Questions for Mormons.?

Question

Is it true that your believe that men can become Gods?
And there is more then one God?

Answer 1

Yes, in essence there is a spiritual progression by which men can become like gods... and of their own planet, and have multiple wives to create spirit children to populate that planet.

Some LDS folks don't find out about this doctrine until after they have been to the temple, or find out about it here on the internet. I found out about it after going to the temple, and I was born and raised LDS.

Answer 2

Like many other Christian denominations (specifically the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic branches of Christianity), Mormons do believe in "theosis," the idea that man can progress to become more like God. Historically, this concept was had among the earliest Christians.

Mormons believe in the Bible, which teaches: "To him that overcometh will I [Christ] grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." So we believe that we can become like God through the power of Christ, but not that we will ever be greater than God. We will always worship God the Father and Christ the Son. To use traditional Christian terminology (and not terminology that only Mormons understand), it would probably be more accurate to say that Mormons believe they can become angels in the next life (although that phrasing doesn't exactly capture Mormon belief either, and is explicitly inaccurate if one uses the Mormon definition of "angel"). It is not true that Mormons believe men and women can progress to become equal to God. We will always worship God.

http://www.allaboutmormons.com

Answer 3

Mormons believe in eternal life. In this eternal life, men and women increase in spirituality and at each stage (for men especially) they are indicated by a title. You have Mormon missionaries who are called Elders, signifying a spiritual level, later some move on to becoming High Priests, then Apostles, then Prophets and so on until they reach Godhood.

God is also on this spiritual increase plain, they don't know what else he'll increase to, but he's progressing spiritually as well. Since both parties are developing simultaneously, and God is ahead of it's human creation, God would always be more advanced, and will forever be the creator - God - of the humans in this world.

In order for men and women to become Gods, they have to marry in the temple, and even then they have promises which they have to keep to be "exalted," which is a term used to describe their Godhood state.

Answer 4

YES. So they believe that the God of this earth was once a man, and he came from another God and a heavenly Mother, well that heavenly Mother had a lot of children and were those children that became GODS went, Joseph did not say, but supposidly they have a Kolob and are in-charge of an Earth in another galaxy (I guess the aliens from that galaxy, their kids, came to see us...LOL) that would be my imaginational guess.

Answer 5

Jesus specifically said so in the Bible. How do other churches who are timid about quoting the Bible put it. Baptists call it "Glorification", the culmination of salvation and is the final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed. They reference Revelation 21 which includes 7 "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son."

So it seems to me that Glorification includes inheriting all things as well as being a child of diety. All things would include all of Fathers knowledge and power. Someone who is the child of God and has His power would be divine.

Answer 6

My dad was a mormon, and I learned about their beliefs. They believe that once a person is married, they are married for all time and eternity. When this couple dies, they then get to have their own planet to populate with their spirit children. They also believe that Satan is the brother of Jesus.

They do believe that they become gods, so that would lead one to think they believe in more than one god, I think they believe that the main God is God over all.

I probably didnt say it right. oh well.

Answer 7

"For the Spirit designates both [of them] by the name of God -- both Him who is anointed as Son, and Him who does anoint, that is, the Father. And again: 'God has stood in the congregation of the gods,He judges among the gods.' He [here] refers to the Father and the Son, and those who have received the adoption; but these are the Church. . . .

...But of what gods [does he speak]? [Of those] to whom He says, 'I have said, Ye are gods, and all sons of the Most High.' To those, no doubt, who have received the grace of the 'adoption,' by which we cry, Abba, Father"

(Irenaus, who lived from A.D. 120 to A.D. 202, was a disciple of Polycarp, who was in turn a disciple of the apostle John, Against Heresies, Book III, vi, 1).

My survey of their doctrine does not indicate that they
believe that they will be resurrected and... *poof*....become gods....it is one of a path of eternal progression....

Answer 8

There is only One God, our Father in Heaven who created us. Those who state that we think otherwise have not taken the time to understand our faith. We believe in something called eternal Progression, where Heaven is more than a cloud and a harp, but a continuation of learning and adding glory to glory, eventually improving ourselves to understand the God that created us.

No faith can be summed up in two sentences, but if you want to sum up Mormonism, say "Mormons beleive Jesus is their Savior. They believe God still sends prophets to his children and that we should seek as much Eternal Truth as we can find."

Answer 9

We believe we will be gods, but not like ruling over planets. We believe we will be gods(Psalms 82:6 and John 10:34) because we have no end. (D&C 132:20)

There is only one God, but there will be many gods and lords (1 Corinthians 8:5-6).

Answer 10

# God

1. God used to be a man on another planet, Mormon Doctrine, p. 321. Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, Vol 5, pp. 613-614; Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol 2, p. 345, Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 333.)
2. "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s..." (D&C 130:22).
3. God is in the form of a man, (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 3.)
4. "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!!! . . . We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea and take away the veil, so that you may see" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345
5. God the Father had a Father, (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 476; Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, p. 19; Milton Hunter, First Council of the Seventy, Gospel through the Ages, p. 104-105.)
6. God resides near a star called Kolob, (Pearl of Great Price, pages 34-35; Mormon Doctrine, p. 428.)
7. God had sexual relations with Mary to make the body of Jesus, (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, p. 218, 1857; vol. 8, p. 115.) - This one is disputed among many Mormons and not always 'officially' taught and believed. Nevertheless, Young, the 2nd prophet of the Mormon church taught it.
8. "Therefore we know that both the Father and the Son are in form and stature perfect men; each of them possesses a tangible body . . . of flesh and bones." (Articles of Faith, by James Talmage, p. 38).

[from CARM]