I’ve heard John 10:34-39 and Psalm 82:6 being used to support the idea that men can become “Gods” in Mormonism since I learned about the existence of Mormonism. Refuting this is much easier than one might think.Let’s look at the context of John 10: 30-39:30 “I and the Father are one.”31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, ev…
I once received a gift from a friends mom who, at the time, was quite inebriated. It was a picture, and on the back, she signed it, "Never Judge. This is what I know..." I turned the picture around and on the front of the picture was the Lord's Prayer! This got me thinking about judgment (for the next several decades). What did she mean? Do not judge her character because she was very drunk? Ultimately, I feel like this post is fighting what the world calls "tolerance." As in, we are supposed to tolerate everyone, for everything, and never be intolerant. But the problem is, God made us "rulers" (Genesis 1:26), which requires making judgments. Not only that, but not tolerating people who come across as judgmental is being intolerant of those who are "judgmental." That sounds redundant to say, but when people are pressing their views of tolerance, the truth is, they themselves are being intolerant. The following is taken from a former post, whi…