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To: bonfire

I have never really read any accounts of LDS belief, and so was interested in this discussion, just to get a little more information on the LDS church..I did go to the link you provided, and there I did find this....
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"The following are the kinds of lives we can choose to live and the kingdoms our choices will obtain for us.

Celestial
"They are they who received the testimony of Jesus, and believed on his name and were baptized, . . . that by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and receive the Holy Spirit." These are they who overcome the world by their faith. They are just and true so that the Holy Ghost can seal their blessings upon them. (See D&C 76:51-53.) Those who inherit the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, who become gods, must also have been married for eternity in the temple (see D&C 131:1-4). All who inherit the celestial kingdom will live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ forever (see D&C 76:62)."
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In this short extract, it does mention that 'those who inherit the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, WHO HAVE BECOME GODS, must also have been married for eternity in the temple'...so it does appear, from this reading that the belief of the LDS church is that man can become a god...I did not know that was an LDS belief...


160 posted on 04/30/2006 5:00:37 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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To: andysandmikesmom

Interesting, isn't it? It's also interesting that they don't like to discuss it. It's "jumping the gun" or denial.

I'm trying to understand why. ????


164 posted on 04/30/2006 5:06:06 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: andysandmikesmom; DelphiUser

Romans 8
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

How much time do you spend on thinking about becoming joint heirs?

I know I don't in my everyday life many twice a years it comes it in scripture studies along with every thing else
it is balance the main thing is to do the do of the Lord!

Matt. 6: 33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.





168 posted on 04/30/2006 5:11:19 PM PDT by restornu (An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. - Prov.16: 27)
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To: andysandmikesmom; DelphiUser; Utah Girl; Grig
How can you believe that human beings can become gods?

Actually, the doctrine is found in Psalms 82:1, 6-7, 1 John 3:1-3, 2 Peter 1:2-4, Philippians 2:5-6, Romans 8:15-17, and Revelation 4:21; 21:7. From the very beginning, the Bible teaches theosis or the deification of man.

When Adam and Eve partook of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, "the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" (Genesis 3:22).

The implication is that had they been able to partake of the tree of life, they would have been like God in another respect, being immortal.

This is precisely what is promised to the righteous in Revelation 2:7, when Christ says, "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."

The state of man is also explained in Psalms 8:4-5, which asks, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour."

The word rendered "angels" in the King James and some other translations is Hebrew elohim, which actually means "gods."

See also Paul's reasoning in Acts 17:22-29, where he says that humans are of the same species (Greek genos) as God and shouldn?t think of him as being otherwise.

Theosis, also called apotheosis, divinization, and deification, was commonly taught by Church Fathers of the earliest centuries A.D. It is still an official doctrine of the Eastern Orthodox churches and is even mentioned briefly in the current Catechism used in the Roman Catholic Church (Article 460).

Though most Protestants don't accept the concept, a few Evangelical scholars have recently written articles demonstrating that Wesley and Calvin taught it.

The Church fathers often noted the term "God of gods" (Deuteronomy 10:17; Joshua 22:2; Psalm 136:2; Daniel 11:36), indicating that since God could not be the God of false gods, these must be real gods.

Psalm 82:6-7 was cited by Jesus (John 10:33-36) and both passages were frequently used by the Church Fathers to demonstrate that men were gods.

712 posted on 05/14/2006 5:58:29 PM PDT by restornu ("I teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves." ~ Joseph Smith)
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