tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post114254745929209345..comments2023-09-07T04:24:11.648-06:00Comments on y-intercept blog: Mormonism and Evolutiony-intercepthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-1142625769088043152006-03-17T13:02:00.000-07:002006-03-17T13:02:00.000-07:00Although the links in my site go to anti-Mormon si...Although the links in my site go to anti-Mormon sites. The primary reference is a book compiled by BYU people of authorative references.<BR/><BR/>The one common theme in both the modern and historical authoratative statements is an emphasis that God created man in his image. The "The LDS doctrine on becoming like God" derives from the belief that man descended from God. We are not animals that evolving godlike features. We are part of a lineage of creates descending from an Adam-god. If we completely a full <A HREF="http://slsites.com/dir.html?category_id=1005" REL="nofollow">genealogy</A>, we would trace our divinity back tot he seed of the Heavenly Father.<BR/><BR/>The evolutionary belief that man is part of the Primate family is a direct challenge to this lineage.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that tt was to establish this lineage that Young boldly proclaimed in 1852 that Adam was the Archangel Michael (aka, the Heavenly Father).<BR/><BR/>Of course the way out of this trap is to think of spirit as something different from body. Imagine, if you would, a black obelisk with apes gathered around it being infused with spirit. The true essence of the Heavenly Father is spirit ... so it is the spirit image, not the corporal image that counts.<BR/><BR/>Separating spirit from body gets you one step. The next trap the Mormons face here is the racist ideology that Smith held. Smith was imagining a whitesome and deslightsome race being infused with the spirit. He wrapped his new religion around a pseudo scientific genealogy of mankind where all of the people of color branched off this divine white race. People of color were smited for various transgressions.<BR/><BR/>Blacks have the Mark of Cain, Native Americans were the smited remnants of the Lamanites and Nephites. Orientals really weren't part of Smith's childhood so they did not play a prominent role. Various authors have them being a lost tribe of Isreal.<BR/><BR/>Living here in Salt Lake, I have been confronted with a large number of people who still hold this bizarre genealogy of man. I had a coworker who sold his house and moved from Salt Lake City to the suburb because people bearing the Mark of Cain were moving into his ward.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the way out of this hole is to suggest that we all started out black, but we become more whitesome and delightsome as we become closer to God (as suggested by a recent LDS authority who noticed that indians were started to appear whitesome and deligtsome to his eyes.).<BR/><BR/>The thing I find strange is that I live in a state where the fossil record is clearly exposed. I live in a state with the most beautiful landscape imaginable. This is where we see recent geology and the fossil record at its most beautiful. Yet, so many people miss it. I find I can't talk to people here about the intriguing geology of the Wasatch, as they are caught up in a fantasy where the earth was established to create a master race of Gods.y-intercepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-1142548831609836712006-03-16T15:40:00.000-07:002006-03-16T15:40:00.000-07:00Kevin by happen chance I came by your blog. Being...Kevin by happen chance I came by your blog. Being a Latter Day Saint myself I find it humorous that there is a debate among members of the LDS faith.<BR/><BR/>If I may, for clarification, provide some further insite into the LDS doctrine on becoming like God. Achieving the status of divinity is predicated on our demonstration of faith in God not as to whether or not Adam or Brigham Young were or have become Gods themselves.<BR/><BR/>For me evolution is real and based on natural laws under the direction of GOD. In order to strengthen ones faith one has to also question their faith and seek answers by studying the words of Gods Prophets and then asking God for an answer.<BR/><BR/>If God wanted us to have all the answers to the universe there would be no need for faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com