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Old 03-08-2008, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Snow View Post
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
I'm not aware that any of these people taught that men could become Gods and have spirit-children that will later become Gods when they get physical bodies.

In fact, one website I read states that the concept isn't even found in the Book of Mormon.
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