Jews also do not believe that God has a previous physical manifestation, (occasionally, he took on a physical form as a fire for Moses, or he wrestled with Jacob in an angelic form, according to the Tanakh, but he was not a man from another planet).Īs a result, God does not have a permanent physical body and therefore, the idea that God might have physical, "begotten" children is not possible. With regard to the divinity of Jesus, a basic tenet of Judaism is that God is one in both substance and hypostasis (unitary in person) therefore both the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the Mormon doctrine of three separate Gods "united in purpose", are rejected in the Jewish belief system. Jesus is not mentioned in Jewish records of the time. See also: Jesus in Christianity, Jesus in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Judaism's view of Jesus This is different from the Reorganized LDS view, which follows more closely mainstream Christianity in that it is trinitarian rather than nontrinitarian Jesus In other words, God The Father and Jesus Christ reached Godship much differently than the path through exaltation LDS members believe they will take to reach the same status. However, how they came to obtain immortality is not well understood and is doctrinally different from the process of theosis that mankind will undergo. Within LDS theology, God the Father himself, as well as Jesus Christ, were once mortal men who were exalted. Latter-Day Saint theology also holds that, through the process of exaltation, humans can ascend to godhood. įurthermore, there are other gods within Mormonism, such as the Heavenly Mother. God himself, the father of us all dwelt on an earth the same as Jesus Christ. Here, then, is eternal life-to know that only wise and true God, and you have got to learn how to become Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you. It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the character of God and to know. God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens. In his King Follet discourse, Joseph Smith taught: Humans are literal spirit children of a Father in Heaven, and through the atonement of Jesus Christ they can return to him and become gods. God the Father and Jesus Christ have tangible, perfected bodies of flesh and bone. Together, the three comprise the Godhead, unified in purpose and heart. The First Vision confirms the fact there are three separate Gods: God the Father-Elohim, to whom we address our prayers Jesus the Christ-Jehovah and the Holy Ghost-the Comforter, through whose spirit we may know the truth of all things. Faust expounded this Church doctrine, when he said, Latter Day Saint theology maintains that God the Father (Heavenly Father), Jesus Christ (his son), and the Holy Ghost are three separate and distinct beings in person and in substance, yet one in purpose and glory. The Babylonian Talmud references other, "foreign gods" as non-existent entities to whom humans mistakenly ascribe reality and power. The Hebrew Bible commands the Israelites not to worship other gods, they should only worship YHWH, the God who brought them out of Egypt (Ex. The Hebrew Bible presents Hashem as the creator of the world and it also presents him as the only power which is controlling history. In Judaism, God is strictly monotheistic, an absolute one, indivisible, incorporeal and incomparable being who is the ultimate cause of all existence. Main articles: Elohim, God in Judaism, and Monolatrism
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