What do Mormons believe about the Trinity?
April 19, 2005 Most Christian churches accept the biblical idea of a holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Confusion and mysticism has surrounded this conception of the Trinity for over a thousand years however. Some hold the view that these beings are a mystical combination of one-in-three and three-in-one. Others say that God is only a spirit. Many believe that Jesus and his Father are one and the same being. Latter-day Saints believe there are 3 distinct heavenly beings that form the Godhead (what many call the Trinity). Our view on this is crystallized by the visitation of both the Father and the Son to the boy prophet Joseph Smith in his first vision, in 1820. Joseph Smith, while studying the bible, was led to read a passage in James where the apostle exhorts those who lack wisdom to pray for enlightenment (James 1:5). Joseph Smith, then a boy just 14 years old, determined to seek answers to his deep questions regarding which church he should join thro
