February 4 — Journal of Discourses 2:345-346 “This explains the mystery. If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds. But the attributes of Deity are one; and they constitute the one God that the Prophets speak of, and that the children of men in all worlds worship.
One world has a personal God or Father, and the inhabitants thereof worship the attributes of that God, another world has another, and they worship His attributes, and besides Him there is no other; and when they worship Him they are at the same time worshipping the same attributes that dwell in all the personal Gods who fill immensity”. – Orson Pratt, Salt Lake City, February 18, 1855
Twenty-five years earlier Joseph Smith didn’t agree in the BoM and said this… (more…)
potential to perpetrate the race, to subdue the earth, to perfect himself and to become God, omniscient and omnipotent” – Spencer W. Kimball
If nothing else comes through our posts, let it be this one. It’s a warning for the body of Christ; beware dear ones, beware!
character of God.”
Ensign, ‘The Eternal Gospel,’ July 1996, p. 53
flesh and bones as tangible as our own; that he is an exalted and glorified being; that he was once a man and dwelt on an earth – and knowing that this knowledge was had by many of the ancients, should we be surprised to find legends and myths throughout the cultures of the earth concerning gods who have divine power but human attributes and passions? … Should we be surprised to find pagan traditions of virgin births and divine humans?” – Robert L. Millet
Journal of Discourses 13:125;
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 181; “That which is
