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Date: September 29, 2014 08:26PM
Most Mormons really don't understand the Mormon doctrine of God.
Mormon doctrine evolved from the christian doctrine of one God to a doctrine of polytheism. The BoM started out with the doctrine of one God same as as the Bible but Joseph Smith later started teaching polytheism as was introduced along with the Book of Abraham, D&C, and temple doctrine of polytheism. - a council of Gods, Mother(s) in Heaven Goddess, Human men and women can become Gods,etc. the following quotes are examples of the Mormon doctrine of polytheism.
I will preach on the plurality of Gods (p.474)... The heads of the Gods appointed one God for us (p.476)...
Joseph Smith - Mormonism founder
History of the Church 6:474
A Council of the Gods. In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.
Joseph Smith - Mormonism founder
Ensign, April 1971, p.13-14
If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds... One world has a personal God or Father, and the inhabitants thereof worship the attributes of that God, another world has another, and they worship His attributes...
Orson Pratt - Mormon apostle
Journal of Discourses 2:345
How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through.
Brigham Young - Mormon prophet
Journal of Discourses 7:333
God, angel and similar terms denote merely intelligent beings of varying degree of development. The thought, however, that there is a plurality of gods and other beings of varying grades, is a though of fundamental truth.
John A. Widstoe - Mormon apostle
Rational Theology, p.62
But if God the Father was not always God, but came to his present exalted position by degrees of progress as indicated in the teachings of the prophet, how has there been a God from all eternity? The answer is that there has been and there now exists an endless line of Gods, stretching back into the eternities, that had no beginning and will have no end. Their existence runs parallel with endless duration, and their dominions are as limitless as boundless space.
B. H. Roberts - Mormon apostle and LDS church historian
A New Witnesses for God 1:476 [Google - 7MB PDF]
Chapter 4 of the Book of Abraham: (Note that the book of Moses teaches one God like Genisis of the Bible, but the later written Book of Abraham is polytheistic.)
2 And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate, because they had not formed anything but the earth; and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.
3 And they (the Gods) said: Let there be light; and there was light.
4 And they (the Gods) comprehended the light, for it was bright; and they divided the light, or caused it to be divided, from the darkness.
5 And the Gods called the light Day, and the darkness they called Night. And it came to pass that from the evening until morning they called night; and from the morning until the evening they called day; and this was the first, or the beginning, of that which they called day and night.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2014 08:27PM by builderbob.