"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17)
Lucifer told Eve that God was a liar. Then he told her that she and Adam could "be as Gods". Would you have believed Lucifer then? Do you believe his lie now?
"But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:3-5)
Lucifer had fallen from the grace and from the presence of God, and he wanted mankind to do the same. It is only logical that he would use his own favorite aspiration as the bait with which he tempted them. He told them that they too, could "be as gods", because he had wanted to 'be as God', as we read in 2nd Nephi 24:12-14 (Pages 88-89).
Then 24:15 tells us what Lucifer got because of his desire to be like God. "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." There will never be other gods.
Why should we believe Lucifer now? It's a PUZZLE why anyone believes they will one day be a god. Is it good to want what he wanted? Do you think that godhood is your destiny? Are you really the stuff that gods are made of? You need to know that those who have that aspiration are bound for the same place as Lucifer. God said several times that there are to be no other gods, other than Him.
The idea of a man becoming a god has been around since Lucifer first pitched the idea to Eve. It was a foundational doctrine of the pagan religions and of the nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Rome. That this idea is found in these United States of America is not at all surprising, when you realize who first had the aspiration of becoming a God.
Consider the following passages from the text of Isaiah in which we find that God disallows any other gods.
Isaiah 43:10-12; 44:6-8; 45:5-7,12; 46:9-10
There have never been, and there never will be, any other gods. God says it over and over again. Why do you suppose He does that? People believing that men could become gods was common even in the days of Isaiah, and God denounced it, as we see here. When He said that He was the first and the last, He was saying that He was /is the first, last and only God. You will not ever 'be as God' in all of eternity.
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