Now, while the Church is one of God's instrumentalities for making known the truth, we do not maintain that he is limited to this Church for such purposes, neither in time nor place.
While it is folly for man to attempt to unravel in detail the mystery of the past, yet it is only logical to believe that progressive God has not always possessed his present position.
His Godhood, however, was attained by the use of his power in simple obedience to the laws he discovered as he grew in experience.
God and man are of the same race, differing only in their degrees of advancement. True, to our finite minds, God is infinitely beyond our stage of progress. Nevertheless, man is of the order of Gods, else he cannot know God.
Sex, which is indispensable on this earth for the perpetuation of the human race, is an eternal quality which has its equivalent everywhere. It is indestructible. The relationship between men and women is eternal and must continue eternally. In accordance with the Gospel philosophy there are males and females in heaven. Since we have a Father who is our God, we must also have a mother, who possesses the attributes of Godhood. This simply carries onward the logic of things earthly, and conforms with the doctrine that whatever is on this earth, is simply a representation of great spiritual conditions, of deeper meaning than we can here fathom.
The progress of intelligent beings is a mutual affair. A lone God in the universe cannot find great joy in his power.
If you wish to go where God is, you must be like God, or possess the principles which God possesses.