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The Lectures on Faith , the original "doctrine" of the Doctrine and Covenants,  stated there were 2 members of the Godhead, God the Father and Jesus. The 130th  section of the D&C that the Mormons who moved to Utah and tried legalized adultery for awhile posits there are 3 members of the Godhead. I firmly believe that section 130 is not worth the paper it is printed on, but I do come to you this Christmas Eve 2023 with an apparent tie-breaker. Why did Joseph Smith describe seeing only 2 personages during his first vision? Where was the Holy Ghost? My opinion is that God the Father was trying to impress upon this teenager and true prophet to be, that there are only 2 males members of the Godhead. Obviously these 2 male Gods are married. That makes 4 Gods who govern this planet. There is no God named the Holy Ghost. I am aware Joseph gave multiple recitals of his initial vision, and in at least one version, he stated he only saw Jesus. There is no version where he recalls s...

Reading Enos recently I was struck with an idea. Enos talks about his wrestle with GOD before "receiving a remission of his sins." The idea that came to me is that Enos is describing his day long prayer to receive the baptism of fire. Mormon, the book's editor, could have left this very short book out of his collection. He chose not to, probably because he felt it was the perfect example of what the book is trying to get us to do before we die.  Joseph Smith was quoted saying "you may as well baptize a bag of sand" if you do not add the baptism of fire. Modern Mormonism does not have the power or authority to add the most important part of this eternal equation. Only true hand-selected apostles by JESUS (face to face) have this awesome authority. GOD usually reserves this power to Himself. Unless you run into John the Beloved or one the Three Nephites, you are going to have get this gift from GOD.  Grant Hardy in his annotated Book of Mormon from Oxford writes t...