November 9 – How To Become Sons Of God. Acts 17:29 “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.”
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Once again let’s look at this verse in context and alongside the other verses on this particular subject. All throughout the New Testament we read that only Jesus was in heaven before the earth came to be, John 8:58 and John 3:13 are two great examples. We also know that we become sons and daughters through adoption, not through a bloodline, John 1:13; Ro. 8:15, 23; Gal. 4:5; and Eph. 1:5. Besides all this, we also know from His Word that God is not a man as the Church is trying to teach here.
Share these verses with a Mormon, and ask for their opinion about these things.
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“The Apostle Paul told the Athenians on Mars’ Hill that “we are the offspring of God”. Since we know that our physical bodies are the offspring of our mortal parents, we must probe for the meaning of Paul’s statement. The Lord has declared that “the spirit and the body are the soul of man.” It is the spirit which is the offspring of God. The writer of Hebrews refers to Him as “the Father of spirits.” God Himself is a soul, composed of a spirit and of a body of flesh and bones, as tangible as man’s. He is a resurrected, glorified, exalted, omniscient, omnipotent person and is omnipresent in spirit and power and influence, the ruler of the heavens and the earth and all things therein. The spirits of all men are literally His “begotten sons and daughters.”’ Thomas S. Monson, An Invitation to Exaltation [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1997], 3.
Shame that every member of the church reading Monson’s comments are hanging on to every word. He says that God’s soul is composed of tHis spirit and of a body of flesh and bone.
Question for you….If God is Flesh and Bone, what about 1 Corinthians 15:50? “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and bone cannot inherit the Kingdom of God: neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”
Does this mean that God, made of flesh and bone, cannot inherit His own Kingdom?
I find it ironic that Mr. Monson uses the verb “probe” when trying to explain we’re literally ” begotten sons and daughters”.
I don’t want to worship a god that was once a sinful man.
Well, Mr. Monson definitely knows the truth now.