“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar to that through which we are now passing. He became God – an exalted being – through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity to obey.”

Milton R. Hunter, The Gospel Through the Ages (Salt Lake City, UT: Stevens and Wallis, Inc., 1945), 104.