Like I said, it is obvious that you are not interested in a serious discussion; you just want to be belligerent. That is an issue that I had addressed towards the end of my post. You are making it sound as if I was trying to hide something, when I wasn't. The doctrine of deification of man is one thing; the doctrine that God the Father was once a man who progressed to became God is another thing. I had addressed both in my post, the first at the beginning of my post, and the second towards the end. Now you are trying to make out as if I was trying to hide something, which I wasn't. It is obvious that you are not interested in a serious discussion, and I can't be bothered with that. End of the discussion. This will be the last attempt. Have a nice day.
Why did you run from the blatant contradiction between the bible and Mormon theology ?
This is Mormon doctrine
God an Exalted Man
I will go back to the beginning before the world was, to show what kind of being God is. What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear, all ye ends of the earth, for I am going to prove it to you by the Bible, and to tell you the designs of God in relation to the human race, and why He interferes with the affairs of man.
God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible, — I say, 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; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another. Joseph Smith - The King Follett Discourse
“God himself was once as we are now, and
is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!…I say, 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.…
I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea.…
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. …
Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and
you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God,
the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from one degree to another…
from exaltation to exaltation, until you…
sit in glory, as do those who sit
enthroned in everlasting power.”—
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith,pp. 345-346
Below the Bible
The bible does not teach God was once an exalted man who progress to godhood
Nor doers it teach multiple God's
Deut. 4:35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.
Deut. 4:39 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Deut. 32:39 ¶ “ ‘See now that I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Is. 37:20 So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD.”
Is. 43:10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor shall there be any after me.
Is. 44:6 ¶ Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel
and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts:
“I am the first and I am the last;
besides me there is no god.
Is. 44:7 Who is like me? Let him proclaim it.1
Let him declare and set it before me,
since I appointed an ancient people.
Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.
Is. 44:8 Fear not, nor be afraid;
have I not told you from of old and declared it?
And you are my witnesses!
mIs there a God besides me?
There is no Rock; I know not any.”
Is. 45:5 I am the LORD, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
I equip you, though you do not know me,
Is. 45:14 ¶ Thus says the LORD:
“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you rand be yours;
they shall follow you;
they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
no god besides him.’”
Is. 45:21 Declare and present your case;
let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the LORD?
And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
there is none besides me.
Is. 45:22 ¶ “Turn to me and be saved,
hall the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
Is. 46:9 remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me,
and he does not change
Heb. 1:10–12 —ASV
“And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.”
Psa. 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
