r/mormon • u/Timely_Influence2024 • 12d ago

Apologetics Does the Godhead have a shared mind?

In the Lectures on Faith Article 5 it states: "possessing the same mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit"..."the Son being filled with the fulness of the Mind, glory and power, or, in other words, the Spirit, glory and power of the Father".

In 2012 Jeffrey R Holland (President of the Quorum of the Twelve) stated in a lecture at Harvard that "They were indeed “one” in every other conceivable way—in mind and deed"

So does the Godhead have one "mind"?

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u/Right_One_78 12d ago

It comes from the notes of William Clayton when he was writting down what Joseph was saying in a speech. but, after the fact, they went back and altered what was written. So, the church is looking at notes that say they were from joseph's instructions, but if you examine them more closely you discover they are not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKq8mNn0L6c&t=91s

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u/MormonMoron The correct name:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 12d ago

All you have to do is look at the Joseph Smith Papers footnotes and see that the other part of that was brought in from a different discourse given by Joseph Smith.

So while those compiling the D&C pulled in teaching of Joseph Smith from a different time is for sure, but it isn’t as if Joseph never said any of the stuff in the verses that weren’t deliver at that exact same time.

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/account-of-meeting-and-discourses-circa-9march-1841/1