The Holy Ghost in Mormonism

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So can someone explain this to me. It seems to me that Mormons believe that the Holy Ghost may or may not be a god that has not earned his body yet. I think. Yet, and I may be mistaken, but don’t Mormons believe that spirit is material, just a “finer” material? If that’s the case, how can the Father be flesh and bone, but the Holy Ghost be pure spirit, even though in the Mormonism spirit is material? Just a thought.
 
Mormon theology is pretty ambiguous about the Holy Spirit and what he is exactly. He is considered the third god in the Mormon Godhead, but unlike the Father and Son, who posses bodies of flesh and bone, the Holy Spirit only possesses a spiritual body made up of another kind of material, this same concept is applied to the pre-existent spirit children of the Father and Heavenly Mother in Mormonism. Some Mormons are of the opinion that the Holy Spirit may be a spirit child of the Father, and that he too might get a fleshly body one day, but there isn’t a consensus on that.

Early Joseph Smith saw the Holy Spirit as the uniting principle, purpose, or “mind” of the Father and Son rather than a distinct third personage of his own as evidence in his “Lectures on Faith” (1835). It wasn’t until later that Smith decided that the Holy Spirit was a third distinct personage from the Father and Son, and this is where the modern day Mormon Godhead comes from.
 
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I always believed as a Mormon that the Holy Ghost would eventually receive a body just like the rest of us. Mormons teach the the HG has a mission which is to testify of Christ. He is made of intelligences which is matter. Everything is made up of intelligences. There’s no such thing as immaterial matter or matter that didn’t exist. God did not create the world out of nothing. He organized it using the intelligences that already existed.
 
According to Mormonism, the universe is eternal and requires no outside creator. The earth was simply matter that Elohim (the Father) had Jehovah (the Son) organize.
 
You know, that doesn’t seem like much of a God to me, no offense to our LDS friends. If God isn’t all-powerful, can he properly be called God? I know, the traditional understanding of the Trinity in Christianity is hard to wrap our heads around, I get that but I’m still not sure how Mormons come up with the godhead and how they believe it and I’m not trying to be mean to Mormons I just want to understand.
 
You’re exactly right, the Mormon deity is very different from the Christian God. The Mormon deity falls in line more with paganism than it does with Christianity.
 
Well, on the positive side I was taught CPR in boy scouts. From what I hear, Mormons are a big supporter of that. But are the Strangite Mormons supporters of Boy Scouts?
 
In the Book of Mormon, God is indeed all-powerful. For example 1 Nephi 7:12 says the Lord is able to do all things. Jacob 2:5 says all-powerful Creator. And other similar verses. Or Doctrine and Covenants 19:3, the Lord retains all power. 20:24 Son to reign with almighty power. So no wonder the Mormon missionaries told me that all the Gods are almighty.
 
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