GOD AS ONE

Have you ever played on a team or been in an organization where everybody worked together and got things done and you felt one with the persons on your side or in your organization? I feel that way about the members in my temple group. We work together to do the Lord’s work and are one.

God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are one God, in that they are one in purpose. A similar statement was made in John 17 when Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all the saints.

He said, in John 17:21-22:

21. That they all may be one; as thou, Father art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.

Now does that scripture mean that somehow all the Apostles, Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father are all melted into the same being? Of course not; but they are one in purpose.

Bruce R. McConkie said it well in Mormon Doctrine, under the topic, Godhead, when he explained:
“Though each God in the Godhead is a personage, separate and distinct from each of the others, yet they are “one God” meaning that they are united as one in the attributes of perfection.
For instance, each has the fulness of truth, knowledge, charity, power, justice, judgment, mercy and faith.

Accordingly they all think, act speak and are alike in all things; and yet they are three separate and distinct entities. Each occupies space and is and can be in but one place at one time, but each has power and influence that is everywhere present.

The oneness of the Gods is the same unity that should exist among the saints as spoken of in John 17 and 3rd Nephi 28:10-11.”