Mormonism

[nevadairenaeus]

One more quote on Jesus being both God and man, this time from Hippolytus (3rd century):

“[Christ] both being in reality and as being understood to be at one and the same time infinite God and finite man, having the nature of each in perfection, with the same activity, that is to say, the same natural properties; whence we know that their distinction abides always according to the nature of each, and without conversion. But it is not, as some say, a merely comparative matter, that we may not speak in an unwarrantable manner of a greater and a less in one who is ever the same in Himself. For comparisons can be instituted only between objects of like nature, and not between objects of unlike nature. But between God the Maker of all things and that which is made, between the infinite and the finite, between infinitude and finitude, there can be no kind of comparison, since these differ from each other not in mere comparison, but absolutely in essence. And yet at the same time there has been effected a certain inexpressible and irrefragable union of the two into one substance, which entirely passes the understanding of anything that is made.

For the divine is just the same after the incarnation that it was before the incarnation; in its essence infinite, illimitable, impassible, incomparable, unchangeable, inconvertable, self-potent, and, in short, subsisting in essence alone the infinitely worthy good.”

By becoming one of us, God the Son brings divinity to us so that we may become the adopted children of God. We, as finite creatures, are offered the incredible privilege of participating in the divine life of God. This is what the early Church Fathers meant when they taught that we can become gods.

 

[sllhouette]

One question I have is, for the 1000+ years between the “great apostasy” and the “restoration” who do the mormons say was the High Priest? Who is the High Priest now?

 

[zaffiroborant]

Latter-day Saints do not believe in the traditional Trinity doctrine. Instead, we believe in a doctrine that has been termed “the Godhead”. We believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three separate Persons who are in perfect unity and harmony of purpose, love, and will. This unity is so great that the Three can be referred to together as “one Godhead” or “one God”. We believe that all three Persons are divine. We also believe that the Father and the Son are embodied, while the Holy Ghost is not.

Hope that helps.

And where exactly is Heavenly Mother in all this? After all Heavenly Father would not be the exalted man that he is if not for her, he would not be god at all if not for her.

 

[garyo49]

:bowdown:

It’s my impression that Joseph Smith would find himself in a situation and to get out of it would institute a practice such as polygamy or blood atonement and then con people to believe that the practices were holy. He must have been very charismatic but then people who pull cons successfully usually are.

He was very charismatic. He did so many things that would have alienated most people, but he was able to keep his flock together because of his charisma. He was a con man. His whole ministry was a con from the begining and it continues to this day.

 

[LittleSoldier]

Be careful the assumptions you make of God and how he came to be God. I would not dare make him out to be a sinner and Joseph Smith also does not make him out to be such. These are your assumptions based on human reasoning and those who do not respect our beliefs.

I am *not *making assumptions about God and how He came to be God. I am asking questions. When I don’t understand something I ask questions. If I were making assumptions I would not be asking for clarification.

Let me quote from Joseph Smith as given in the King Follett discourse. In doing so I believe I will provide information as plain as can be stated. Hear it, if you will, and if not then be silent on the matter and let the crazy “Mormons” believe what they will. For it seems people on this forum focus on it more than we do. For we recognize we are nothing! We focus on improving our state here and now. Potential is simply that, potential and what is discussed below is an almost infinite amount of time from us. Also we exclude no righteous and sincere person from this same possibility.

PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO BE SILENT. I have the right to ask questions and to post my opinion. I have not been uncharitable to anyone posting in this thread. I have never called any Mormon “crazy” and I personally am very insulted by your use of that word. I do not call people “crazy.” I have severe depression and panic disorder. I would not stoop to calling others “crazy” because I have been called “crazy” many times. PLEASE DO NOT USE THAT WORD AS IT IS UNCHARITABLE AND IS HURTFUL TO ME.

I noticed that you put the word “Mormons” in quotation marks. Is this because the term “Mormons” is considered insulting to you? If so, please tell me what you wish to be called and if it does not run contrary to Catholic beliefs I will call you what you wish. AND PLEASE DO NOT BLAME ME FOR WHAT OTHERS BELIEVE.

