bomgeography wrote:I'm a tbm so you may think I'm brain washed but the church has blessed me in every aspect of my life from family friends and work.
I guess this was directed at me? I was a TBM myself at one point and felt the same way. But I eventually learned that there are some very basic fundamental facts that disprove LDS theological teachings.
The easiest to consider right off the bat being the geometric expansion in the number of resurrected beings being created with the passage of time. Every time a God is formed in LDS teachings they create a world and populate it with their spirit children. After some percentage falls away during the first estate the remainder attain the second estate and become resurrected. They become inseparably connected with a physical body for the rest of eternity. Those who made it to the highest degree of the celestial go on to populate their own worlds and so on.
This is an example of a geometric expansion or growth.
If you give each cycle 10,000 years from creating a world to resurrecting it with those who made it to the second estate you would, in less time than the life span of our own sun, have more resurrected beings than the number of elementary particles in the known universe. But supposedly this geometric growth has been going on indefinitely into the past.
That is not the only issue however. For simplicity consider that initially we have a universe populated with gods at maximum possible density (whatever that might be) that occupy a spherical region of the universe. As the gods increase in number the sphere grows in size and the gods on opposite sides of the sphere move apart from one another at an ever increasing rate. The rate at which the population doubles stays constant so the rate at which gods located at the ends of any diameter are moving apart increases without bound. (Each time the population doubles the radius has increased by a factor of 1.26).
LDS theology is so full of self-contradiction that it is a wonder so many can remain blind to it for as long as they do.