Nature of God

What/Who is God?

Questions!!

3 Ingredients for Faith

• First, the idea that He (God) actually exists.
• Secondly, a correct idea of His character, perfections, and attributes.
• Thirdly, an actual knowledge that the course of life which he is pursuing is according to His will.

Articles of Faith 1:1

• 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

Physical Traits

• Genesis 1:26–27 Genesis 5:3
• Genesis 5:3Acts 7:55–56
• Exodus 32:30
• Genesis 5:3
• Acts 7:55–56
• Ether 3:6-9

Purpose

• John 17:21-23
• Moses 1:39
• 2 Nephi 2:27

Characteristics

• How did Christ act on earth?
• How do you act when you feel the Holy Ghost?
• Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent

What does the Christian World Believe?

• Trinity - they are one being
• A.D. 325 the Roman emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea

These various iterations of creeds declared the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost to be abstract, absolute, transcendent, immanent, consubstantial, coeternal, and unknowable, without body, parts, or passions and dwelling outside space and time. In such creeds all three members are separate persons, but they are a single being, the oft-noted “mystery of the trinity.”

Spring 1820, Joseph Smith, Jr.