Please elaborate on your answer
2007-03-26 09:27:07 · 5 answers · asked by Quantrill 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think we are more monotheistic than most Christians.
However, I think that the closest term is "henotheistic", the belief that there are more than one gods, but we only worship ONE God.
2007-03-26 11:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All divisions of Christianity that believe in the Holy Trinity are polytheistic. They worship 3 "Gods" - The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2007-03-26 16:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by Maverick 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not in the traditional sense. Polytheists worship multiple gods simultaneously. (ie god of fire, god of wind, god of ocean, etc). Mormons do beleive in and worship God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, so I guess you could consider them "polytheists", but then again, most other christian sects would probably also fall under the same definition.
2007-03-26 16:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mormons are not polytheists. They are monotheistic. They believe in the Father (God), the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Ghost (holy spirit).
2007-03-26 16:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by Theresa B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
And the Gods planted a garden in Eden...." (Abraham 3:15; 4:3, 10, 25; 5:8)
Joseph Smith:
First, God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret.... I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined that God was God from all eternity.... God himself; the Father of us all dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ himself did.... You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves.... No man can learn you more than what I have told you (Times and Seasons, vol. 5, pp.613-14).]
Apostle Orson Pratt expounded concerning the Mormon doctrine of a plurality of Gods: "If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p.345).
President Brigham Young claimed: "He [God] is our Father—the Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods ... God has once been a finite being ... " (Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p.333).
"The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself ... We are created ... to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven" (Journal of Discourses, vol. 3, p.93).
2007-03-26 16:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