Mormon sacred scriptures say explicitly that there are many gods; for example, the three persons of the Trinity are regarded as three gods. Mormons believe that God used to be a man but was able to learn how to be a god, and all Mormon men are striving to become gods just like their heavenly Father did. The Mormon church calls this doctrine eternal progression. Lorenzo Snow, former president and prophet of the Mormon church, first coined the famous Mormon phrase “As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.” Although Mormons believe that many gods exist, they worship only one – God the Father. At least one Mormon scholar has admitted with qualifications that their doctrine could be
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