A Different God?

I am reading Stephen E. Robinson's "Introduction" in the book How Wide the Divide? (co-authored w/ Craig Blomberg). I am very impressed and, in all honesty, convicted by some of what he writes about evangelicals. That being said, I find the difference of perspective concerning the nature of God between evangelicals and Latter-day Saints to be so significant that it is difficult to see how we can be talking about the same God. Robinson states, "We believe that God and humans are the same species

I do not question for one minute Mouw's expertise on these matters, but the truth is, in not being a Mormon, he doesn't quite get the meaning of all this and his analysis is confused by his lack of understanding here. In fact the King Follette discourse, if anything, is stronger in the Mormon understanding than it ever has been, and no, we are not moving closer to a view of God which we consider to be apostate, which creedal christians still affirm. Let's look again at the famous couplet a

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