OFW teaches that we have Heavenly Parents who, like us, were mortal and progressed, "from manhood and womanhood to Godhood."

Date
Jun 1885
Type
Periodical
Source
Orson F. Whitney
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Orson F. Whitney, "What is Education?" Contributor 6 no. 9 (June 1885):347

Scribe/Publisher
The Contributor
People
Orson F. Whitney
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

"The glory of God is intelligence," says "Mormonism," it is His superior intelligence which makes Him the Supreme being that He is. He acquired the transcendent height whereon He stands, by educating--developing, through study, labor and experience, the godlike powers inherent within Him; by battling with evil and overcoming it, and rising superior from every contest therewith. Such is the course, also, for man to pursue, for he is the child of God, created in His image and endowed with His attributes; possessing all the powers, in a latent or partly developed state, which have, by expansion and development, exalted our eternal Parents from manhood and womanhood to Godhood, and are capable in similar manner upon the same conditions, of raising their offspring to a like lofty level.

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