We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; in deed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul ... if there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

So who is God anyway?



“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) So who is God anyway? What do the scriptures say? As we read further into the Bible as especially the New Testament we learn as one backwoods convert put it, “There are three of them dudes, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” Most frequently when we refer to God we mean God the Father, who is our Heavenly Father as opposed to our earthly father. He created us spiritually and sent us to earth to receive a physical body. He is then the Father of mankind.
Then of course there is our God (or Lord) whom we know of as Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the only begotten of the Father.   His role in the Godhead (you may want to look at it as a presidency, or as a governing body) is Savior, the doorway, or gate to heaven. We sometimes heard of Peter, or Saint Peter, an apostle and Prophet of the Lord being referred to as the gate keeper to heaven. That is because Peter was given the keys of the priesthood (see Matthew 16:19) and the authority to bind in heaven those things bound on earth.  
Finally there is the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. Christ referred to this member of the Godhead as, the comforter, and as the Spirit of truth. (John 14:16 -27) Unlike Christ and Heavenly Father the Holy Ghost is a ghost or a spirit and has not a body, yet. The Holy Spirit is that warm feeling we get in the presence of the truth that bears witness to truth. It is our daily guide, and comforter.  
God is then three personages in one with the same purpose, (Remember how Christ never put himself above the Father or the Holy Spirit, but they are one even as man and wife are one unit.(or should be)      

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