Libby, you're conflating two issues: What you have "always been told", and what you personally believe. I responded to your sentence, "I have always been told that God was always God." Do you see the difference? See above where I quoted what I was responding to.
Can you explain what you mean by "in the very basic sense"? Does that imply that God was always fully God, and that he never had to progress unto deification?It's a very common belief among LDS today that God has always been God, in the very basic sense
Some Mormons say that God has always been God, but merely mean by that that God has always been of the divine species. But in that case, the same could be said for us (that we are gods and always have been so), since in Mormonism we are always, and always have been, of the divine species. But if that is what is meant by "has always been God", yet no qualification is given, then language is being manipulated and misused.
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