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Mormon
View of the Trinity
Mormon
Doctrine and Covenants: Section 130: Article 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.
Magazines/Ensign/1989/Ensign
January 1989/The Restoration of Major Doctrines through Joseph Smith: The
Godhead, Mankind, and the Creation
 | Though most people who believe the Bible accept the idea of a Godhead
composed of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith revealed an
understanding of the Godhead that differed from the views found in the
creeds of his day. The main Christian sects of the nineteenth century taught
of “one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the
persons: nor dividing the Substance” and of “one only living and true
God, … a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions,
immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible.” |
| Joseph Smith uniquely taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are
three distinct personages, with the Father and the Son having bodies of
“flesh and bones as tangible as man’s,” and with the Holy Ghost being
a “personage of Spirit.” (D&C
130:22.) |
| Joseph Smith learned early of the distinctness of Jesus Christ and God the
Father. In the Sacred Grove, fourteen-year-old Joseph saw “two Personages,
whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above [him] in the
air.” He learned of their relationship when one of the personages
declared, “This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!” (JS—H
1:17; italics in original.) He saw that the Father and the Son
were two separate beings. |
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