We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in his Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
God and His attributes have been debated throughout human history. This is because God in His entirety cannot be fathomed by any one man. I do not believe that God is bound to a physical body but has the power to appear in physical form as He did to Joseph Smith. God is, in this sense, neither male nor female, but transcends human sexuality. This is to be understood metaphorically rather than as a literal confinement from masculine and feminine attributes and virtues. The notion of God being a heavenly parent resounds firmly with me, but I am becoming attached to the idea that we have Heavenly Parents (plural) which are both a Father and a Mother. I am conscious of and sympathetic to the notion that God is one, but the union of the sexes is needed to create human beings, so that oneness is a transcendent one rather than a generative one. I do not believe that perfection exists apart from Them. Our minds being finite and imperfect cannot hope to approach Their omniscience except we surrender to it and allow our egos to be consumed by it. God is both loving and wise beyond our comprehension and we come closer to Him by developing these two qualities. I regard a belief in God as my first axiom, I therefore reject proofs of His existence and non-existence because they tend to rely on assumptions I am not willing to make. A personal relationship with God is only possible when His authority is acknowledged in all things. Those who attempt to restrict or compel God risk their souls.
Jesus Christ is the greatest example of a Child of God. He is a mediator and advocate for those who cannot or dare not approach God on their own. We are all sons and daughters of Heavenly Parents and are in more ways than one brothers and sisters of Jesus. Jesus’ ‘sonship’ does imply in my mind that he is an aspect of divinity along with Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, and the Holy Ghost. He himself said “Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one, that is, God.” (Luke 18:19) This tells me three things that he knew. First that God alone is good (perfect). Second, that he was not God. And third, that he was not perfect. Perhaps I read too much into that scripture, but I’ve been occasionally berated with the argument that Jesus was either “a lair, a lunatic, or the Lord,” and find it lacking. For those of us that believe that Jesus was the greatest man that ever lived, those that deny his humanity do an injustice to his suffering. If he was in some way not at all like us then Gethsemane and the cross become merely a stubbed toe or a hangnail. I prefer to diminish his station so as not to diminish his suffering (and by extension his love for mankind). I do not therefore worship Jesus Christ but do worship God according to his example.
The Holy Ghost is the motive force of God. Through this holiness God may be said to be omnipresent. The Holy Ghost dwells in us and everything around us. When we seek after God we receive greater communion with the Holy Ghost, but when we seek after our egos, lusts, and other vain things the Holy Ghost retreats from us. It never truly abandons us unless we completely and with full knowledge reject God (in other words: blasphemy against the Holy Ghost). His holiness brings us comfort and confirmation of the truth. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,” (John 14:26) “And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.” (BoM Moroni 10:5) The Holy Ghost also moves us to love and sharpness, hardening and softening hearts according to the will of God. The Holy Ghost can be described as a “still small voice” (D&C 85:6); it is therefore incumbent upon us to turn down the noise in our lives and in our minds to hear it. Inspiration by the Holy Ghost leads people to act, talk, write, and think of God, exerting His divine influence on our lives.
I am convinced that the Godhead is not complete without an acknowledgement of Heavenly Mother. The Divine Feminine is something the Abrahamic religions including Mormonism lack. Near the end of his life Joseph Smith Jr sought to understand and seek a remedy for this problem. But general revelation about Heavenly Mother will rarely come from a man. It is human mothers that know Her best. I try to find women that have a connection to the Divine Feminine in hopes that I can better understand motherly virtues. Sadly, I am called apostate for “adding to the Godhead,” but if Heavenly Mother exists then the Saints especially the Sisters should seek to know Her.
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