In a letter dated July 14, 1966, addressed to Morris L. Reynolds, LeGrand Richards wrote the following:
Your third question: "How can we become like a God who is ever
increasing and progressing?" There is a statement often repeated in the
church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church works, it is accepted
as Church doctrine, and this is: "As man is, God once was; as God is, man
may become." now that simply means, if we interpret it correctly, that we
can become a god, even a son of god, as the scriptures indicate; but it does
not mean that we will ever be equal with God in the sense that we can gain the
knowledge that He will have; as we progress in knowledge, He also will
progress, and since there will never come a time we will cease to learn, we
will never really catch up to Him but that does not change the fact that As God
is, we can become in the sense that we can become gods as He is God, but He
will always be our superior.
