6 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Mormons

Mormon founder and Prophet Joseph Smith taught that God was once an ordinary human being who lived on earth like any other man. Mormons teach that God has a flesh-and-blood body just like a human man's, and that he was once a mortal being like us. Mormons teach that humans are gods and goddesses in embryo, spirit children of God who have entered into mortality in order to gain a physical body. Mormonism teaches that every person lived as a spirit before birth. Married couples are encouraged to have children as a way of providing bodies for these spirits.