"What this verse is saying is that pagans believe in many different gods, but Christians know that there is only one! This is the exact opposite of the meaning you are trying to give this passage."

Yes I have read it in context, I have read the whole Bible in context, and as such I find the arguments of anti-Mormons utterly baseless, and am left to believe that they do not really know the Bible they claim to revere.

It is true that he was talking much about pagan false gods, but he also said "whether in the heavens or in the earth," and made a stipulation that "there be gods and lords many." If you are a true conservative, as your name suggests you know that anti-gun people like to point to one clause of the second ammendment (a well regulated militia) as the exclusion of the other clause (the right of the people to keep and bear arms.) The ammendment refers to both, and that scripture, even in the context of the rest of it, seems to indicate a stipulation that there may be other gods. The fact is irrelevant, because I have never been taught to worship any God except the Jesus Christ and His Father.

There is also the scripture that said "Ye are Gods" and one of the last commandments given in MATT 5 in the Sermon on the Mount says, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is Perfect." Was he just saying that because he wanted us to do a mind-boggling academic excercise. You may believe what you wish, but when Christ gives a commandment, I believe He expects us to be able to keep it, with His assistance. I am not perfect, but I believe that Christ can make anyone who is willing perfect, if they submit themselves to Him.

Despite your clever retort, it was only one of the many scriptures I used to prove that Jesus taught that man was capable of a divine nature, through his atonement. This is not a purely LDS idea. Many other Christians who are willing to accept the whole Bible and not adhere to the creeds of a certain sect, often come up with a similar conclusion. Just read some of CS Lewis's works. If you don't think he was a Christian, then please inform that Pullman guy who keeps ripping of Lewis's stuff to make his Compass movies.

We may not put exclusionary emphasis in the Bible, but it just goes to show that we do believe in it. All of it. The preaching of the gospel to and baptisms for the dead (1PET3;-4;1COR15), the importance of prophecy (Amos 3:7; 1COR14), and the fact that Chirst Himself is the way the truth and the life (John 14:6), and not one of His text books. It is true that the Bible has some of His words, and you can get closer to Him through it, but not if you cut your nose of to spite your face. He did not rise from the dead, merely to shut Himself back up in the tomb and never speak with men again.

Again I say that to me there is to me but one God and His Son our LORD, Jesus Christ. The singularity of Him is the important emphasis, not the singularity of one of the books about Him. I believe in the Bible, but I worship Christ.

"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. (St. John 21:18)"