RE: Better terminology for "Father and Son" ?
August 25, 2017 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2017 at 12:50 am by vorlon13.)
Quote:Godscreated wrote:
The Holy Spirit speaks to everyone's soul to convict them of their sin, doesn't matter if people do/don't believe it. This is God calling to us to repent and accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. I'm not familiar with much of the Mormon belief about the Holy Spirit, maybe you will share a bit of that with me.
GC
From wiki (as good as anything that attempts to explain Mormon befuddlement)
In orthodox Mormonism, the term God generally refers to the biblical God the Father, whom Mormons sometimes call Elohim, and the term Godhead refers to a council of three distinct divine persons consisting of God the Father, Jesus (his firstborn Son, whom Mormons sometimes call Jehovah), and the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit). Mormons believe that the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost are three distinct beings, and that the Father and Jesus have perfected, glorified, physical bodies, while the Holy Ghost is a spirit without a physical body.[1] Mormons also believe that there are other gods and goddesses outside of the Godhead, such as a Heavenly Mother who is the wife of God the Father, and that faithful Mormons may attain godhood in the afterlife.[2]
This conception differs from the traditional Christian Trinity in several ways, one of which is that Mormonism has not adopted or continued the doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are of the same substance or being. Also, Mormonism teaches that the intelligence dwelling in each human is coeternal with God.[3] While Mormons use the term omnipotent to describe God, and regard him as the creator, they do not understand him as having absolutely unlimited power, and do not teach that he is the ex nihilo creator of all things.[4] The Mormon conception of God also differs substantially from the Jewish tradition of ethical monotheism in which elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a completely different conception.
This description of God represents the Mormon orthodoxy, formalized in 1915 based on earlier teachings.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.