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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.
Saying 'Our Father' when addressing him in prayer is different than saying 'Be nice to your spouse as this is what Father told us to do. Father wants us to be gods and godesses and in order to be like Father we need to be good,etc,etc.'
His whole talk was basically chatting about how good we should be for Father so we can be like him.
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.  |
fiona84,
Take heart. Study the scriptures; they represent the official doctrine of this Church, and they are in harmony with your desire to worship God and only God. We are the children of God, and as such have the potential to be like him, but there is nothing in the scriptures that even suggests that we will take over. The suggestion is that we will continue his work, by bearing the souls of men, the same as has been done eternally before this time.
I personally don't take any issue with calling Heavenly Father "Father". That designation drives home the point that he literally is our Father. To Mary, Jesus taught:
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)
The truth that "God was once a Man" is nothing to worry about either, and it can also be harmonized with revealed scripture. Not only was he a man, he is still a Man. One of his name/titles is "Man of Holiness". God revealed to Enoch this truth:
Behold, I am God; Man of Holiness is my name; Man of Counsel is my name; and Endless and Eternal is my name, also. (Moses 7:35)
That scripture, as well as all the scriptures, makes it clear that God has ever been God. So, even if He did enter mortality to gain a body at some point, he was God before, during, and after, Just like Jesus Christ was:
And now Abinadi said unto them: I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people. (Mosiah 15:1)
And just for trivia, one of the name/titles of Jesus Christ is "Son of Man".
Regards,
Vanhin