“I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the Apostles said he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in person … I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus Christ.”

Brigham Young – 24 July 1853, Journal of Discourses – Volume 1 (Liverpool, England: F.D. and S.W. Richards, 1854), 238.