Mormon's Criticized for not Accepting the "Trinity" Doctrine

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Re: Mormon's Criticized for not Accepting the "Trinity" Doct

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lulu wrote:
Tobin wrote:Just another name for God.
Why does "God" have more than one name? That's the beginning of the Trinitarian question.
idk - Do you have more than one name? I bet you have at least two, maybe even three.
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Tobin wrote:idk


You don't know? You don't know? Think about it before entering a discussion on Trinitarianism.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
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lulu wrote:
Tobin wrote:idk


You don't know? You don't know? Think about it before entering a discussion on Trinitarianism.


I refer you to my earlier post...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric

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Mormons believe in Jesus as God, HF as God, and the Holy Spirit as a very spread-out spirit guy. They also believe God is married so therefore, HM is also God. That makes at least 3 main Gods and potentially others, including any demigods like Abraham and his wives.

This is my fav part about Mormonism.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

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Actually, the Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit, just as any other personage of spirit, who has attained godhood in His ante mortal state.
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Drifting wrote:The problem here is not that Mormons believe in in a different God per se, it's that they believe in God's. Lots and lots of Gods. Gods who used to be men and who have accompanying wives (multiple wives for each God) and planets of their own.


Gdemetz, is my post an accurate reflection of what is believed in Mormonism?

If not, please show me how it is inaccurate.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
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zeezrom wrote:Mormons believe in Jesus as God, HF as God, and the Holy Spirit as a very spread-out spirit guy. They also believe God is married so therefore, HM is also God. That makes at least 3 main Gods and potentially others, including any demigods like Abraham and his wives.

This is my fav part about Mormonism.

Potentially?
Really!

http://www.LDS.org/ensign/1977/05/come- ... s?lang=eng
In the May 1977 Ensign
under the title 'Come, Know the Lord Jesus'
Elder Bruce R. McConkie - Of the Council of the Twelve
wrote:
The Father’s name is Elohim;
Jehovah is his Son.
Above all Gods they stand supreme,
And rule the universe.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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gdemetz wrote:Actually, the Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit, just as any other personage of spirit, who has attained godhood in His ante mortal state.

Ok, 4.

Mormonism really has a wild and exciting theology. It just needs to come out of hiding.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

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Yes Drifting, your post is accurate.
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And Gods with accompanying husbands.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

The Holy Sacrament.
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