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Do Mormons Believe that Jesus Is God?

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  • Latter-day Saints believe Jesus Christ is God: the Son of God the Father, the Savior, and the Jehovah of the Old Testament.
  • They teach that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings, one in purpose and doctrine but not one in substance.
  • They believe the Father and the Son have glorified bodies of flesh and bones, and the Holy Ghost is a personage of spirit (D&C 130:22).
  • They pray to the Father in the name of Jesus Christ, and describe the Father as the ultimate object of their worship.
  • Catholic, Orthodox and most Protestant churches confess one God in three persons of one substance, as defined at Nicaea in 325.
  • The difference goes back to Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the Latter-day Saint belief that truths about God were lost and then restored.

Yes. Latter-day Saints, often called Mormons, believe that Jesus Christ is God, the Son of God the Father and the Jehovah of the Old Testament. They do not accept the Trinity of the ancient creeds, and teach that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings, one in purpose but not in substance. What do Latter-day Saints believe about Jesus? Jesus Christ is at the center of Latter-day Saint faith, and the church’s full name, The…

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