“All Human Beings—Male and Female—Are Created in the Image of God”
“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” paragraph 2
“All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.”
Elder David A. Bednar said:
“Our Heavenly Father’s great plan of happiness includes the doctrine, the ordinances, the covenants, and the exceeding great and precious promises whereby we can become partakers of the divine nature. His plan defines our eternal identity and the pathway we must follow to learn, change, grow, and ultimately dwell with Him forever.
“As explained in ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World’:
“‘All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny’ [“The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2010, 129]. . . .
“God promises His children that if they follow the precepts of His plan and the example of His Beloved Son, keep the commandments, and endure in faith to the end, then by virtue of the Savior’s Redemption, they ‘shall have eternal life, which gift is the greatest of all the gifts of God’ [D&C 14:7]. Eternal life is the ultimate exceeding great and precious promise.”
(“Exceeding Great and Precious Promises,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2017, 90–91.)
