Ampu, as a Latter-day Saint, I know very well whom I worship.
“But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him”
I think you missed Ampu's point. The LDS redefines "God, "Father" and "Lord Jesus Christ", borrowing the language but applying an entirely different meaning. You might as well be talking about Jesus the gardener. So you can say that there is "one God" but your doctrine says that you can be a god (a doctrine derived from Genesis 3:5). With open contradictions when used with traditional definitions, you leave others to only conclude that your faith system wishes to deceive.
No, quite honestly I think the point was fully understood. But the common apologetic tactic I've seen mormons here use is to obfuscate the point by leaving the definitions loose and fast. You clearly caught that aspect of it. It is deceiving to play that way with definitions - however it is necessary to prevent the unknowing from really discovering what they DO mean. I'm still waiting for norm to answer a very simple question:
Why do mormons reject the worship of Jehovah as the true God, as done by the Israelites in the OT. Definitions.
Ahhhh...
You caught that too!
Hi Theophilus,
It seems our discussions here often return to the same point:
The LDS doctrine of exaltation.
What is our relationship to God? We believe that he is the Father of our spirits and that he has prepared a way for us, as his children to progress to point that we can become like him.
The way that makes this possible is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. By accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior and by obeying the gospel we can be cleansed from sin, become resurrected and be able to return to the presence of God to inherit all that our merciful and gracious Father has to give his children — which is the ability to become like our Father.
That is LDS doctrine, and I don’t find it out of harmony with the Bible.