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| + | |section=Claims made in "Chapter 6: Siblings from Eternity Past" | ||
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| Chapter 5 | A FAIR Analysis of: Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism A work by author: Richard Abanes
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Chapter 7 |
Claims made in "Chapter 6: Siblings from Eternity Past"
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Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother "through some kind of sexual union" clothed each of us with a spirit body. |
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156, 394 n. 28-31 |
The belief in a "Heavenly Mother" is not supported by scripture and was simply added by Joseph Smith so that his views about God "would make sense." |
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According to Brigham Young, our spirit body was created via a sexual union of Heavenly Father and Mother. |
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162 |
LDS belief in a "queen of heaven" is a pagan belief. |