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A part of it has to do with the culture of the era.

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okay back on the topic of God once being like man, all of this was taken from the official church website:
"Lorenzo Snow, the Church’s fifth President, coined a well-known couplet: “As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.” Little has been revealed about the first half of this couplet, and consequently little is taught. When asked about this topic, Church President Gordon B. Hinckley told a reporter in 1997, “That gets into some pretty deep theology that we don’t know very much about.”
and this article (too long to copy and paste here, but it goes a lot more into it): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1982/02/i-have-a-question/is-president-snows-statement-as-man-now-is-god-once-was-as-god-now-is-man-may-be-accepted-as-official-doctrine?lang=eng

Still doesn’t justify it and in 1850s America polygamy was not ok so it wasn’t the culture either

@Pizzacork okay, so I found this and it explains it better than I can.

"Latter-day Saints believe that the marriage of one man and one woman is the Lord’s standing law of marriage. In biblical times, the Lord commanded some to practice plural marriage—the marriage of one man and more than one woman. By revelation, the Lord commanded Joseph Smith to institute the practice of plural marriage among Church members in the early 1840s."

This is interesting

So y'all believe that normal people can become god

It goes on to say that many faithful members were born as a result. Since the church was so small at the time, it did help create more members and future missionaries. But we do not understand the full intent of the things God asks us to do.

yeah essentially

That is kinda generalizing it though

But with God it would either be morally good or not. There isn’t an in between especially one like polygamy. If God is Omnibenevolent he shouldn’t flip flop on what we should and should not do, it should be a constant moral standard

Do y'all have the same Bible as most Christians

yeah we use the KJV

Also with reproducing I’m sure there was a rise in bachelors as well and there were other ways besides polygamy to expand your numbers

The needs of the times change. God is aware of what is needed at what times because he is an all knowing God.

That's very interesting because I never see evidence that a man can become God due to being good enough I actually see a lot of evidence for the contrary

I'm sure there are, but we do not understand the whole reasoning of why God wanted them to perform polygamy. He knows things that we do not

I need to take the garbage out to the curb brb

aight

interesting, you have examples for that?

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okay

i actually toook a break from working for this so i should proabaly get back to that

alright

But he is also all good. So no matter what you need you should achieve it always through morally good standards and not change them on the situation

Isaiah 45:22
Verse Concepts
“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other."
Isaiah 46:9 "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me"

this too

John 10:33, NIV: "We are not stoning you for any good work,' they replied, 'but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'"

to my understanding, these verses were addressed to man on Earth, and as we are right now not we are indeed not Gods, and for us God is the only God, if that makes sense

By God saying He is the only God he eliminates the possibility of people having the capacity to become God because that would mean God is not the only God.

We would become Gods of differernt worlds, so God is the only God for this world("universe" or something)

to be honest i dont fully understand it myself at this point

You don't understand it because it's not the true gospel my friend

no, i think its cause im still a youth and i have a lot of things to still learn and understand, including inside the church

i have had a witness to my heart by the Holy Ghost of things in this church, so im gonna stick to that

@Hummingbird
We believe that after the second coming and judgment, we will go to 3 different kingdoms, where we will continue heavenly fathers work