Telstar:
Go back to Jeremiah 1:5–God knew Jeremiah and in your model, He created both his body and spirit but he somehow knew he would turn out okay. So the other possibilites are God created us but he has no control over how we turn out. That seems to be saying He doesn’t create our spirit or, if He does as you claim, that He has know idea or control over our susceptability to sin. That would seem to argue against him being omniscent.
Just to review, the Mormon teaching is that intelligences/spirits are eternal and we lived with Heavenly Father always. There was a plan to progress by giving us bodies and that involves this eartly life. A Redeemer was provided so we could find our way back. We agreed to that plan. The people who did not are the 1/3 host of heaven mentioned in Revelations and they do not receive physical bodies.
Once again, you’re claiming that I said God creates
both our body
and our soul, when I never said that at all. The only human being that was ever completely created “from scratch”, was Adam. Eve was actually created from Adam’s rib, so even her body was originally a part of Adam’s flesh (“they will become one flesh”). I thought I made it extremely clear that
the soul (the spiritual part of man) is the
only part of us that is perfectly created by God. The body is the result of the natural action of the parents (it’s created
by them through the marital act). I also never made any such claim that God cannot or will not influence our path, through His Grace. He will always freely give His gifts, when and wherever it pleases Him to do so. He will pick any soul to favor, according to His own reasons for choosing them. If we follow His lead by living our lives according to His Laws, then He will certainly be more inclined to give those gifts to us. If we choose to oppose Him, then we will encounter His wrath in the end.
In Jeremias, God says:*[4] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: [5]
Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.*He most certainly knows everything about us in detail, down to the very number of every hair on our head. He has always known every detail of the lives of
every creature (including the animals) that has ever lived, or will live on this earth, and He has known it all
from the beginning of creation. I’m definitely not the one that has any doubts about the enormity of God’s true majesty, power and glory.
No offense, but we all know the Mormon teachings that have been repeatedly posted by LDS. They diminish God’s true power and glory in so many ways that I can’t even begin to list them, because it would be too long to post it, even in multiple posts. LDS beliefs reduce God to a mere mortal man, that somehow developed to become “a god” (out of an endless number), through a strange process attributed to the twisting of the definition of the word “exalted”, along with the twisting of the Bible to somehow fit that poorly defined process that in reality, is nowhere to be found in the Bible. If you choose to believe in an imperfect version of God and His creation, then that’s your choice, and you’ll have to explain to Him when you see Him.
