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There is perhaps no doctrine more sacred, more foundational, and more misunderstood than the nature of God. Everything w...
01/03/2026

There is perhaps no doctrine more sacred, more foundational, and more misunderstood than the nature of God. Everything we believe, everything we hope for, and everything we strive to become rests upon who God truly is.

We testify that the Godhead consists of three distinct Beings: God the Eternal Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.

They are not one person appearing in different forms. They are not a single being wearing different titles. They are three separate, individual, divine Beings, perfectly united in purpose, love, power, and glory.

God the Eternal Father is our literal Father in Heaven. He is not an abstract force or distant energy. He is a glorified, exalted Being with a body of flesh and bone, tangible and perfected. He feels. He speaks. He listens. He loves. We are not spiritually orphaned in a vast universe. We belong to Him.

When Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He said, “Our Father which art in heaven.” That was not symbolic language. It was relational. Personal. Real.

Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh. He is the Firstborn of the Father in the spirit. He came to earth to fulfill the will of the Father. He walked dusty roads. He wept. He healed. He bled. He died. And on the third day, He rose again with a glorified, resurrected body of flesh and bone.

After His resurrection, He declared in Luke 24:39, “Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” This was not metaphor. It was reality. He lives, embodied, glorified, and exalted.

Yet He is not the Father.

When Christ was baptized, the heavens opened. The Father’s voice declared, “This is my beloved Son.” The Holy Ghost descended like a dove. Three distinct Beings present in one sacred moment. That scene alone testifies that the Godhead is not one person manifesting in different roles.

The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of spirit. He does not have a body of flesh and bone, which allows Him to dwell within us. He testifies of the Father and the Son. He brings peace to troubled hearts. He warns against danger. He reveals truth line upon line.

When you feel clarity while reading scripture…
When conviction pierces your heart…
When peace settles over you in prayer…
That is the Holy Ghost.

This understanding was restored in this dispensation through the First Vision of Joseph Smith. As a young boy seeking truth, he entered a grove of trees to pray. In answer, he saw two glorious Personages standing above him in the air, the Father and the Son. One spoke, pointing to the other: “This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him.”

Not one being. Two.

Distinct. Glorious. United.

For centuries, theologians debated the nature of God. Creeds were written. Councils convened. Philosophies formed. But God is not understood through philosophy alone. He is revealed through revelation.

Some Christians speak of the Trinity as one substance. We speak of unity, but not sameness of being. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one in mind, one in will, one in purpose. Their unity is so complete that there is no division between Them.

In John 17, Christ prayed that His disciples might be one, even as He and the Father are one. He was not praying that His followers merge into one person. He was praying for unity, perfect harmony. That is the oneness of the Godhead.

Why does this matter?

Because the nature of God defines the nature of our potential.

If God is truly our Father, then we are His children, not creations without identity, but sons and daughters of divine origin. That truth changes how we see ourselves. It elevates our worth. It expands our hope.

If Jesus Christ is a resurrected, embodied Being, then resurrection is not symbolic. It is literal. Because He lives, we shall live also.

If the Holy Ghost is real and personal, then heaven is not silent. Guidance is available. Comfort is accessible. Revelation continues.

The Godhead works in perfect unity for one eternal purpose, the immortality and eternal life of man. The Father designed the Plan of Salvation. The Son carried out the Atonement, satisfying justice and extending mercy. The Holy Ghost applies that Atonement to our hearts, sanctifying and transforming us.

There is no confusion in heaven.

There is order. Love. Perfect alignment.

When we pray, we pray to the Father, in the name of the Son, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Each member of the Godhead fulfills a sacred role, yet They move as one divine council of perfect love.

This doctrine is not meant to confuse. It is meant to clarify.

God is not distant.
Christ is not symbolic.
The Spirit is not imaginary.

They are real.

They are united.

And They invite us into that unity, to become one with Them in heart, purpose, and eternal glory.

