by Dan Wees | Mar 6, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“… God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and, infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today … “We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and...
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...
