It is at this point where the LDS would teach new converts (I know you are NOT a convert to the LDS) that they just need trust and if they don’t, then they just don’t have enough faith. Basically shaming them into silence.
No but I have had the missionaries in my house and have heard their lessons. None of this kind of stuff ever came up that I recall. But that was years ago.
Missionaries tell them to read the Book of Mormon and to pray and ask God if what they are teaching is true. Shaming is not part of the procedure.
Gazelam and I have answered your questions in at least four posts. Not sure what you want.
It does not make it less confusing but, saying they are one being makes one a monotheist; a Christian. Saying they are three beings makes one a polytheist, not a Christian.
Note from the Vatican document: “Four gods are directly responsible for the universe, three of whom have established a covenant and thus form the divinity.”
Mormon teaching is very clear, that their God is three beings. Mormons are not Trinitarians.
Alma was not with him when he prayed to him.
I added: When the BoM was written, JS was a sometime trinitarian, and a sometime binarian. The BoM has remnants of Protestant Christian beliefs of JS time and place. Go have a read of the Book of Abraham, where you’ll find councils of gods and other polytheistic ideas.It means just that. Mormonism is hierarchal. There is their supreme being God, that they call Father. Second in the hierarchy is Jesus and third is their Holy Ghost. These three comprise the Mormon godhead, but neither their Jesus or Holy Ghost have any authority outside of their god the Father. So they say things like, they worship the father through Jesus. Which means, Jesus is not worshipped, per se, but is an intermediary through whom they worship the Father. They have no such teaching for the Holy Ghost, and the ONE passage you cited from the D&C is the only place where the Holy Ghost is mentioned as being worshipped. In their own manuals regarding that passage, they teach that it is instructional regarding their godhead. Their godhead teachings are very clear, that they worship their father only. So the word “worship” in that passage, has some other meaning, that you are I are not able to discern, and I doubt any Mormon can either.
Everyone’s understanding of deity changes over time. That’s called learning. However, the new scripture Joseph Smith brought forth does not provide contradictory teachings on the nature of God.
Please provide evidence these trinitarian and binarian beliefs that you claim Joseph Smith had. No such evidence exists.
The same ideas will be found in the Bible.
And this belief is straight out of John 17:22.
If the Father, Son and Holy Ghost say they are one God, they are one God. Saying they are one being does not change the fact that they are three separate persons. Why do they have to be the same being to be one God?
They have a song about Jesus where they say “I’ll worship him with all my might.”
True
In June of 2013 in the thread: LDS, Creeds, and the Trinity; this was explained to you in great detail by a few Catholics. This was my only contribution.