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Originally Posted by VisionOfLehi
No, I wouldn't leave it out, because it doesn't support Trinity, it supports the Godhead. I would take those scriptures and add to them the ones that clarify the separateness of the Godhead.
We have the fullness of the Gospel, but it's contained in all the standard works, when you take in the complete message, not bits and pieces.
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Here are some scriptures I found related to the corporeal body of God:
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. (D&C 130:22)
In the image of his own body, male and female, created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created and became living souls in the land upon the footstool of God. (Moses 6:9)
All the other scriptures were mainly inferring that man was created in the image of God. I realize that LDS interpret this as the Father having a body of flesh and bones, but even OT and NT scriptures have these proclamations and mainstream Christianity and myself can see the Trinity in this. God is the Father, Son and HS and man is body, mind and spirit.
I also found another scripture:
Behold, this body, which ye now behold, is the body of my spirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit; and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear unto my people in the flesh. (Ether 3:16)
This is Christ speaking to the brother of Jared. If this body was visible but still spiritual, is it possible that what JS thought was corporeal, when he says he saw the Father and Son, was really spiritual for both the Father and the Son?
M.