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Latter Day Saints believe God's children have the potential to live in his presence, continue as families, become gods, create worlds, and have spirit children over which they will govern. [56] [6] [64] This is commonly called exaltation within the LDS Church. Leaders have also taught that humans are "gods in embryo".
Latter-day Saints believe the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a God of covenants. [161] In return for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob's faith and obedience, God promised them (1) a numberless posterity, (2) a chosen land, and (3) the blessing of all nations through their posterity and the priesthood of their posterity, the "blessings of heaven ...
[27] [30] [31] Latter Day Saints also believe that there are other gods and goddesses outside the Godhead, such as a Heavenly Mother—who is married to God the Father—and that faithful Latter-day Saints may attain godhood in the afterlife. [32] Joseph Smith taught that God was once a man on another planet before being exalted to Godhood. [33]
Members of the church, known as Latter-day Saints [e] or informally as Mormons, believe that the church president is a modern-day "prophet, seer, and revelator" and that Jesus Christ, under the direction of God the Father, leads the church by revealing his will and delegating his priesthood keys to its president.
Over time, Smith widely and clearly articulated a belief that God was an advanced and glorified man, [6] embodied within time and space. [7] [a] By 1841, he publicly taught that God the Father and Jesus were distinct beings with physical bodies. [9] Nevertheless, he conceived of the Holy Spirit as a "personage of Spirit". [10]
The Mormon sense of "eternal" differs from that of traditional Christians, who believe that God's eternal nature exists outside of space and time. Very few in the LDS Church situate God outside of space and time. [80] However, Mormon scripture states that "time is measured only unto man."
“The TV show does not accurately represent Latter-day Saints (LDS) faith or practices or wives,” one post reads, seeking to put distance between the term “Mormon” and the name of the Church.
Latter Day Saints generally share an open canon. While different sects believe in different revelations, a central theme of the Latter Day Saint movement is that God always has more to say to the church, because the church's situation is always changing. Latter Day Saints believe in the Bible and other ancient scripture.