Tag Archives: exaltation

The Doctrine of Exaltation, Godhood or Deification

November 8, 2012 – 11:42 am

Some criticize the Church because of one doctrine we hold most dear, which is exaltation.  This has also been referred to at different times and places as godhood, deification, divinization, taking upon the divine nature, making divine, or theosis (also theiosis, theopoiesis, theōsis; from the Greek Θέωσις).  It is, in its most basic description, that man [...]

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Are We Required to Live the Law of Consecration, Now?

August 27, 2012 – 4:44 pm

I hear this a lot from members of the Church.  In fact just two days ago, I had someone ask me this very question after reading some of the quotes from Nibley in Approaching Zion:  ”So then are we required to live the law of concecration now?“ To that question I would pose a counter [...]

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Radically different views of Death

April 29, 2011 – 11:26 am

A couple months ago I received an email from someone who stumbled onto TempleStudy.com.  It read in part, [The Bible] is purely a creation of man to placate the ego’s fear of death and nothing more. All religion was invented to buffer the ego against the fear of death. That’s certainly one way to think [...]

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Temple Worship by Elder John A. Widtsoe

November 9, 2009 – 10:56 am

Occasionally you encounter a talk or book or article that is a classic.  Elder John A. Widtsoe‘s talk on “Temple Worship” given at a meeting of the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake on October 12, 1920, is one of those talks.  There are portions of this talk that many [...]

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Attaining the Resurrection in Mortality

October 19, 2009 – 4:46 pm

The use of those two words together, resurrection in mortality, appears to be perfectly incongruous at first glance.  In our common parlance in the Church we understand resurrection to be something that can only happen after mortality.  The resurrection “consists in the uniting of a spirit body with a body of flesh and bones, never [...]

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