zerinus:
If you want to know what Mormons truly believe and teach, I suggest you head for the official LDS website, not to an anti-Mormons website. I could also direct you to an anti-Catholic website where you would get a lot of twisted facts and untruths abut the Catholic Church.
zerinus
from lds.org:
“On the other hand, the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to
godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon (see
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 342–62; and emphasized by President Lorenzo Snow. It is this grand and incomparable concept: **
As God now is, man may become! **(See
The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, comp. Clyde J. Williams, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984, p. 1.)”
*The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow:
*Dear Brother:
Hast thou not been unwisely bold,
Man’s destiny to thus unfold?
To raise, promote such high desire,
Such vast ambition thus inspire?
**Still, 'tis no phantom that we trace
Man’s ultimatum in life’s race;
**This royal path has long been trod
By righteous men, each now a God:
**
**
As Abra’m, Isaac, Jacob, too,
First babes, then men—to gods they grew.
As man now is, our God once was;
As now God is, so man may be,—
Which doth unfold man’s destiny.
For John declares: When Christ we see
Like unto him we’ll truly be.
And he who has this hope within,
Will purify himself from sin.
Who keep this object grand in view,
To folly, sin, will bid adieu,
Nor wallow in the mire anew;
Nor ever seek to carve his name
High on the shaft of worldly fame;
But here his ultimatum trace:
The head of all his spirit-race.
Ah, well, that taught by you, dear Paul,
Though much amazed, we see it all;
Our Father God, has ope’d our eyes,
We cannot view it otherwise.
The boy, like to his father grown,
Has but attained unto his own;
To grow to sire from state of son,
Is not 'gainst Nature’s course to run.
A son of God, like God to be,
Would not be robbing Deity;
And he who has this hope within,
Will purify himself from sin.
You’re right, St. John, supremely right:
Whoe’er essays to climb this height,
Will cleanse himself of sin entire—
Or else 'twere needless to aspire.
Poem by Lorenzo Snow, 11 January 1892
