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Originally Posted by fiona84
Christ's atonement IS enough for me. It is everything for me! That's why I don't want to be a god. I worship Heavenly Father and His Son for what they did for me. No one is ever going to worship ME.
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agree.
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I apologize for my defeatest attitude.  I am earnestly trying to get to the bottom of this issue. I'm doing that because I sincerely don't want it to bother me so much. I was hoping to find a way to come to terms with this in the way that God wants me to. I want to believe it, I wish I could. I'm finding this really upsetting. 
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Don't let a talk by others get you down. I have on an occasion or two also felt uncomfortable with someone's approach to a gospel topic. Maybe this guy was just trying to make Heavenly Father seem more approachable or something. I do believe we should address him as Christ addressed him, that is either as Father in Heaven, or Heavenly Father, or God, or God of us all, an so on, something respectful.
As for the doctrine of becoming a God. This is not relevant to yours and my salvation for now. No one ever said we would be worshipped. So just relax.
Think of it this way, eternity is for a very very very long time--we cannot comprehend it. If slowly but surely over millions or billions of years I keep improving myself through Heavenly Father's guidance, I may just wake up one day to see that I am like him in every way except for his Supreme Stature.
Remember Christ's prayer [I'll paraphrase] with his apostles when he prayed to Heavenly Father that they may become one in Him as He is One in the Father and so on. Or here is a D&C that I did locate:
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D&C 35: 2
" I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father is one in me, that we may be one."
This oneness we are aiming to achieve is nothing more than the ability to be righteous in all situations, to act and respond to things as would Heavenly Father and Christ, and we have billions of years to work on all this.