Not sure exactly where you’re coming from. All the scriptures I cited were from the KJV Bible, non from the Book of Mormon. Most of the sources were non LDS. The history cited, for the better part, wasn’t LDS history, nor written by LDS historians.
It was rather a factual discussion on the Trinity & the possible problems w/ the belief therein. Is there anything that you dispute on my home page, other than you apparently don’t subscribe to LDS beliefs in revelation etc.?
My original post to you was simply to show that belief in the Trinity wasn’t as cut & dry as you portrayed it to be.
Have a great week.
Let’s start from the very first Scripture you quote:
““And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent”. John 17:3”
Is the true God spoken of there, Jehovah? Has Jehovah, this true God, always existed as God? Was he once a man? What was he like as a man? Did he sin? (I speak as a mad man!) If we cannot know these things, how can we know the only true God?
This is why I answered as I did. It will do no good to argue the meaning of this passage if you don’t resort to either the book of Mormon or LDS prophets.
Grass - you pretty well summarized initial mormonism. One additional item of clarification is that mormonism recognizes that there are uncounted gods in existence - in contrast to One in Christianity.