Why should I believe what you say? Why should I believe anyone who is attempting to gag me? Why should I believe anyone who shows such lack of charity to one who is simply trying to understand?

 

[twopekinguys]

I am *not *making assumptions about God and how He came to be God. I am asking questions. When I don’t understand something I ask questions. If I were making assumptions I would not be asking for clarification.
PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO BE SILENT. I have the right to ask questions and to post my opinion. I have not been uncharitable to anyone posting in this thread. I have never called any Mormon “crazy” and I personally am very insulted by your use of that word. I do not call people “crazy.” I have severe depression and panic disorder. I would not stoop to calling others “crazy” because I have been called “crazy” many times. PLEASE DO NOT USE THAT WORD AS IT IS UNCHARITABLE AND IS HURTFUL TO ME.

I noticed that you put the word “Mormons” in quotation marks. Is this because the term “Mormons” is considered insulting to you? If so, please tell me what you wish to be called and if it does not run contrary to Catholic beliefs I will call you what you wish. AND PLEASE DO NOT BLAME ME FOR WHAT OTHERS BELIEVE.

Why should I believe what you say? Why should I believe anyone who is attempting to gag me? Why should I believe anyone who shows such lack of charity to one who is simply trying to understand?

Unfortunately, this is a tactic we see often.

Instead of seriously addressing the issue, an attack of sorts is made toward the poster as an individual, in order to cause a diversion.

 

[LittleSoldier]

(Janderich did not state anything here; I’m only leaving this in so that the post to which I am responding can be accessed.}

Janderich, when you use the QUOTE function to set off parts of your post those parts do not show up when I try to respond to said post. What I get is nothing but a blank. And so I copied and pasted and will try to respond to what you quoted. Now it appears as though you stated something you never stated but I don’t know how to fix the problem. So I’m going to leave it as it is.

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What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear, all ye ends of the earth, for I am going to prove it to you by the Bible, and to tell you the designs of God in relation to the human race, and why He interferes with the affairs of man.

God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make himself visible—I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with Him, as one man talks and communes with another.

Where does the Bible state that God Himself was once as we are now? If it is a great secret why would it be in the Bible for all to see? And where is this secret written as Scripture? If God were indeed a human being once, where did He come from? Was He created? Who created Him? If the Holy Spirit is not incarnate would he appear like a man in form? Or does this hold true only for the other “persons” that form the “Godhead?” Also, the veil (if it is referring to the veil that separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple) has already been rent and so why do I not see two “persons” that form 2/3 of the “Godhead” as men in form?

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These ideas are incomprehensible to some, but they are simple. It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; and I will show it from the Bible.

It is impossible for mere human beings to understand the character of God as He is divine and we cannot comprehend divinity. God’s time is not the same as ours; He has always existed. We can converse with Him as one man converses with another but we must always remember that we are mere mortals conversing with a divine Being and that His answers may not be given to us in the form of words used in conversation. We are to always remain humble before Him and bow down before Him as He is our Creator.

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I wish I was in a suitable place to tell it, and that I had the trump of an archangel, so that I could tell the story in such a manner that persecution would cease forever. What did Jesus say? (Mark it, Elder Rigdon!) The scriptures inform us that Jesus said, as the Father hath power in himself, even so hath the Son power—to do what? Why, what the Father did. The answer is obvious—in a manner to lay down his body and take it up again. Jesus, what are you going to do? To lay down my life as my Father did, and take it up again. Do you believe it? If you do not believe it you do not believe the Bible. The scriptures say it, and I defy all the learning and wisdom and all the combined powers of earth and hell together to refute it.

Then I do not understand. I must say that the trump of an archangel is not necessary when one is speaking of God for God Himself is certainly enough! I see that we are told that Scripture informs us of something Jesus said but what I don’t see is book, chapter, and verse. That missing information would be very helpful to someone like me who is not clear on Bible teaching (although I am learning). How did Jesus’ father lay down his life? God the Father has always existed throughout all time, exists now throughout all time, and will always exist throughout all time.

