Mormons and Catholics

Antonio asks:

About the father of God

I wanna know about the doctrine of the LDS church that tells God was a man like us and had a father. And about we becoming gods. I think this part of the doctrine goes against Isaiah 43:10. I am asking this because my girlfriend is Mormon and I love her. But if don’t become Mormon she will break with me. I want to believe but some parts contradicts the Holy Bible and I’m having some difficulty on it.

I will be very grateful if you answer my question.

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I have been away for awhile, first with various school projects and then getting involved with various topics in Mormon apologetics. One exciting event that I attended and actually guest posted about on the popular Mormon blog was Dr. Thomas Alexander’s Arrington lecture about the massacre. Some fireworks started when Will Bagley–or perhaps someone posing as him–challenged my opinion that the correspondence between a troublemaker named George Hicks and Brigham Young helps vindicate Brigham Young from being involved in any cover-up. But that is a long story and probably more minutia than a pro-positive oriented blog should get into.

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John in MN asked:

Here’s something I’ve pondered, but never sought to have answered by Latter-Day Saints. The premise of the question is a refrain I’ve heard - that a body is necessary in order to progress toward divinity. If that premise is true, that leaves two glaring exceptions; Jesus and the Holy Ghost. It seems that they became divine prior to receiving bodies. Is there an explanation for this? And will the Holy Ghost ever receive his body?

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I am opening this question up for discussion for both of our faiths. It would be interesting to see if there is any commonality of thought here. My initial contribution will be to quote Mormon scholar Daniel Peterson analyzing if a repented Book of Mormon apostate, Alma, could claim to have the priesthood by virtue of an ordination of another apostate. Dr. Peterson curiously cites Catholic thought to bolster his argument! Read the rest of this entry »

I thought it would be interesting to blog about this book and the reviews it has gotten so. The book came out last year and has since received three reviews. One is at my personal blog, another by Times and Season’s Julie M. Smith last December, and a somewhat negative review I recently found is at a new publication called Countercult Apologetics Journal. Perhaps I can help further the conversation by offering some constructive criticism in turn. Read the rest of this entry »