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If God is unchangeable - and He is - how could He have not been God in the past, as mormons teach?

If God is unchangeable - and He is - how could people today become a god?

If God is unchangeable - and He is - how could a “modern revelation” contradict what HE has already said?

1. I know very little about the origin of God — and really it doesn’t concern me much at all. Because to me and you and everyone on earth, God is God, unchangeable and everlasting, perfect in every way.

2. Through His bountiful love and mercy God, through Jesus Christ, has made it possible for use to become heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. Those that love Him and obey His gospel will inherit all things.

3. I am not sure what contradictions you are referring to here between ancient and modern scripture. I find the Bible to be in harmony with the additional scriptures we have. I know that you interpret parts of the Bible differently from Latter-day Saints, so your ideas of contradictions might just be differing opinions about what is meant by various Bible passages.

Best,

Normandy

Normandy,
Your response is either devoid of logic or a failure
of honesty.

The FACT is that Mormonism teaches God used to be a man.
The FACT is that the Bible teaches God is unchangeable.
ERGO, Mormonism is false.

The FACT is that the Bible never teaches you can become a god.
ERGO, Mormonism is false.

“I know that you interpret parts of the Bible differently from Latter-day Saints, so your ideas of contradictions might just be differing opinions about what is meant by various Bible passages.”

No, Normandy. This has nothing to do with interpretations. It has everything to do with the clear statements of the Bible.

ampu

3. I am not sure what contradictions you are referring to here between ancient and modern scripture.

Let me REFRESH your understanding!

1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.

Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

BEHOLD!!!! The Restorative Power of the Book of Mormon!!

THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

TRUTH IGNORED

Smith, Young, Taylor, Pratt, Snow, Kimball, Woodruff ...

1. I know very little about the origin of God — and really it doesn’t concern me much at all.

It concerned your so-called 'prophet' norm, in fact he called the knowledge of the origin of God the 'first principle of the Gospel' norm. Your whole evolution to godhood depends upon that foundation.

I find the Bible to be in harmony with the additional scriptures we have. I know that you interpret parts of the Bible differently from Latter-day Saints, so your ideas of contradictions might just be differing opinions about what is meant by various Bible passages.

The bible is very clear - there is only one God in all of existance. pogp/boa declares the mormon doctrine of polytheism. Just ONE of the many places the bible contradicts mormon 'revelation' norm. The passages are very clear and leave no room for 'opinions' - especially within context and origional greek/hebrew.