“The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do; for what things soever he [the Father] doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” (John 5:19)

Ah. Good. Here is book, chapter, verse.

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Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power. And I want you to know that God, in the last days, while certain individuals are proclaiming His name, is not trifling with you or me.

And so I *can *become a god (lower-case “g”) according to the Mormon Church. Am I right? Although I vehemently disagree with the concept that I can become a god (even with a lower case “g”) I am pleased to see that the idea of using baby steps is introduced here; I would say that the process of trying to understand God and Catholicism can also be accomplished in baby steps and is the method I try to use myself. I agree that God is not trifling with “you or me.”

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[LittleSoldier]

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When you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel—you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them. It is not all to be comprehended in this world; it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave.

IMHHHO our salvation will be learned once we encounter God beyond earthly mortal death because it is then that we know for certain of our salvation or lack thereof. We are in hell, without any chance of being with God (through our own choice), in Purgatory where we will be purged of any imperfections while knowing that we will one day be in Heaven with God (although perhaps not knowing how long we will remain in Purgatory), or in Heaven where we will be glorifying God for eternity and praising Him for His mercy and love.

What is meant by “exaltation?”

 

[LittleSoldier]

Unfortunately, this is a tactic we see often.

Instead of seriously addressing the issue, an attack of sorts is made toward the poster as an individual, in order to cause a diversion.

It’s like a covert *ad hominem *attack from what I can see. Or perhaps my post was misread as condescending. It’s hard to discuss anything via Internet without body language and voice inflections.

But - only the mods (and God) can gag me.

 

[twopekinguys]

It’s like a covert *ad hominem *attack from what I can see. Or perhaps my post was misread as condescending. It’s hard to discuss anything via Internet without body language and voice inflections.

But - only the mods (and God) can gag me.

 

[hosemonkey]

Perhaps what LittleSoldier does not understand, bottom line, is that what you are dealing with when you are trying to fathom mormonism, is a false religion, fabricated by a false “prophet”, who created a false “History” of a false theology and sustained by a fantastic fabrication of a huge con game that persists to this day. The mormon people are deluded and brainwashed, good-hearted, but duped, too indoctrinated to question and too afraid to get out from under the mormon security blanket. waste of time, for the most part, to try to argue with them, they simply regard true teaching as an attack and it scares the heck out of them.

 

[Jerusha]

They have too much invested in it to let go. There is aa certain amount of humility involved in admitting to have been duped. The culture of Mormonism verges on ancestor worship.To admit that their ancestors were victims of Mormonism, rather than saintly martyrs of anti-Mormons, then becomes a factor. Some of those victims wrote about anti-Mormons being “demons in human form.” What better place is there than the Internet for that meme (cultural trace) to be played out?

 

[Allen2Saint]

Unfortunately, this is a tactic we see often.

Instead of seriously addressing the issue, an attack of sorts is made toward the poster as an individual, in order to cause a diversion.

Amen.

 

[Janderich]

I am *not *making assumptions about God and how He came to be God. I am asking questions. When I don’t understand something I ask questions. If I were making assumptions I would not be asking for clarification.
PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO BE SILENT. I have the right to ask questions and to post my opinion. I have not been uncharitable to anyone posting in this thread. I have never called any Mormon “crazy” and I personally am very insulted by your use of that word. I do not call people “crazy.” I have severe depression and panic disorder. I would not stoop to calling others “crazy” because I have been called “crazy” many times. PLEASE DO NOT USE THAT WORD AS IT IS UNCHARITABLE AND IS HURTFUL TO ME.

I noticed that you put the word “Mormons” in quotation marks. Is this because the term “Mormons” is considered insulting to you? If so, please tell me what you wish to be called and if it does not run contrary to Catholic beliefs I will call you what you wish. AND PLEASE DO NOT BLAME ME FOR WHAT OTHERS BELIEVE.

Why should I believe what you say? Why should I believe anyone who is attempting to gag me? Why should I believe anyone who shows such lack of charity to one who is simply trying to understand?

