Saturday, November 25, 2023

Jesse Haven (South Africa, 1853): Some of the Principal Doctrines of Latter-day Saint Theology

  

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)