I have always been an astute study of all sides of religions and came across this quote on a site describing various parts different religions including LDS.
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- "God the Father", for the Mormons, was once a man, but became God. He has a physical body, as does his wife, Heavenly Mother. |
1. Yes, it's true, we do believe that God has a physical body of flesh and bone, just as Jesus Christ does, and for the same reason: He (God) is a resurrected, glorified man, just as Jesus is a resurrected, glorified man. We humans are made in His image, as the scriptures reveal over and over. We will one day be resurrected, as well.
2. All of these are partial scriptures, and just a sampling of the hundreds of references:
Gen. 1: 27 God created man in his own image.
Gen. 5: 1 God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
Gen. 32: 30 I have seen God face to face.
Ex. 31: 18 (Deut. 9: 10) written with the finger of God.
Ex. 33: 11 Lord spake unto Moses face to face.
Luke 24: 39 for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
John 14:9 he that hath seen me hath seen the Father (Christ speaking)
Phil 3:14 shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body
Heb. 1: 3 the express image of his person.
1 Jn. 3: 2 when he shall appear, we shall be like him.
Rev. 22: 4 they shall see his face.
3. I don't have the answer to this one, but I'll see what I can find out. Or perhaps Nighthawk or JB can jump in here...?
4. Heavenly Mother! Does it not make sense that if we have a Heavenly Father, we should also have a Mother there? If we are all children of God, should we not have male and female parents? Should not our earthly families emulate our Heavenly family? If we are all made in the image of God the father, should there not be an image of our Mother as well? I don't believe there are any scriptures in relation to this, at least not in the Bible. However, I've seen reference in the Nag Hammadi and other sources.
I will jump in on #3.
I don't believe that we are "created" in the sense that you seem to mean. We are born, children of our Heavenly Father. He is literally the Father of our spirits. By looking backwards with the limited knowledge that we have, I understand that Heavenly Father (El, El-Shaddai, Adonai) was born at some time, on some world.
We really don't know much about it, other than the fact that He has a physical body. In order to learn more, we each have to receive that knowledge through revelation from Him. And the people who have this knowledge aren't going to be going around telling it to everyone else, either. This is one of the Mysteries that are reserved for those who are prepared, and willing to do whatever He requires.
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4. Heavenly Mother! Does it not make sense that if we have a Heavenly Father, we should also have a Mother there? If we are all children of God, should we not have male and female parents? Should not our earthly families emulate our Heavenly family? If we are all made in the image of God the father, should there not be an image of our Mother as well? I don't believe there are any scriptures in relation to this, at least not in the Bible. However, I've seen reference in the Nag Hammadi and other sources. |
Christianity declares that Jesus Christ was a resurrected man with a body of flesh and bones
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Luke 24: 39 39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. |
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John 8:19 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also |
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19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. |
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4. Whats the deal with Heavenly Mother, I have never heard of her before now. |
I find it more hard to believe that this earth was the first, In all of the eternities and that God would not have created other worlds.
I believe that God the Father has created other Earths, ours is not the first and will not be the last. To my mind it is more logical to assume that the trillions of light years of stars and planets were created for the purpose of many and that our Earth is not unique.
This is just my belief, but I think when Jesus said that he did what he saw his Father do in the Bible he was talking about God the Father.
John 5:19
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19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise |
Well I'm not a disbeliever that God has many worlds and many creations, but that does not answer who is his God according to Mormon belief.
John 5:19 could be in referrence to the things he was taught by God. There is a lot of Jesus' life unaccounted for in the Bible.