Is God the Father any different in Mormon theology than in Christian theology?
Just as with the Mormon version of Jesus Christ, God the Father is actually quite different in Mormon theology as well. We have already found out that the actual name (to separate him from Jesus) is Elohim, while Jesus name is Jehovah, but that is only the beginning. God the Father is not part of a trinity in Mormon theology. He is actually a separate being of his own, having his own body, and is not spirit: Doctrine and Covenants 130:22 “The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us” In Mormonism, God the Father is the father of all spirits on earth, either the devil and his demons, or the humans. He was the commanding force behind the creation of all things, and was the actual father not just creator of the spirit of humans. Bruce McConkie said it best when he wrote that the God the Father is “the Father of all spirits