LittleSoldier,
I am sorry for being unfair in my response to your post. I have heard many times this accusation about the LDS believing in a sinful God who possibly committed adultery etc. I simply feel that such an assumption is insulting to our beliefs and is hurtful to me. I do not mean to imply that honest questions should be silenced. Honest questions are what a forum is about. I misinterpreted your honest question as an attack on our beliefs, I again am sorry.

The word Mormon is not insulting to us. I use it myself when talking to others not of our faith. The term comes from a prophet in the Book of Mormon who compiled the record before his death. However, it is not the correct name of the church. The title is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”. I didn’t mean anything by putting the term in quotes, just my style.

Sorry for using the term “crazy”. I did not mean it to apply to anyone specifically.

 

[TexanKnight]

LittleSoldier,
I am sorry for being unfair in my response to your post. I have heard many times this accusation about the LDS believing in a sinful God who possibly committed adultery etc

It is NOT an accusation, it is a fact, as I have pointed out and proven with quotes from LDS prophets.

I simply feel that such an assumption is insulting to our beliefs and is hurtful to me.

I am absolutely sorry that truthful LDS doctrine and quotes from LDS prophets are hurtful. I truly sympathize with you. It was hurtful for me when I was Mormon and discovering the true doctrine.

I do not mean to imply that honest questions should be silenced. Honest questions are what a forum is about. I misinterpreted your honest question as an attack on our beliefs, I again am sorry.

The word Mormon is not insulting to us. I use it myself when talking to others not of our faith. The term comes from a prophet in the Book of Mormon who compiled the record before his death. However, it is not the correct name of the church. The title is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”. I didn’t mean anything by putting the term in quotes, just my style.

The LDS Church changed names several times. The current name is just the latest.

Be Blessed, Janderich

 

[LittleSoldier]

LittleSoldier,
I am sorry for being unfair in my response to your post. I have heard many times this accusation about the LDS believing in a sinful God who possibly committed adultery etc. I simply feel that such an assumption is insulting to our beliefs and is hurtful to me. I do not mean to imply that honest questions should be silenced. Honest questions are what a forum is about. I misinterpreted your honest question as an attack on our beliefs, I again am sorry.

The word Mormon is not insulting to us. I use it myself when talking to others not of our faith. The term comes from a prophet in the Book of Mormon who compiled the record before his death. However, it is not the correct name of the church. The title is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”. I didn’t mean anything by putting the term in quotes, just my style.

Sorry for using the term “crazy”. I did not mean it to apply to anyone specifically.

It’s OK. Thank you for the apology. Sometimes it’s very hard to know what another poster means. I’ve misread many posts (and have apologized many times).

Everything’s OK between us.

 

[LivingWaters7]

Livingwaters7, so you admit you or your church does not believe in the traditional Jesus of the new Testament but a jesus that has been "revealed " to your church. If this is so then my statement that mormons are not christians as have been revealed through , first the Jews and then through the one true Catholic and Apostolic Church whos tradition and scripture keeps it Holy and unblemished in the eyes of God. In order for something to be “restored” it must have been destroyed in Gods eyes by sinful man to need restoring. Since we know the Lord Jesus PROMISED he would be with it till the end, and the end has not happened yet,and we know if you are right then Jesus, the real one, is a liar and could not protect what he had created which is impossible. Since the REAL Jesus is God and all powerful, we know through his REAL CHURCH, ONE HOLY CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC, that your jesus is not the all powerful one, but the one who came to joseph smith and wispered to him, you too can be a god. That is the same lie wispered to Eve in the garden and to ever break away from the Real Jesus since the beginning.
There was an early post that said satan did not bother the mormons, j w`s, or adventist and I think I remember in scripture the Lord said satan would not fight satan. To fight the Bride of Christ, thr RCC, is to fight the the traditional Jesus as revealed in the deposite of the faith found only in the RCC.
Please, I beg you leave the den and come home. You will experience the most wonderful joy that can come to men. blessings. Garland

No, I do not admit that the Jesus I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ believe in is not the Jesus of the New Testament (and none of my above posts say or imply that). As a Latter-day Saint, I believe in the Jesus of the New Testament. We believe that we can become heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, and that is not the lie told in the Garden of Eden. I already experience the most wonderful joy in the Lord’s Church.

