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1st Article Of Faith

This is the first of 13 Articles of Faith, a group of statements that explain some of the bare basic doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We believe that God the Father is a separate Being from Jesus Christ, and both are separate from the Holy Ghost. Joseph Smith, in his explanations of his first vision, said that God the Father and Jesus Christ both had physical Bodies - glorious Resurrected Bodies.

We also understand that the Holy Ghost has only a Body of Spirt at this time.

The three make up a quorum - the Godhead.

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I understand the principle of Jesus having a resurrected body. How does God the Father have a resurrected body? Does this imply that God the Father once had a physical body to be resurrected? Or is it only Jesus who has the resurrected body? Or rather, since Jesus is God, does God the Father also then share a part in this resurrection? Thanks for the answers in advance!

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Growing up an evangelical fundamentalist, this question really intrigues me. Do Mormons considered Jesus to be part of a Trinity? That is to say, do Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit make up the Trinity Godhead that is one God, or do you consider them separate Gods? If they are not one God, then do you, be virtue of the previous answer, believe in multiple Gods, in this case three? And I have occassionaly heard about the 'Holy Mother', does she factor in to your beliefs on God in a way in which she is also God, or a God?

Sorry about all the questions in one, but I think they all really relate to the same issue of God's existence.

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Basically, we don't believe that the Father and the Son are the same Person. Jesus said that He ONLY did what He had seen His Father do. Jesus was born, gained a physical body, lived, breathed, ate, expelled wastes from His body, everything else that a normal human does. Then He died and was resurrected, with a glorious body. If He only did what He had seen His Father do, then His Father must have gone through these same circumstances.

The basic doctrine is that God the Father is a Resurrected, Perfected Man. The official doctrine is that we don't know much of anything about this, other than the fact that He has a Body of flesh and bone - no blood.

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Officially, we believe that the three are completely separate Beings, each with their own "jobs" so to speak. They are One in purpose, but are three Individuals in all other ways. The Godhead is a quorum within the Priesthood structure, again with a specific mission and purpose.

Essentially, we DO believe in other Gods and gods. However, we believe that ONLY God the Father is the Supreme Being (so to speak) for this world. We freely admit that we don't know much of anything about His origins, experiences, or associations with others of His kind. At the same time, we firmly believe that we are literally His children, spiritually and physically. That is, we are the same type of being as He is, and that His purpose is to raise up as many of us, His children, as are willing to become like Him.

There are two specific things that deal with this aspect of the question:
Moses 1:37-39

And a couplet that came to a man who eventually became the 5th President of the LDS church, and a Prophet.

We do NOT believe in the lore surrounding Mary, the mother of Jesus. We believe that she was a truly good and honorable woman, who was chosen before the foundation of the world to bring the Savior into mortality. We don't believe in the Immaculate Conception, in the idea that Mary is the co-redemptrix with Jesus, that she intercedes for people, etc.

Jesus is the ONLY Begotten Son of the Father. He is literally that - a physical Son of a glorified, perfected Father who is the God and Creator of the world and universe.

The Holy Ghost is a Spirit, who can literally enter into a person to provide comfort, knowledge, wisdom, and a host of other gifts. His "job" is to be the Comforter, to bear witness to us of the reality of the Father and Jesus Christ, and to confirm truth to us.

Message Edited! I agree, these questions deal directly with the nature and existence of God. However, I think that this question is closely related to the topic about the First Article of Faith topic, so will combine the two.

Edited: Nighthawk on 20th Mar, 2006 - 7:23pm