Our Heavenly Father (GP1)

Lesson found here: Gospel Principles Lesson 1

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All the creations that we see prove that there is a God. (See Alma 30:44) God created all things through His Son Jesus Christ. (See John 1:3) We are created in the image of God. (See Genesis 1:27) He is our Parent; He loves us as our Father.

Being created in the image of God does not just mean that we have the power to reason; it means that we look like Him.  God has a resurrected, glorified, perfected physical body. (See Doctrine and Covenants 130:22) We are His spirit children. (See 1 John 3:2; Acts 17:28-29) God is good. He has all power, and He knows all things. Everything good comes from God. (See Moroni 7:12-13) He desires for us to become like Him and inherit everything that He has and is. (See Revelation 21:7)

We can come to know God. (See John 17:3) We must believe that He exists and that He loves us. (See Mosiah 4:9-10) We should study the scriptures; we must pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ; and we must be obedient to His commandments.

1st Article of Faith:

"We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost."

(Further reading, to help us understand our relationship to Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost: Knowing the Godhead, by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland.)