an LDS answered one of my previous questions with this....can someone please explain it to me? How could God, who is supreme, the beginning and the end, the creator of all things, have been a man at one time?
2007-06-20 02:05:00 · 13 answers · asked by KellyKapowski 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The scriptures contain many references to us being the children of God, and of our divine potential.
Romans 8:16-17
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Does it really make sense to you that there ever was a father who was not himself a son? I'm sure you can see the logic -- the only question is if it's true. We live in a time where prophets of God again walk the earth, allowing us to gain a much better understanding of our true relationship with God. We are truly His offspring in more than just a figurative sense.
A latter-day prophet, Lorenzo Snow, summarized this teaching clearly when he said, “As man is God once was; As God is, man may be” (in Thomas C. Romney, The Life of Lorenzo Snow [Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1955], p. 46).
The purpose of earth life is to help us grow and develop to someday reach our divine potential.
2007-06-20 02:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is a person, but His body is different from those of conditioned persons like us.
In the Vedas it is said that only the Lord alone exists, and all others' existences depend on Him. He is the generating reservoir for everyone's existential capacity; He is the Supreme Truth of all other categorical truths. He is the source of everyone's opulence, and therefore no one can equal Him in opulence. Being full of all opulences, namely wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, certainly He is the Supreme Person. And because He is a person, He has many personal qualities, although He is transcendental to the material modes.
This suggests His specific spiritual form, which can never be experienced by the material senses. He can be seen only when the senses are purified by devotional service (yam evaisa vrnute tena -labhyaù Katha Upanisad 1.2.23). As such, there are basic differences between the Lord and the living entities, in so many respects.
2007-06-20 12:07:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being created in the image of the Father is, In the image of His Spirit. Adam was created in the image of God, we know this, but I have always wondered about Gen.5:3 "Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in (his own likeness),(after his image), and called his name Seth. I wish I had the answer as to what the image of Adam was at this time. We know that he had sinned and was driven from the Garden. God breathed the breath of life into him and he became a living soul, Note: John 20:22 , but, He was to die the day that he sinned. Was Seth in the image of God or in the image of Adam? As to your question, I believe for us to look like Him, we must act like Him.
2007-06-20 09:34:12 · answer #3 · answered by don_steele54 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mormons believ that God the Father has a body. The Mormons do not believe in the Trinity.
2007-06-20 09:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He couldn't, this is but one of the holes in their doctrine. I've also never gotten a straight answer about how if God became God by following Mormon doctrine, where did his god come from? Maybe an LDS member will answer here.
2007-06-20 09:11:03 · answer #5 · answered by Machaira 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He never was a man (although His Son was). When the Bible states that we were created in His image, that could mean that God simply made Adam to look like Him. It doesn't state that God was a man.
2007-06-20 09:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That statement is not entirely correct.
We do look like our heavenly Father as in we are in His image. It is not that He was once a person, but that we are made to look like Him. We are made of three parts Body, Mind, and Spirit. There are three parts to the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
2007-06-20 09:11:59 · answer #7 · answered by messiahspaladin 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus Christ was God in the flesh...
And we will be transformed into His likeness someday
Read 1 Corinthians 15:51-59....we get new incorruptible bodies at the resurrection
2007-06-20 09:08:33 · answer #8 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, I actually think it makes perfect sense. If a god does exist, it couldn't have just popped into existence ('cause he would be too complex), so he would have had to have evolved into the complex thing that he is. I'm not Mormon, I'm just saying.
2007-06-20 09:08:40 · answer #9 · answered by A 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The same way that Jesus Christ was a man at one time. You don't have any problem calling him God now, do you?
2007-06-20 10:45:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