The Gospel through the Ages, p. 115“When you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the Gospel—you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. […]
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“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.” 1 Kings 14:23 The Seer, Vol. 1 and 2, pp. 23-24“The Gods who dwell in the heavens from which our spirits came, are beings who have been redeemed from the grave in a world which existed […]
LDS: Man is ‘King of Kings, and Lord of Lords’
Secret Passwords Needed for Heaven
LDS: Man is from Race of Gods
Achieving a Celestial Marriage, p. 4 “Man has descended from God; in fact, he is the same race as the Gods. His descent has not been from a lower form of life, but from the Highest Form of Life; in other words, man is, in the most literal sense, a Child of God. This is not […]
LDS: ‘The Eternity of Sex’
Ensign, ‘In the Beginning,’ January 1998 “[A] man and his wife when glorified will have spirit children who eventually will go on an earth like this one we are on and pass through the same kind of experiences, being subject to mortal conditions, and if faithful, then they also will receive the fullness of exaltation and […]
PRIESTS AND QUEENS FOR GOD?
One important thing to keep in mind when understanding Mormon doctrine: pay attention to little details. The Mormon Church teaches its members they’ll become kings and queens for God, but the Bible says no such thing. Revelation 5:10 “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon […]
Priesthood Holders are Gods
God and Man in Eternal Union, p. 3-4; “…Joseph Smith taught that the Priesthood “stands as God to give laws to the people, administering endless lives to the sons and daughters of Adam.” Those who hold the keys of its power may rightly be called Gods, whether they are pre-mortal spirits, prophets in mortality, or resurrected […]
No Procreation for Non-Exalted Mormons
Doctrines of Salvation 2:287-288; “In both of these kingdoms there will be changes in the bodies and limitations. They will not have the power of increase, neither the power or nature to live as husbands and wives, for this will be denied them and they cannot increase. “Those who receive the exaltation in the celestial kingdom […]
BH Roberts: If Jesus was God’s Equal, Why can’t Man be Too?
New Witnesses for God, 1:458-459; “…If Jesus Christ, “being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,” why should it be considered blasphemous to teach that man by faith and righteousness in following the counsels of God, shall at last become like him, and share his power and glory, being […]
Magnify Your Calling to Save Others
Teachings of the Presidents of the Church, Deseret News Semi-Weekly, 6 August, 1878; “If you do not magnify your callings, God will hold you responsible for those whom you might have saved had you done your duty.” – John Taylor Isaiah 47:10; “For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and […]