[Heavenguard]

Please correct any flaws in my logic or understanding of LDS teaching:
My conjecture is that the idea of a Heavenly Mother is required by LDS doctrine, because it is doctrine that an exalted couple can have children after this life. If we are the spiritual children of God, then he must have a wife with which he had us, his children.

Personally, though, it seems like the wrong direction for the conclusion to be made. That is, I think it makes more sense that a doctrine concerning a Heavenly Mother would lead to a conclusion about eternal increase, rather than eternal increase leading to the conclusion of a Heavenly Mother.

But my way may not be the way the conclusion was derived, anyway, so ... meh.

However, it seems to me that we would be created in God and Heavenly Mother's images, male and female (respectively, of course :P) , rather than in God's image, male and female if there is a Heavenly Mother. I do have to say it does seem a little silly for God to see that there was no suitable companion for Adam in the animals, and then create Eve of and for him afterwards if he himself has a wife. I mean ... that's got to be one of the worst wife jokes ever :P I'd be surprised if he wasn't put in the doghouse for a while for that one!