摩门教与神化 还有一个问题像请教M长老,主要是关於这句话: Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense; they consider every person divine in origin, nature, and potential. Each has an eternal core and is “a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents.”1 Each possesses seeds of divinity and must choose whether to live in harmony or tension with that divinity. 末日圣徒认为所有的人在完整和完全的意义上是神的儿女;他们认为每一个的起源,本性和 潜能都是神圣的.每一个人都有一个永恒的核心,这个和信乃是'属天父母之儿子或女儿的 灵'.每个人都拥有神性的种子,并需要选择对神活在一种和谐或对立的状态中. 我的问题主要在两个方面: 1- 根据这段话,摩门教'似乎'认为在天上不仅仅有'一个'天父,而有'许多属天的父母 (heavenly parents)' 2- 摩门教认为人类'与生俱来'就具有成为神儿女的能力(或所谓的'灵(spirit)','种子(seed)') 不知道您如何看待这篇文章,并这两个说法? 以下为文章出处,并摘录. --------------------- https://www.lds.org/topics/becoming-like-god?lang=eng Becoming Like God ===================== One of the most common images in Western and Eastern religions alike is of God as a parent and of human beings as God’s children. Billions pray to God as their parent, invoke the brotherhood and sisterhood of all people to promote peace, and reach out to the weary and troubled out of deep conviction that each of God’s children has great worth. But people of different faiths understand the parent-child relationship between God and humans in significantly different ways. Some understand the phrase “child of God” as an honorary title reserved only for those who believe in God and accept His guidance as they might accept a father’s. Many see parent-child descriptions of God’s relationship to humanity as metaphors to express His love for His creations and their dependence on His sustenance and protection. Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense; they consider every person divine in origin, nature, and potential. Each has an eternal core and is “a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents.”1 Each possesses seeds of divinity and must choose whether to live in harmony or tension with that divinity. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all people may “progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny.”2 Just as a child can develop the attributes of his or her parents over time, the divine nature that humans inherit can be developed to become like their Heavenly Father's. The desire to nurture the divinity in His children is one of God’s attributes that most inspires, motivates, and humbles members of the Church. God’s loving parentage and guidance can help each willing, obedient child of God receive of His fulness and of His glory. This knowledge transforms the way Latter-day Saints see their fellow human beings. The teaching that men and women have the potential to be exalted to a state of godliness clearly expands beyond what is understood by most contemporary Christian churches and expresses for the Latter-day Saints a yearning rooted in the Bible to live as God lives, to love as He loves, and to prepare for all that our loving Father in Heaven wishes for His children. --

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