Author: Benjamin Ayomide Levi - Akinda

One of the most common reasons people dismiss The Book of Mormon as the word of God is an appeal to the Bible itself; sp...
08/02/2026

One of the most common reasons people dismiss The Book of Mormon as the word of God is an appeal to the Bible itself; specifically, to passages that warn against adding to or taking away from sacred writ. The concern is usually sincere, rooted in a desire to protect the sanctity of scripture. Yet the conclusion often drawn from those verses rests on an assumption the Bible itself does not sustain.

The two passages most frequently cited are familiar. In Deuteronomy 4:2, Moses admonishes Israel: “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it.” Centuries later, at the close of the New Testament, John issues a similar warning in Revelation 22:18–19, cautioning readers not to add to or remove words from “this book.” These statements are solemn and intentional. They matter.

But they must be read carefully, contextually, and honestly.

God is not the author of confusion (see 1 Corinthians 14:33), and Scripture does not contradict itself. These warnings were given to preserve the integrity of the specific revelations they contain, not to announce that heaven would forever fall silent.

At the time Moses spoke, there was no New Testament. At the time John wrote Revelation, there was no bound Bible as we know it today. To retroactively interpret these verses as a universal prohibition against any future revelation creates theological consequences that are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile.

If that interpretation were applied consistently, several conclusions would follow:

The New Testament itself would stand condemned, having been written long after Deuteronomy.

The words of Jesus Christ would be invalid, since Moses never recorded them.

The book of Revelation would invalidate itself the moment John finished writing it.

Clearly, this is not the intent of those passages.

The Bible repeatedly affirms not the cessation of God’s voice, but its continuity. “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,” has never relinquished His role as a revealing God (Hebrews 1:1). Scripture consistently portrays revelation as an ongoing divine pattern, not a closed historical chapter.

The prophet Amos states this principle plainly:
“Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7)

This is not a conditional promise bound to a particular century. It is a declaration of God’s character.

Latter-day Saint scripture articulates the same truth with clarity and restraint. The ninth Article of Faith affirms: “We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.” Similarly, the Lord declares in modern revelation: “Whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same.” (Doctrine and Covenants 1:38)

The Book of Mormon itself anticipates and answers the objection raised against it. In 2 Nephi 29, the Lord rebukes the notion that His words are confined to one book or one people: “Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men… and that I remember one nation like unto another?” He asks pointedly why additional scripture should be rejected simply because it comes later.

This understanding is not unique to Latter-day Saints. Renowned Christian thinkers across traditions have rejected the idea of a mute heaven. Karl Barth, one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, insisted that God is not imprisoned in past revelation but speaks as a living Lord. N. T. Wright, an Anglican scholar of global repute, has repeatedly emphasized that the early Christian movement expected God to remain active, communicative, and involved in human history. Even C. S. Lewis observed that a God who once spoke but no longer does would be strangely unlike the God revealed in Scripture: a God who calls, sends, warns, comforts, and redeems.

The biblical witness is consistent: God speaks because He lives. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8) A changeless God does not become silent by decree of time. He who spoke to Adam, Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Peter, and Paul is not suddenly constrained by chronology.

The question, then, is not whether God can speak again, but whether we are willing to hear Him if He does.

I do not see the Book of Mormon as a rival to the Bible, nor as an intrusion upon it. I see it as a companion witness: one that stands with the Bible to testify of Jesus Christ. Far from diminishing the biblical record, it enlarges it, reinforces it, and directs the reader back to the same Savior, the same gospel, and the same covenantal God.

God has never been a silent God. His voice yesterday matters. His voice today matters no less. And as long as He is God, He will continue to reveal His will to His children: line upon line, precept upon precept until His purposes are complete.

Author: Elisha T. Joseph

19/01/2026

One of my favorite Hymn: Hymn 134 I Believe in Christ

I believe in Christ; he is my King!
With all my heart to him I’ll sing;
I’ll raise my voice in praise and joy,
In grand amens my tongue employ.
I believe in Christ; he is God’s Son.
On earth to dwell his soul did come.
He healed the sick; the dead he raised.
Good works were his; his name be praised.

