Shrinking Grafted-in-Goyim vs. Exalted Anglo-Ephraimite God-Kings

Pauline goyim are ever decreasing (or shrinking) sacrificial slaves of Messiah, as seeded "male-brides.”

Words in italics were added to the Bible verses below:  

John 3:30: “He [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease.”

Luke 6:20 “... Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 23:12: “Whoever makes himself humble will be made great [exalted; lifted up].”

Philippians 1:21-23: "For to me [Paul speaking], to live is Christ and to die is gain. ... I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far." 

2 Corinthians 5:8: "We [Pauline followers]… would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord."

Romans 12:1: "... present your bodies as a living sacrifice …”

Galatians 5:16-17: “… not gratify the desires of the flesh. For … the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other …”

In contrast to this, compare 19th Century Norse-like Mormonism, where you don't shrink and decrease but expand and grow in joyful fleshly power and greatness like a wealthy mighty King: as an embodied spirit-intelligence growing toward godhood as an Ephraimite in a Mighty Zion Tribe in the 1800s:

D&C 131:7–8: “there is no such thing as immaterial matter; all spirit is matter ...”

 D&C 130:22: “God [the Father] has a body of flesh …”

2 Nephi 2:11, 23, 25: “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, … neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body … [otherwise there is] neither sense nor insensibility [lack of sensation/numbness]. And they would have had no children; … having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”

Joseph Smith to Nancy Rigdon: "Happiness is the object and design of our existence; … and keeping all the commandments of God [referring here to D&C 132]. … "In obedience [to plural marriage] there is joy . . . and as God has designed our happiness . . . [plural marriage is] calculated in its nature to promote that happiness …”

In the bio titled, Joseph Smith by John Turner, on page 303, 305, we learn that "Joseph [Smith], at the age of thirty-seven, retained his strength and vigor ... [Joseph's scribe, William] Clayton confessed to his diary that he struggled with 'impure affections' for [Sarah Crooks]. Joseph soon took his scribe for a walk, told him it 'was lawful ... to send for Sarah,' and even offered to foot the bill."

Joseph's King Follett Sermon: “Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves [see LDS Book of Abraham chapter 4], … the same as all Gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you … sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power. …  God is thus glorified and exalted in the salvation and exaltation of all His children. … [compare D&C 132:63]”

D&C 132: 16-17: “... when they [those not sealed in plural marriage in the 1800s] are out of the world … [they] are appointed angels … [they] are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory. For these [servant] angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation … and from henceforth are not Gods …”

19th century Mormonism was a Northern European religion where Joseph Smith made it so Anglo-Saxons were not mere Goyim, as an inferior ethnicity whose ancestors are not special. Instead the "chosen people" became the tribe of Ephraim who God is speaking to in the Doctrine & Covenants in the 1800s. Anglo-American genealogical history was elevated to scripture status. Anglo-Americans of the 1800s were often told in Patriarchal Blessings that they were "pure blooded Ephraimites." Joseph Smith said that those with Israelite genes as Ephraimites don’t need their Gentile blood pirged out as they were already elect Israelites as Anglo-Saxons. This meant that they did not need to be adopted in or grafted in to Israel as "ethnic outsiders," but that they are already of Israel as Ephraimites. Mormonism in the 1800s presents Northern Europeans as a mighty cultural ethnos, as the new People of God.

The characters in the Book of Mormon can be argued to be archetypes of American war heroes filtered through the collective unconscious of Joseph Smith: whose Anglo-Saxon ancestors fought upon the battlefield in America and that cultural memory was embedded in his cultural DNA through cultural memory; which was likely filtered into the Book of Mormon to a large degree. You don't get any of that if you read the New Testament which is about a different culture and ethnolinguistic people in the Middle East. Only Mormon Scripture offers a sense of cultural pride in Anglo-Saxon Americanism. 

