by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man’s; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. “Second, we believe in a plurality of Gods. “Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages...
by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine. I think I understand them thoroughly, and it is unfortunate that the reporting may not make this clear. I hope you...
by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, [Hinckley] sounded uncertain, ‘I don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it …’” After a spokesman for the LDS Church questioned the accuracy of the Time quotation, the...
by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“There is a statement often repeated in the Church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church Works, it is accepted as church doctrine, and this is: ‘As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.’” LeGrand Richards, Letter to Morris L. Reynolds –...
by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“GOD IS AN EXALTED MAN. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith … that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.” Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation – Volume 1 (Salt Lake...
by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar to that through which we are now passing. He became God – an exalted being – through obedience...
