Talmage maintains the necessity of a "heavenly mother"/ "heavenly parents."

Date
Dec 31, 1899
Type
Book
Source
James E. Talmage
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith: A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1899), 455

Scribe/Publisher
Deseret News
People
James E. Talmage
Audience
Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
Transcription

Neither of the sexes is complete in itself as a counterpart of Deity. We are expressly told that God is the Father of spirits, and to apprehend the literalness of this solemn truth we must know that a mother of spirits is an existent personality.

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