The Mormon Lie of Eternal Progression

As man is, God once was, and as God is, man may become.Lorenzo Snow, Mormon Prophet

Mormons believe that they can attain what they call "eternal life", or "exaltation", which is existence in the third Mormon kingdom/heaven, where they become gods just as "Heavenly Father" is god over Earth. This doctrine is often concealed by LDS members (they're trained not to talk about stranger doctrines like this). This page will simply quote LDS prophets on the matter and provide some Scriptural contrast.

Mormon quotes on eternal progression, exaltation to godhood

Mormonism teaches that God has a body of flesh and bones:

The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.Doctrine and Covenants 130:22

Mormonism contradicts itself, saying that God is spirit:

And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in the earth?Alma 18:28

Mormonism teaches that God is an exalted man, we may become like him:

Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith.... The matter that seems such a mystery is the statement that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man. This is one of the mysteries.... The Prophet taught that our Father had a Father and so on. Is not this a reasonable thought, especially when we remember that the promises are made to us that we may become like him?Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp.10, 12

Mormonism teaches that God was born on another planet:

We were begotten by our Father in Heaven; the person of our Father in Heaven was begotten on a previous heavenly world by His Father; and again, He was begotten by a still more ancient Father; and so on, from generation to generation, ... we wonder in our minds, how far back the genealogy extends, and how the first world was formed, and the first father was begottenOrson Pratt, The Seer, p.132

Mormonism teaches that God was not always a god, is not the only god:

First God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret. If the veil was rent today, and the great God, who holds this world in its orbit, and upholds all things by his power; if you were to see him today, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man.... I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are the simple and first principles of the gospel.... The head God called together the Gods, and set in grand council. The grand counsellors sat in yonder heavens, and contemplated the creation of the worlds that were created at that time.Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, Volume 5, No. 15, p. 613

Mormonism contradicts itself, saying that God is the only god:

And Zeezrom said unto him: Thou sayest there is a true and living God? And Amulek said: Yea, there is a true and living God. Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God? And he answered, No. Now Zeezrom said unto him again: How knowest thou these things? And he said: An angel hath made them known unto me.Alma 11:26-31

Mormonism teaches that God is an exalted man:

God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man.Joseph Smith, Journal of Discourses vol. 6 p. 3

Mormonism teaches that men may become gods:

You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves; to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done; by going from a small degree to another, from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you are able to sit in glory as doth those who sit enthroned in everlasting power...Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, Vol. V. no. 15, p. 614

Those who gain exaltation, having thus enjoyed the fullness of eternal progression, become like God.Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine p239, from Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, pp. 5-10

What does the Bible say about all this?

God is spiritJohn 4:24

And Jesus answered him, "You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!"Matthew 16:17

No god was formed before me,
and none will outlive me.Isaiah 43:10

6 This is what the LORD, Israel's king, says,
their protector, the LORD who commands armies:
"I am the first and I am the last,
there is no God but me.
7 Who is like me? Let him make his claim!
Let him announce it and explain it to me -
since I established an ancient people -
let them announce future events!
8 Don't panic! Don't be afraid!
Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it?
You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me?
There is no other sheltering rock; I know of none."Isaiah 44:6-8

I have no peer, there is no God but me
...
For I am God, and I have no peer.Isaiah 44:21-22

Truly I am God, I have no peer;
I am God, and there is none like meIsaiah 46:9