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I have noticed that some interviewers unfamiliar with the LDS church, when asking about the church frame questions in ways that enable the church to make decpetive responses without flat out lying.

For example, on the recent Fox.com thread, a question was about members ruling over planets... the church response indicated that this was not a teaching. However if the interviewer knew about Mormonism she/he could have asked the question more clearly reflecting LDS teachings.

If you could ask the prophet ten questions about LDS doctrine... what would you ask? Could you frame the question in a way that would require a more honest answer than is typically given?

For example... Rather than asking, Do you believe members will become Gods and Goddesses? One might ask,

"In the Sermon taught by Joseph Smith, the King Follett Discourse, it states, "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 was rent to-day, 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 to-day, 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. "

And...

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 small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one,--from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power. And I want you to know that God, in the last days, while certain individuals are proclaiming his name, is not trifling with you or me.

Does this Sermon, taught by Joseph Smith himself reflect current LDS doctrine regarding believers who are received into the highest level of the Celestial Kingdom?

Any thoughts or ideas?

~dancer~

I think they would sidestep the question with answer something like:

"Well, this is a very deep subject and we don't have all the answers, yet. "

Isn't this how they always answer. Milk toast answers, we cann't handle the meat.

Good Mormon friends of mine have puzzled over this as well. It goes back also to the Hinkster stating "I don't know that we teach that", when in all reality, yes, they do teach that.

But as friends of mine who are still Mormon have said, nobody out there could understand the hard-core doctrine of Mormonism. So I say, "Oh, you need milk before meat?"

Exactly.

Infymus wrote:Good Mormon friends of mine have puzzled over this as well. It goes back also to the Hinkster stating "I don't know that we teach that", when in all reality, yes, they do teach that.

But as friends of mine who are still Mormon have said, nobody out there could understand the hard-core doctrine of Mormonism. So I say, "Oh, you need milk before meat?"

Exactly.

Hinkster

That is the crap I am talking about. Can you not have a discussion without the playground additives?
JMS