See, you’re jumping to conclusions, PM. We don’t know where such councils are, or that there even are such councils. We don’t know where the premortal existence was. These things haven’t been revealed, so we don’t know. You are reading things into our beliefs that aren’t there.
~”And if “the Gods began to be”, does that mean that God has not always been God?”~
Depends, I suppose. If time started with the creation of the universe, and God’s divinity predates the creation of the universe, then God has been God since before the beginning of time, and is therefore eternal.
It starts getting pretty sticky at that level, and we don’t have a clear understanding. God hasn’t revealed all the answers to us.
That’s why I prefer to stick with trying to understand faith, repentance, and the Atonement in my doctrinal studies. Plenty of work left to do there.
What amazes me is the anti-Mormon’s fascination with such triviality when all the while, on the most important things - such as the Grace of Christ - we have many, many points of agreement.
No, I was asking questions. I don't need to jump to conclusions. I know what the LDS Church taught when I was a member, I'm just trying to see whether or not it is still taught, or whether or not you are disavowing all the things that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young (who stated that everything he taught from the pulpit was the equivalent of scripture) taught.
It starts getting pretty sticky at that level, and we don’t have a clear understanding. God hasn’t revealed all the answers to us.
I think Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and Orson Pratt and Joseph Fielding Smith and Bruce McConkie have all been pretty clear on the subject.
Were they all teaching false doctrine?