Aren't Mormons ashamed to admit the believe they will be become gods?

Question

They like to sugar coat it and say that they will become perfect like Christ, but the truth is they think they will become a god.

The Pastor is correct!

"Book of Abraham" in The Pearl of Great Price, 1976 printing, p.35)

"Kolob, signifying the first creation, nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God. First in government, the last pertaining to the measurement of time. The measurement according to celestial time, which celestial time signifies one day to a cubit. One day in Kolob is equal to a thousand years according to the measurement of this earth, which is called by the Egyptians Jah-oh-eh."

Of course this is coming from the same prophet who translated the golden plates by putting them in his hat and using a magic rock. There's not enough room to give all the details but Jospeh Smith was also very much a mason. All mormons know that. They just won't talk about it. The same as they won't talk about the symbols on their "magical underware" that symbolize satin's power and priesthood.

Answer 1

Why would we be ashamed of the Bible?

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Answer 2

I will be 40 years old this year and my mother will be 75...we have both been raised LDS. Neither of us in all these years has ever heard anything about how we will "become a god". It is just that we will become god-like or like god in becoming immortal. We will have to in order to live in God's presence. That means that we will have to be perfected through Christ's atonement. I see several other EXCELLENT answers with more details than I have.

To learn the TRUTH about our faith, don't ask a Catholic, Baptist or Methodist and certainly don't ask an atheist. Ask a current active member. Pastor Art is SO VERY incorrect. We don't call anyone in our faith "pastor", so he is definitely NOT an expert.

Answer 3

Actually, that doctrine makes perfect sense to me. Take a look at the world around you? How is life replicated or reproduced? Two parents get together and raise their offspring. It is so in the animal kingdom, it is some in the human family. If this is who the world operates, the same world that God created, the same blueprint that he formed life with, why is it so hard to understand that the whole "organization of the world rests with parents procreating offspring, which parent other offspring, which parent still other offspring.

It makes sense that a God would pattern things after the order of life. It happens here, makes sense that it happens elsewhere.

I do not know of any doctrine that glorifies the potential of mankind, that gives us purpose in life, that perpetuates the order of things, than the doctrine that we too can be glorified beings through the power and gift of Christ's resurrection and atonement than that doctrine that we too can become Gods.

Amazing concept if you look at it rationally and with open minds.

Answer 4

first of all I ought to provide help to recognize that i'm not a Latter-Day Saint. yet awhile in the past i grow to be such as you, i grow to be very severe of the LDS church simply by fact my husbands sister switched over and that i felt that a number of their ideals have been outstanding. So after criticizing them for awhile i found out that I ought to hold jointly all the data so i will have an extremely sturdy argument against the LDS church. So I appeared on the LDS internet site and that i additionally surely talked to a missionary. What i chanced on as a replace grow to be that notwithstanding i will not trust a number of their teachings, they are definitely sturdy Christian people who're doing their in basic terms right to serve the Lord and do His artwork. you are able to sense that they are erroneous of their ideals, yet nonetheless they in all probability sense the comparable way approximately your ideals, yet I surely have yet to work out an LDS contributors submit a question ranting approximately how incorrect non-LDS denominations are. the fact of the entire matter is that we are all Christians and maximum each physique is doing our in basic terms right to stay a sturdy and Christian lifestyles. as a replace of criticizing the Latter-Day Saints we ought to continuously include them as we include our different Christian brothers and sisters. not something gets performed via criticizing others, in case you have an interest by their faith and prefer to examine greater, than look at greater credible components. you're entitled to disagree with their faith, yet do you quite think of if Jesus have been right here authentic now, he may well be so severe?

Answer 5

This whole doctrine can be very misleading to people. LDS do NOT believe we will become of the same importance as God, or no longer subject to him. We don't believe we will take away from his glory. No one is above our Heavenly Father.

To those who follow Christ, though, we are promised from the scriptures that we can receive the fulness of God through the grace of Christ (Ephesians 3:19). Christ also said that we can become one with him, as he is one with the Father (in John 17:20-23). And Romans 8:14-18 states that those who follow Christ can become "joint heirs". NONE of this means that we believe that we are higher than God or no longer subject to him. In my mind, it means that we have a chance to serve and represent God.

Christ also said in John 10:34 that 'Ye are Gods'. See, this doesn't mean humans are actually God, but humans representing and serving God can be called "God" in a limited sense.

Simply saying "Mormons think they can become Gods" is a very misleading and distorted statement of LDS beliefs.

That's as straight as I can answer it, in layman's terms. No sugar-coating.

I hope I helped...

by the way, pastor art, we don't believe that God lives on a planet named Kolob.

Answer 6

Go to your nearest Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and you will find all your correct answers. Don't be afraid or ashamed, we love people like you too. You just might like it and become a better person.

Answer 7

We don't think we will become gods. We've never said that. We CAN become gods, it doesn't mean we all will though. Not everyone will have earned the right on earth. It's dependent on covenant keeping and how you've lived your life. You don't have to be perfect, and you never will be. You just have to strive to be. And you'll also notice we don't put ourself above God by proclaiming it either.


P.S. Pastor Art, your group #2 rule obviously only holds strong within that setting. It seems as though you have no trouble violating it as soon as you hypothetically step out of it yourself.

Answer 8

Not at all. Doesn't your father wish for you to have all that he has and more? Is it so strange to think that your Heavenly Father wants the same thing? He has unconditional love for each and everyone of us and wants us to have everything he has.

Answer 9

I think it is the worst form of idolitry, and that they think they can truely become perfect liek God and that makes them actually have godlike powers like God and become more like him every day. Some seem to think they are already a God or a demi-God.

Answer 10

Aren't you ashamed to belittle others belief?
What do you belief that is sooooooo right?

Aren't we all (including you) children of God, is it too difficult to comprend that we can be like our Heavenly Parents?

Yes , we striving to learn and perfect ourselves so we can become like God. Many of us may fail, but we are not ashamed of our belief. You have the freedom not to believe, and we have the freedom to believe.

Ponder this scripture, maybe you can learn something:

17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

(New Testament | John 20:17)