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by Anonymous on April 9th, 2004
We do not know.
God has not seen fit to reveal anything to us about his history prior to our creation.
by Elder Gibby on April 14th, 2004
The question to ask and apply to all of our lives is: What does this have to do with our salvation? Does going out on these crazy notions help our progression to where it needs to be? This question has nothing to do with our lives, why bother ourselves with it?
by Skip_2_My_Lou on January 19th, 2007
Rev 22:13 "God is the beginning"
And there is nothing before a beginning. He is the almighty creator... Mormons do not know anything, they pay more attention to Joseph Smiths word than to what Jehovah God says in the holy bible...
by pacella23 on March 12th, 2005
The Mormon answer is "We do not know."
What follows from the Mormon beliefs that God was once and Man like us is this... Heavenly Father was a created being like us, his Heavenly Father was a created being, and the Heavenly Father's Heavenly Father has a Heavenly Father that was created like us... and so on. The one True God does not create chaos, he is the author of order!.
by Nic Read on July 6th, 2004
Sure, LDS have more information on spiritual covenants and the purpose of life than any other religion because of restored doctrine and renewed revelation, but it doesn't mean they know everything.
Moses once asked the Lord to show him everything, and the Lord said he would give him only an account of the origins of this earth and life hereon. What happened in the Lord's past, his origin, is only speculation.
We have only one quote from a modern-day prophet: "As man is now, God once was. As God is now, man may become."
If God was once like man, living on an earth, receiving his covenants with his own Father, and growing to be like him, then we must accept the Lord at his word that the same is possible for us. What is better - believing you are evolved from the sludge, or part of a grand adventure still unfolding for the Family of Man?
The Lord has said that he is the only God we need to be concerned with. In other words, get our heads out of the clouds and focus on what he has commanded. The rest may be revealed, but probably only to those who graduate this level successfully.
by Poindexter on September 14th, 2009
I'm still puzzled as to who created their underwear.
by Anonymous on November 18th, 2005
We do not know. God has so far not chosen to reveal to us any significant details concerning his own origin.
by Anonymous on November 18th, 2005
Yes, But this does not concern us as HE IS OUR GOD, OUR FATHER.
Do you think he would tell us? Or did he leave it out for a reason because it would confuse us?
Our mortal minds do not comprehend ETERNITY/SPACE OR TIME!
NOR WHERE IT BEGINS OR ENDS AS IT IS CONSTANTLY EXPANDING!
It is only when we return & meet Him we will fully understand.
by Charles Sampson on July 9th, 2004
Bob has given the best answer on this question I have ever seen. We
do not know. "We believe that God has revealed many great and important things..." pertaining to our salvation and exaltation. If we don't need to know it for that end, He probably won't reveal it. Faith is a great thing for that reason.
by whew4 on September 29th, 2009
We believe God works through natural means. Therefore just as Jesus had a God and Father, so did his Father have a Father. There is a scripture in the Bible that is so little used, and yet preaches a great sermon. Rev.1;6.."And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." Now I realize this scripture could be interpreted in a number of different ways. But I read this as we are kings and priests unto God, and HIS Father. It does not say, unto God HIS Father, or unto God who is His father. But into God AND his FATHER! As I said there are several ways to understand this scripture, but this that I have pointed out fits perfectly with "Mormon Thought. Even though I am alone in this instance. Just something to think about...Later
by mechanic on March 15th, 2007
The leaders after Joseph Smith taught there is a Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. Our Heavenly Parents had earthly and celestial parents also. They would be on a celsetialized earth where they lived out their mortal lives. So the "Mormon God" has a countless line of ancestors, and we are apart of that ancestry.
by Mister IT is trying to Liahona outta here on September 14th, 2009
SHORT ANSWER: The "head one of the Gods".
LONG ANSWER:
According to Joseph Smith in The King Follett Discourse:
"The head one of the Gods brought forth the Gods"
So the answer would have to be: The head one of the Gods.
Joseph Smith didn't really indicate WHO that God was in this discourse - it's ambiguous. However, the very clear implication is that there is indeed ONE "head of the Gods" who was responsible for the creation of the lesser gods.
