How We Know What We Know About the Godhead

A few weeks ago I was in a Sunday School class about the nature of the Godhead, when one of the class members said that it is obvious from the New Testament that the Godhead is as we Mormons believe it is: the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as three distinct beings, the Father and Son having glorified physical bodies, and the Holy Ghost being a personage of spirit. This is not an uncommon position among Mormons, but it rubbed me the wrong way and the more I thought about about it, I understood why: because it’s not true.