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==Statements by Church leaders which refer to becoming like our Father in Heaven and participating in the creation of worlds==
 
==Statements by Church leaders which refer to becoming like our Father in Heaven and participating in the creation of worlds==

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Statements by Church leaders which refer to becoming like our Father in Heaven and participating in the creation of worlds

Brigham Young

"As for their labor and pursuits in eternity I have not time to talk upon that subject; but we shall have plenty to do. We shall not be idle. We shall go on from one step to another, reaching forth into the eternities until we become like the Gods, and shall be able to frame for ourselves, by the behest and command of the Almighty. All those who are counted worthy to be exalted and to become Gods, even the sons of God, will go forth and have earths and worlds like those who framed this and millions on millions of others."
Journal of Discourses 17:143.

Heber C. Kimball

"When you have learned to become obedient to the Father that dwells upon this earth, to the Father and God of this earth, and obedient to the messengers He sends—when you have done all that, remember you are not going to leave this earth. You will never leave it until you become qualified, and capable, and capacitated to become a father of an earth yourselves."
—Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses 1:356.

Joseph Fielding Smith

"The Father has promised us that through our faithfulness we shall be blessed with the fulness of his kingdom. In other words we will have the privilege of becoming like him. To become like him we must have all the powers of godhood;' thus a man and his wife when glorified will have spirit children. who eventually will go on an earth like this one we are on and pass through the same kind of experiences, being subject to mortal conditions, and if faithful, then they also will receive the fulness of exaltation and partake of the same blessings. There is no end to this development; it will go on forever. We will become gods and have jurisdiction over worlds, and these worlds will be peopled by our own offspring. We will have an endless eternity for this."
—Joseph Fielding Smith,
Doctrines of Salvation, Vol.2, p.48