Blaine,
PERRY: Okay, the LDS interpret the Godhead as 3 separate gods...sorry to mislead you!
In conversations with LDS in the past I understood from their response that the LDS holy spirit was the spirit of the LDS god, and not a separate god itself. That is what I originally stated. DaveH corrected me in saying that the LDS holy spirit is not the spirit of LDS god, but a separate LDS god in and of itself. In the line above, I acknowledged that, and corrected my understanding. DaveH had said that I was being misleading. I was apologizing to those whom he thinks I misled, not to him. Now, what is it you see wrong with that?
Now, to clear up the obfuscation created by this smokescreen, my original point is yet more clearly made by this description of the LDS godhead. It is NOT the same Godhead of the Bible. The names are the same, but the characters are different. The godhead of the Bible does not consist of a god from Kolob that was once a man, a god that was once a man made by the physical union of the god from Kolob and the human Mary, and a separate spirit that is also a god. Not the same at all.
Regarding the section about women and resurrection, the reference I gave to prophet Snow speaks for itself. Here it is in brief: "No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband."
As to why I typically do not look to Mormons for answers to Mormon questions is that they 1) typically regurgitate the accepted standard LDS answers, which err in the same way Joseph Smith erred, and 2) use the same words that Christians use, but use the hidden LDS meanings. Most commonly they do not reveal the differences. They may not even be aware of the differences. The best source of the truth about Mormons is from 1) the works of the LDS, and 2) former LDS members who have been lead by the Holy Spirit of the Bible from the pagan LDS system into truth, and who then can see the pagan and occultic nature of the system, and typically speak/write quite openly and truthfully about it.
Perry
Fun Facts: Joseph Smith, the great LDS prophet, stated that there were men living on the moon! Where did he get this? Here is an article that tells about the most likely source: http://home.comcast.net/~cpl2602/moonhoax.htm. Seems to me that a prophet would know better.
""Nearly all the great discoveries of men in the last half century have, in one way or another... contributed to prove Joseph Smith to be a prophet. As far back as 1837, I know that he said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they lived to a greater age than we do, that they live generally to near the age of 1000 years. He described the men as averaging near six feet in height, and dressing quite uniformly in something near the Quaker style" (O. B. Huntington, Young Women's Journal, Vol. 3, p. 264, 1892).
Not to be outdone, prophet Brigham Young stated that there were people living on the Sun!
"Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?... So it is with regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it" (B. Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 271)."
Are these the men you want telling you what god says?
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