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|S=Lectures on Faith, which used to be part of the Doctrine and Covenants, teach that God is a spirit. Joseph Smith's later teachings contradict this. More generally, critics argue that Joseph Smith taught an essentially "trinitarian" view of the Godhead until the mid 1830s, thus proving the Joseph was "making it up" as he went along.
|L1=Question: What are the Lectures on Faith?
|L2=Question: What does Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith say about the nature of God?
|L3=Question: How would a statement that "God is a spirit" be interpreted in ancient Judasism?
|L4=Question: Did Joseph began his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?
|L5=Question: What are modern Church leader's views on the Lectures on Faith?
|L6=Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants?
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{{:Question: Did Joseph began his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God?}}
{{:Question: What are modern Church leader's views on the Lectures on Faith?}}
{{:Question: Is the Father embodied or a spirit in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants?}}

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|summary=One thing that sets Latter-day Saints apart from nearly all of the rest of Christianity is the doctrine that God the Father possesses a body in human form. In fact, many of our Christian brothers and sisters see this belief as positively strange, and some even question our claim to the title “Christian” because of it.
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[[pt:Deus e sua natureza/Deus é um espírito/Palestras sobre Fé 5 ensina o Pai, é "um personagem de espírito"]]