Mormons, do you believe in innumerable gods?

Question

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." (Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, p. 345)

Shera Lee,

Thanks for attempting to answer my questions. You are the only one who tried to answer honestly and not be evasive.

Actually the concept is not hard to understand. I just do not believe in defining someone elses beliefs.

Although your beliefs are not that difficult to understand, they are quite foreign to Christian teaching and are contrary to the teaching of Christ and the apostles. It makes me wonder why Mormons have a desire to be called Christians when they believe and teach entirely different theology and even really teach a different Christ and understanding of the nature of God. As a Church historian what bothers me the most about Mormonism is the fact that the very existence of tthe Mormon Church calls Christ a liar when they claim they are a restored Church after Jesus clearly stated that His Church would endure for all time and not apostasize after the death of the original deciples. There is no Biblical or historical claim to such a doctrine.

Answer 1

These Mormons have no idea what their own church teaches. I dont think the church knows what it believes. It seems they just make everything up as they go along and when it conflicts with anything they dont like, they invoke a preisthood or testimony. Then they want to be Christians too? TOTALLY BIZARRE!!!

Answer 2

Hey, this is a question for Mormons to answer. Can't you all read? ;-)

Actually, we worship only ONE GOD--The Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.

We don't know if there are other Gods in the universe, who they are, how many they are, etc--nothing. It's all pure speculation. Nothing has been revealed to us in detail. If it turns out there are more gods in the universe, we would still only worship our God, and none other.

And just to clarify something---the apostles did prophesy that there would be an apostasy of the original church of Christ.

1 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2-That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand
3-Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there be a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

--2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

The truth being if Christ's church never strayed from the original church and we were all members of Christ's church, then we would all be Catholic, since the Catholic Church claims succession from the original Church of Christ.

If there wasn't an apostasy, then we wouldn't have hundreds of Christian denominations. All of these churches were founded on the pursuit of Christ's truth. The fact is that entire truth of Christ's gospel was lost during the dark ages which was the same time of the apostasy. People since the time of Martin Luther, men of faith have been eagerly seeking the truth of Christ's gospel, but were limited to man's finite wisdom. How can the truth be defined in its entirety without the help of prophets, apostles, and direct revelation from God?

Remember what Paul said to the Ephesians--

"One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism" -- Ephesians 4:5

The Old Testament prophet Amos also prophesied of an apostasy:

11- Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst, for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord;
12- And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."
--Amos 8:11-12

Does this scriptures not define the chaos that is going on now with so many people confused by all the different religions and Christian denominations of the world? Does this not describe the turmoil that men in the time of the Reformation? People never really found the whole. There were endless number disputes and more churches were founded.

To sum it up, let me relate two of the thirteen articles of faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints:

9- "We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth."

13-- "We believe all that God has revealed, all the He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pretaining to the Kingdom of God"

Answer 3

Two mormon authors, both with doctorates from BYU and who have not been excommunicated, have published books (albeit thin ones) on this very subject: John Hienerman's "People in Space" and Lynn Hiltons "Kolob Theorem". The former can be found on eBay, the latter available as an internet PDF file.

Neither 'book' can be considered doctrinal, and are wildly apocryphal in their "facts", but since they don't say that 'Lamanites are Mongols', the church hasn't felt compelled to say "No", or boot them out.

I think most LDS would be disturbed by these two 'academics' ideology.

Answer 4

LDS people, believe in and worship one and only one God. There could be other gods out there, but that wouldn't change who we prayed to. We do believe, that if we live the way we should, that we can become gods and goddesses of our own worlds after the second coming. but we do just believe in the one god. i know it's a bit of a confusing concept, and i would suggest asking a LDS person in your area for a more detailed explanation.

Answer 5

That's just the opinion of Orson Pratt and not official mormon doctrine.

As Paul said they are many gods but we worship only one.

Answer 6

Yes, they believe The Father is a created being of His God. and He of His and so on back into eternity past. That is their belief. It's called "The Plan of Salvation" . This is so Non-biblical and outside the teaching of the Christian Church that holding this belief is the number ONE reason they are considered a non-christian cult... Jim

Answer 7

For starters, we've faith the Bible which teaches that the daddy the Son and the Holy Ghost are separate and diverse persons. right it fairly is between the various examples: "Jesus saith unto her, touch me no longer; for i'm no longer yet ascended to my Father: yet bypass to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17) Jesus and His disciples have the comparable Father and the comparable God! Can somebody forget approximately approximately this verse and declare to have faith the Bible? we are no longer Catholics and we are no longer Protestants, and opposite to what one poster stated, we've in no way tried to latest ourselves as portion of "Orthodox Christianity", nor can we use the term "Trinity". We latest ourselves as Christians, no longer Protestants or Evengelicals or "Born back Christians" or Catholics. We have faith that the organic gospel that Christ taught, and the church He wide-unfold, have been lost from the earth long until now any of the above religions have been created. A Christian is somebody who believes in Christ, merely like a Buddhist is somebody who believes in Buddha. We have faith in Jesus Christ, so as that on my own makes us Christian. we are no longer required to settle for any specific doctrine taught via different religions to be properly categorized as a Christian. certainly, the Christian international needs to renowned that there are a number of distinctive church homes which declare to be Christian, that have very distinctive techniques approximately Christ, even interior the Protestant church homes. Please do no longer think of that because of the fact we've faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God that we are no longer Christians. "yet those are written, that ye would have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye would have existence by his call. " (John 20:31) "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. " (a million John 4:15) We confess that Jesus is the Son of God!

Answer 8

Ah but god says "Thous shalt have no other Gods before me" and what are Mormons doing??? making themselves into Gods and goddesses.

Answer 9

Holy moley! Gazillions of gods? If this is true we might have to spend HOURS saying our bedtime prayers.... and as for grace before meals.... we'll all starve.

Answer 10

If you keep asking questions about their doctrine they will accuse you of being hateful and bitter. Of course, any one who disagrees with them is hateful and bitter.