Yes, they believe if you meet certain requirements you become a god in the afterlife (just like they believe th current God did) and you build your own planet etc.

Did you say morons or mormons?

Simply put, YES they do, I was a mormon and was taught this very thing. If you make it to the highest kingdom in heaven you will become a god of you own world. Most mormons beat aroud the bush and give a vauge answer as you just saw, but the fact of teh matter is YES they do believe that!

Yes, according to the LDS, we can all be gods in heaven!

Yes. According to Brigham Young, "As man is, God once was. As God is, man may be." We all have the potential of becoming a God, having our own spiritual children, and creating our own worlds.

Apparently so. Always reminds me of Genesis 3:4-5 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

I've been a Mormon for a little over four years now, and this notion of becoming a god is a little far-fetched and high-minded, I believe. I am content to follow the iron rod and join Heavenly Father in the great and spacious room, and that's good enough for me, if I qualify. Running my own world is a little bit like way too much work. Do we get weekends off?

My family is Mormon, I went to a Mormon church from the time I was a baby until I was in high school. (I'm 22 now.) I really don't remember them ever teaching that. It just seems like it may have been taken out of context or someone made it out to be more than what it meant. We all interpret things differently out of the Bible and the Book of Mormon so to each their own, but I agree with one of the previous answers. I don't want to run a world or planet like God does. Too much work.

@dee_jay: That wasn't Brigham Young who said that. It was Lorenzo Snow. @rdrainer: You don't sound like any active member of the Church I've ever spoken with. If you were, you would know that the "great and spacious room" you refer to is actually a symbol of the corrupted world, and not a place where God dwells in any sense. @ValentineHeart: Everything in this life is an echo of a life we led as spirits in Father's presence prior to the creation of the world. Having said that, no one ever replaces God. That was Lucifer's plan (see the Book of Job in the Bible) and he was cast out of God's Kingdom for it (essentially, treason). God's plan was to give the kind of life he lives to His children if only they would choose to live according to His commandments...just as an earthly father wants his sons and daughters to have their own posterity and expand the family estate. A faithful earthly son never subverts his earthly father, but obeys and reverences him worshipfully because that son owes his father for his entire existence and nothing the son can do of himself will ever repay that. The premise behind this question is "Do mormons believe they can be like God?" The question can actually be answered by a single scripture from the Bible. Matthew 5:48 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. "perfect" is translated from the Greek which means complete, finished, fully developed. How cruel of a teaching would this be if the doctrine, as today's Christianity states it, is that we'll never be like God, we'll never be perfect, even though the Bible itself clearly states that Christ said "Be perfect"? Does God give a commandment He knows we'll never be able to fulfill? We can't, of course, do this on our own. We need Christ's saving intervention, relying on His merits, to become perfect in Him. We can become perfect through Christ, if, as Christ commanded us, we simply obey God's commandments to the best of our ability (however small that ability may be). That perfection through Christ enables us to live on the same plane as God, where He is perfect and we can be perfect through Christ. On this we all can agree. But then what? I've found that "mainstream" Christian belief in the afterlife boils down to not truly being an heir in God's kingdom, even though that's what the Bible teaches. Rom. 8: 17 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Gal. 3: 29 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Gal. 4: 7 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. What does an heir do? An heir inherits from his father. Christ inherits all from His Father. Rather than retaining a part or all of the inheritance for himself, the heir then righteously imparts all that was given to him by the father to the rest of the posterity. Likewise, so does Christ. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Will Christ then keep a portion of what He inherits only for himself and give us the remainder? No, we are to be one in Christ and the Father, even as Christ is one with the Father. Anything else is "us" vs. "them", "haves" vs. "have nots", not being "one". 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? Are you shocked to read these verses? They're all in the Bible, respectively Ps. 82:6, Isa. 41:23, and John 10:34. By contrast, in contemporary Christianity's view, one can really only count on the following conditions in the afterlife: 1. Living separately from one's family members, as if those bonds had never been made at all...because we're all just brothers and sisters in the end despite "what God hath joined, let no man put asunder". We'll all just wander around, clapping, singing, gladhanding and saying of our mortal life, "Well, that was that." 2. Pointing derisively at the people who "weren't saved" and are burning in hell, of which part of their torment is us saying "We told you so!". (Ostensibly, this would include members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and by extension, those who never heard the name of Christ uttered in their lifetimes, babies who are apparently born laden with all kinds of sins, those who died before the Law of Moses was revealed, those who obeyed the Law of Moses before Christ was born, and the members of the primitive Church, pre-Nicean Creed, of which the LDS church is a restoration.) Intriguingly, this take on the doctrine of the afterlife began to emerge only after the LDS church was founded. It is but the latest example among thousands of how Christ's original doctrines were changed after the apostles of the primitive Church were killed. Sorry, but even the Bible teaches differently. John 14:2-3 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. How can Christ be where God the Father is unless He is like Him. How can we be where Christ is unless we are like Them? In absolute harmony with Biblical teaching, the Lord revealed to Joseph Smith: 36 For he that receiveth my servants receiveth me; 37 And he that receiveth me receiveth my Father; 38 And he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father’s kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him. ALL. Meaning EVERYTHING, complete, fully developed, even the life that God lives, that is an exalted and perfect life. We don't replace God (which is the false accusation of the anti-mormon arguments against us). We become like our Heavenly Father as an earthly son becomes like his earthly father...being a father of his own seed and expanding the estate established by his father. Those who inherit God's kingdom will do more than praise and sing to Him (which we are to do unceasingly). We will also be privileged to assist Him in establishing His kingdom further and forever. http://americantestament.blogspot.com

Mormons believe that god can do anything. Even make his children god-like. If you believe god can do anything then you beleive he can do this. So then that leaves the question would god want to? I can think of 5-6 scriptures off the top of my head in old and new testament that states he does.

We do believe that. On earth, children grow up, form households of their own and have their own children, just like their parents, and without taking their parents place. If we are the children of God, then what is more natural than that we should grow up, become as he is, and do what he does, having spirit children of our own and creating worlds for them just as he has done for us. If we grow to our full potential and become in every way like him, that does not displace him as our God, and does not detract from his glory. Indeed, it ads to his glory.

I don't know, but when I get to heaven, I'll find out and send you an email, as soon as I find out your address...Whew4