Yes, Catholics/Orthodox/etc reject the possibility of an apostasy and subsequent restoration of Christ’s Church, however Latter-day Saints of course accept such a premise, and also believe that the Bible points to it. Firstly, for Latter-day Saints, it is not that Jesus Christ abandoned us, nor is it that Christ did not keep His promises, or is a liar. Instead, we believe that the people abandoned Him, using their own free will, since God doesn’t force anyone to do what they do not want to do, as we see throughout the Bible. Scriptures that Latter-day Saints believe point to this apostasy (both individual and total) of the ancient Church of Jesus Christ include Isaiah 24:5, Isaiah 60:2, Isaiah 29:13, Amos 8:11-12, Matthew 13:25, Matthew 24:24, Acts 20:29, John 6:66, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 2 Timothy 1:15, Revelation 13:7, and many more. Now, of course many traditional Christians will interpret these verses differently in support of their own theology, however members of The Church of Jesus Christ believe that they point to an apostasy of Christ’s Church, not because of the failing of Jesus Christ, but because of man. We also believe that while the Bible points to this apostasy, it also points to a glorious Restoration of the Lord’s Church and His Gospel on the earth, including Daniel 2:44, Matthew 17:11, Acts 3:21, Ephesians 1:10, and of course Revelation 14:6. Again, I expect various traditional Christians to view these verses differently, however Latter-day Saints believe that they point to a Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Now what about Matthew 16:18 and the gates of hell (or more precisely, the gates of hades)? Firstly, “hell”, as mentioned, is not referring to the traditional understanding of hell, but to hades, or the underworld, a place of waiting for all the spirits of the dead. So, the verse is referring to the gates of the underworld, which shall not prevail against the Church. Jesus Christ descended to hades after His death as we know, and broke down the gates of hades. Through Christ’s atonement and resurrection, we know that death (both spiritual and physical) does not have a hold on us, and that we can overcome both through Jesus Christ, and therefore the gates of hades do not prevail. Further, in the same way that Jesus Christ died and was resurrected (and death did not lay claim to Him, i.e. the gates of hades did not prevail against Christ), so too did the Church, which is His Body, did “die” and was resurrected, so clearly the gates of hades did not prevail against it either. Christ promised that He would be with His Church until the end of the “age” as various Biblical translations render the Greek (the KJV can be seen as not a literal translation in this instance). The belief in an apostasy is therefore consistent with this verse, as Christ certainly was with the Church until the end of the age, i.e. that dispensation. Further, Latter-day Saints have always said that the light of Christ is within all people, and that even throughout the Apostasy, Christ was still with His followers and those that sought after Him.

Helpful links to understand the Latter-day Saint perspective on this issue:
jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_Restoration.shtml
maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=42&chapid=205
boap.org/LDS/Apostasy.pt1.html

Hope that helps.

 

[LivingWaters7]

I’m sorry but that doesn’t help at all. This is what I am hearing (and I admit that I may be hearing something incorrectly). Instead of the Trinity, Mormons call God the “Godhead” or “one God”) but it really isn’t one God but three separate persons (definition of “person” please - thanks) that are divine and in perfect unity that is so great that they’re kind of like one but they aren’t really (why not?) and two of them have bodies (human?) and one doesn’t. What kind of bodies do they have? Human? Why do they have bodies? Were they once human beings that became so divine that they turned into a god? Can I turn into a god?

Latter-day Saints believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost really are “one God” in the sense that while the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three separate Persons (Latter-day Saints would also be comfortable with interchanging Persons with Entities, Individuals, Personages, Beings (noting here that Latter-day Saints are not using the word “being” in the same way that is being used in defining the Trinity doctrine)), they are also in a perfect unity of purpose, will, love, and power, and therefore “one Godhead” or “one God”. That is how Latter-day Saints use that terminology.

