CARM Looks at the Mormon Doctrine of God God used to be a man on another planet, (Mormon Doctrine, p. 321; Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, vol. 5, p. 613-614; Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 345; Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 333). How short-sighted of Slick not to include the actual quotations from these alleged sources. "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s..." (D&C 130:22). “Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have” [Luke 24:39’ God is in the form of a man, (Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p. 3). “Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have” [Luke 24:39’ "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!!! . . . We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea and take away the veil, so that you may see," (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 345). “Handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have” [Luke 24:39’ God the Father had a Father, (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 476; Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, p. 19; Milton Hunter, First Council of the Seventy, Gospel through the Ages, p. 104-105). Jesus had a Father! Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. [John 20:17] God resides near a star called Kolob, (Pearl of Great Price, p. 34-35; Mormon Doctrine, p. 428). If God’s dwelling is not near Kolob, then where, exactly, is it? |