ALEX - No other Christian denomination teaches the doctrines of eternal progression or marriage for eternity.LDS belief in man having the potential to advance to godhood in the afterlife is a polytheistic belief that no other mainstream Christian denomination teaches. Howcome we believe it but other churches don't?. Eternal Progression and eternal marriage can be found in the bible..(if you look hard). So if we both use the same bible, howcome others don't??? Thanks for your time Joel... your website is the best...keep up the good work.

JOEL - The big difference is that the LDS Church has prophets who can, through revelation from God, properly interpret the scriptures for us and receive additional information from God about this subject. We have additional scripture from God that explains Eternal Progression in better detail. And LDS members also have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost to help understand these things and recognize the truth of what we read and hear. Actually what we believe is not polytheism. More precisely it might be called "henotheism", which is defined as "the worship of one God without denying the existance of other Gods" (Websters).

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