[BigJulie;157278]Yes, yes. We are imperfect. Our natures are imperfect. He is perfect--always will be, always has been.
So now do you deny that God was always God or do you deny the LDS belief that "As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be" (The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, ed. Clyde J. Williams [1984], 1.). This was a remark from a Prophet, a man who was as much a prophet as Joseph Smith was. He taught that God was a man like we are, and that we being men can become a God.. Of course that agrees with the teachings of Joseph Smith.

In order to understand the subject of the dead, for consolation of
those who mourn for the loss of their friends, it is necessary we should
understand the character and being of God and how He came to be so; for I
am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed
that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away
the veil, so that you may see.

These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are simple. It is
the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of
God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with
another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the
Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did;
and I will show it from the Bible.

Eternal Life to Know God and Jesus Christ

I wish I was in a suitable place to tell it, and that I had the trump
of an archangel, so that I could tell the story in such a manner that
persecution would cease forever. What did Jesus say? (Mark it, Elder
Rigdon!) The scriptures inform us that Jesus said, as the Father hath
power in himself, even so hath the Son power--to do what? Why, what the
Father did. The answer is obvious--in a manner to lay down his body and
take it up again. Jesus, what are you going to do? To lay down my life as
my Father did, and take it up again. Do you believe it? If you do not
believe it you do not believe the Bible. The scriptures say it, and I defy
all the learning and wisdom and all the combined powers of earth and hell
together to refute it. Here, then, is eternal life--to know the only wise
and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to
be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you,
namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small
capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to
exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able
to dwell in everlasting burnings. and to sit in glory, as do those who sit
enthroned in everlasting power. And I want you to know that God, in the
last days, while certain individuals are proclaiming His name, is not
trifling with you or me. (History of the Church, Vol. 6, Ch. 14, p. 305-6).

Like him in appearance, perfected as he is perfect.
In that statement we have no argument.. We would if you said we share His divinity..

Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
This is a great quote.. A quote that proves that there are only 12 Apostles that is anyone today takes that position they are a fraud..

You, yourself, acknowledge that God calls rulers and calls them "gods".
If you include the rest of that p***age you will see that it says "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."

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