What Gordon B. Hinckley said is “just a couplet”…
     What BYU professors say is a thing of the past…
          What Richard Mouw says we should apologize over…

Is what the new 2012 Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society Sunday Curriculum manual promotes.

We believe that we are here because we kept our first estate and earned the privilege of coming to this earth. We believe that our very existence is a reward for our faithfulness before we came here, and that we are enjoying on earth the fruits of our efforts in the spirit world. We also believe that we are sowing the seed today of a harvest that we will reap when we go from here. Eternal life is to us the sum of pre-existence, present existence, and the continuation of life in immortality, holding out to us the power of endless progression and increase. With that feeling and that assurance, we believe that “As man is, God once was, and as God is, man may become.” [See Lorenzo Snow, “The Grand Destiny of Man,” Deseret Evening News, July 20, 1901, 22.] Being created in the image of God, we believe that it is not improper, that it is not unrighteous, for us to hope that we may be permitted to partake of the attributes of deity and, if we are faithful, to become like unto God;… (Teaching of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, 70-71)

For more information please see “Are ‘we evangelicals’ guilty of bearing false witness when it comes to explaining Mormon doctrine?“