Recently Mitt Romney in his announcement for president said:
"I believe in God and I believe that every person in this great country, and every person on this grand planet, is a child of God,"
Well with Romney being a Mormon it seems to me it would have been much more accurate for him to say that he believes in Gods. For Mormon’s Jesus Christ joins a long line of gods who have preceded him in an infinite line of divine beings. That in fact faithful Mormon men can also become a god. So I think it is a little disingenuous to speak using normal monotheistic idea of God in a political speech when LDS theology holds to multiple gods, where God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all separate gods and that they are in addition to an unknown number of gods.
Though while I totally disagree with LDS theology, this does not mean that I wouldn’t vote for a Mormon. I am just not that thrilled with this particular Mormon in that I do not feel very solid on his conservatism and his new-found pro-life beliefs. Fiscally conservative he probably is, socially conservative is another story.
Note: The Gods of the Mormon Church
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Yeah, I gave Al Gore a hard time about becoming pro-choice when he decided to leave his conservative state and run for national office as a Democrat. So I can’t turn around and give Romney a pass when he becomes pro-life as he leaves his liberal state to run for national office as a Republican. I’m tired of these politicians who don’t stand for anything except re-election.
Where is Mit Romney on the environment? The reason I ask is that I just had a great marketing idea for some sort of environmentally friendly automobile of the future. If MR becomes president he could name the project;
Chariots of the Gods.
“every person, on theis grand planet, is a child of God…”
Ummm…at the risk of picking nits, isn’t every person on this grand planet a creature of God? One who, by receiving and believing on Jesus Christ, can have the power to become a child of God, but is under no obligation to do so?
John 1:12 and the surrounding text are pretty unambiguous, and I would submit that the opportunity to become a child of God is a very different thing from being one intrinsically – and that differebce can lead both to vastly different views of theology and to vastly different approaches to how one lives one’s life.
Note how he said on “this planet.” What about the other planets? Isn’t there something about how Mormons each get to rule a planet in the next life? Glenn Beck is also a Mormon, but when he speaks about theology, most of what he says makes good sense to me.
I heard him interviewed on Glenn Beck’s show. He had a very believable reason for his switch. It had to do with an experience he had while visiting a bio lab where they were using human embryos for tests and how callous they were with them.
Listening to ex-Mormons on CA and Marcus Grodi it is probably fair to say that the average Mormon that comes to your door doesn’t know much about the higher theology of their Church and why they are not Trinitarian.
There’s a local blog that does not really take to Mitt so well. http://massresistance.blogspot.com/
Mormons hold that everyone is a literal spirit-child of ‘God’, and that each man has the possibility of becoming ‘god’ over his own planet and populating it with his own ‘spirit-children’
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