gdemetz wrote:Drifting, I know what I believe in! Of course, I believe in God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, but what Paul states is also true; that there are gods many and lords many! Even Christ quoted Psalms in defending Himself by stating that "ye are gods." However, we only worship the "Godhead" as it is more accurately described. The Book of Mormon passages do refer to the the Godhead as being one God which we worship, but this statement should not be twisted to mean that the three personages which make up the Godhead which we worship are all of the same "substance," as if to say that even though the revelations were recorded by Joseph Smith himself, he didn't even understand what he was writing!
I cannot imagine why it is not perfectly natural to think of them as the same substance. I suppose it is possible to think of the matter differently but why would one.? Unless there is a shortage of divine substance there is pleanty to allow the Son to sit beside the Father. Becauset they are different persons it would be natrural for the Son to pray to the Father. Those Biblical details were guidelines for the Bishops and representatives at the coucil of Nicaea which gave the Trinity doctrine its official form.
huck, gdemetz is aspiring to be a God so if there can only be Trinity that won't do at all.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
Drifting, you are correct. Others, did you read the Athanasian Creed? If one wanted to just write some silly hogwash on purpose, they would have a hard time beating that.
"Mormons Criticized for not Accepting the "Trinity" Doctrine.
Mormon calls Athanasian Creed hogwash.
And thus we turn our faces to the rising sun of a bright new day.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
