Kurieuo wrote:What do you mean by "Only Begotten"? Also is it true LDS believe that God, the Father of us all (wouldn't this also make us "begotten"?), was once a man like us?
Kurieuo.
Christ was God the Fathers, Only Begotten of the flesh, in that he was Christs Mortal father via the virgin Marry. We are all Heavenly Fathers children in Spirt but in body we are our parents children.
Can we become Like Christ?
Well if we read the Bible, In 1 John 3:1-3 He tells us the sons of God will become like Christ, "but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him" this clearly is speaking of the second coming of Christ. When he comes again "we shall be like him". Further more, Revelations 3:21 states "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." Did not Christ overcome, and become a glorified, and resurrected being; a God, like his Father? Paul speaking to the Galations tells us of our potential in Gal. 4 1-7 he speaks of us being the Sons of God through the power of Christ, "if a son, then an heir of God through Christ". Paul speaking to the Romans tells us we are Joint-heir's to God through Christ in Romans 8:16-17 we find that we will be "joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." So if we repent (suffer with him) we will be joint heirs and be "glorified together". How much more clear can the Bible be with us? Open your eyes and realize your potential. If you still dont realize your potential just say and I can point out some more scriptures.
Here are some other Scriptures that tell us we are heirs to all that God has.
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
(Old Testament | Genesis 1:26)
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
(Old Testament | Genesis 1:27)
22 ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:
(Old Testament | Genesis 3:22)
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
(New Testament | 2 Peter 1:3 - 4)
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
(New Testament | Colossians 1:15 - 18)
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
(New Testament | Ephesians 3:16 - 19)
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
(New Testament | Ephesians 4:13)
1 THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
(New Testament | John 17:1 - 26)
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
(New Testament | 1 John 3:2)
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
(New Testament | John 10:34 - 35)
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
(New Testament | Galatians 4:6 -
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
(New Testament | Romans 8:19 - 23)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
(New Testament | Hebrews 12:22 - 23)
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
(New Testament | Revelation 3:21)
Was God once a man?
God Man?
In John 8:17-18 Christ compared He and His father to “two men.” Both “men” bore witness to His divinity. I am sure we will agree to Christ's human aspects while in the flesh. He was a human being like you and I. Only He had Godship within Him. We read in John 5:19, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these ALSO DOETH THE SON LIKEWISE.” We read also in the scriptures, “As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself (John 5:26)
What was Jesus going to do? The answer is so obvious. John 10:17-18 tells us, “therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.” This is why the prophet taught these truths. Christ said He could do nothing of Himself, but only that which He had seen His Father do. In this passage we read where He was to take his body, lay it down, and take it up again. There's your answer from the Bible. It's for you to accept or reject, but it is true, and it is from the mouth of Christ. Notice, his was the same identical power as that of the Father.
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