this is a question for the LDS/Mormons.
2007-06-21 08:05:28 · 10 answers · asked by KellyKapowski 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am referring to an answer I recieved from an LDS on R&S that said "as man is God once was, as God is man may become."
2007-06-21 08:15:33 · update #1
God was not first a man. God was and is and always will be God. God did become flesh to pay the penalty of death that man acquired through his sin.
2007-06-21 08:10:52 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 11⤊ 1⤋
It was taught as doctrine in the early of days of Mormonism that God was a mortal just like you and me, passed the test, and progressed to Godhood.
However in a recent interview with Gordon B. Hinckley
Q: ... Don’t Mormons believe that God was once a man?
A. Hinckley: “I wouldn’t say that. ... That gets into some pretty deep theology that we don’t know very much about.”
Mormons are beginning to publicly deny this one time doctrine.
But if God was once a man, passed the test, and became a God, than it makes sense that he had heavenly parents, and both immediate and extended family, and that his heavenly father, and great heavenly father and great, great heavenly father also were at one point mortals going through a test as we are now.
2007-06-22 06:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has always been God. John 1:1 In the BEGINNING was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
In other scriptures, He says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, before Me there are no other gods."
While it's true, Mormons think God was once a man and what God is, THEY can become. They are tragically and sadly mistaken and have been taught a horribly false doctrine.
The Mormon god lives on the planet Kolob with his many goddess wives. Their impotent Jesus is the brother of Lucifer, who in no way can save them from the hell they're headed to.
2007-06-21 08:20:45 · answer #3 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Logically, God came from his physical father and ultimately from his father in heaven, and so on. It takes the infinite nature normally ascribed to a single deity and adds the element of birth, death, ascension and a "family' of gods, their wives, children and other planets.
Smith originally stated this in detail in his "King Follet" speech, but the entire concept, while clever for a 19th century farm boy, is comical taken to it's absurd conclusion.
2007-06-21 13:15:45 · answer #4 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See Joseph Smith did not include that in his story, nor did he explain ho he sees his eternal, families are forever, parents and grandparents, you'd think he could have tied up this loose end.
2007-06-21 14:42:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're exactly backwards.
Yea, I know what you're saying. They believe that man becomes a "god".
weird
2007-06-21 08:10:01 · answer #6 · answered by RIFF 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a previous universe with a previous God? Cycles of Heaven.
2007-06-21 08:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's a good question.
If you ask God that question, then maybe He will tell you and you can tell us and we will all know. Cause He's never told us about it.
2007-06-21 08:18:03 · answer #8 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He wasn't.
2007-06-21 08:12:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was created by the Christians in R&S.......trust me..
2007-06-21 08:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