Bullet Points Comparing Norse Mythos & Mormonism

 

• Odin and Frigg are the very similar in nature and function to the Mormon Heavenly Parents, especially the original Mormon doctrine of Brigham Young, Orson Hyde, and John Taylor, that Adam is our Father-God and Eve (His Wife) is our Goddess Mother. Just as Adam and Eve are a divine King and Queen and as Gods procreated humanity, so too Odin and Frigg are also King and Queen and also procreate.

• The Book of Mormon character named Ammon as a Viking-like warrior replaces the Pauline pacifistic-ideal as the new model for theosis.

• Captain Moroni is presented as warrior archetype as well, with Captain Moroni mirroring General George Washington; as well as Thor-like energy. Rather than the ideal of being a Pauline pacifist martyr (and/or pillar saint/stylite), we read of  Moroni's military genius by Deseret News (July 27, 1996). Book of Mormon: Alma 43:45-47, has Captain Moroni defending his people and loved ones from harm in a military defense context, yet emphasizing the principle of defending one's family and friends: "And ... they did come to battle against the Nephites; and the Nephites did defend themselves in their cities, and the people of the Nephites did slay many of the Lamanites... and thus the Nephites did go to battle against the Lamanites to defend their wives, and their children, and their houses." Compare Doctrine & Covenants 98:16 that speaks about standing your ground and defending others and emphasizes the importance of defending the innocent. "Therefore, I, the Lord, command you, and I give unto you a promise, that you shall defend your families even unto bloodshed."

According to this article, the post-Pauline new "mouthpiece" of God in the 1800s (D&C 1:38; 21:5), the Anglo-American Joseph Smith,  "originally restrained the Saints from using violence in self-defense, he rescinded that counsel when the persecutions became more severe. (The Words of Joseph Smith, p. 225.) The Nauvoo Legion, with General Joseph Smith at its head, along with legendary gun toters like Porter Rockwell and the Danites, demonstrate that early Mormons became theologically comfortable with wielding guns in their defense. Joseph Smith even taught that it was sometimes necessary for men to take up arms because of their religious obligation to defend their families:

It may be that the Saints will have to beat their ploughs into swords, for it will not do for men to sit down patiently and see their children destroyed. (HC 6:365.)

 

There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive, but I anticipate no such extreme, but caution is the parent of safety. (HC 6:605.)

Or my personal favorite quote by Joseph Smith on the subject:

Peace be still, bury the hatchet and the sword, the sound of war is dreadful in my ear. [But] any man who will not fight for his wife and children is a coward and a bastard. (An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith, p. 298.)"

• The ideal of virgin martyrs, and the Pauline "better not to touch a woman" ideal (and the Mathean eunuch ideal), is all overturned in origional Mormonism beginning with D&C 49 and then with D&C 132; for, according to Joseph Smith, acquiring celestial polygamist wives, as “talents”, are a civilizational investment in one's own Anglo-Nordic genetic lineage in the 1800s -- in order to "raise up seed" and enter the highest degree of Heaven and be able to expand one's lineage (male seed) and become enlarged with one's own cosmic Kingdom (see D&C 132) -- mirrors Viking Kings who also practiced polygamy and kingdom building; and gained entrance into the highest degree of their heaven (Valhalla) through being a warrior and dying bravely on the battlefield. So that in both religions, a form of masculine vitality and valor is that which gains one exaltation in the heavens.

• Degrees of glory: from The Children of Ash and Elm chapter 1, “... the divine world of Asgard holds a single hall, Valhalla, actually a Victorian misspelling of valhol, home of Odin and famous worldwide today as Viking heaven. The destination of the worthy dead and synonymous with the Norse afterlife itself. However the myths are clear that Valhol was only one of many such residences as each of the major Gods lived on their own estate; these would have been understood as a main hall and surrounding huts, farms, stables for the household and the animals. God-sized reflections of the manners of the elites in midgard.” What the Norse saw as heroic valor earning you residence in an estate among the Gods, 19th century Mormonism presented as gaining "talents" (wives) earned you a procreative cleslestial-body among the embodied Gods who continue to reproduce eternally.