JakeStarkey
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Some time ago someone on the Board was saying Joseph Smith and other LDS leaders did not preach the ongoing perfection of God and did not preach that man could become as God.
This will settle that for good, I should hope.
April 7, 1844 (Sunday Afternoon) Joseph Smith Journal, kept by Willard Richards: [God] Is a man like one of yourselves.--should you see him to day. you would see a man in fashion and in form.Adam was formed in his likeness.—refute the Idea that God was God from all eternity
(Words of Joseph Smith, 341)
Wilford Woodruff: hear it O Earth! God who sits in younder heavens is a man like yourselves That God if you were to see him to day that holds the worlds you would see him like a man in form, like yourselves (Words of Joseph Smith ,344)
Thomas Bullock report: God himself who sitsenthroned in younder Heavens is a man like unto one of yourselves who holds this world in its orbit & upholds all things by his power if you were to see him today you wod. see him a man ... (Words of Joseph Smith , 349)
William Clayton report: 1st God that sits enthroned is a man like one of yourselves. ... (Words of Joseph Smith , 357)
First, God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret. If the vail was rent to-day, and the great God, who holds this world in this orbit, and upholds all things by his power; if you were to see him to-day, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man ...
“Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons 5, no. 15 (August 15, 1844):613-14
This will settle that for good, I should hope.
April 7, 1844 (Sunday Afternoon) Joseph Smith Journal, kept by Willard Richards: [God] Is a man like one of yourselves.--should you see him to day. you would see a man in fashion and in form.Adam was formed in his likeness.—refute the Idea that God was God from all eternity
(Words of Joseph Smith, 341)
Wilford Woodruff: hear it O Earth! God who sits in younder heavens is a man like yourselves That God if you were to see him to day that holds the worlds you would see him like a man in form, like yourselves (Words of Joseph Smith ,344)
Thomas Bullock report: God himself who sitsenthroned in younder Heavens is a man like unto one of yourselves who holds this world in its orbit & upholds all things by his power if you were to see him today you wod. see him a man ... (Words of Joseph Smith , 349)
William Clayton report: 1st God that sits enthroned is a man like one of yourselves. ... (Words of Joseph Smith , 357)
First, God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret. If the vail was rent to-day, and the great God, who holds this world in this orbit, and upholds all things by his power; if you were to see him to-day, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man ...
“Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons 5, no. 15 (August 15, 1844):613-14