The LDS Godhead

God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

For a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Now the Lord is that Spirit.

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.

The heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him.

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place.

God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

From everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

For the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity.

But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

For I am the LORD, I change not.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

God is not a man, that he should lie.

The Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind.

Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man.

Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein.

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.

For You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.

Understand that I am He: before Me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God; there is no other beside Him.... the LORD, He is God in heaven above, and on the earth below; there is no other.

I am He, and there is no god besides Me.

There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides thee.

O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee.

You alone are the LORD, You have made heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their host.

I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.... Is there a God beside Me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides Me.... I am the LORD; and there is none else.... there is no God else beside me... for I am God, and there is none else.

For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me.

For there is one God; and there is none other but He.

We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

There is... one Spirit... One Lord... One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto to Himself.

Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father).

He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father... the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me... Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.

Christ Jesus: who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not *dwell in us.

And then Ammon said: Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit? And he said, Yea. And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in heaven and in the earth? And he said: Yea.

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.

The idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man’s heart is an old sectarian notion, and is false.

And this I know, because the Lord hath said he dwelleth not in unholy temples, but in the hearts of the righteous doth he dwell.

Some would have us believe that God is present everywhere. It is not so.

The Lord is everywhere present by His ministering angels... and He knows everything. How? When His angels and ministers tell Him of it, like any other ruler.

God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man.... for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea.... He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth.

Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, and mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress, in the school of advancement; has moved forward and overcome, until He has arrived at the point where He now is.

He is our Father—the Father of our spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted Being.

GOD IS AN EXALTED MAN.... our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.

Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar to that through which we are now passing. He became God—an exalted being....

Yet, if we accept the great law of eternal progression, we must accept the fact that there was a time when Deity was much less powerful than He is today.... Thus He grew in experience and continued to grow until He attained the status of Godhood.

For I know that God is not a partial God, neither a changeable being; but he is unchangeable from all eternity to all eternity.

For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?

For he is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The Lord organized elements that had already existed (Abraham 3:24). He did not create the world "out of nothing," as some people believe.

And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it; And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

Kolob, signifying the first creation, nearest to the celestial, or the residence of God.

Kolob (where day is 1000 of our years), the planet nearest unto the habitation of the Eternal Father.

In this passage will be found the germ of that system of the construction and movement of planetary systems that make up the universe, set forth in the teachings of Joseph Smith. Here it may be seen that there are many great stars—the "governing ones," near together, and from among them rises one pre-eminent in greatness—Kolob—which governs all the rest that are of the same order as that to which our solar system belongs.

Thou longed, thou sighed and thou prayed to thy Father in heaven for the time to arrive when thou couldst come to this earth, which had fled and fallen from where it was first organised, near the planet Kolob.

For there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are.

Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth.

And Aaron said unto him: Yea, he is that Great Spirit, and he created all things both in heaven and in earth. Believest thou this? And he said: Yea, I believe that the Great Spirit created all things.

All things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator.

But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and it is that same God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are.

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.

We shall go back to our Father and God, who is connected with one who is still farther back; and this Father is connected with one still further back, and so on.

The Prophet taught that our Father had a Father and so on.

Our God is a natural man... Where did he get his knowledge from? From his Father, just as we get knowledge from our earthly parents.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother.

When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives.

If none but Gods will be permitted to multiply immortal children, it follows that each God must have one or more wives.

The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children.

I will preach on the plurality of Gods... I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and that the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit, and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.

This is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen.

Christ the Son, and God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God.

Unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are one God.

And the honor be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, which is one God.

The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus.

Behold, I am Jesus Christ. I am the Father and the Son.

Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son of God the very Eternal Father? And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth.

Understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people. And because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God, and having subjected the flesh to the will of the Father, being the Father and the Son— The Father, because he was conceived by the power of God; and the Son, because of the flesh; thus becoming the Father and Son—And they are one God, yea, the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth. And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God.

For if there be no Christ there be no God; and if there be no God we are not, for there could have been no creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ.

And because he said unto them that Christ was the God, the Father of all things, and said that he should take upon him the image of man, and it should be the image after which man was created in the beginning; or in other words, he said that man was created after the image of God, and that God should come down among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon the face of the earth.

There are two personages who constitute the great matchless, governing and supreme power over all things—by whom all things were created and made... They are the Father and the Son: The Father being a personage of spirit... The Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, a personage of tabernacle, made, or fashioned like unto man... possessing all the fulness of the Father, or, the same fulness with the Father... and is called the Son because of the flesh... 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.

I will preach on the plurality of Gods.... The heads of the Gods appointed one God for us.

A Council of the Gods. In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds... One world has a personal God or Father, and the inhabitants thereof worship the attributes of that God, another world has another, and they worship His attributes.

How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds.

But if God the Father was not always God, but came to his present exalted position by degrees of progress as indicated in the teachings of the prophet, how has there been a God from all eternity? The answer is that there has been and there now exists an endless line of Gods, stretching back into the eternities.

God, angel and similar terms denote merely intelligent beings of varying degree of development. The thought, however, that there is a plurality of gods and other divine beings of varying grades, is of fundamental truth.

And Zeezrom said unto him: Thou sayest there is a true and living God? And Amulek said: Yea, there is a true and living God. Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God? And he answered, No.

See that ye remember these things; for he said there is but one God.

And the people... testified that there was but one God.