Quote Of The Day.....By Brian Brumfield
"The LDS Church teaches that they are monotheistic because they believe that there is only one Gods, which are spirit personages, mostly of flesh and bone.
Also, just because the LDS Church teaches that any faithful LDS member has the potential to also become an almighty creator God themselves after they learn how to do it, doesn’t mean they’re polytheistic; they are monotheistic because they only pray to God the Father, in the name of Jesus, who is another God."
posted by Eric Hoffman @ 7:13 PM
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LDS, do you know for a certainty the nature of God?
The LDS Prophet Joseph Smith Jr said, "It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; and I will show it from the Bible." (Joseph Smith Jr., King Follet Sermon, Vol. 6, p. 302-317, April 7, 1844)
What is the character of God? Who is God? What is God? This is the "FIRST" principle of Mormonism according to Joseph Smith Jr.
Alma 11:26-28 says there is not more than one God.
Alma 18:24-29 says that God is a (singular) great Spirit.
Alma 22:8-11 says there is a (singular) God, a great Spirit who created all things.
So far, according to Alma, there is A God, a spirit.
Joseph Smith wrote in the 5th lecture on faith:
[Lec 5:2c] They are the Father and the Son: The Father being a personage of spirit, glory, and power, possessing all perfection and fullness.
[Lec 5:2d] The Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, a personage of tabernacle, made or fashioned like unto man, or being in the form and likeness of man - or rather, man was formed after his likeness and in his image.
According to Alma, there is a God, a spirit. According to the Lecture on faith, the Father is a spirit and the Son is a personage of tabernacle (man).
Now, Doctrine & Covenants 130:22 says
"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us."
According to Alma, there is a spirit God.
According to the Lectures on Faith, God is a spirit, the Son is a man.
According to D&C 132, the Father AND Son are flesh and bone.
Mormon Doctrine
“Three separate personages—Father, Son and Holy Ghost--comprise the Godhead.
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As each of these persons is a God … these THREE are the only Gods we worship.” (page 576)
Apostle McConkie says that the three Gods; The Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost are three persons, all three to be worshipped.
But in Doctine & Covenants 20:19 it says:
...the only living and true God, and that he should be the only being whom they should worship.
Only worship God ... the only BEING is to be worshipped? Which God ... the Father? Is the Father a being, or a spirit? Which book do you refer to, which one is correct?
It is the first principle to know the character of God, according to the prophet Joseph Smith.
Turn to the Bible!
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