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Hello again. It's always good to be with you. I enjoy this more than anything—talking about Christ and the gospel and apostles and scriptures. Because getting to see it all was really exciting. You know, I went through a lot of trial to see it. I don't know if I don't want to do that again, but I don't want to trade what happened. [Music] Yeah, going through all the trial is plenty worth it. But I got to see the most important, one of the most important things anyway that we can know about, and that's the Godhead.
I know I've done other videos on this, but I'm getting questions on my, uh, on my CH, this Channel, and apparently there's some things that I need to say to help people understand it better. So I feel that this is what I need to do. You know, understanding God is massively important. Understanding the Godhead is—is it's really one of the most important things that we can have now.
Joseph Smith had, uh, these 13 Articles of Faith he wrote, and the very first one said that we believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. Why was that put first? Because it is so important. Because if you don't know that God exists, and you don't know his true character, and you don't know that your life is following what he would like you to be doing, then you can't really have faith enough unto salvation, because you're having faith in something that's not correct. So you got to know what God's like. You got to know what he looks like, more—his character. You got to need get to know him, and he is our Father, and as, uh, many scriptures say, is a Father of spirits, and he created us in His image. I mean, he's our Dad, and you need to know your Dad.
I want to talk a little bit more about what the scriptures say. Now, I could use a lot of modern scriptures to really point this out, but I'm going to use the Bible to point this out, and it's very clear, because you know it's in there. And you got to remember that there's a whole book. And I find when I talk to people quite often, they—they'll have a small group of scriptures that they deal with, and they have a hard time with anything else, or they don't even read them. But you got to know all of it to understand part of it. My daughter came to me and asked a question that she was asked by another religious group about if you have a spirit world or not, and that scripture seemed to say there was no spirit world. It's in the Old Testament; it's just—it's a smaller book. And I had to read the entire book. Once I did that, then I understood that verse, and it was exactly opposite of what they were teaching—teaching. It was only dealing with the body and not the spirit. And so you need to go and look at everything to understand what's there.
So here we are, uh, the traditional thought about the Godhead in—in, um, the Christian world is that it's a three-in-one God; that you have God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. They're three individuals but one substance. Well, there's—the scriptures do not back that up. And you know the Nicene Creed, of course. You know, first you had the Apostles' Creed, got the Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, and there's others, but they all kind of say the same thing. And you have these people gathering to figure out what God looks like from the Bible. Well, now the—the works in there, and it's provable that there's three separate individuals, and they are not one substance. But if you can get so much diversity from that book, sure makes sense to have another witness, doesn't it? Because Christ wants us to have more than one witness. And even in one of the verses, he has three Witnesses—Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. But he also says you need two, and he says, "Dad and me were two witnesses." And so if you have another witness that talks about the scriptures and gives you, uh, a little more understanding, it's easier to know what's going on, like the Book of Mormon is. But in the Bible, there's plenty of information.
Some of the, uh, most famous scriptures that people talk to me about to say this proves that they're three in one is, of course, uh, in John 10:30. It says that I and my Father are one. Well, I mean, think about this. He says, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." How long do I have to be with you to get you to figure that out? And that's another one where they say, "See, it says that he's the Father because you've seen him; you've seen the Father." Now, if I were to walk up to you and say, "If you've seen me, you've seen my Dad," would you think that we're one person? What's the logical thing to think? It isn't that we're one person; it's just that we look alike. And I look more like my Dad than any other of my siblings. And in this case, they look very much alike. They're not twins, but they're really close. Uh, Martin Sheen, I guess you know him, the father and son there—they—man, they look like the same person. You got to see when you see them older or younger, you go, "Which one's that?" because they look so much alike. And then if I said, "I and my Father are one," you know how—how would you think we're one, or would you think that we are a lot alike, that we think the same? You know, there is logic and—and reason in this that you need to consider.
But in the scriptures, you have something that describes what that means. And in John 17, it talks about that he and his Father are one, and he wants his Apostles to be one with them. They want to be one together and one with them. And then he goes on and says, "Not only do we want the Apostles one with us and one with each other, we want everybody they teach to be one with them and with us." So you can't contrive with that thing that you're going to have millions of people that are getting the gospel that they're all going to clump together into one big ball. It's not going to happen. And so you got to understand that when he talks about being one, he's talking about—you don't have disputations. Paul was always saying, "Look, shouldn't be so many disputations." And how many times in Christ say, "Why do you having a dispute about this? How come you haven't got it figured out yet?" You know, and—and—and the disputes causes division. See, now if you and I don't agree on something, well, we're certainly not one. If we don't agree that there's a God, well, that's a big deal; we're not one. But if we both can agree that there's a God, well, then we're one in that item. And then how—what—what does he look like, and what kind of character does he have? Uh, how—how—how does he deal with us?
Now, when I talked about you got to know he's there, then you got to know his character, and that means you got to know what his body is like; that's part of his character. You got to know that he is all—just all merciful, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-present, you know, all of these things, and he's—and he is those things in perfection. And then you got to know what his gospel actually teaches. You got to know what it means. Like if they talk about a baptism, okay, a lot of people don't agree with baptism. Some people believe you need to go in the water and be submerged like Christ was. Some people think you need to sprinkle. You know, other people say don't need to do it at all. Well, obviously, if—if that's something you need, you need to know what it is and how it should be done. And not only how it should be done, but who should do it. And you find places in there where—where Paul shows up and asks these people how—what Authority they—they had because they hadn't heard about the Holy Ghost. He says, "I don't know, we just got baptized—the baptism of John." Because, "Whoops," well, you didn't have anybody with the right power, right Authority. We have it, so they re-baptized him. And—and even has in John, there's even a scripture that says that Christ baptized. And so—and he did it to fulfill all righteousness. So you got to—you—you can't be one in the gospel if you don't have this figured out.
