Do you Mormons believe that God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost were always God?
According to the two Mormon answers above me, the simple answer is, “No”. They believe that each ‘god’ had to be created by a father ‘god’ and a mother ‘godess’. This supposedly happened in heaven, then each child of the spiritual couple had to be born physically in order to work their own way up to godhood, through obeying Mormon precepts. They believe Jesus’ father was the god Elohim. Jesus was then born physically by god having sexual relations with Mary. The Holy Ghost was not involved in this (according to Brigham Young – Journal of Discourses Vol 1 p51) In order for Jesus to attain to godhood, he had to get married and have children. As for the Holy Ghost, well, their views do not conform to orthodox Christian doctrine on that either. The Mormon views of the three levels of after-life have been explained; the Telestial (for the scum of the earth), the Terestial (for those somewhat deceived re. matters of faith) and the Celestial (for good Mormons who had temple-sealed marriages,