Further his thinking and discourse is a bit fragmentary in this passage so it could be reasonably argued that he was saying that the Hebrew says that the head one of the Gods ASSEMBLED the gods into council.
However logically if you accept his assertion in the King Follett discourse that, "...God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heaven, is a man like one of you. That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today and you were to see the great God who holds this world in its orbit and upholds all things by his power, you would see him in the image and very form of a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion and image of God. He received instruction from and walked, talked, and conversed with him as one man talks and communes with another."
So if our God was a man "like Adam" it follows that He also had a creator like Adam did.
Therefore, our God can't logically be the HEAD of the Gods.
"I shall comment on the very first Hebrew word in the Bible, Berosheit. I want to analyze the word; baith--in, by, through, and everything else. Rosh--the head. Sheit--grammatical termination. When the inspired man wrote it, he did not put the baith there. A man, a Jew without any authority, thought it too bad to begin to talk about the head. It read first, "The head one of the Gods brought forth the Gods"; that is the true meaning of the words. Baurau signifies to bring forth. If you do not believe it, you do not believe the learned man of God. No man can teach you more than what I have told you. Thus the head God brought forth the Gods in the grand council. I will simplify it in the English language. Oh, ye lawyers and ye doctors who have persecuted me, I want to let you know that the Holy Ghost knows something as well as you do. The head God called together the Gods, and they sat in grand council. The grand councilors sat in yonder heavens and contemplated the creation of the worlds that were created at that time. When I say doctors and lawyers, I mean the doctors and lawyers of the scripture. I have done so hitherto to let the lawyers flutter and everybody laugh at them. Some learned doctor might take a notion to say, "The scriptures say thus and so and are not to be altered." But I am going to show you an error. I have an old book of the New Testament in the Hebrew, Latin, German, and Greek. I have been reading the German and find it to be the most [nearly] correct, and to correspond nearest to the revelations I have given for the last fourteen years. It tells about Jachobod the son of Zebedee. It means Jacob. In the English New Testament it is translated James. Now if Jacob had the keys, you might talk about James through all eternity and never get the keys. In the 21st verse of the fourth chapter of Matthew, the German edition gives the word Jacob instead of James. How can we escape the damnation of hell except God reveal to us? Men bind us with chains. Latin says Jachobod means Jacob; Hebrew says it means Jacob; Greek says Jacob; German says Jacob. I thank God I have got this book, and I thank him more for the gift of the Holy Ghost. I have the oldest book in the world, but I have the oldest book in my heart. I have all the four testaments. Come here, ye learned men, and read if you can. I should not have introduced this testimony were it not to back up the word Rosh, the head, Father of the Gods. I should not have brought it up except to show that I am right."
http://mldb.byu.edu/follett.htm
by TenLostTribes on February 16th, 2010
There's no official doctrine on how God the Father came to be. However, we do believe that Jesus Christ did progress as he grew older (see Luke 2:52 and D & C 93:12-14) and that he was the literal son of God the Father and Mary.
does the mormon god have a beginning?
by Does it matter? on February 15th, 2011
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Why are Mormons so controlling and how is it they really think they will become a GOD? There is but one GOD
by robinbobin53 on December 13th, 2010
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Are there any religions that forbid the use of iPhones?
by Mister_Bromide on March 18th, 2011
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Why don't Mormons keep Kosher? Seems like they're picking and choosing.
by Mister_Bromide on February 4th, 2012
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Do you prefer faith over having car insurance?
by pearloaf is not yelling and dreams of bal on January 13th, 2012
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Let me help you. Rev 22:13 says God is the beginning - nothing can be before 'beginning' - glad to help..
by Berend on December 5th, 2004
Berend... YOU DIDN'T HELP!!!
by WannaBeMormon on March 2nd, 2005
by Glenn Blaylock on September 9th, 2005
B: That is the Dumbest saying ever,...Its like saying God didn't exist before he existed.
by Anonymous on November 29th, 2005