Chapter IV: Part II: The Godhead

THE HOLY TRINITY.[A]

(Scripture Reading Exercise).

THE HOLY TRINITY.

ANALYSIS.

I. Faith of the Church in God.

II. Scripture Evidence of the Trinity.

III. The Early Christian Conception of the Holy Trinity. The Apostles' Creed.

IV. Worship of the Godhead.

REFERENCES.

The Scripture passages and works cited in the "Discussion" of this lesson.

_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.]

DISCUSSION.

_1. Belief in the Godhead:_ "We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost."[A]

[Footnote A: "Articles of Faith"--Joseph Smith, from the Wentworth