Mormonism is a religion whose core tenet is "As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become." In other words their God is not God, but a (real or imagined, according to your judgment) man from the planet Kolob who went through the Mormon Church there and thereby became elevated to being their god. And, like Lucifer, they believe that they can and will be like God, or their god anyway, if they obey the Mormon church. "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man... I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea... He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth."  Joseph Smith - Mormonism founder  Ensign, April 1971, p.13-14  "Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, and mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point where He now is."  Orson Hyde - Mormon apostle  Journal of Discourses 1:123  "He is our Father-the Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted Being. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through."  Brigham Young - Mormon prophet  Journal of Discourses 7:333  "God is a natural man... Where did he get his knowledge from? From his Father, just as we get knowledge from our earthly parents."  Heber C. Kimball - First Presidency Counselor  Journal of Discourses 8:211 "But if God the Father was not always God, but came to his present exalted position by degrees of progress as indicated in the teachings of the prophet, how has there been a God from all eternity? The answer is that there has been and there now exists an endless line of Gods, stretching back into the eternities."  B. H. Roberts - Mormon Seventy and LDS church historian  New Witness for God 1:476