[Cronos]

Rather, in the words of Joseph Smith, it regards the Bible to be the word of God, “as far as it is translated correctly” (8th Article of Faith). Accordingly, Mormon members believe that during the centuries-long process in which fallible human beings compiled, translated and transcribed the Bible, various errors entered the text.

Ok. But the Bible doesn't talk about God being a man and that we all become Gods. That's Gnostic talk.

[SZonian]

The mormon version does. The one JS supposedly translated “correctly” has the plurality added. That’s why it’s almost impossible to come to any agreement on the Bible with a mormon in regards to the plurality of gods. They use their Beehive/Deseret/Seagull bookstore version while Christians use theirs.

[Godzilla]

Ok. But the Bible doesn't talk about God being a man and that we all become Gods. That's Gnostic talk.

In part, it is also found in greek mythology of the Hermes cult whom Seventy Milton R. Hunter in 1946 stated "The teachings of the Hermetic pagan cult sound quite familiar to those who are acquainted with the doctrine taught by Jesus, by John the Beloved, by Paul, and by Joseph Smith the American Prophet. (note this is all in context with mormon defintions) . . . . “Note the close resemblances between the foregoing pagan teachings and those of the true Gospel…Thus we see that the true doctrine of knowing the Lord as the pathway to Godhood was revealed to man as part of the knowledge of the divine plan of salvation; and, like many other Gospel truths, it was disseminated among pagan worshipers.” (The Gospel Through the Ages, 1946)