Does the Bible confirm Mormon doctrine about becoming like God?
Dear Gramps, I’ve got a non-Mormon friend who doesn’t buy our belief of our becoming Gods after this life and wants some references in the Bible. He is meeting with the missionaries and they tell him not to worry about it, but he is turned off by this. If you have anything that might help him understand, it would be very appreciated. Thank you so much! Deborah, from Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Deborah, There is not much in the Bible concerning the possibility of progressing to godhood. We read in Acts 17:28: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. If we are the offspring of our Father in Heaven, there is inherent in us the possibility of maturing to an eternal adulthood to become like our heavenly Parents. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 8:5-6, tells us that there are many gods. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is bu
