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Since mormonism rises and falls on joseph smith, lets look at what he taught

"Here then is eternal life- to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power" (Joseph Fielding Smith, Teachings of The Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 346, 347)

However God's Word says

Gen 3
4, "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5, "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

...Satan not only got man kicked out of the garden with this lie, but this lie is also preventing mormons from getting into heaven..

Gen 3 4, "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5, "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
...Satan not only got man kicked out of the garden with this lie, but this lie is also preventing mormons from getting into heaven..

Indeed, Satan was such a good liar he even tricked God into saying the same thing.

Gen 3:22 -- And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: ...

Amazing what reading the whole chapter can do, isn't it?

Thank you, but let stay focus on the Fall of man, that the Lord provide a way to repent and How Jesus Christ would pay the ransom for us to be redeemed.

Let also stick to scripture and not discourses, as we have seen there are many discourse on FreeRepubic, even those they are nice to ponder its still not scripture.

The point of this is should that Lord has given man Freewill

Verse2 22-24 same Chapter:

"22 And 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:
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." (Gen. 3:22-24

So if Satan's lie was that Adam and Eve would become like the Gods knowing good and evil, then the devil also fooled God because God did declare that Adam and Eve did become "as one of us, to know good and evil."

This fact that Adam and Eve had become like Him required Adam to leave the garden for his sake, so that this knowledge would be used to develop faith in God, rather than faith in the devil.

The big lie was not that we become Gods, but that we can do it without Christ.