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What do Latter-day Saints mean when they say that God was once a man?
Joseph Smith taught in April 1844:
God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make himself visible,-I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form-like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man. . . . . . It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did.”
Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the LDS Church, summarized this doctrine in a couplet: “As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be.”
Wow. What potential this notion creates for the mankind and the possibilities it engenders. Mankind is not just a being to slump around thru life and hope for the best. Human beings have the potential to progress thru the eternities as glorified, exhalted beings and be creators of some much fantastic good.
As I watch the nature of things, and see how we meet a mate, create a family, and watch them grow and meet a mate and create their own little families, and they grow up…etc etc. It seems to just be following the same pattern and nature of things that already exist, but just on a more grander, more eternal scale. Awesome!
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