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To: Saundra Duffy; FastCoyote
See what I mean, FC?

If I've got this straight, mormons do not believe that reaching the highest level of exaltation in celestial heaven is the same as being god's equal. A mormon guy believes that where God is today, he will be tomorrow -- but he won't be God's equal, because by that time, God will have "evolved" beyond that stage of his development. Kapeeeesh?

And all you mormons out there, I'm relying on you to correct this information if it's wrong.

2,611 posted on 05/15/2007 8:59:09 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte
And still no one will tell me what church they belong to. Except FC. He's got his own. Have I said anything negative about your church FC?
2,614 posted on 05/15/2007 9:03:23 PM PDT by DanielLongo (Don't tread on me)
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To: Bonaparte
You are actually pretty close. Close enough to say, yes, and then work out the details.

God's work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. He desires that which is best for all. God is certainly more intelligent, wiser than all of creation. Meaning, not just wiser than the next, but wiser than all combined. What he desires for us must be the wisest, fittest thing we could do. He desires to enlarge and expand the joy of all, as a true Father would. We are his children. We have already learned much in our premortal experience with Him. We have come here to be tested and to progress. There will be much more to learn when we pass from this stage for our existence. There is no magic wand that makes someone a god. It is the process for which the Gospel was preached in all ages, that we are not defined only by what we do, but what we are. This devotion to His commands and to His guidance is summed up by the words of Christ, "Father not my will, but thine be done".

2,623 posted on 05/15/2007 9:20:57 PM PDT by DanielLongo (Don't tread on me)
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To: Bonaparte
If I've got this straight, mormons do not believe that reaching the highest level of exaltation in celestial heaven is the same as being god's equal. A mormon guy believes that where God is today, he will be tomorrow -- but he won't be God's equal, because by that time, God will have "evolved" beyond that stage of his development. Kapeeeesh?

Essentially correct, for a simplified version.
2,654 posted on 05/15/2007 10:26:22 PM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: Bonaparte
If I've got this straight, mormons do not believe that reaching the highest level of exaltation in celestial heaven is the same as being god's equal. A mormon guy believes that where God is today, he will be tomorrow -- but he won't be God's equal, because by that time, God will have "evolved" beyond that stage of his development. Kapeeeesh? And all you mormons out there, I'm relying on you to correct this information if it's wrong.

Nice try, but not exactly. We believe that God is God, and we are mortals, but have the opportunity to be joint heirs with him. Perhaps another reference would help.

Revelations 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. BTW, and on a different subject, John is speaking here long after Jesus went unto the Father, but even he still refers to Jesus and the Father as separate entities.

2,819 posted on 05/17/2007 9:13:59 AM PDT by sevenbak (After the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers... Acts 24:14)
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