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Fine, but you were still mistaken. The “Adam-God theory” is not advanced in the King Follet sermon. Nor is it advanced anywhere besides in the single, isolated quote by Young. It is not LDS doctrine.

As for the red herring you’ve tossed out, LDS theology holds that we are like God, albeit in embryonic form. In the sense that we have within us the potential to become as He is, we are co-equal, just as your son is co-equal to you and has the potential to develop and grow to become as you are.

Don’t like that theology? That’s fine.

...LDS theology holds that we are like God, albeit in embryonic form. In the sense that we have within us the potential to become as He is, we are co-equal, just as your son is co-equal to you and has the potential to develop and grow to become as you are. Don’t like that theology? That’s fine. [Tantiboh]

Spunky, Tantiboh hit the brakes on this exactly where their leaders have told them of late to smooth it over whereever possible with historic Christian theology. (See, we're only teaching Christian maturity and Christian godliness and Christlikeness...why what could be wrong with that?)

So let me pick it up where Tanty left off...and then wind around to the "pre" portion also not covered...

Let's see the left-off point...oh, yeah...just as your son is co-equal to you and has the potential to develop and grow to become as you are...

So you see, Spunky, just as your son can also be married as you are for all your life, you also can be spiritually married for all eternal life...& you & your goddess can have millions of spirit babies to populate your own planet. (I guess that would make you "Uncle god" to your nephews & nieces of spirits & enfleshed spirits on other planets run by other gods...while your spirit-kids are their cousins).

And just as your Heavenly Father is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, you too can become all of these as your own god of your own world.

Now for the "pre-pre-existent world": Well, just as Tantiboh said that we have within us the potential to become as He is, well, that also applied to your God. Once upon a time, he was mere potential divinity, a god-wannabe. Then he worked his way up to godhood, bootstraps & all. (Isn't it nice to know that you worship, pray to, sing to, etc. someone who's ONLY resume' for godhood was what he did as a man?)

As Tantiboh says, Don’t like that theology? That’s fine.