Mormons: Why Jesus?

[agangbern]

Nobody really knows. There’s a book called Eternal Progress (de Jong) that suggests various possibilities. One hint is that eventually, the best of us will get their own planets, and will become like God is today. God himself, it is supposed, might go on to achieve even greater things also.

“The best of us will get their own planets, and will become like God is today.” That statement made me remember a scene in Genesis where Satan told Eve that if they would eat of the forbidden fruit, they would become like God too.

 

[LaMar]

“The best of us will get their own planets, and will become like God is today.” That statement made me remember a scene in Genesis where Satan told Eve that if they would eat of the forbidden fruit, they would become like God too.

Many Mormons interpret that part of Genesis in a different way than St. Augustine did. It used to be thought that Adam was God himself. Now it’s more common to describe the “fall” as a “fall up”. Adam sacrificed an eternity of bliss for a lifetime of hardship, and he did so because he wanted us to progress beyond this world and become greater, in the long run.

So is the common theory in modern Mormonism, anyway.

 

[agangbern]

Many Mormons interpret that part of Genesis in a different way than St. Augustine did. It used to be thought that Adam was God himself. Now it’s more common to describe the “fall” as a “fall up”. Adam sacrificed an eternity of bliss for a lifetime of hardship, and he did so because he wanted us to progress beyond this world and become greater, in the long run.

So is the common theory in modern Mormonism, anyway.

A “fall up”, and "Adam sacrificed an eternity of bliss…because he wanted us to progress beyond this world…" That is according to Mormon belief. But surely, Jesus Christ has nothing to do with those belief. And if you truly believe in Jesus, as the name of your church purports to be, then you would not believe in those speculations.

 

[RC_Matt]

You are not going to hell. You may be just a little misguided but that does not warrent hell. You will be with me in the terrestial kingdom.

Dude, while I do appreciate the reassignment of my ultimate fate, how can you make a statement like THAT; and then tell us that you’re Catholic, act as a Lector at Mass, and take communion in the Catholic Church? Mormon and Catholic eschatology are mutually exclusive; you cannot believe in (let alone promote) the Mormon concepts and be in communion with the Catholic Church. The two are totally incongruent, I don’t understand how you can reconcile this.

 

[agangbern]

Originally Posted by why me View Post
You are not going to hell. You may be just a little misguided but that does not warrent hell. You will be with me in the terrestial kingdom.

Dude, while I do appreciate the reassignment of my ultimate fate, how can you make a statement like THAT; and then tell us that you’re Catholic, act as a Lector at Mass, and take communion in the Catholic Church? Mormon and Catholic eschatology are mutually exclusive; you cannot believe in (let alone promote) the Mormon concepts and be in communion with the Catholic Church. The two are totally incongruent, I don’t understand how you can reconcile this.

There is no such thing as terrestrial kingdom in the afterworld.
It is simply a product of the imagination. In fact, to hold the notion of the existence of a terrestrial kingdom in the afterworld is a contradiction of itself.