meat. Walking before running. Arithmetic before algebra. These are "difficult" doctrines[2] that are beyond the basics of our, or rather the Lord's, church. The basic doctrines are the Jesus is the Christ, and the church of old is restored (to name a few). Joseph Smith once said to Brigham Young, in effect, "If I told you everything I know, you would fall away", so Brigham declined. Hope that answers that.

Sure hope I was helpful. If not, I hope others are.

Answer 5

22 ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
(Old Testament | Genesis 3:22)

Above verse indicates that we can be like God.

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
(New Testament | Matthew 5:48)

This verse indicated Jesus Christ teaches we should be like God.

Answer 6

Yes and they think that they will have any of the women they want as wives after they become a God of their own world. So the question is why would a woman want to be Mormon?

Answer 7

Mormons also believe that Joseph Smith is some sort of Apostle and that the Book of the Mormon's also source of Divine authority.

Answer 8

First off,you were brave to ask them.Kudos!
There is this website. allaboutcults.org
Type in 'what mormons believe" to the Yahoo!
search engine and you'll find that link.It compares Mormonism to Christianity.Very helpful. Glad intelligent people like you want to know the facts and not just opinions!

Answer 9

Yes that is what they believe. They believe that when you die, you are sent to your own planet in the universe where you will populate the planet and rule it for all eternity and be its God. So stupid and mislead are these poor ignorant people.

Answer 10

I just read the best book on this subject. It's by R.H. Roberts or somthing like that, and it's a back and fourth between Him and a catholic preacher about mormon doctrine. RH pretty much broke it down in the simpelest of forms and shut down the Catholic like woah.

But to answer your question... there are plenty of biblical "evidences" of becoming as a god. However... do we belioeve that we will be the same as god? No... that's somthing Christians blew out of porportion. We believe that we never stop progressing... Meaning when we get to "Heaven" we're not jsut sitting there stagnant, but that we have a purpose in heaven as we do on earth. And that purpose is to further progress eternally, spiritually and in all things.

The Book is called "Mormon Doctrine of Diety" by B.H. Roberts, and it's one of my favorites so far.

Now for biblical quotes:
"That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as We are one." John 17:21,22
If you believe Jesus is God, then this is pretty plain.

http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_theosis.shtml
Jeff Lindsay always lays it down.

We are promised that we can receive "the fullness of God" through the grace of Christ (Ephesians 3:19)

Paul said that Christians can become "joint heirs with Christ" and be glorified with Him (Romans 8:14-18)

He challenged us to pursue the example of Christ "who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God" (Philippian 2:5,6)

Peter said that through Christ, we can "put on the divine nature" and receive great and precious promises (2 Peter 1:3-4)

Those who follow Christ can become "like Him" (1 John 3:2)

can "inherit all things" (Rev. 21:7)

nd can be kings and priests before God (Rev. 1:6)

sitting with Christ in His throne (Rev. 3:21)

If you want to learn about the church... there are PLENTY of other more sound way's of learning thatn through your Anti-Mormon books and classes. There are actually books written with out the intent of tearing it down, strictly on a non-bias standpoint.

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