Category: Heavenly Grandfathers
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How Our Father Became God, by LDS Philosopher Nels Lars Nelson
Nels Lars Nelson, a Brigham Young University professor, was a significant figure in Mormon intellectual circles. He wrote, “God became God because He fulfilled the law of becoming perfect as His Father in heaven was perfect.”
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Mormon Quotes on the Regress of Gods
Updated April 21, 2025. As of today there are at least five different positions in the Latter-day Saint tradition on divine ancestry and the regress of gods. Dominant view and modern dissonance “The notion maintained by many early Mormon leaders” Blake Ostler (2001): “The Lectures on Faith are inconsistent with the notion maintained by many…
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Mormonism’s Infinite Regression of Gods
On June 16, 1844, eleven days before Joseph Smith would be killed while incarcerated at the jail in Carthage, Illinois, Smith preached his last public sermon. In this controversial message, dubbed The Sermon in The Grove, Joseph Smith spoke to a group of followers in Nauvoo, Illinois, where he made it abundantly clear that he…
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From the Mailbag (Heavenly Grandfathers)
Dear Sharon, Some critics say that Mormons believe that when they become gods they will have glory equal with Father. But that is simply a lie. I know that our Father will be always our GOD and we will worship Him for whole eternity, becoming gods is not to rob Father’s glory, but to give…
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The Impact of Mormonism on the Enjoyment of God as an Artist
C.S. Lewis once wrote, “It was when I was happiest that I longed most… The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing… to find the place where all the beauty came from.” – Till We Have Faces In his essay “Christianity and Literature,” he also wrote, “[An] author should never conceive of himself…