2. I believe in Christ; oh blessed name!
As Mary’s Son he came to reign
’Mid mortal men, his earthly kin,
To save them from the woes of sin.
I believe in Christ, who marked the path,
Who did gain all his Father hath,
Who said to men: “Come, follow me,
That ye, my friends, with God may be.”

3. I believe in Christ—my Lord, my God!
My feet he plants on gospel sod.
I’ll worship him with all my might;
He is the source of truth and light.
I believe in Christ; he ransoms me.
From Satan’s grasp he sets me free,
And I shall live with joy and love
In his eternal courts above.

4. I believe in Christ; he stands supreme!
From him I’ll gain my fondest dream;
And while I strive through grief and pain,
His voice is heard: “Ye shall obtain.”
I believe in Christ; so come what may,
With him I’ll stand in that great day
When on this earth he comes again
To rule among the sons of men.

Today, I wish to address the second question, perhaps the more persistent one: “Do you believe in the Bible?”Again, this...
18/01/2026

Today, I wish to address the second question, perhaps the more persistent one: “Do you believe in the Bible?”

Again, this question is usually asked not out of hostility, but out of curiosity shaped by partial information.

Latter-day Saints are widely known to treasure additional volumes of sacred scripture: The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ; the Doctrine and Covenants, which contains modern revelations and teachings of Jesus Christ to His Church; and the inspired guidance of living prophets and apostles.

To some, the existence of additional scripture raises a quiet suspicion that the Bible has somehow been displaced, diminished, or set aside.

Yes! Unreservedly and profoundly, we believe in the Bible.

The Bible is not an accessory to our faith; it is foundational. It is the bedrock upon which our belief in God is formed and refined. Long before the Restoration unfolded, it was the Bible that stirred hearts, awakened questions, and kindled a yearning for divine truth. Indeed, it was the earnest reading of the Bible, its promises, its contradictions as interpreted by men, and its uncompromising call to seek God that opened the door to the Restoration of the gospel itself.

The Restoration did not replace the Bible; it flowed from it.

Across the globe, Latter-day Saints study the Bible with seriousness and devotion. This year, as members of the Church worldwide turn their attention to the Old Testament, we immerse ourselves again in the writings of ancient prophets, men and women who spoke with God, wrestled with covenant, and bore witness of Christ long before His mortal ministry.

Personally, I find the Old Testament deeply compelling. Its pages are rich with covenantal language, divine patterns, sacred ordinances, and a God who reveals Himself consistently, sometimes gently, sometimes with thunder, but always purposefully.

Even our most sacred religious practices are inseparably connected to the Bible. We invest significant resources, time, sacrifice, and financial means into the construction of temples, not as monuments of architectural ambition, but as houses of the Lord. Our understanding of temple worship is not a modern invention; it is deeply biblical. From the tabernacle of Moses to the temple of Solomon, from priesthood authority to sacred ordinances, the Bible provides the theological and historical framework. Our additional scriptures do not contradict this foundation; they illuminate it, clarify it, and restore lost dimensions of meaning.

Remove the Bible, and the Church of Jesus Christ cannot stand. Without the Bible, there is no context for Christ, no prophetic lineage, no covenantal narrative, and no Restoration. We believe the Bible to be the word of God, revealed, preserved, and transmitted through inspired men, as far as it is translated correctly. It testifies of Christ on every page, whether in prophecy, symbol, law, or gospel narrative.

My personal conviction of the Bible is neither casual nor inherited. It is lived and tested. I read it not as a relic of ancient faith, but as a living witness. It has corrected me, humbled me, comforted me, and drawn me closer to God. It has anchored my belief in Jesus Christ and sharpened my spiritual discernment. I do not read the Bible despite my faith as a Latter-day Saint; I read it because of it.

The Bible remains, for me, an indispensable testament of God’s dealings with humanity, and a sacred, enduring witness that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has never taught me to reject, despise, condemn, or abandon the Bible. The Church has only taught me to love, cherish, honor, reverence, and live the teachings of the Bible, not as a motivational good book, but as a divine living Word of a Living God.





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