November 27 – Eternally Wrong. Jude 1:21“Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
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Today we’re looking at the word eternal to see what it means. The Greek word for eternal from this verse is; aioônios. The transliteration for eternal from the Strong’s Concordance is: “perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well):—eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).”
So today ask your Mormon friend what his understanding is of this word when Milton Hunter and Joseph Smith said God is eternal, yet he was once a man like us, and then became a god himself.
The meaning of the word eternal from the Webster’s 1828 Dictionary as found in the Gospel Link Dictionary; “Without beginning or end of existence. The eternal God is thy refuge. Deuteronomy 33.”
Also see definition of eternal from the 1828 Webster’s link here: http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/string,eternal
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“God Himself was once as we are now…It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us, yea, that God Himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did.” Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel through the Ages, 105.
Personally, I want a GOD who is greater than I, not someone I can become equal to.
Me too! 🙂
I have a Mormon friend whom I have not seen in 3 years. Anyway, I spoke to her yesterday and she advised me that she has left the church. This is a gal that was born and raised in the Mormon culture. She said that since leaving the church she has found happiness. She told me that her entire life (42 years) old, has been devoted to the church. She said that she always felt unworthy, guilty about one thing or another, always trying to do a little more each day to help the church grow. Now that she is no longer under the Mormon cloud, she feels free. free as jesus promised us in John 8:36: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”