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What Mormons Believe
LDS Scriptures
Nature of
God
The Fall of Adam
Salvation
First Principles and Ordinances
Being called of God
Joseph Smith
Sacrament
Organization of the Church
Gifts of the Spirit
Continuing Revelation
Literal Gathering of Israel
Worship
Obeying the Law
Good works
Morality
Temples
Genealogy
Tithing
Word of Wisdom (health)
Free Agency
References
* JST= Joseph Smith Translation
** From the Book of Mormon
++ LDS Scripture given through Joseph Smith and other prophets
## (In the Pearl of Great Price)
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Nature of God
1 --WE believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. (Article of Faith #1)
 The
Fulness of the Gospel: The Nature of the Godhead
Ensign, Jan. 2006, 50
The first in a series of articles explaining basic beliefs of the restored gospel, doctrines unique to The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In common with the rest of Christianity,” Elder Oaks continued, “we believe in a Godhead of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
However, we testify that these three members of the Godhead are three separate and distinct beings. We also testify that God the Father is not just a spirit but
is a glorified person with a tangible body, as is his resurrected Son, Jesus Christ. … In contrast, many Christians reject the idea of a tangible, personal God
and a Godhead of three separate beings.
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We believe that they are three separate personages who are one in purpose. All part of what are known as the Godhead.
From latter-day revelation we learn that the Father and the Son have tangible bodies of flesh and bone and that the Holy Ghost is a
personage of spirit, without flesh and bone.
++ (Doctrine and Covenants 130: 22-23)
22 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.
23 A man may receive the Holy Ghost, and it may descend upon him and not tarry with him.
These three persons are one in perfect unity and harmony of purpose and doctrine.
(John 17: 21-23)
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and
hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
** (3 Nephi 11: 36) And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for
the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are bone.
(Gen. 1: 26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…
Joseph Smith account of seeing God (the Father) and His Son (Jesus Christ).
(Joseph Smith History 1: 16-17)
16 But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready
to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such
marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of
the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.
17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness
and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved
Son. Hear Him!
Members of the Godhead
God (the Father)
God the Son (Jesus Christ)
The Holy Ghost
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Members of the Godhead
God (the Father)
God the Son (Jesus Christ)
The Holy Ghost |
