Joseph Smith on the "gods" before God

Times and Seasons Volume 5, Number 15, page 613

"First God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, is a man like unto one of yourselves, that is the great secret. If the vail [veil] was rent to-day, and the great God, who holds this world in its orbit, and upholds all things by his power; if you were to see him to-day, you would see him in all the person, image and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion and image of God; Adam received instruction, walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talkes [talks] and communes with another. In order to understand the subject of the dead, for the consolation of those who mourn for the loss of their friends, it is necessary they should understand the character and being of God, for I
am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined that God was God from all eternity. These are incomprehensible ideas to some, but they are the simple and first principles of the gospel… The head God called together the Gods, and set [sat] in grand council. The grand counsellors [counselors] sat in yonder heavens, and contemplated the creation of the worlds that were created at that time."
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Notice that Joseph Smith and Mormon Doctrine is advocating many gods, with several gods before God.
But Isaiah 43:10-11 says, "Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.."
And Isaiah 44:6 says, "I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God."

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