Heber C. Kimball on Theosis

Heber C. Kimball

Heber C. Kimball

We shall go back to our Father and God, who is connected with one who is still farther back; and this Father is connected with one still farther back, and so on.

Journal of Discourses, vol 5, page 19, Liverpool, England: Latter-day Saints’ Book Depot, 1858

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