Now here we are with the Godhead. See, there's—there's another verse in there that I've had—had handed to me, saying this proves that they're together, and that's in Colossians 2:9, where it says "fullness of the Godhead bodily." Okay, well, NE—it's the only verse you have. Well, obviously, it sounds like they're all together, but there's also a whole book, and it's kind of big, and there's a lot of stuff in there that talks about it that helps you understand what that means. Because he says that he—he got the power from his Dad to do what he was doing; he got the authority from Dad. So now he is containing within his body all the authority from his Dad, so that he could go through the Atonement, you know, and—and cover our physical and spiritual death. And so in that way, in his body is the Godhead. He has everything in there; he has all the keys, all the power, all the knowledge; he has everything he needs. So within his body that—would all be there. You know, and—and some people I've seen in law, they say that, "I'm the law," you know, "and you can't hassle with me because I'm the law," and he's an officer of the law, and they consider within them as all the power to come and arrest you or whatever it is.
But I looked at something interesting. I have a—I have a dictionary that gives you the definition of the words; it's a Hebrew-Chaldean dictionary, and it gives you every single word in every single verse what it means in that verse exactly, because it can change in different verses. And I've referred this to, you know, to you before. And what I found interesting about, uh, this Godhead bodily thing, I was a little bit surprised to find out what it was because I don't know what they all mean either. And so when I look things up, I get kind of sometimes quite surprised. And—and here's—here's—here's what it means in this Chaldean dictionary. Uh, the word "fullness" is, uh, M-O-L-T-H, and it means "Nativity or lineage, country of origin, spring, family, begotten, born, kindred, Nativity." So it has to do with your genealogy, okay? So in him is the genealogy of the Godhead. Then what does "bodily" mean in this? Now this is really threw me a little bit because I had no idea it would mean this, but it's a prime root, and the word is, uh, M-O-O-C-K, and it means "to suck or relish, sweet, to make or take sweet." So it means sweet, to make something sweet. And so now the way they write—they kind of their—their definitions go back and forth; it's not the same as English and how they tie into each other because like, you know, I looked up the word "one," and—and there's—it's huge in how many definitions that is, and I've got it for all the verses that we have here. But, uh, so basically what that means is that the sweetness of the—of his genealogy is contained with him. And—and the sweetness means that it's really good, which would relate to his divinity. And so he's not talking about three in one as a physical body.
And here's another—another thing that in 1 John 4:12 it says that "no man has seen God." Okay, "no man has seen God." Okay, well that's in First John, and so that was, you know, that was written around 90 AD. Uh, Acts, you know, was written way ahead of that. When you look in Acts, in Acts 7:53-60, it's Stephen when he being stoned, you know, he looks up into heaven and he sees God the Father and the Son standing on the right-hand side. So he sees these two people. Okay, well, this other verse is written after that, and yet it says, "No man has seen God." Of course, you know that in—in Genesis 32:30, Jacob saw God and lived. In Exodus 33:11, Moses saw God face to face. And I looked up scriptures, and I discovered—and there's more, but I just found—I found 18 different references—18 where it talked about a man seeing God, and they're all over the place—Deuteronomy 34:10, Judges 13:22, Kings 11:9, Revelations 22:4—there's more. I mean, I don't need to read them all, but there's a lot of them. And so what you've got to determine is what about that verse where it says that no man has seen God? Well, either—either it's—it's—it's a meaning that we don't understand, it's a little bit of context, or maybe something was missing—maybe the translator left out an important part. Joseph Smith, the prophet, he had—he had Revelation to try to fill in some of the gaps where the translators missed. And in that one it says, "No man has seen God except them who believe." Now that makes a lot more sense, U—because "no man has seen God," and then you find all these references where they have—obviously there's something the matter. So either that—that was left out, which it was, or there's a different meaning to it.
There is—there is something though that you—you—you got to remember: when Moses and Jacob and others saw God, they were seeing Jehovah, and he was in a spirit form, so he was a spirit because he hadn't been born as Jesus yet. So they say, "God is a spirit." Well, yeah, he is the one they've been looking at. They were seeing Jehovah; they weren't seeing God the Father. I can only find one reference in the scriptures where someone saw God the Father, and that was Stephen. He saw God the Father. I mean, even with Christ is, you know, he says there's only one God, and then it says there's—and one mediator between God and man, that's Jesus Christ. And so, yeah, there's one God—God the Father—and he has different names, depends on where you look it up, but ELO—Elohim is what it's kind of come out of, and—and Elohim means it's a plural of God, but it doesn't mean he's multiple gods; it means he has multiple abilities. And so seeing God the Father is different than seeing God the Son as Jehovah. So very few people have seen God the Father—well, I guess as a relative statement because in—in—in John 14:21-23, he talks about people who are good. If you're good enough that he and his Father will come and make their abode with you, and that's a literal meeting—they will literally come to you. That's the Second Comforter; that's basically your calling and election made sure where th—you are secured to go into the Celestial Kingdom. And you don't know how many people have had that happen to them because you don't need to be a super religious Minister; you can just be a very religious person that no one ever thinks about. Because quite often it's the small and little things that are the great, and he says it's through small and simple things that he will overturn the proud. And so you don't know how many people out there have had God and Christ come to them and make their abode with them, like it says in John. And so to sit and say, "No one has seen him," you can't say that because you don't know. But we do know—we do know two that did—that was Stephen before he died, and that was Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove. He saw God and Christ. [Music]