{"id":40472,"date":"2017-03-12T14:13:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40472"},"modified":"2017-03-12T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:13:59","slug":"latter-day-saints-believe-men-women-can-become-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/03\/latter-day-saints-believe-men-women-can-become-gods.html","title":{"rendered":"“Do Latter-day Saints believe that men and women can become gods?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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When, back in 1997 or 1998, we learned that the Southern Baptist Convention was planning to hold its 1998 annual national meeting in Salt Lake City \u2014 a place that has been\u00a0blessed with relatively few Baptists \u2014 and that it was planning a massive attempt to convert Latter-day Saints to Christianity\u00a9 \u2014 we at what was then called the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormons<\/a> Studies (FARMS) decided to proactively prepare some materials for that event.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s one of the short essays that we published in that connection:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo Latter-day Saints believe that men and women can become gods?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although Robert L. Millet and Noel B. Reynolds are listed as its authors, they didn\u2019t write this one. \u00a0I did. \u00a0Noel and Bob were the overall editors for the little book of essays that we prepared under the title of Latter-day Christianity: 10 Basic Issues<\/a>, <\/em>and I believe (though my memory may be faulty here) that they each wrote one or two of the ten themselves.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n

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