[TBC: The Mormon teaching of a “Father God” who with his celestial wives populates a planet through conceiving billions of “spirit children” very naturally prompts a further question: Is there a mother-god and if there is, why can we not worship her?]
The Mormon Mother God theory is a logical extension of the Church’s teaching that Joseph Smith introduced in 1844 – namely by teaching that God was once a man like us, who had a father and who had a father and so on… (See Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp.345-347).
Since Joseph Smith taught that God was once a man who “became a god”, it is assumed that he also had a wife — or actually wives, since polygamy was also part of Joseph Smith’s teachings.
The Mormon Church teaches that all humans and angelic beings were begotten sons and daughters of Elohim before they were begotten on earth as mankind. God the Father and His wife (or wives) are considered by the Mormon Church to be our heavenly parents, and that we all were born to them as their spirit children, and that we grew in that heavenly abode to spirit adulthood (Gospel Principles, 1997 ed., p. 290). Our earthly parents procreated our physical bodies to which these spirits then would come. There are many references throughout official Mormon teaching materials to “our heavenly parents” meaning that there is a mother (or mothers) also. (Gospel Principles, p. 11, 13-15, 19).
However, the Mormon Church does not sanction worship of Mother in Heaven, or even prayer to her, but it does clearly teach her existence and her necessary role in procreation of human spirits, including Jesus as well as Lucifer. (Gospel Principles, pp. 17-18). This led to the teaching that men can become Gods and then create their own worlds and procreate their own spirit children who will have the same relationship to them (prayer, worship and adoration) as they now have with God the Father (Gospel Principles, p. 302).
Such teaching is completely unbiblical and foreign to Christianity – from the time of Christ to this time. This teaching resembles Egyptian, Greek, Assyrian and Roman pagan concepts of their gods being just a little above humans, and who relate to humans on their level and who procreate as they do.
This (men becoming gods) doctrine can be traced back to Satan’s own ambition of godhood (Isa:14:12-14 [12] How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
[13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
[14] I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
), and his promise to Adam and Eve in the Garden. (Gen:3:5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.).
This is an abomination to the God of the Bible, who is the only God there is and ever will be. He is not a man – He is wholly apart from His creation. (Deut. 6:4; Isa:43:10-11 [10] Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
[11] I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
; 44:6, 8; 45:21-22; 46:9; Mark:12:29-34 [29] And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
[30] And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
[31] And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
[32] And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
[33] And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
[34] And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
; James:2:19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.. See also Numbers:23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?; Hosea:11:9I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.; Romans:1:22-23 [22] Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
[23] And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
; Psalm:90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.; Isa:40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.).
(H.I.S. Ministries International, April 2009 Newsletter, Sandy, Utah, www.hismin.com).
