W. W. Phelps teaches that the "heathen" belief in a plurality of Gods is a true belief borrowed from the biblical patriarchs.

Date
1854
Type
Periodical
Source
W. W. Phelps
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

W. W. Phelps, Deseret Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord, 1854 (Salt Lake City: W. Richards, 1854), 21

Scribe/Publisher
W. Richards
People
W. W. Phelps
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

Heathen Mythology among the feats of life in all the ages, affords a few ideas for all:—Gods without number. The old cronies that picked crumbs from Enoch, Noah, and Moses, actually believe in a plurality of gods and wives—not only on this earth, but in all the worlds above: and well understood they show sound sense plainer and truer, than the ‘nincompoops’ who “hope” to live forever, “beyond the bounds of time and space,” as the elite of perfection—on what we term the telestial commons..

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