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The Pearl of Great Price teaches that God is a progressive being, and that when
man is made like God in the resurrection he also will be a progressive being in the realm
of celestial glory. This is true in three respects: First, God is progressing in posterity. He
is continually begetting spirit children, then giving them the further endowments and
powers of life by which they can become like Him as a glorified and exalted being. His
sons and daughters who become exalted do the same in their respective generations,
thus adding to God's ever expanding family in eternity. As has been shown, God's central
purpose--toward which all His work is directed ---is to bring to pass the immortality and
eternal life of man as the offspring of God.
Second,