PART II.
The Godhead.
THE HOLY TRINITY.[A]
(Scripture Reading Exercise).
THE HOLY TRINITY.
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
I. The Oneness of the Trinity: its Nature. | Mormon Doctrine of Deity, ch. IV; Seventy's Year Book No. III, lessons xxxiii, xxxiv and xxxv; and all the Scriptures cited in the body of the "Discussion." |
II. Distinctiveness of the Father as a Personage. | |
III. The Distinctiveness of the Son—Divinity of the Son. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "And Jesus when he was baptized went straightway out of the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God, descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: and lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." (Matt. iii:16, 17.)
[Footnote A: This subject is treated more at length in Seventy's Year Book No. III, also in the writer's "Mormon Doctrine of Deity," Ch. IV, Lesson XXXI, to which the student is referred. Its treatment here is merely to get the idea of the relationship that the Holy Ghost sustains to the other two personages of the Trinity.]