Originally Posted by
Libby
Hi Russ.
I don't think LDS theology really does point to God being "something else". I have always been told that God was always God.
Like Aaron, my heart breaks for you. You're being disingenuous.
I know you've read:
Milton R. Hunter, a member of Mormonism's First Council of the Seventy, wrote in The Gospel Through the Ages, p 104:
"Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who p***ed through a school of earth life similar to that through which we are now p***ing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey."
"Here, then, is eternal life -- to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you,... To inherit the same power, the same glory and the same exaltation, until you arrive at the station of a God.... " (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 346, 347)
Don't you believe them either?
Do you really expect me to believe you've never heard such things?
Give me a break.