SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES&
c.
We believe in God the Eternal Father,
and in His Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
We believe that God is a distinct
personage, having a body and parts like man, for we read that God said “Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness.
We believe the personage of God, can no
more than the person of man, be in two separate and distinct places at the self
same instant of time.
We believe the personage of God is
filled with the Holy Ghost, and this Holy Ghost or Spirit of God is diffused
through all space, and by this spirit, God is every where present beholding the
works of his hands. (Jesse Haven, Some of the Principal Doctrines or Beliefs
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [Cape Town, South
Africa, 1853], 3, in Van Hale, Mormon Miscellaneous Notecards, 3 vols.
[Sandy, Utah: Mormon Miscellaneous, n.d.], 3:30)
