Lets peel back the onion layer further Colofornian. Somehow Jesus must have LOST that godhood, because it is mormon doctrine that Jesus was the God named Jehovah in the OT. Somehow Jesus became a god then WITHOUT his earthly trial OR receiving his body of flesh and bone - Something that the mormon heavenly father - Elohiem - was unable to accomplish in his progression from man to god.
Let us not forget the mormon god "Holy Ghost" who is stuck without a body OR a name.
Seems like our apologist is hiding more of the confused and distorted theology of mormonism than one could imagine.
So Jesus needed to be "saved" - who died for Jesus then? Inquiring minds want to know.
The "Jesus" of Mormonism is one redeemer-savior among who knows how many?
Per Brigham Young (yeah, the one they named a university after): "He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. On every earth. How many earths are there?...Consequently every earth has its redeemer..." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 14, p. 71, 1870)
To Mormonism, Jesus isn't a universal savior. He's one in a long string of saviors. And, as pointed out, Mormon leaders think he needed to be saved, too...because they also TEACH (Yes, Ripliancum, PRESENT TENSE, TEACH!!!) -- in that same link I had for college students in the last post (IOW, you can find this, too @ Lds.org) that Christ wasn't perfect...MORE Mormon blasphemy!
“Christ BECAME perfect through overcoming. Only as we overcome shall we become perfect and move toward godhood. . . . The time to do this is now, in mortality. “. . . Men do not suddenly become righteous any more than a tiny acorn suddenly becomes an oak. Advancement to perfection can nevertheless be rapid if one resolutely strides toward the goal” (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, 210).
Source: Chapter 10 The Purpose of Earth Life Introduction [for college students]
Mormons, repent for embracing the blasphemous heresy that Christ had to "become" perfect!!!! (It's YOUR tithing that's paying for Lds.org!)
Somehow Jesus must have LOST that godhood, because it is mormon doctrine that Jesus was the God named Jehovah in the OT. Somehow Jesus became a god then WITHOUT his earthly trial OR receiving his body of flesh and bone
Convoluded theology to say the least. Yes, Lds do teach that Jesus = Jehovah god of the OT. So, the Mormon jesus must have "lost" his godhood...strove by overcoming to BECOME perfect...and became saved...The only other option is if Jesus did this "saved" from his supposed sin on some other planet..."another life" which Mormon leaders haven't breathed about to my knowledge.