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To: sevenbak; Colofornian
I don’t answer to you.

I've noticed a pattern where you don't answer period.

Would you like me to continue to post ENTIRE beliefs of LDS prophets? Not now of course, but I can pick up in the morning.

It's FREE Republic. Post whatever you want. Just answer this one question... Please:

Tell me seven, was Jesus Christ God from all eternity, or did he become a God at some point in time?

14 posted on 05/28/2008 11:02:22 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe; sevenbak
Tell me seven, was Jesus Christ God from all eternity, or did he become a God at some point in time?

The true picture of the Mormon Jesus is that he is as much of a "saved being" as any man or woman he saves! The Mormon Jesus is but a mere creature like dear ole Dad:

"Christ is a saved being” (McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol. 3, p 257) “Modern revelation speaks of our Lord as he that ‘ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth ‘ (D&C 88:6). Christ's rise to the throne of exaltation was preceded by his descent below all things. Only by submitting to the powers of demons and death and hell could he, in the resurrection, serve as our exemplar of a saved being, one who had placed all things beneath his feet. ‘I am Alpha and Omega,’ he said, ‘Christ the Lord; yea, even I am he, the beginning and the end, the Redeemer of the world. I, having accomplished and finished the will of him whose I am, even the Father, concerning me—having done this that I might subdue all things unto myself—retaining all power, even to the destroying of Satan and his works at the end of the world, and the last great day of judgment.’ (D&C 19:1-2.)” (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, vol. 1, p. 234)

(Please also see McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, Vol. 3, p. 238 where he said Jesus "Needs salvation"...”Came to earth to work out His own salvation”)

And the Mormon Christ is one savior among many:

"...we are the only people that know how to save our progenitors, how to save ourselves, and how to save our posterity in the celestial kingdom of God;...we in fact are the saviours of the world..." (Journal of Discourses, vol.6, p.163).

Compare that to the Bible, where "saviors of the world" are in no way multiple. Jesus is it (1 John 4:14; John 4:42).

Notice this further "we've-been-like-Jesus-from-all-eternity" teaching that was still being actively taught in LDS study guides 25 years ago:

"The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, 'At the first organization in heaven we were all present, and saw the Savior chosen and appointed and the plan of salvation made, and we sanctioned it.'" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 181)

67 posted on 05/29/2008 7:04:43 AM PDT by Colofornian (As the fLDS is now, the LDS once was. As the fLDS is now, the LDS will become)
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