The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion

Excerpt from as Paul tells, “in the express image of his [the Father’s] person” —so, too, the Father God is a man of immortal tabernacle, glorified and for as the Son is, so also is the Father, a personage of tabernacle, of flesh and of bone as tangible as man’s, as tangible as Christ’s most glorious, resurrected body. THE ONENESS OF GOD. There are some expressions of scripture to consider which speak of the “oneness” of God. Speaking of the question which agitated the early Christian Church about eating meats which had been offered to idols, Piul “We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.” Moreover, Jesus himself made this strange remark —that is, strange until one understands “I and my Father are one;” and so much one are they that he “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.”t Consequently our philosophers, especially those who lived when the present Christian creeds concerning God were forming, thought that by some leger- deirain or other they must make the three Gods—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost—just one person—one being; and therefore they set their wits at work to perform the operation. Let us seek out some reasonable explanation of the language used. I refer again to the passage I just quoted from the writings of Paul with reference to there being “none other I Cor. 8: 4. t John 14. God but one.” Immediately following what I read on that point comes this For though there be that are called Gods, whether in heaven or inearth (as there be God…