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yurbud

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4. it is a crucial difference. in Mormonism, God is more like your upstream in Amway

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Jun 13, 2012, 03:44 PM

Jun 2012

than the final reality or whatever.

They believe that God was once a man like the rest of us, had a lot of kids and started his own universe, thus making him our God--but he has a God above him, and that God has a God above him and so on.

That's why they have a lot of kids--you've got to make your own universe if you want to get promoted to a God.

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I�m a Mormon, Not a Christian. [View all] elleng Jun 2012 OP

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