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	<title>Comments on: What Do Mormons Believe? &#8211; Becoming Gods and Ruling Planets</title>
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		<title>By: alessia</title>
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		<dc:creator>alessia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Psalm 82:6 (italics added)

6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High
 this was actually speaking to the kings and leaders that were in charge back then we have to read the whole context of scriptures and not take verses and run with it God was saying that the y were in charge but still will be treated as regular men notice the lowercase g we cant compare to God at all cant steal his power nor glory n never will. We have to Let God be God . the verses after caught my attention too

7 But you will die like mere mortals and fall like every other ruler
8 Rise up Oh God and judge the earth for every nation belong to you

I just was goin over this passage of scripture and felt like commenting well God bless</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Psalm 82:6 (italics added)</p>
<p>6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High<br />
 this was actually speaking to the kings and leaders that were in charge back then we have to read the whole context of scriptures and not take verses and run with it God was saying that the y were in charge but still will be treated as regular men notice the lowercase g we cant compare to God at all cant steal his power nor glory n never will. We have to Let God be God . the verses after caught my attention too</p>
<p>7 But you will die like mere mortals and fall like every other ruler<br />
8 Rise up Oh God and judge the earth for every nation belong to you</p>
<p>I just was goin over this passage of scripture and felt like commenting well God bless</p>
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		<title>By: Thaddeus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thaddeus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>meh, kinda but not really.

Using the word &#039;marketing&#039; makes it sound like a ploy.  We&#039;re talking about reaching the highest possible human potential and beyond (by lifting others to such heights).  It&#039;s less about getting something and more about becoming something:  the embodiment of Goodness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>meh, kinda but not really.</p>
<p>Using the word &#8216;marketing&#8217; makes it sound like a ploy.  We&#8217;re talking about reaching the highest possible human potential and beyond (by lifting others to such heights).  It&#8217;s less about getting something and more about becoming something:  the embodiment of Goodness.</p>
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		<title>By: C</title>
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		<dc:creator>C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So it&#039;s like multi-level marketing?  Work your way up to God status, then train others to become gods?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So it&#8217;s like multi-level marketing?  Work your way up to God status, then train others to become gods?</p>
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		<title>By: Thaddeus</title>
		<link>http://www.whatdomormonsbelieve.com/2008/09/what-do-mormons-believe-becoming-gods-and-ruling-planets/comment-page-1/#comment-815</link>
		<dc:creator>Thaddeus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeremy, thank you for bringing us down to ground level.  You&#039;re right.  True religion isn&#039;t about arguing over doctrines.  It&#039;s about worshiping our Father and serving the needy and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world.

I admire the devotion with which Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses share the good news of the gospel, and I&#039;m glad you found our site.  Keep reading and tell us if you&#039;d like to know anything more about our beliefs and practices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeremy, thank you for bringing us down to ground level.  You&#8217;re right.  True religion isn&#8217;t about arguing over doctrines.  It&#8217;s about worshiping our Father and serving the needy and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world.</p>
<p>I admire the devotion with which Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses share the good news of the gospel, and I&#8217;m glad you found our site.  Keep reading and tell us if you&#8217;d like to know anything more about our beliefs and practices.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know why people think that truth in religion (or true worship of God) needs to be a philosophical debate. The fact is that Jehovah is God alone 1Cor8:5&amp;6/1Tim2:3-5/Joh4:23&amp;24/Joh17:3/Joh20:17/Ps83:18 (The list of scriptures goes on and on). The only reason that I can come up with, as per why people just don&#039;t get this simple fact is that 2Cor3:16-18 is not taking place in them (your Bible should read &quot;the LORD&quot; in capital letters here - referring to the father, YHWH) With frustration I don&#039;t understand how so many &quot;Christians&quot; (that is &quot;followers of Christ&quot;) fail to follow Christ&#039;s lead in worshiping the father (Joh20:17).

