DOES MORMONISM BELIEVE WE CAN BECOME GODS? "Mormonism teaches God and His ‘wife’ had many children. Then God decided that His children should go through a physical existence on the earth. After death [we] will pass through the spirit world where faithful people will enter into a paradise and everybody else will suffer in spirit prison where they will have an opportunity to accept the gospel. Then comes the resurrection and judgment. Most people will go on to one of three levels of heaven...everyone is granted immortality but where they spend it is determined by their performance [works]. The lowest level is for bad people and the next, generally good people [who] fell short of earning the highest heaven. But for Mormons who achieve perfect repentance and obedience to the law on earth, which not even the Apostle Paul could do, there is...the highest level of heaven where God dwells. Brigham Young taught that Joseph Smith [Mormon founder] reigns there as a Supreme Being and no one enters without his consent. And only those who attain to the highest level...can spend eternity with their families. To do this they must have been sealed in the [Mormon] temple. [There] they become gods themselves, ruling over and populating their own planet just like God did before them. In order to hold to this belief system, Mormons must ignore clear teachings in the Bible, including that all Christians go to live with God immediately after death, that everyone else goes to eternal torment, that only Christians are God's children (but it's an adoption), that there is no second chance for salvation after death, that there is no marriage or procreation in the resurrection, and that eternity is spent worshipping God; not being a god."