Who is Heavenly Father? Part 1. I feel like there is a lot of confusion inside and outside The Church about Heavenly Father, his nature, his work, and what we as Latter-Day Saints, Brigham-ites, Mormons, whatever you wanna classify us as, really believe in concerning “God”. I guess the first thing that is probably strange to a lot of people, is that we call God our, “Heavenly Father.” To the majority of the world he is usually stated as, “God the Father”, but we as Latter-Day Saints always refer to him as our Heavenly Father, The Literal Father of our Spirits. While it’s a respectful term used by us to avoid using the name-title, God, it holds some unique belief to The Latter-Day Saint Church. Our very first Article of Faith states that, “We believe in God, The Eternal Father...” 1 This statement alone shows that we do believe in God, That Heavenly Father is that God omnipotent. I think the first thing that really separates us as Mormons, is that we have a belief that a...
The Gospel of Jesus Christ In our last post we talked about who Jesus Christ is, and how he was his own separate being, distinct from the Father. Today we will be talking more about the Ministry and Gospel of Jesus Christ, what it entails, and what it means to Latter-Day Saints. While this one will not go into the doctrine aspects of it, it will mainly be what we as Latter-Day Saints base our religion on. The foundation for the Latter-Day Saints is based of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which contains that Salvation can be obtained by having faith in Jesus Christ and his Atonement, Repentance, Baptism, receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. 1 I, personally like to views these as being one connected chain, and I like to think of it like hopping on a train or a bus. When you start your journey to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ, (The Train), we get on at the very first stop which is Faith. Choosing to follow this path is our first fruits of faith th...