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The Godhead Understand Makeup - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 27th Nov, 2015 - 10:20pm
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The Godhead, Do You Really Understand Its Makeup
This is from the Fifth Lecture on Faith, section 2; the Lectures on faith, by Joseph Smith, were obtained from God, to help develop power in the Priesthood, to bring Zion forth. They were approved by the Church and put in the Doctrine and Covenants; and were not taken out until the early 1900s.
The most notable thing is, the Holy Spirit is not a entity, not a spirit without a body yet, that was a belief that was altered and added in, by the leaders, after Joseph's death; it was brief brought in by those who joined the Church; the Holy Spirit is the mind and will of God the Father and Jesus Christ. The Lectures on faith were removed from the D & C, because it was felt it caused conflicts in doctrine, and well it does, it shows the modern understand of the Godhead is incorrect and false.
Have you read the Lectures on Faith, it is Scripture and Doctrine, as voted in by Joseph Smith and the members of his day. See at bottom of post, lecture 5, section 2.
Others in the past have been aware of the decent from the truths that God gave Joseph Smith, here is remark by Joseph Fielding Smith:
"History Repeating Itself"
QUOTE Joseph Fielding Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 28 Dec. 1938: “It is a very apparent fact that we have traveled far and wide in the past 20 years. What the future will bring I do not know. But if we drift as far afield from fundamental things in the next 20 years, what will be left of the foundation laid by the Prophet Joseph Smith? It is easy for one who observes to see how the apostasy came about in the primitive church of Christ. Are we not traveling the same road?” (Joseph Fielding Smith Journal, entry for 28 Dec. 1938.)
Lectures on Faith, 5:2
QUOTE 2 There are two personages who constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all things—by whom all things were created and made, that are created and made, whether visible or invisible: whether in heaven, on earth, or in the earth, under the earth, or throughout the immensity of space—They are the Father and the Son: The Father being a personage of spirit, glory and power: possessing all perfection and fulness: 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;—he is also the express image and likeness of the personage of the Father: possessing all the fulness of the Father, or, the same fulness with the Father; being begotten of him, and was ordained from before the foundation of the world to be a propitiation for the sins of all those who should believe on his name, and is called the Son because of the flesh—and descended in suffering below that which man can suffer, or, in other words, suffered greater sufferings, and was exposed to more powerful contradictions than any man can be. But notwithstanding all this, he kept the law of God, and remained without sin: Showing thereby that it is in the power of man to keep the law and remain also without sin. And also, that by him a righteous judgment might come upon all flesh, and that all who walk not in the law of God, may justly be condemned by the law, and have no excuse for their sins. And he being the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, and having overcome, received a fulness of the glory of the Father—possessing the same mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit, that bears record of the Father and the Son, and these three are one, or in other words, these three constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all things: by whom all things were created and made, that were created and made: and these three constitute the Godhead, and are one: The Father and the Son possessing the same mind, the same wisdom, glory, power and fulness: Filling all in all—the Son being filled with the fulness of the Mind, glory and power, or, in other words, the Spirit, glory and power of the Father—possessing all knowledge and glory, and the same kingdom: sitting at the right hand of power, in the express image and likeness of the Father—a Mediator for man—being filled with the fulness of the Mind of the Father, or, in other words, the Spirit of the Father: which Spirit is shed forth upon all who believe on his name and keep his commandments: and all those who keep his commandments shall grow up from grace to grace, and become heirs of the heavenly kingdom, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; possessing the same mind, being transformed into the same image or likeness, even the express image of him who fills all in all: being filled with the fulness of his glory, and become one in him, even as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one.
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