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To: TriGirl
Can you provide some sources for the following... “may I remind you that a number of LDS leaders have gone on record to say they consider themselves “gods-in-embryo”...

Yes, past LDS prophets Ezra Taft Benson (who served in the Eisenhower administration) and Spencer W. Kimball.

Kimball, 1969, THE MIRACLE OF FORGIVENESS, p. 286: "...we are commanded to be supermen...We are gods in embryo, and the Lord demands perfection for us." [see also. p. 3]

Kimball: “Man can transform himself, but he has in him the seeds of Godhood that can grow. He can lift himself by his very bootstraps.” Spencer W. Kimball, SLC Trib, 9/18/74

Benson: "We are gods in embryo." (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 21)

Also, lest you don't think LDS are serious about multiple gods, and that folks like Romney are intent to be gods, note this Kimball comment: "Brethren 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one of us 225,000." (The Ensign Magazine, Nov. 1975, p. 80).

79 posted on 10/29/2007 9:58:49 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Congratulations on getting the quotes correct. You may also note that Heavenly Father is never addressed as a god but as God. Do not try to deny there is a difference. Do not try to obfuscate the issue.

The Godhead consists of three Personages: God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.

I would invite anyone with a curiosity as to true beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints not to go to the anti Mormon sites first, but feel free to go to LDS.org where you will find published in full all of our sacred standard works. Find out for yourself if we are the demons Colofornian and others of that ilk claim we are. By the way, Colofornian, was it your church that produced the movies back in the early part of the 20th century that portrayed our missionaries as vampires?

Bless you.


110 posted on 10/29/2007 10:49:48 AM PDT by Old Mountain man (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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