I've been studying about God and his attributes with my Sunday School class and found this quote filled with a description of God. I think it is amazing! I invite you to choose one characteristic and study it this week. Let me know what you find. I'm grateful that we, through revelation, can know our Father.
"In section 20 of the Doctrine
and Covenants, which directed the Prophet Joseph Smith to organize the Church
again in this dispensation, we have a revealed summary of some of the basic
doctrines of salvation. As to Deity the revelation says: “… there is a God
in heaven, who is infinite and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting the
same unchangeable God, the framer of heaven and earth, and all things which are
in them.” (D&C
20:17.) …
God is our Father; he is the
being in whose image man is created. He has a body of flesh and bones as
tangible as man’s (D&C
130:22), and he is the literal and personal father of the spirits of
all men. He is omnipotent and omniscient; he has all power and all wisdom; and
his perfections consist in the possession of all knowledge, all faith or power,
all justice, all judgment, all mercy, all truth, and the fullness of all godly
attributes. … If we are to have that perfect faith by which we can lay hold
upon eternal life, we must believe in God as the possessor of the fullness of
all these characteristics and attributes. I say also that he is an infinite and
eternal being, and as an unchangeable being, he possesses these perfected
powers and attributes from everlasting to everlasting, which means from
eternity to eternity.6
We know that our Heavenly
Father is a glorified, exalted personage who has all power, all might, and all
dominion, and that he knows all things. We testify that he, through his Only
Begotten Son, is the Creator of this earth and of worlds without number."
Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, Chapter 1
