Article I--God The Father, cont'd. In part I of this series of articles we mentioned that Mormonism’s founder Joseph Smith taught that God the Father was once a man who lived on an earth like ours and through Eternal Progression He became our God (see The Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 345-346). That is what Mormonism teaches today. Smith also taught that we can follow in God’s footsteps and become Gods too if we obey all the laws and ordinances of the LDS Churc