This doctrine was introduced by Joseph Smith in his King Follett discourse (King Follett was a saint who had passed away, and the sermon was given at his funeral).
The part about us becoming Gods is in D&C 132... which also lays out the conditions of achieving that status.
This doctrine is further confirmed in the Temples... I'll not say how, lest I be smitten with the great smiting wrath of the moderation team.
Of course, I now have different personal beliefs. I believe we all have Divinity within us already, and we're just living our many lives (through reincarnation), figuring out how deepen into our divinity. It's not terribly different than the LDS doctrine.
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Dear God: Please save us from your fanatics -- of every creed.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
There is nothing as dangerous in this world as a man convinced of his own righteousness.
A mind that has been stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension
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