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Originally Posted by Misshalfway
We don't believe in the trinity. We believe in the Godhead. God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are three separate beings. Father and Son have glorified bodies of flesh and bone. The Holy Ghost does not. His body is one of spirit matter.
This is one reason why Joseph Smith's first vision is so crucial to the LDS belief system. He saw God and Jesus standing separately and in bodily form, thus revealing the true nature of God.
Of course most of Christianity differs in their beliefs about the nature of God. The Trinity is one such belief and is found in many protestant belief systems and is basically the idea that the F, S, and HG are one person that changes form. So Jesus and the Father are seen as the same being.
Others I am sure can describe the Trinity better than I. I believe the origins of the Trinity doctrine comes from conclusions made by theologians at the Council of Nicea and is called the Nicean Creed.
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Interesting. I think the trinity is what I have always been taught, but I may have just been misunderstanding them the whole time.