I guess I am extremely confused at the disconnect?Shawn Henry wrote: ↑February 1st, 2023, 10:08 am
On the line here, we have Lectures on Faith that state God the Father is a "personage of spirit" and the Holy Ghost is the mind of God versus section 130 that claims God the Father has a body of flesh and bones and that the Holy Ghost is an actual person.
As far as the father being spirit, it says it in the D&C as well. We are all spirit. It says that as well. We were spirit before we became a soul (spirit and flesh). Everything is spirit, nothing is temporal. Every where we turn the scriptures say every thing, and every one is spirit. Yet we are also physical. I don't see the conflict. W/o spirit there is no life. W/o physical body there is not living thing. Of course the father is spirit. but the father is also physical, just like us (conceptually, but a perfect body and more advanced spirit). If you cannot see this then you don't accept any of JS teachings, even those of Abraham.
As far as the HG being the mind of god, that is also pretty obvious. It is BTW figurative. the brain of the father is not the HG, Duh! The HG is a being that shares the mind of god. BTW it says "god" not the Father, there is a difference. We obtain the mind or will or desire or truths of god when we communicate via the HG. We are told this is the light of truth. All truth comes from god, the light of truth communicates all truth to us from god. HG gives us the mind and will of god via the light of truth. Read 88 & 93 it is all consistent.