LDS The Pearl of Great Price contradicts LDS beliefs...

devin553344 said:

I was reading thru the Pearl of Great Price from LDS literature and found it to be inconsistent with LDS teachings. So just a couple questions:

Pearl of Great Price (chapter 1)

"3 And God spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I am the Lord God Almighty, and Endless is my name; for I am without beginning of days or end of years; and is not this endless?"

Question: If God does not exist in time, then how do LDS people hope to be gods with eternal increase? Which concept requires time to pass.

"6 And I have a work for thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine Only Begotten; and mine Only Begotten is and shall be the Savior, for he is full of grace and truth; but there is no God beside me, and all things are present with me, for I know them all."

Question: If there are no other Gods beside Him, then where are all of Gods brothers and sisters who have found eternal increase like God did?

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Question one Time does pass, but for man only:
(Book of Mormon | Alma 40:8)

8 Now whether there is more than one time appointed for men to rise it mattereth not; for all do not die at once, and this mattereth not; all is as one day with God, and time only is measured unto men.

Question 2

For us there is one God, however there are other Gods and Lords:

(New Testament | 1 Corinthians 8:5 - 6)

5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

One bit that various creative types have played with over the years is the fact that from a functional standpoint, they are "gods" unto the characters and realms they've created.

There was actually a movie about a decade ago in which a character in a work of fiction comes to realize quite by accident that he's a character in a work of fiction; he can hear the author's narration, and treats it as divine prophecy of upcoming events.

Stranger than Fiction (2006 film) - Wikipedia

You see, it's a matter of physical and personal perspective. The lesser the being, the smaller its field of view. From where we as humans are on Earth, we have sight of no one else.

“People tell us, ‘You don’t believe in one God; you believe in three Gods.’ And the answer is, ‘Yes, we do.’ If that is polytheism then we are.”
Truman Madsen, BYU professor (emeritus), 150-Year- Old Debate: Are Mormons `Really Christian’? San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 1996

2 Nephi 26
12 And as I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God;

3 Nephi 19
18 And behold, they began to pray; and they did pray unto Jesus, calling him their Lord and their God.

"He is the central focus of our worship. He is the Son of the living God, the Firstborn of the Father, the Only Begotten in the flesh, who left the royal courts on high to be born as a mortal in the most humble of circumstances."
Gordon B. Hinckley, President, We Look to Christ, General Conference, April 2002
We Look to Christ - President Gordon B. Hinckley

A knowledge of the truth is essential to true worship. We must learn that God is our Father; that he is an exalted and perfected personage in whose image we are created; that he sent his Beloved Son into the world to redeem mankind; that salvation is in Christ, who is the revelation of God to the world; and that Christ and his gospel laws are known only by revelation given to those apostles and prophets who represent him on earth.
Bruce R. McConkie, General Conference, October 1971