Please, don&#039;t bother posting any replies to me, because there can only be one truth, and I speak it (Dan12:4/Joh4:24,8:32,17:1718:37/Heb10:26). Ask one of Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses and they will tell you what the truth is, for as they are the only religion to bear the name of the only true God (Joh17:3/Ps83:18), they are the only religion under obligation to tell the truth (2Tim4:3&amp;4)

Best Regards to All, -Jeremy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know why people think that truth in religion (or true worship of God) needs to be a philosophical debate. The fact is that Jehovah is God alone 1Cor8:5&amp;6/1Tim2:3-5/Joh4:23&amp;24/Joh17:3/Joh20:17/Ps83:18 (The list of scriptures goes on and on). The only reason that I can come up with, as per why people just don&#8217;t get this simple fact is that 2Cor3:16-18 is not taking place in them (your Bible should read &#8220;the LORD&#8221; in capital letters here &#8211; referring to the father, YHWH) With frustration I don&#8217;t understand how so many &#8220;Christians&#8221; (that is &#8220;followers of Christ&#8221;) fail to follow Christ&#8217;s lead in worshiping the father (Joh20:17).</p>
<p>Please, don&#8217;t bother posting any replies to me, because there can only be one truth, and I speak it (Dan12:4/Joh4:24,8:32,17:1718:37/Heb10:26). Ask one of Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses and they will tell you what the truth is, for as they are the only religion to bear the name of the only true God (Joh17:3/Ps83:18), they are the only religion under obligation to tell the truth (2Tim4:3&amp;4)</p>
<p>Best Regards to All, -Jeremy</p>
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		<title>By: Bus Gillespie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bus Gillespie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The nature of the relationship between God and mankind is at the foundation of every religion and should be carefully considered.  Many religions place God in an unattainable place far removed from the ability of humans to understand. Many use some intermediate being to gain some distant connection to god such as a saint or an angel.  The Mormon belief is that we (mankind) are the literal spiritual children of our heavenly father and as such we have great potential, with the possibility of becoming as God himself.
     When many Christians read Jesus&#039; words: &quot;Be ye therefore perfect even as I am.&quot; they find ways to explain it away or put the responsibility on Jesus.  Mormons see it as an attainable goal (perhaps some of the work will be done in the afterlife).  I imagine this might sound blasphemes to some, but it all comes down to the fundamental belief in the relationship mankind has to God.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The nature of the relationship between God and mankind is at the foundation of every religion and should be carefully considered.  Many religions place God in an unattainable place far removed from the ability of humans to understand. Many use some intermediate being to gain some distant connection to god such as a saint or an angel.  The Mormon belief is that we (mankind) are the literal spiritual children of our heavenly father and as such we have great potential, with the possibility of becoming as God himself.<br />
     When many Christians read Jesus&#8217; words: &#8220;Be ye therefore perfect even as I am.&#8221; they find ways to explain it away or put the responsibility on Jesus.  Mormons see it as an attainable goal (perhaps some of the work will be done in the afterlife).  I imagine this might sound blasphemes to some, but it all comes down to the fundamental belief in the relationship mankind has to God.</p>
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		<title>By: Thaddeus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thaddeus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The serious answer is &quot;we don&#039;t know.&quot;

There have been many willing to speculate, but we don&#039;t accord that with much weight.  On one occasion God told Moses that his visions were limited in scope to the dealings of this earth: 

&lt;i&gt;&quot;But only an account of this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power. And there are many that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man; but all things are numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them.&quot;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moses/1/35#35&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moses 1:35&lt;/a&gt;

And we take it that this is God&#039;s policy in general.  Surely there is much more to know about God, His Family, about heaven, about eternity than any of us now understands, but if we are unwilling to commit ourselves until we have all the information, we are not displaying very robust faith in Christ.

We do believe these issues will be revealed, but as Ben concludes in this article, we can&#039;t be bothered with such things when we&#039;re still mucking about in the sins of arguing with spouses, fibbing, or hording up money for ourselves.  There are priorities in life.

