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Originally Posted by Presbyterian Deacon From the founding heretic's mouth--
Joseph Smith: "God Himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man...if you were to see Him today, you would see Him like a man in form--like yourselves, in all the person, image, and very form as a man...we have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity, I wil refute that idea..." (Journal of Discourses, 6:3--4). | Do you find parallels between Smith's promise of heavenly planets cohabiting with multiple wives to the Islamic promise to their terroristic "martyrs" of 72 virgins?  |
Similarities perhaps, but Islam does not claim the martyr with his seventy-two virgins become "god."
Mormonism however declares that as you are, so once God was. And as God is, so you will become.
Heresy is heresy, but I find this one a bit more troubling than the Islamic view.
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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
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John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.
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Martin Luther, Table Talk