Todd said:
Do yall believe God the father had flesh and bones without being born?
I personally believe He was once a spirit man, as you and I
were, prior to coming to earth.
He was born to a mortal earth, similar to this one, lived and died, and is now exalted.
We are furnished the same possibility of being exalted with our Eternal Father, if we obey His principles, and perform His ordinances, required for exaltation in His kingdom.
Joseph Smith (
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 342-345):
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens. That is the great secret... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God and to know...that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves,... the same as all Gods have done before you..."
Brigham Young (
Journal of Discourses 7:333):
"He [God] is our Father - the Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being."
Brigham Young (
Journal of Discourses 3:93):
"The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself."
Joseph Fielding Smith (Doctrines of Salvation 1:10):
"God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith ... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man..."
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young (heading page 29):
"God the Father was once a man on another planet who 'passed the ordeals we are now passing through; he has received an experience, has suffered and enjoyed, and knows all that we know regarding the toils, sufferings, life and death of this mortality'" (Discourses of Brigham Young, 22)