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Is there a reference to Heavenly Mother in the Book of Mormon?

Based on our belief in the principles of exaltation, eternal marriage, and spiritual families, there’s no way that we couldn’t have a Heavenly Mother. In fact, according to revelation received by Joseph Smith, Heavenly Father could not be God without a Heavenly Mother.  Fair Mormon presents a podcast and short article about this subject at: https://www.fairmormon.org/blog/2017/05/10/a-heavenly-mother?utm_source=...   The article goes on to quote the following, "Three prophets of the twentieth century, Spencer W. Kimball, Joseph Fielding Smith, and Harold B. Lee, stated that women were created in Heavenly Mother’s image."  A more open dialogue is currently forthcoming in the Church’s gospel topic essay “Mother in Heaven,” (https://www.lds.org/topics/mother-in-heaven?lang=eng), a  BYU Studies article (https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/mother-there-survey-historical-teachi...), and a new book titled iOur Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families, (https://deseretbook.com/p/our-heavenly-family-our-earthly-families?varia...",  published by Deseret Book; all of which can help encourage dialogue on this important topic. 

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