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Originally Posted by Malachi7
Hi:
I read on a website that it's a Mormon belief that you can become Gods and Goddesses.
And that you will have children after you die.
And that your children will later become Gods too...if they take on physical bodies.
Are they making that up about LDS beliefs?
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It is a belief that has been taught by some of the worlds great thinkers:
C.S Lewis
Sanatayana
Feuerbach
William Ellery Channing
Theodore Parker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Ralph Cudworth
Catherine of Genoa
etc
Before them can the medieval thinkers and theologians, like
Thomas Aquinas
Pseudo-Dionysius
Maximus the Confessor
etc
Before them came the early Patristic or Church Fathers. The doctrine was taught by most everyone:
St. Augustine
Appollinaris
Gregory of Nazianus
Basil of Caesaria
Athanasius
Origen
Clement of Alexandria
Irenaeus
...and on and on and on.
Where did they get it from?
From the Bible, both the New and Old Testament