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I don’t see how understanding there being only one true God is connected with your belief we are the same kind of being God is. Apart from the Son, Holy Spirit, and Heavenly Mother, can you identify a few of all these other Gods who are currently subjected to him? Does you being “one” with God make you one of these Gods now? Or do you become “one” with God at some future date?

If being offspring truly implies the necessity of a heavenly mother. Referring to “the only true God” makes no sense when Earth is thought by some to have at least four true Gods: Father, Son, Mother, and Holy Spirit.

If God the Father is not a being who became a God and produced spirit children with his heavenly wife, then he is not the true one. “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

Except that worshipping Joseph Smith’s God leads to another destination.

Two or more people can ask the same question and that makes them the same person. Sure 😀

It depends on how you interpret what the Father is doing while Jesus is acting based on what he observes the Father doing. Yes.

The benefits of celestial marriage I guess. A man cannot be exalted without a woman by his side. It could even be logical that he was the first that the Mother assisted to reach exaltation.

While there is a doctrine acknowledging her existence as a God and heavenly parent, there is no explanation of how she attained godhood. I suspect she followed the same plan that you are said to be following now. It’s logical.

Nope. Who formed Heavenly Mother into a God?

@InCognitus “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." The phrase 'he doeth' is in the present tense. I don't interpret this as Jesus having spirit children or entering into marriage. Apparently both you and Incognitus concur with Joseph Smith's teaching there are Gods above Heavenly Father and that our Father is merely one in an endless chain with his own heavenly parents. That would clarify how he received a spiritual body prior to obtaining a mortal one.

Who created him as a man?

“In order to understand the subject of the dead, for consolation of those who mourn for the loss of their friends, it is necessary we should understand the character and being of God and how He came to be so; for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.”

The only way they can distance themselves from the King Follett discourse is by claiming that Joseph Smith misrepresented the nature of God. According to his view, God was once a man who progressed to divinity. Rather, He has always been God from everlasting to everlasting. I also discovered another sermon, often called the Sermon in the Grove, that reinforced these teachings. I found this information on Mormonism Research Ministry. In essence, he is leading people to worship a different God. I'm unsure when my church branch was established. Unlike the Catholic or Anglican traditions, we don't formally ordain individuals. Instead, members are vetted for positions of authority, but I believe any layperson can baptize a non-believer after they profess faith in Christ.

I am not LDS – I attend a non-denominational Christian church. The Latter-day Saints believe our baptisms, or Catholic ones, are invalid because they are not done by properly authorized individuals.

Just to clarify, when you use the term "gods" for those at the heavenly council, do you mean exalted and glorified beings with resurrected bodies?