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To: Nabber
Then I stopped and thought, in most mainstream Christian religions, it is believed that God’s plan is to raise all his (saved) children with perfect bodies, and that they will all live forever, adoring Him.

Hmmmm...essentially, like gods.

Not so much, actually.

Unless you've spotted a verse that says we will also be able to literally create from nothing, then we won't be gods. We will be more human than we are now and as human as God originally created Adam and Eve. That's the Christian theology on the point.

Now, from the point of view of the text usually cited here, what we will be will be sufficiently improved that to us as unimproved, we may as well BE gods, but that's only a relative observation, not an objective truth. See the difference?

170 posted on 10/26/2009 9:02:26 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (I'm still waiting for Dear Leader to say something that isn't a lie)
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To: BelegStrongbow

In my opinion, you are splitting hairs.

I do see that it is a “relative observation”, but God created Adam and Eve as perfect (but with the free will to ruin it), and when God raises everyone*, they will live forever with Him. They will be as gods for all practical purposes, although not the same as God, e.g., all-powerful.

If the Mormons are saying that their god-like personages will be equal to God, then of course that is logically ridiculous. One all-powerful God, logically, is all that is possible in God’s Universe.


207 posted on 10/26/2009 9:55:58 AM PDT by Nabber
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