... we will become equals to God. This will allow us to spirit children, which is the way God, the father, populated the earth (Smith, Joseph 46). Roman Catholics do not believe that we are pre-existing spirits before we are conceived into this world. Also, Roman Catholics do not ... lies when the book of Mormon says that there was a contest for the privilege to become flesh, in order to become our redeemer. (Smith, Joseph 1Ne 2:6). Both religions believe that Jesus Christ was born of Mary, and that the birth took place in the town of Bethlehem. Also they ... trinity as three persons in on...

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... that we are his off-spring. This is a common conclusion among most, if not all, Christian faiths. However, Latter-Day Saints believe that our Heavenly Father is an exalted man (Smith, 345.) He once lived a mortal life like we are doing now, but was exalted and was given the opportunity to have spirit children. He did so, and with our Heavenly ... our world entered a period known as the "Dark Ages." But our Heavenly Father loves us and knew this would happen, so he chose a new line of prophets, the first being Joseph Smith. In 1830, about 1800 years after the death of Christ, the restora...

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... soul can be seen in the works of such ur-American titans of the spirit as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mormon founder Joseph Smith. America's present gnostic renaissance lacks the social reformist impulses that informed the faith of both Emerson and Smith. In fact, America's romance with the gnostic coincides with a culture-wide posture of civic disengagement. One can indeed invert the media ... on the primal drama of seekers after knowledge pitted against an indifferent, and often hostile, cosmos. George Lucas has steeped his Star Wars trilogy in the work of myth scholar Joseph Campbell, ye...

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