In Mormonism God is expressed as Father, as Jesus Christ his Son, and as the Holy Spirit. The Book of Mormon describes God as being one, revealed in the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as being perfect unity (Alma 11:44). But some of Smith’s early statements cast a degree of ambivalence on clearer passages like the one just referred to. For example, Smith preached a sermon in 1844 titled “The Christian Godhead—Plurality Godheads,” in which he said: I will preach the plurality of Gods, … I have
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