The principle is taught in general by a prophet named Alma &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/12/9-11#8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/26/22#22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alma 26:22&lt;/a&gt; is my favorite scripture elucidating what is possible if we are faithful.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The serious answer is &#8220;we don&#8217;t know.&#8221;</p>
<p>There have been many willing to speculate, but we don&#8217;t accord that with much weight.  On one occasion God told Moses that his visions were limited in scope to the dealings of this earth: </p>
<p><i>&#8220;But only an account of this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away by the word of my power. And there are many that now stand, and innumerable are they unto man; but all things are numbered unto me, for they are mine and I know them.&#8221;</i> <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moses/1/35#35" rel="nofollow">Moses 1:35</a></p>
<p>And we take it that this is God&#8217;s policy in general.  Surely there is much more to know about God, His Family, about heaven, about eternity than any of us now understands, but if we are unwilling to commit ourselves until we have all the information, we are not displaying very robust faith in Christ.</p>
<p>We do believe these issues will be revealed, but as Ben concludes in this article, we can&#8217;t be bothered with such things when we&#8217;re still mucking about in the sins of arguing with spouses, fibbing, or hording up money for ourselves.  There are priorities in life.</p>
<p>The principle is taught in general by a prophet named Alma <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/12/9-11#8" rel="nofollow">here.</a><br />
<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/26/22#22" rel="nofollow">Alma 26:22</a> is my favorite scripture elucidating what is possible if we are faithful.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Heavenly Father became God through progression- who was/is His god?

Serious question.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Heavenly Father became God through progression- who was/is His god?</p>
<p>Serious question.</p>
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		<title>By: bfrancisco</title>
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		<dc:creator>bfrancisco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Brad,

Thank you for pointing those who may read these comments to a site that contains 10 different authors substantiating 14 different times what I wrote in my post.  In addition, they point out several verses in the Bible that are helpful in understanding what I wrote in my article.  We do believe that all people can inherit all that the Father has through the atonement of His Son, Jesus Christ.  We believe this because of what the Bible teaches (Romans 8:16-17, Revelation 3:21) and what prophets in our times teach us as the link you gave emphasizes (albeit, the goal of that website is to discredit The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints).  

Jesus Christ (who Isaiah is referencing in Isaiah 42:8, 43:10-11, 44:6, and 45:22) is a god, just as His Father is a god and I will never worship any other gods.  They will always be such and they will always be my God and your God.  But that does not mean that we cannot become like them.  Just as sons can become like their fathers, so can we, children of God become like our Father through the atonement of His Son (John 1:12).

Salvation from sin and imperfection is promised to ALL that come unto Christ and accept Him as their Savior, regardless of whether they are married or not.  What Christ is teaching in Luke 20:34-38 is that those who don’t shun the world (the children of the world) won’t be together with their spouses for eternity and they will be angels and remain singly for eternity.  I think that it should be evident that God does place a lot of importance on marriage.  What God does is meant to last eternally (Matthew 16:19) and He did marry Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:21-25 Matthew 19:3-6).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Brad,</p>
<p>Thank you for pointing those who may read these comments to a site that contains 10 different authors substantiating 14 different times what I wrote in my post.  In addition, they point out several verses in the Bible that are helpful in understanding what I wrote in my article.  We do believe that all people can inherit all that the Father has through the atonement of His Son, Jesus Christ.  We believe this because of what the Bible teaches (Romans 8:16-17, Revelation 3:21) and what prophets in our times teach us as the link you gave emphasizes (albeit, the goal of that website is to discredit The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints).  </p>
<p>Jesus Christ (who Isaiah is referencing in Isaiah 42:8, 43:10-11, 44:6, and 45:22) is a god, just as His Father is a god and I will never worship any other gods.  They will always be such and they will always be my God and your God.  But that does not mean that we cannot become like them.  Just as sons can become like their fathers, so can we, children of God become like our Father through the atonement of His Son (John 1:12).</p>
<p>Salvation from sin and imperfection is promised to ALL that come unto Christ and accept Him as their Savior, regardless of whether they are married or not.  What Christ is teaching in Luke 20:34-38 is that those who don’t shun the world (the children of the world) won’t be together with their spouses for eternity and they will be angels and remain singly for eternity.  I think that it should be evident that God does place a lot of importance on marriage.  What God does is meant to last eternally (Matthew 16:19) and He did marry Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:21-25 Matthew 19:3-6).</p>
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		<title>By: Brad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those who stumble on this page and want to know the truth should look at their teachings on the matter- it will be very clear what they believe if you check out this link.
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/mormonshopetobecomegods.htm

at the bottom of the link it tells what the bible says about all this</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who stumble on this page and want to know the truth should look at their teachings on the matter- it will be very clear what they believe if you check out this link.<br />
<a href="http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/mormonshopetobecomegods.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/mormonshopetobecomegods.htm</a></p>
<p>at the bottom of the link it tells what the bible says about all this</p>
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