Getting our own planets

[George]

Mormonism pretty much states you can become a god and get your own planet to rule. Lol on what basis does this even become possible in their mind?

 

[MarkFL]

Here is an article that may answer your question:

Mormon Cosmology

 

[George]

Here is an article that may answer your question:

Mormon Cosmology

Thank you kind sir for linking to that.

 

[Stravinsk]

Mormonism pretty much states you can become a god and get your own planet to rule. Lol on what basis does this even become possible in their mind?

The basis which makes it possible in their mind -

Is actually the same basis which makes salvation possible in your mind.

That basis is called Revealed religion, taken at face value, trusted and not questioned for historical and internal doctrinal consistency as well as consistency in the experience of the audience to which it applies (humanity).

Most Christians trust Saul/Paul as a prophet who speaks for "Jesus Christ"
Most Mormons accept this and also accept that their own prophets speak for "Jesus Christ"

The better question in my mind is why trust the former and not the latter? Is the distrust based on an examination of doctrine and evidence, or simply a bias based on one's own religious experience?

The ideas Mormon doctrines hold about ruling planets and having spirit children wouldn't be strange or foreign to you if you had grown up in say, Utah, and were raised Mormon and attended Mormon church meetings and listened to Mormon "prophets" and went on a Mormon Mission and lusted after a sweet looking little Mormon honey you thought to marry someday.

 

[psalms 91]

Actually it goes back to Genesis partly where we are called gods, little g

 

[Lamb]

Actually it goes back to Genesis partly where we are called gods, little g

That's because we are made in God's image but apart from God we are nothing. Since the fall we try to make ourselves into our own mighty gods.

Getting our own planets? I call Earth. Everyone move.

 

[psalms 91]

That's because we are made in God's image but apart from God we are nothing. Since the fall we try to make ourselves into our own mighty gods.

Getting our own planets? I call Earth. Everyone move.

No disagreement here but I think it is a part of what they believe

 

[Stravinsk]

No disagreement here but I think it is a part of what they believe

This is where @ANewDawn could help. I'm only a little familiar with LDS doctrine, having studied it for a while when I lived in the US, but she used to be one, and if memory serves, fought quite a few battles over at the other place over this issue (the issue of Mormonism and it being included in the definition of "Christian" by that board's definitions).

However, I'm not sure if she even looks here anymore. She's not active, anyway.

 

[pinacled]

Mormonism pretty much states you can become a god and get your own planet to rule. Lol on what basis does this even become possible in their mind?

Smells/stinks like slander to me.

 

[psalms 91]

This is where @ANewDawn could help. I'm only a little familiar with LDS doctrine, having studied it for a while when I lived in the US, but she used to be one, and if memory serves, fought quite a few battles over at the other place over this issue (the issue of Mormonism and it being included in the definition of "Christian" by that board's definitions).

However, I'm not sure if she even looks here anymore. She's not active, anyway.

There uis an official website by them that I used to use to reference the beliefs they try to deny. I found it useful especially the D & C which contains some of the more exotic beliefs they hold. I sucessfully used this a couple times when I ran acrooss Mormons that were trying to promiote their doctrine

 

[Josiah]

I don't want another planet. As far as I can tell..... of the many planets we know about..... Earth is BY FAR the nicest place. I'll just stay here.

 

[psalms 91]

If you do then you will never enter the spiritual kingdom, Christs bride is to be with Him in the spiritual kingdom, those left on earth are not a part of the spiritual

 

[Pedrito]

Mormonism pretty much states you can become a god and get your own planet to rule.

I suppose one could ask, with tongue firmly in cheek, “What planet are they on?”

 

[Josiah]

Mormonism pretty much states you can become a god and get your own planet to rule. Lol on what basis does this even become possible in their mind?

From what I know, there is no known planet that I'd WANT to have anything to do with.... They all pretty much seem like hell (of one kind or another).

And I'm not into ruling. Even this planet (WAY too messed up).

Mormonism might not be a good fit for me. Oh.... but there is that bit about having lots of sex forever and ever, isn't there?

 

[psalms 91]

In Genesis there is a passage that talks of us being gods, little g, pretty sure that has something to do with it and as for ruling and reigning it says thatwe will do that with Christ

 

[MoreCoffee]

I wonder how hard it is to write one's own additions to the bible?

 

[psalms 91]

I wonder how hard it is to wrote one's own additions to the bible?

Not very if you twist things or delete some things

 

[Pedrito]

In Post #16 on Page 2, MoreCoffee ruminated thus:

I wonder how hard it is to write one's own additions to the bible?

I suspect that that was a tongue-in-cheek question.

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Could it be that it has already been done?

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I suspect that MoreCoffee knows full well that the organisation he displays such loyalty to did that very thing multiple times over, changing Holy Scripture to make it support evolving doctrines and practices.

Did not scholars once consider the documents Codex Vaticanus (dated in the 300s AD) and the Codex Sinaiticus (also dated in the 300s AD) to be the most ancient Bible texts available? And even though those two texts display some differences, doesn’t their combined testimony reveal many of the major and doctrinally significant changes that were made to the general Biblical text as it then existed? (Refer to the Wikipedia entry for each codex.)

And didn’t scientific investigation disclose that the Codex Sinaiticus itself has been tampered with after its original penning?

Isn’t it great that papyri such as P 18, P 86 and P 49 (dated in the 200s AD), even older than the two codices above, now throw even more light on the modifications (corruptions) introduced into Holy Writ by “Orthodoxy” to give credence to its non-Biblical doctrines.

And isn’t it also great that we have writings from early church writers, which although possibly also altered to some extent, retain enough quotes from the (later) canonised writings, to actually track interpolations (insertions) that were made, especially a highly significant one, early in the history of Christendom.

And then we have the admissions of authoritative Roman Catholic sources, admitting that the original writings were modified. In the case of Matthew 28:19 (one of the changes that can actually be tracked) , Joseph Ratzinger (pope Benedict XVI) admitted that the current reading of that verse had its origin in Rome. visionary documented that elsewhere.

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And so we have it.

I wonder how hard it is to write one's own additions to the bible?

We have been beaten to it! Additions to the Bible have already been written. It wasn’t hard for those people at all. Much of it was officially sanctioned.


Does that not bring into question, the honesty and integrity of those who championed the corruption of God’s Holy Revelation – corruption designed to make it agree with ideas they wanted to believe and promote? And does that not in turn highlight the lack of native Scriptural support for those very ideas? As well as their total lack of apostolicity?

I wonder which of the churches that hold to such doctrines, will be the first to repudiate them.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Not very if you twist things or delete some things

You are probably right. The Latter Day Saints has three books sized additions - The Book of Mormon, The pearl of great price, and doctrines and covenants.

 

[psalms 91]

The D and C is where yopu will find the more out there beliefs