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- 1 Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn"
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- 1.2 Claim The author states that "not only does the LDS church teach that there are three gods in the Godhead, but that there are other gods as well."
- 1.3 Claim The author claims that the LDS church teaches that "God has not always been God."
- 1.4 Claim The author states that the Old and New Testaments say that there is "only one absolute, holy God."
- 1.5 Claim The author states that Joseph Smith taught that God was once a "finite man on another world."
- 1.6 Claim The author states that the Bible cannot be used to attribute human characteristics (body parts) to God, and that John declared that "God is a spirit."
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Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: Polytheism Reborn"
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The author states that "not only does the LDS church teach that there are three gods in the Godhead, but that there are other gods as well."
Author's source(s)
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (1979) 576-77.
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The author claims that the LDS church teaches that "God has not always been God."
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The author states that the Old and New Testaments say that there is "only one absolute, holy God."
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The author states that Joseph Smith taught that God was once a "finite man on another world."
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Joseph Fielding Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (1977) 345-46.
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The author states that the Bible cannot be used to attribute human characteristics (body parts) to God, and that John declared that "God is a spirit."
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John 4:24
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God is a Spirit?
Summary: Critics object to the LDS position that God has a physical body by quoting John 4:24: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
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