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To: theAmbassador
Latter-Day Saints, then, are Trinitarians, as Terry thought we were.

One day all Mormons will find out it just isn't so. Either the Father will call you out of the LDS darkness or He will leave you in your ruin and you will ackwnowledge the truth at the end.

In the LDS understanding you have a better chance to be called out of darkness and learn of him for even in the Spirit World you are still learning:)

546 posted on 08/21/2002 6:50:27 AM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu; White Mountain; drstevej; P-Marlowe; RnMomof7
In the LDS understanding you have a better chance to be called out of darkness and learn of him for even in the Spirit World you are still learning:)

I have noticed that the discussion is now fully into Trinitarianism vs. Pluralism (Mormonism). Therefore, to cast my coin into the pot of Mormon darkness...

We know that the true Scriptures do say that the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, which would seem to suggest that the Bible itself does support the idea of more than one "God". However, can it be said that the Lord [Y@hovah] is the God of God?

No!

For Mormonism does teach that Elohiym is the Father and Y@hovah is the Son, two distinct and seperate "Gods". In the proper order of things Elohiym will ascend and Y@hovah will sit on the Father's throne and we will sit on Y@hovah's throne.

Yet, this verse does teach us that Y@hovah, the Son, is the God of Elohiym. So the order is reversed. However, if the Father and the Son are the same God, Holy (separate) yet One, then this verse does make perfect sense.

And the Scriptures do also affirm to us that the Lord our God,... is one.... You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him only. So, again I will ask, which one of the "Gods" only are we to serve; Y@hovah or Elohiym. Strictly speaking, it would appear as if, according to Mormoinism's intrepretation of this verse, that it is the Lord Y@hovah alone whom we are to serve. This does throw quite a monstrous monkey wrench into intrepretating the rest of the Bible.
566 posted on 08/21/2002 1:16:11 PM PDT by theAmbassador
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