An Odd Item on the Mormon Concept of God

[Daniel Peterson]

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/16/g...n#comment_35436

[charity's child]

yeah, I always knew God was really bright blue.

[Joseph Antley]

"Mormonism posits an ever-evolving God" --

[Aquilifer]

"Mormonism posits an ever-evolving God" --

Perhaps "evolving" isn't the right word, but God certainly isn't static. Maybe we need to coin a better descriptor.

On a side note, I didn't realize that Francis Beckwith had converted to Catholicism.

[BCSpace]

From the first comment by "Dropping By"

I keep reading that Mormons don't believe in the Trinity -- but we do believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, our conception of it is merely different.

It is disingenuous for we LDS to say or imply that we also believe in the trinity, just a different trinity.

Oh, Father in Heaven also isn't blue or bald, and he's modest.

Thinking on Moroni, who was bare at the chest, I'll bet we all wear shorts and sunglasses in heaven if we want to.

But you got the headline right.

God is Mormon, that is correct.

[Daniel Peterson]

It is disingenuous for we LDS to say or imply that we also believe in the trinity, just a different trinity.

I respectfully disagree.

Both Brigham Young and James E. Talmage used the term Trinity to refer to the Mormon Godhead, and I see nothing wrong with doing so. It's a fairly useful term, in its way.

I have an article about to appear in Element, the journal of the Society for the Study of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, entitled "Mormonism and the Trinity." (I think it goes to press later this month.) In it, I argue that Latter-day Saints do in fact believe in a form of the so-called "social model" of the Trinity.

[Tsuzuki]

Alan Moore is into chaos magic, which is kind of like Mormonism, so I can see the connection.

[CMZ]

The first draft of the script for The Watchmen would've earned a PG rating but they felt like they had to take it to an R level.

[ERMD]

There are some well-written rebuttals to the article there.

[AngelPalmoni]

Is it to much to say that the Holy Ghost, Christ, and the Father are three separate and distinct beings but all versions of the higher. God the Father possibly created an Atonement in the Previous Plan of Salvation and Christ saw him do that as an Intelligence. And somehow the Christ of the Next Plan of Salvation is watching Christ do what he is doing here, because Christ in the Next Plan of Salvation will be the Father. So in the Trinity The Father was Christ and Christ will be the Father, why not the Holy Ghost will be the Christ in the Next plan of salvation, and Christ in the Last Plan of Salvation was the Holy Ghost.

Angel Palmoni

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[erichard]

"Mormonism posits an ever-evolving God" --

As I see it, Mormonism actually posits an eternally unchanging God.

Creation has no beginning, and it will have no end. The plan of salvation is the same on all worlds.

Saviors and joint-heirs overcome all things and unite with God. This is an unchanging aspect of God.

"Unchanging" does not just mean static like a statue.

Richard

OT: This is about right:

[Doctor Steuss]

Perhaps "evolving" isn't the right word, but God certainly isn't static. Maybe we need to coin a better descriptor.

I like the process-philosophy-esque-open-theism descriptor: â??G-d is eternally self-surpassing.â?

[kamenraider]

So in the Trinity The Father was Christ and Christ will be the Father, why not the Holy Ghost will be the Christ in the Next plan of salvation, and Christ in the Last Plan of Salvation was the Holy Ghost.

Do you believe in reincarnation then?