Comments on: Do Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers?

By: karenrose

karenrose — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:37:58 +0000

Thanks, John, for your visit and comment.

By: John Lowden

John Lowden — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:19:27 +0000

For those of you who do not believe Satan was a spirit child of God (the Eternal Father), then from whence did he come? He would have to be a spirit child of God, otherwise he would have had to self-create, was nothing and decided to take his nothingness and become something.

By: Gale

Gale — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:54:25 +0000

It’s not Mormon doctrine to believe that we can become a god just by our own good deeds and self-righteousness. And Satan’s plan was to force everyone to keep the commandments, save everyone, and take the glory for himself. It is God’s desire that we grow to become like Him. As we do that on earth, we can continue to grow more and more like Him in heaven. It could take millions of years (after all, we have an eternity) to approach anything near what He is, but the door is open to us. As it says in the Bible, we can be co-heirs with Christ. Isn’t an eternity of progress more appealing than dying and then spending millions of years singing praises?

By: terrie

terrie — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:48:28 +0000

Thank you! You were right. Sometimes my hands and brain are operating at different speeds. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Dan Burns

Dan Burns — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:46:55 +0000

I think there is an error (or I miss the point) in the second to the last sentence of the second to last paragraph:

I suspect that, “not because he loves us, as do God and Satan, but because he is greedy and wants power and glory.”

should read, “not because he loves us, as do God and Jesus, but because he is greedy and wants power and glory.”

On page: http://www.mormonchurch.com/587/do-mormons-believe-jesus-and-satan-are-brothers

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:27:33 +0000

Isaiah 14:12-14 says that Satan fell from Heaven because he wanted to be like God. He tempted Adam and Eve with the same thought, that they would be like God after eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

But God says in the Bible many times that He’s the only God and apart from Him there is no other. (http://www.bible.ca/trinity/trinity-oneness-unity-one-god.htm).

So I wonder why anyone would want to think that by their own good deeds and self-righteousness they can become a God too? Isn’t that following what Satan did?