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First ----I grew up LDS and like that Church teaches we can be like God. In fact the Lorenzo Snow couplet was taught which goes like this:
"As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become"
And from the LDS website:
The Prophet Joseph Smith himself publicly taught the doctrine the following year, 1844, during a funeral sermon of Elder King Follett: “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!
Is President Snow’s statement—‘As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be’—accepted as official doctrine?
Of course the Church has partially tried to deny this was taught at one time.
But we can go to Genesis and see what satan suggested to Eve which is:
Genesis 3:5
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
God acknowledges this, just before He banished them from the Garden of Eden:
Genesis 3:22
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever
A simple Concordance rendering in the Hebrew language tells us that in satan's deception you will be like God would read "like Elohim"----while the phrase the man has become like one of Us" reads far different in what God acknowledges.
Mormons [of which I was one until God brought me out] assume too much from their Bibles and this is a classic example of that assuming.
"As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become"
And from the LDS website:
The Prophet Joseph Smith himself publicly taught the doctrine the following year, 1844, during a funeral sermon of Elder King Follett: “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!
Is President Snow’s statement—‘As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be’—accepted as official doctrine?
Of course the Church has partially tried to deny this was taught at one time.
But we can go to Genesis and see what satan suggested to Eve which is:
Genesis 3:5
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
God acknowledges this, just before He banished them from the Garden of Eden:
Genesis 3:22
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever
A simple Concordance rendering in the Hebrew language tells us that in satan's deception you will be like God would read "like Elohim"----while the phrase the man has become like one of Us" reads far different in what God acknowledges.
Mormons [of which I was one until God brought me out] assume too much from their Bibles and this is a classic example of that assuming.
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