As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I do not see God as described by the Athanasian Creed. I believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are 3 separate and distinct beings as well as separate and distinct personages. All three form a quorum which we call the Godhead. The oneness which all three have is in having the same desire, purpose, truth and glory. We learn from the Apostle John that the oneness of God, Jesus, and ourselves is not a oneness of being the same being.
John 17:20-23
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
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That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
If we can become one with the Father and Jesus, even as they are one with themselves, then are we to think that we actually become the same being as God? No! We are all separate and distinct beings and personages but we can all become one in desire, purpose, truth and glory. The light and truth and glory of God is a part of his nature. As we receive light and truth and glory, we have a part of God within us and we can become like him.
I believe that God is the actual physical Father of our spirits. We are his offspring:
Acts 17:28-29
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For
we are also his offspring.
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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Hebrews 12:9
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the
Father of spirits, and live?
Gods beget gods in their own likeness and image. I believe our spirits preexisted this world:
Ecclesiastes 12:7
7 Then shall the dust
return to the earth as it was: and
the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Job 38:3-7
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
I believe that God is an exalted man. I believe that our spirits and bodies are created in the very image and likeness of God. I believe that God the Father is a resurrected being and that Jesus is the express image of his Father.
Hebrews 1:1-3
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by
his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory,
and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
This is why Jesus taught:
John 14:8-9
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
We are the literal spirit children of God and his very offspring. For this reason Jesus said that we are gods. We are the very children of God the Father of us all.
Psalm 82:6
6 I have said,
Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
John 10:31-36
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
God wants us to repent and choose to be just like him:
1 John 3:2
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall
be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Matthew 5:48
48
Be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
