Vern Swanson’s LDS orthodoxy, Part 3

Now in these quotes, Vern is putting forth an orthodox LDS view of God and also some of his personal angle on soteriology.  Am I correct on this?  And one of these quotes presents the view by Magaret Toscano on God.  I am highly interested in any link that shares Margaret’s view in her words.

“As man is God once was; As God is, man may be.” . . . It is taught that God the Father is an exalted resurrected Man and His bride is an exalted resurrected Woman.  This is probably the single most edifying teaching of the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to a world that had completely abstracted and neutered God into a cosmic “force field” rather than an Eternal loving Heavenly Father (96, chapter endnote 164).

The Arians were not Gnostics and neither did they believe that Jesus was not a god, just that he was a lesser, or perhaps younger God than Heavenly Father (204).

His [Pelagius’] doctrines display an enlightened outlook perhaps provided by Christ’s own children in Britain.  The words of Pelagius and his companions, the Celtic monk, Celestius (Coelestius) are today known mostly through their enemies.  They cannot speak for themselves, but what we hear them say is music to Latter-day Saint ears (206).

One could almost conclude that Pelagius was nearly a Mormon (207).

But LDS pseudo-intellectual Gnostics have no unified answers, only criticisms.  They are led by the brilliantly unwise Toscano family, especially the divisive Paul Toscano (271, chapter endnote 76).

Indeed Joseph did restore the true lost Goddess by establishing the doctrine of our Mother in Heaven, the wives of Jesus, and women’s own exalted motherhood.  He rescued Mother Eve and Mary Magdalene from Christian disparagement (266).

Margaret Toscano believes we will have resurrected male and female bodies, but “God” will not because God is uncreated and with no gender as Orthodox Christians believe (393). 

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