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 February 19 — LDS Newsroom Frequently Asked Questions

… 12. Do Latter-day Saints believe that they will “get their own planet”?

No. This idea is not taught in Latter-day Saint scripture, nor is it a doctrine of the Church. This misunderstanding stems from speculative comments unreflective of scriptural doctrine. Latter-day Saints believe that we are all sons and daughters of God and that all of us have the potential to grow during and after this life to become like our Heavenly Father (see Romans 8:16-17). The Church does not and has never purported to fully understand the specifics of Christ’s statement that “in my Father’s house are many mansions” (John 14:2).” [emp. added]  (more…)

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 November 29 — The Seer, p. 23 “The Gods who dwell in the Heaven from which our spirits came, are beings who have been redeemed from the grave in a world which existed before the foundations of this earth were laid.

They and the Heavenly body which they now inhabit were once in a fallen state. (more…)

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 November 5 — Jans Christian Anderson Weibye Daybooks, Daybook 5th, pp. 20-22 March 1, 1877 “Byron Allred preaches at Manti on Adam as God, with the following remarks in part:

Adam was buried by God (God his Father) and was only dead like a twinkling of an eye, and his God exalted him immediately. Mary was sealed to Adam, and was his wife when she had Jesus. Mary will be the Queen to people another world; Mary was the second wife to Adam; and unless we have two wives, we can never be Gods.

Adam will worship his God and we will worship Adam, and our children will worship us.” (more…)

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 November 3 — Journal of Discourses 14:242 “There are no marriages among spirits, no coupling together of the males and females among them; but when they rise from the grave after being tabernacled in mortal bodies, they have all the functions that are necessary to people worlds. As our Father and God begat us sons and daughters, so will we rise immortal males and females, and beget children and, in our turn, form and create worlds, and send forth our spirit children to inherit those worlds, the same as we were sent here, and thus will the works of God continue, and not only God himself, and His Son Jesus Christ have the power of endless lives, but all of His redeemed offspring.” — Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, August 20, 1871 (more…)

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 May 29 — Everyone Should Want Marriage. Revelation 19:7 “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.” (more…)

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 May 23 — Becoming a god. During the Priesthood session of the October 1975 General Conference President Spencer W. Kimball spoke to the men and young men of the Church. He told them –

“Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one of us 225,000.”

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 March 6 — Godhood Requires Perfection Now. Miracle of Forgiveness, pp. 209-210 “Perfection really comes through overcoming… Christ became perfect through overcoming. Only as we overcome shall we become perfect and move toward godhood. As I have indicated previously, the time to do this is now, in mortality.” — Spencer Kimball, 1969 (more…)

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 November 29 — Fraudulent Principles of Joe Smith. History of the Church 6:223 “It mattereth not whether the principle of the gospel is popular or unpopular, I will always maintain a true principle, even if I stand alone on it” (more…)

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 August 22 — LDS God Created Man to Become Gods. Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 88 “The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and have been faithful with all things he puts into our possession.” (more…)

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 July 23 — Families are Forever in Godhood Status. Deseret News, 13 Mar. 1897, President Lorenzo Snow taught: “When two Latter-day Saints are united together in marriage, promises are made to them concerning their offspring that reach from eternity to eternity. They are promised that they shall have the power and the right to govern and control and administer salvation and exaltation and glory to their offspring, worlds without end. And what offspring they do not have here, undoubtedly there will be opportunities to have them hereafter. What else could man wish? A man and a woman, in the other life, having celestial bodies, free from sickness and disease, glorified and beautified beyond description, standing in the midst of their posterity, governing and controlling them, administering life, exaltation and glory worlds without end” (Deseret News, 13 Mar. 1897; quoted by Spencer W. Kimball in The Miracle of Forgiveness [1969], 246). (Lesson 10 of The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part A) http://www.lds.org/manual/the-latter-day-saint-woman-basic-manual-for-women-part-a?lang=eng (more…)

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 June 1 – Joe Smith Wanted Same Glory as God,  Is. 43:10-11 “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he; before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”

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May 29 —Trading the True God for a Lie. James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”

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 April 21 – How Do Mormons Know Which God They Worship? Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

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  April 9 – Mormons Reject God’s Holy Son. John 3:13 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”

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 January 29 – Altars for Pagan Gods.  Exodus 33:19 “And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.”

Luke 1:72 “To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant.”

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 January 17 – Godhood Requires Procreation. Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”

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 December 28 — Defining Exaltation. Isaiah 52:13 “Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.” (more…)

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June 23 – Trading in the real Christ  for a false Christ. John 1:1, 14; “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

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  June 20 – Mormons Exalt Themselves Over Jesus. Col. 2:8-9 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”

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May 30 — Blindly Following Unknown Gods. James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” (more…)

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