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Latter-day Saints are at times accused of reducing God to the stature of
a finite being, where, as a man, he is still learning by making mistakes. While
other Christians worship in spirit and in truth, it is charged that Mormons can
believe in and worship only molecules—a God of flesh and bones. These
accusations arise because the Saints hold tenaciously to scriptural testimony
that God is a definite tangible personage, in form and stature like man.
The revelations of Joseph Smith support this view. "If the veil were rent
today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds
all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible," the
Prophet said, "you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves in all
the person, image, and very form as man." Again, he explained that both the
Father and the Son possess bodies of flesh and bones as tangible as man's;
"but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of
Spirit." Spirit is pure and refined matter; and the Holy Ghost is a personage
whose body is composed of this element.