Reason #158: The whole becoming a god(ess) thing
This is an excerpt from my book, The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today(Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an audiobook and as an expanded-text E-book for Nook, Kindle and other reading devices. Becoming a God Once when I was speaking to a group of high school students on the subject of Mormonism, I outlined the central points of doctrine covered by Joseph Smith in his King Follett Address. One of the students raised his hand as I was talking. He seemed a little annoyed. “That was 1844,” he said. “Mormons don’t teach that stuff about becoming a god today, do they?” Yes, they do. There is no doctrine, outside that of continuing revelation, that is more integral to the Mormonism of both the past and the present...
Reason #136: Current LDS leaders teach God was once a man, man can become a god
Quotes from Current LDS Manuals on Nature of God Christians have long opposed the LDS teaching about the nature of God and man. The Bible consistently affirms that there is only one God, who has always existed as God. Yet Joseph Smith instituted the doctrine that God progressed from a mortal state to the position of a god. For further references to these teachings, see: http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/ldsviewcontradictsbible.htm The following quotes from official LDS teaching manuals demonstrate that the LDS Church is still teaching that God was once a mortal on another earth, he and his wife progressed to godhood, and that mortals on this earth are their literal spirit children, with the same ability to progress to godhood. Even though the LDS Church has...
Reason #65: Because God Refuses to Acknowledge Other Gods
“Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me,” says the Bible in Isaiah 43:10. In fact, God adamantly said that He didn’t even know of any other real Gods: “You are my witnesses, Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one.” Aaron Shafovaloff has a humorous take on the Mormon idea that people can become gods and create other humans to worship them. “If your spirit-kids try to worship you in the after-life,” says Shafovaloff, ”Spank them.” To see videos on this and other subjects, see his YouTube channel here. For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today (Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an...
