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In fact, I don’t want glory. When I die, I just want to be accepted, at peace, and fulfilled. Alright, admittedly, I’ll lavish silent praise on myself and puff myself up with a false sense of superiority and pride at the expense of others, just as much as the next imperfect person. But, when circumstances have pricked my pride balloon and my mind is at one of it’s clearer levels, being a God is not the pot of gold on the far side of my rainbow. Does anyone else feel this way? I understand we all change. Like even though I don’t like genealogy – OK, edit, I hate, hate hate genealogy – I can still see it as a possibility for me to get into it if I were to start. Like the love or hate of genealogy is a layer of clothing that can be added or removed. But the part of me that has no desire to make my own world is far deeper than that. It feels as though that is my very self.
Interesting. I would agree at this point I don’t want another big calling right now. The stresses of life are unrelenting, so just some relaxation would be great. I actually find the prospect of expanding a large organization quite interesting, if that is what Godhood means. The part bout having many wives I find confusing though. I have enough on my hand keeping my monogamous relationship healthy without multiplying it. It depends on the definition of God being used. That isn’t being flippant. I love the idea, according to how I define it. I don’t like many other definitions.
Yeah, I was going to say that I define god very differently these days. I’m in a constant state of adjusting definitions. I let my definition of god drive changes in me, I let changes in me drive my definition of god. Some day a balance will be struck. LookingHard wrote:Interesting. I would agree at this point I don’t want another big calling right now. The stresses of life are unrelenting, so just some relaxation would be great.
The notion that “god” is just another big calling.
😆 I can just imagine…[In heaven the phone rings. Caller ID shows that it’s god’s 2nd counselor.]
nibbler: Great, what now?
[nibbler reluctantly answers the phone.]
G2C: God would like to know if there’s a good time he could meet up with you next week.
nibbler: Sure, okay. I’m thinking of a day and a time right now. He probably already knows when.
G2C: Okay, thanks for your willingness to meet with god.
[nibbler hangs up the phone and begins to brood over why god would want to meet with him.]
nibbler: It’s sure to be a calling. Quick, let’s do the math. Michael moved out of heaven to go create his own planet but Gabriel got Michael’s old calling of archangel about a month ago, so I’m safe there. Hmm… Raphael and Azrael have been in their calling for a long time, but that can’t be it. Crap I bet it’s Metatron’s calling. What if it’s not a calling. What if god found out about that thing I posted on FB. Oh no…
😮 [Five days go by as nibbler troubles himself with terrible anxiety. The five days are like 5000 years for him but the appointed hour finally arrives.]
God: nibbler I’d like to extend you a calling.
[nibbler’s visage braces for the impact.]
God: I’d like to call you to be god.
nibbler: GD!
👿 There goes bowling night.Nibbler you’re too funny! It all hangs on what you mean by “god”. I think in some senses, we already are gods, but not in the sense we should be worshiped. SamBee wrote:It all hangs on what you mean by “god”. I think in some senses, we already are gods, but not in the sense we should be worshiped.
I can make rocks, balls, and sticks fly. I provide almost limitless food and ask nothing in return. To my dog, I am a god.
Eternal progression was/is one of the teachings I like most about this church. It seems logical to me that a loving Heavenly Father would want His children to as happy and successful as He is. I would think that a God would have the ability to “turn it off” when necessary and not be stressed out all the time by the nagging of infinite children and all the difficulties of engineering new worlds. DarkJedi wrote:SamBee wrote:It all hangs on what you mean by “god”. I think in some senses, we already are gods, but not in the sense we should be worshiped.
I can make rocks, balls, and sticks fly. I provide almost limitless food and ask nothing in return. To my dog, I am a god.
We’re gods in the sense that we can do some pretty amazing things that most other animals can’t… or at least do them to a more complex degree than any non-supernatural lifeforms can, that we know of.
intothelight, I think in LDS theology, the purpose of our lives is to become as much LIKE God as we can… Exaltation is something for distant, next life. There’s really nothing we can do to attain Godhood here, but we sure can strive for Godliness here.
Depending on your concept of God, becoming like him may or may not even be something you want, but at its core the image of God is especially wonderful in the LDS view. In our Church’s teachings, God created all this for US… not for Him or His glory, but for our benefit.
I think the Church’s article/essay on becoming like God is a great one and well worth a read. It represents a part element of LDS teachings.
https://www.lds.org/topics/becoming-like-god?lang=eng My advice, when worrying about the next life, is always: live this life as if there is no life to come.
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