Mormonism and the nature of God/Trinity

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Latter-day Saint views of the Trinity

Summary: A collection of articles that address the Latter-day Saint view of the concept of the Trinity.

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• Early Mormon beliefs regarding the nature of God
• Mormons and the Nicene Creed

Early Mormon beliefs regarding the nature of God

Summary: Some evangelical Christians attempt to show that the LDS idea of deification is unbiblical, unchristian and untrue. They seem to think that this doctrine is the main reason why the LDS reject the Psychological Trinity.

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• Question: What is the historic church's concept of the Trinity and why do Mormons reject it?
• Question: Did Joseph begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?
• Question: Does the Book of Mormon teach that Christ and the Father are a single individual expressing himself in different modes?

Mormons and the Nicene Creed

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• Gospel Topics: "Latter-day Saints Do Not Accept the Creeds of Post–New Testament Christianity"
• Question: Does the definition of the Trinity predate the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds?
• Question: Does the Nicene Creed define who is Christian, and who is not?
• Mormonism does not use the Nicene Creed, and invokes earlier Christian ideas that were overshadowed by Plato
• Augustine's views about matter are perhaps less coherent than Joseph Smith's
• Question: Was Nicean Trinitarianism always a key part of Christian belief?
• Question: Why was Nicean Trinitarianism introduced at all?
• Question: What were early Christian beliefs on the nature of God?
• Question: Does the Bible contain also the necessary elements for Trinitarianism?
• Question: Are there new ideas necessary for creedal Trinitarianism?
• Question: What does John 10:30 have to do with Trinitarianism?
• Question: What does 1 John 5:7-8 have to do with Trinitariansim?
• Question: Is modern Trinitarianism understood in the same sense by all who accept it?
• LDS doctrine rejects Neo-Plantonic accretions, but this does not make them automatically false
• "Smith would have held his own in debating with" Neo-Platonists, Gnostics, and early Christian theologians