Who is the Mormon Godhead, then?
The L.D.S. God the Father is an exalted man, called Elohim, who they say once lived as a mortal man on an earth much like this one. This exalted previously human being lives in his spiritual heaven – it even has a name, ‘Kolob’ – and some of their apostles have taught that their God lives with myriads (millions upon millions) of similarly exalted previously human wives in a celestial polygamous state, begetting an even larger number of spirit children who have no bodies. They say the earth was created at his direction in order to provide a place for them to receive bodies and then to have the ability in turn to complete their time on earth, eventually to create new universes themselves. They say that the two eldest of these spirit children in this one of many similar creations were named Jehovah and Lucifer. At a conference in their particular Heaven, these two promoted opposing plans whereby their spiritual brothers and sisters might attain godhood. Lucifer’s plan entailed compulsion,
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