Latter-day Saints believe that the Father and the Son are embodied. We believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are all Spirit, yet the Father and the Son also have bodies of flesh and bone. The Son possesses His glorified, resurrected body. Many Latter-day Saints believe that the Father also had a mortal existence somewhere at sometime, and many also believe that He was Divine during this mortal existence in the same way that Jesus Christ was Divine during His mortal existence. Others may believe that the Father progressed from mortality to Divinity. Others believe other things. What is important is that it has been revealed that the Father and the Son, in addition to being Spirit, also have bodies of flesh and bone, and the Holy Ghost does not.

Latter-day Saints believe that through the atonement of Jesus Christ, we can become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, and can become gods. This is made possible through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by having faith in Jesus Christ as one’s divine Savior, repenting of our sins, and participating in various ordinances and entering into covenants with God, such as baptism, confirmation, priesthood ordination, endowment, and sealing (eternal marriage). God will always be our God and will always be over us, and He also allows us to participate in the life that He lives, to become perfect as He is, through Christ’s atonement.

I read in this thread that Mormons believe God the Father (one of those “persons”) sinned. Is what I read a teaching of the Mormon Church? How can God sin? What is the Mormon definition of God? How does one correlate a sinning embodied “person” with a perfect God? Do Mormons believe that God is perfect? If so, how did this sinning “person” become perfect?

What is the point of having a sinning God? How is this explained?

(Sorry about all the questions.)

It is okay. As far as God the Father sinning, God the Father once being a man as we are does not necessitate that He was also a sinner, in the same way that Jesus Christ once being a man does not mean that He was a sinner (since we know that He was not). Also, even if one entertains a belief that God was once a man who was a sinner (a belief that I do not hold), it speaks volumes of the power of Atonement if it can wash away our sins, make us clean, etc. As a Latter-day Saint, I am grateful for the gift of repentance and its cleansing power.

lightplanet.com/mormons/response/qa/god_sinner.htm
lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/godhead/farms_man.htm

Hope that helps.

 

[LivingWaters7]

Not to pick this apart, but you believe more than that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate Persons. You believe that they are separate beings. But lets use your term as defined by “separate” and at the same time “divine”. You have just admitted polytheism. It matters not how much they may agree with each other or the degree of unity of purpose, they remain “separate” divine persons which translates into separate gods. One who is divine, by definition is God.

The Christian defintion does not contain the term “separate”. We believe in three “distinct” persons without any separation, as they are a unity by sharing the same being. They are truly “one” God, not just in terms of agreeing with each other or being one in purpose, but having only one being. Mysterious, yes, but it is a revealed truth of the nature of God, not a human concoction.

As far as “separate Persons” vs “separate beings”, Latter-day Saint Christians do not share the traditional Christian distinction between “person” vs “being”, as used in the definitions of the Trinity doctrine. Instead, we use the words interchangeably, as commonly done in modern English. Therefore, we cannot impose traditional/creedal understandings of those words on the Latter-day Saint usage. Therefore, one would have to define what it means for three distinct Persons to “[share] the same being” or “having only one being”. Essentially (no pun intended), one would have to define what “being” is referring to, and what it means to “share” it.

For Latter-day Saints, the unity of the Godhead is not a mere agreement. The unity of love, purpose, will, and power between the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is so perfect, that they can be referred to as “one Godhead” or “one God”. They are “separate” in that they are not each other, and each has a different “role” within the Godhead. However at the same time, they are also in unity with each other. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also believe that the doctrine of the Godhead is a revealed truth and not a human concoction.

 

[LivingWaters7]

And where exactly is Heavenly Mother in all this? After all Heavenly Father would not be the exalted man that he is if not for her, he would not be god at all if not for her.

Heavenly Mother is not a member of the Godhead, as the Godhead consists of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Not much is known about Heavenly Mother at this time.

Helpful links to understand the Latter-day Saint perspective:

en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_the_nature_of_God/Heavenly_Mother
maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/review/?vol=19&num=1&id=639