Are you aware of your own doctrines and beliefs on this?seems too presumptous and arrogant for a mere mortal for a self-promotion to God’s status.
God bless.
Not in the same way you do. We do not believe in “continuation of the seeds” and populating worlds with our spirit children and being worshiped by them, etc. The Catechism has already been quoted to you on this.
Megus, the doctrine of theosis or deification is vastly, and qualitatively, different than that of exaltation. According to exaltation we are of the same type of being as the gods, and while we need their help to progress they are simply helping our own nature mature. According to theosis or deification, we are completely different beings and whatever God chooses to share with us in terms of divinity is completely alien to our creature nature.
This is a foundational distinction. Mormons do not accept that they are creatures. They believe God has been made from an eternal substance called “intelligence”. It follows to them that God made themselves of the same “intelligence”.
Mormons still essentially say the same thing…the doctrine of the Trinity invented by a pagan emperor…or Platonic philosophy…or “Helenized”.
That’s my favorite, it’s all Greek. Apparently if you label it ‘Greek’ that’s all you have to do, the doctrine is bad. NEvermind the reasoning behind the doctrine, the biblical support, nope… it’s ‘Greek’ and therefore bad and therefore permission is given to multiply gods all over the place.
We were not made gods at our beginning, but first we were made men, then, in the end, gods.
While man gradually advances and mounts towards perfection; that is, he approaches the eternal. The eternal is perfect; and this is God. Man has first to come into being, then to progress, and by progressing come to manhood, and having reached manhood to increase, and thus increasing to persevere, and persevering to be glorified, and thus see his Lord.
there is none other called God by the Scriptures except the Father of all, and the Son, and those who possess the adoption....Since, therefore, this is sure and stedfast, that no other God or Lord was announced by the Spirit, except Him who, as God, rules over all, together with His Word, and those who receive the Spirit of adoption.
How then will any be a god, if he has not first been made a man? How can any be perfect when he has only lately been made man? How immortal, if he has not in his mortal nature obeyed his maker? For one's duty is first to observe the discipline of man and thereafter to share in the glory of God.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, of his boundless love, became what we are that he might make us what he himself is.”
But of what gods [does he speak]? [Of those] to whom He says, "I have said, Ye are gods, and all sons of the Most High." To those, no doubt, who have received the grace of the "adoption, by which we cry, Abba Father."”
For he who holds, without pride and boasting, the true glory (opinion) regarding created things and the Creator, who is the Almighty God of all, and who has granted existence to all; [such an one, ] continuing in His love and subjection, and giving of thanks, shall also receive from Him the greater glory of promotion, looking forward to the time when he shall become like Him who died for him, for He, too, "was made in the likeness of sinful flesh," to condemn sin, and to cast it, as now a condemned thing, away beyond the flesh, but that He might call man forth into His own likeness, assigning him as [His own] imitator to God, and imposing on him His Father's law, in order that he may see God, and granting him power to receive the Father; [being] the Word of God who dwelt in man, and became the Son of man, that He might accustom man to receive God, and God to dwell in man, according to the good pleasure of the Father.yea, I say, the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god.
...if one knows himself, he will know God, and knowing God will become like God...His is beauty, true beauty, for it is God, and that man becomes god, since God wills it. So Heraclitus was right when he said, "Men are gods, and gods are men."
Those who have been perfected are given their reward and their honors. They have done with their purification, they have done with the rest of their service, though it be a holy service, with the holy; now they become pure in heart, and because of their close intimacy with the Lord there awaits them a restoration to eternal contemplation; and they have received the title of "gods" since they are destined to be enthroned with the other "gods" who are ranked next below the savior.Now in all these acts He offered up, as the first-fruits, His own manhood, in order that thou, when thou art in tribulation, mayest not be disheartened, but, confessing thyself to be a man (of like nature with the Redeemer,) mayest dwell in expectation of also receiving what the Father has granted unto this Son...The Deity (by condescension) does not diminish anything of the dignity of His divine perfection having made you even God unto his glory.but He himself that justifies also deifies, for by justifying He makes sons of God. For He has given them power to become the sons of God, (John 1:12). If then we have been made sons of God, we have also been made gods.Oh this is great. It really shows all the beliefs.
Not Mormon, they are members of the Church of Jesus Christ.
