I don't expect Governors to be theologians, but that really missed the mark.
For Orthodox Christians the Sacraments and the Divine Liturgy are integral to our theosis and therefore are what make us slowly but surely into the image and likeness of God.
As +Athanasius wrote "God became man so that man could become God".
Joseph Smith claimed to have received a vision of God and Christ in upstate New York in ... In other words: God becomes man so that man may become God.