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The Nature and Image of God, Male and Female

Who and what is God? What does it mean to be created in the image of God?  When we speak of God, we are speaking of an eternal Godhead consisting of three individual persons.  Exalted beings, holy individuals.  They consist of God, the Father who is an exalted, glorious individual, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.   We also speak of the pattern of female glory and intelligence, a Heavenly Mother, the completeness of heavenly parents, perfect joining of male and female. The general understanding of God has been of a single incorporeal god force as taught in mainstream theological institutions. Jesus is the firstborn of the Father in the spirit and the only begotten in the flesh. His perfections and attributes have been part of his character forever. Only he was capable of performing the atonement required to meet the penalty for the sins of mankind and overcome the physical death associated with mortality in the Father's plan. Jesus is Jehovah, the c...