Quote Originally Posted by HopefulSaint View Post
But LDS doctrine reconciles the two Bible teachings: The teaching that each of the three separate (to use James Banta's term) Persons is deity, and the teaching that the Person of the Father is the Only True God as far as Christians are concerned.

That's what makes LDS theology so appealing--it makes sense of potentially difficult or cryptic Bible p***ages.
Hey, I am being remembered by you This p***age must be as you make it out to be if you see different levels of gods that have been created.. But if the Bible is true and there is One God how can any person included as God be less than the other? Can God be less than God? Can God be greater than God? When Jesus put on flesh and laid His glory down so that He could complete the great work of God in purchasing the souls of men from death and sin the Father was greater because he held the glory of God within Himself. But was Jesus ever not God? NO! Jesus gave the Father all the glory and ***le of being what He is, GOD! Yet Jesus also claimed to be the I AM, the YHWH, the God that spoke to Moses from the burning bush.. The One True and Living God.. Peter said that the Holy Spirit was God.. and Still Jesus agreed with Moses in the law as he said that the LORD (YHWH) our GOD (Elohim) is one LORD.. LDS theology makes the whole of the Bible a lie, as it denies the statement from God through Moses and the words of Jesus spoken in agreement with that teaching. The problem is you see this major doctrine in the vacuum of John 17:3 while denying the p***age I have listed so many times before and then this one I haven't brought to your attention before..
1John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Here the Holy Spirit through the Apostle tells us that The Father and the Son are the true God.. This is the same way that all three persons called God in Scripture are the ONE TRUE GOD.. Smith and his invented church have it wrong.. God has said it.. There is one God. He has always existed as God and will always continue to exist as the ONLY REAL GOD.. Sorry to burst your bubble about obtaining divinity but the *** had already been filled.. IHS jim