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From [https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/045-23-27.pdf jkljlk ], Sunstone:
Mormon doctrine teaches the
existence of many gods, not in the sense of many
contending gods, some good and some bad, but
rather in the,sense of many divine beings of
impeccably moral character working in perfect
unity for a common end. It is understandable,
then, that virtually the only ones applying the
term polytheism to the LDS church are its active
opponents, who are frequently less interested in
accurately explaining its doctrine than in harnessing it with an offensive, negative term. It
seems only fair t o allow a religious body t o reject
any descriptive terms which it finds unacceptable. A term acceptable t o Mormons is plurality of
gods. This phrase conveys the doctrine of many
gods without polytheism's connotations of many
sordid beings.

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	Mormon doctrine teaches the existence of many gods, not in the sense of many contending gods, some good and some bad, but rather in the,sense of many divine beings of impeccably moral character working in perfect unity for a common end. It is understandable, then, that virtually the only ones applying the term polytheism to the LDS church are its active opponents, who are frequently less interested in accurately explaining its doctrine than in harnessing it with an offensive, negative term. It seems only fair t o allow a religious body t o reject any descriptive terms which it finds unacceptable. A term acceptable t o Mormons is plurality of gods. This phrase conveys the doctrine of many gods without polytheism's connotations of many sordid beings.		Mormon doctrine teaches the existence of many gods, not in the sense of many contending gods, some good and some bad, but rather in the,sense of many divine beings of impeccably moral character working in perfect unity for a common end. It is understandable, then, that virtually the only ones applying the term polytheism to the LDS church are its active opponents, who are frequently less interested in accurately explaining its doctrine than in harnessing it with an offensive, negative term. It seems only fair t o allow a religious body t o reject any descriptive terms which it finds unacceptable. A term acceptable t o Mormons is plurality of gods. This phrase conveys the doctrine of many gods without polytheism's connotations of many sordid beings.
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		+	Joseph Smith, on the other hand, did confess
		+	belief that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost "constitute three distinct personages and three Gods"
		+	(HC, 6:474)
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		+	Joseph Smith's last public discourse, 1 6
		+	June 1844: "Paul says there are Gods many and
		+	Lords many. I want t o set it forth in a plain and
		+	simple manner; but t o us there is but one Godthat is pertaining to us . . . I say there are Gods
		+	many and Lords many, but t o us only one, and
		+	we are t o be in subjection to that one" ( H C ,
		+	6:474

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−	Mormon doctrine teaches the	+	Mormon doctrine teaches the existence of many gods, not in the sense of many contending gods, some good and some bad, but rather in the,sense of many divine beings of impeccably moral character working in perfect unity for a common end. It is understandable, then, that virtually the only ones applying the term polytheism to the LDS church are its active opponents, who are frequently less interested in accurately explaining its doctrine than in harnessing it with an offensive, negative term. It seems only fair t o allow a religious body t o reject any descriptive terms which it finds unacceptable. A term acceptable t o Mormons is plurality of gods. This phrase conveys the doctrine of many gods without polytheism's connotations of many sordid beings.
−	existence of many gods, not in the sense of many
−	contending gods, some good and some bad, but
−	rather in the,sense of many divine beings of
−	impeccably moral character working in perfect
−	unity for a common end. It is understandable,
−	then, that virtually the only ones applying the
−	term polytheism to the LDS church are its active
−	opponents, who are frequently less interested in
−	accurately explaining its doctrine than in harnessing it with an offensive, negative term. It
−	seems only fair t o allow a religious body t o reject
−	any descriptive terms which it finds unacceptable. A term acceptable t o Mormons is plurality of
−	gods. This phrase conveys the doctrine of many
−	gods without polytheism's connotations of many
−	sordid beings.