The term “heavenly parents” also never appears in any of the scriptures. Oddly, though, neither the Bible nor the other scriptures of the LDS Church ever mentions a heavenly mother. " Not only do the LDS scriptures never mention a heavenly mother, but they also say some things that point to the conclusion that we do not have literal heavenly parents. " A statement by the First Presidency in 1909 entitled “The Origin of Man” affirmed this belief as official LDS doctrine: “All men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity.” Belief in a heavenly mother, while not emphasized, is part of LDS doctrine, as the reference to “heavenly parents” in Gospel Principles illustrates. One of the most interesting and unusual teachings of the LDS Church is that all human beings, as Gospel Principles puts it, are “literally the sons and daughters” of “heavenly parents.” If Heavenly Father is the literal father of our spirits-procreating us as spirit beings like an earthly father procreates his children-it would follow logically that we also have a “heavenly mother.” This Mother in heaven, of course, would be God’s wife.
‘Man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporary body.’ …We know, for example, that we were sons and daughters of heavenly parents-males and females” ( Gospel Principles, 9, 10).
All men and women are literally the sons and daughters of God.
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