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God Is An Exalted Man:
D. & C, 130:22
- Litmitd to one time and space
- Dependent upon the Gods before him.
"God Himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man…We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea…He was once a man like us…dwelt on an Earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did…like a man in form – like yourselves…You have got to learn to be God yourselves…by going from one small degree to another…from exaltation to exaltation…until you arrive at the station of a God…the same as those who have gone before…I will take (my Father’s) place and become exalted myself.” Joseph Smith, "The King Follett Funeral Discourse," pp. 8-10
Heavenly Father (Elohim)
- The God of this world
- The only God we should worship
- Literal father of all of us (spirit children)
If Mormons tell you that we are God's offspring, show them Galatians 3:26 NKJV, "For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus"
Many Gods
D. & C. 121:28;
132:37
P. G. P. Book of Abraham 4 & 5
“I will preach on the plurality of Gods…I wish to declare I have always and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of the Deity, it has been the plurality of Gods” Joseph Smtih, History of the Church, v.6, p. 473, 474
Concil of Gods
P, G. P. Book of Abrahm 3:22-28; 4:26
The Biblcal view of God
God is Spirit
- John 4:24
- 1 Timothy 1:17
- Psalms 139:7
Immaterial:
- Deuteronomy 4:15
- Luke 24:39
Invisible:
- 1 Timothy 6:16
- John 1:18; 5:37
- Exodus 33:20
- 1 John 4:12, 20
- Colossians 1:15
- Job 9:11
- Hebrews 11:27
God is all present/immense/infinite
- Jeremiah 23:23, 24
- Psalms 139:7-12
- 2 Chronicles 6:14, 18; 2:6
- Psalms 147:5
- 1 Kings 8:27
God is eternal/ self existent/ unchageable/ everlasting
- Psalms 90:2; 93:2; 102:27
- Malachi 3:6
- James 1:17
- Isaiah 40:28; 43:12, 12
- Habakkuk 1:12
- Psalms 119:142
- Acts 17:25 (source/ independent)
- Colossians 11:116, 17 (all things depend on HIm)(Romans 11:36)
Anthropomorphisms - human characterisics used to dscribed God; (eyes, face, hadn, arm, mouth)
Literary metaphor (1 Peter 3:12)
- "under his wings" Pslams 57:11
- "covering with his feathers" Pslams 91:4
- door, vine shepherd, bread, consuming fire (John 15; Hebrews 12:29)
Man can NEVER become God: (Nor is God a man like us)
- Ezekiel 28:2
- John 3:13
- Acts 14:11-16
- 1 corinthians 15:44-50
- Genesis 3:5; Isaiah 14:14
- Psalms 82:6; 51:21; 50:21
- Psalms 144:3,4
- Ecclesiastes 12:7; Genesis 2:7
- Hosea 11:9
- Job 9:32
- 1 Samuel 15:29
- Numbers 23:19
- Romans 1:22,23
- Isaiah 29:1
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