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Study Section 15: Questions about World Religions

15.1 Connect

Some of the meanest people I have met call themselves Christians. I have been to church
business meetings where various people almost have a fist fight over the color or the new
pews. I’ve experienced a church split where half the people in the church left and started
their own church. The world looks at some who name the name of Christ and laughs. To
them, Christianity is simply a crutch for living. They don’t see it really changing the lives of
those who call themselves Christians. That is so very unfortunate; since the lives we live are really the
only “Bible” they can read.

Our questions today deal with the difference between true, life changing faith and a false faith that is
not visible. The Bible predicts that many in the future will be utterly shocked when Jesus says, “Depart
from me, I don’t know you.”

15.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to confront the Mormon belief that good Mormons will become
gods someday and progress in their deity experience.

2. The student should be able to explain why believers fight and why there are so many
denominations.

3. The student should be able to confront the person whose life does not match his claims.

15.3 Don’t you think everyone will eventually become like God?

President Lorenzo Snow made a statement on behalf of the Mormon church which was, “As
man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.” The LDS church teaches that every
Mormon is on a journey to become a god. They teach that Adam was a man who eventually
became the God we worship today. Brigham Young was taught by Joseph Smith that Adam is
“our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do.”
(https://www.google.com/search?q=adam+god&oq=adam+god&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1877j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

So is the Mormon doctrine of man becoming God in the Bible? The answer is
absolutely not! God is a spirit and is eternal. He had no beginning and has no end.
He has never changed one iota over the eons of time. In fact He exists outside the
realm of time. He is not progressing to a new state.

God created man who had a definite beginning. And because of sin, his body has a
definite end in death. But God made man’s soul to live eternally. And the future
home of the soul is based on man’s response to the Gospel or light he is given to
respond in faith to God. There is nothing in the Bible that indicates that man will
progress in the eternal state to a higher being. Such a teaching is totally foreign to the Word of God.

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