🕊️ The Godhead Joseph Really Taught — And Why My Heart Has Always Known This
🕊️ The Godhead Joseph Really Taught — And Why My Heart Has Always Known This
Friends, let me pull up a chair and talk to you plain.
I’m not a theologian. I’m not trying to start a movement. I’m just an old fella wandering down the road with Jesus, trying to share a few things I’ve picked up along the way.
And today I want to talk about something that shook me years ago when I first learned it — and has shaped my thinking ever since.
A gentleman named Rob Fotheringham made a video digging into the origins of D&C 130:22 — the LDS scripture that says God the Father has a body of flesh and bones just like the Son.
When I first saw the evidence, I remember sitting back and whispering:
“Well now… this goes against everything I grew up being taught.”
But it was honest.
It was documented.
And it lined up with what the Spirit had been whispering to me long before the scholarship ever caught up.
📹 Before We Go Further — Here’s the Video That Started This for Me
👉 Click here to watch Rob Fotheringham’s presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L2sWVmypE8&t=528s
Just click it — it’ll open right up.
And please… watch it with a prayerful heart.
🔥 1. Joseph’s original view of God was spiritual — not bodily
When you open the 1835 Doctrine & Covenants, or the Lectures on Faith, or the Book of Mormon, you see something very different than modern LDS teachings:
God the Father is a personage of Spirit.
Christ is the embodied Redeemer.
The Holy Ghost is the shared mind or presence of God.
Not three separate embodied men.
Not a resurrected Father sitting in a physical body.
And the research Rob shared shows this very clearly:
Clayton’s original note was simple.
Richards expanded it after Joseph died.
Brigham Young added more flesh-and-bones language years later.
My heart already knew something was off.
This just confirmed it.
🔥 2. The Nemenhah Records say the same thing Joseph originally said
This was another moment where I sat back and said, “Well there you go.”
The Nemenhah teach:
The Father is Light, Spirit, Intelligence.
The Son is the tabernacled Peacemaker.
The Holy Ghost (Haymehnay) is the shared divine mind — not a third person.
Same as Joseph’s early voice.
Same as the Book of Mormon.
Same as what the Lord has been showing me in my own quiet moments.
🔥 3. This matches the Book of Mormon more than modern LDS doctrine
Alma teaches God is Spirit.
3 Nephi teaches that the Son is the embodied Redeemer.
The Book of Mormon never teaches three embodied Gods.
Growing up in the LDS church, this is a big pill to swallow.
I get it.
I lived it.
It goes against everything we were taught in Primary, Young Men’s, Sunday School, General Conference — all of it.
But you know what I’ve learned?
Truth isn’t afraid of questions.
Tradition is.
🔥 4. It also matches my waywalking experiences
When I sit in the quiet mornings — when I do my waywalking — when I turn my mind to the four directions and wait upon the Lord…
I never encounter some flesh-and-bone Heavenly Father.
I encounter…
Presence.
Light.
Spirit.
Understanding.
And the Holy Ghost?
It is the unveiling of my own spirit touched by His mind.
This is exactly what Joseph taught early on.
It’s what the Nemenhah teach.
It’s what the scriptures teach.
And it’s what the Savior has been teaching me all along.
🔥 5. A Loving Warning From My Heart
I want to say this gently, with respect, and with love:
You better take a prayerful heart on this.
Because this goes against everything you and I were raised on in the LDS faith.
It’s different.
It’s unsettling at first.
And your mind might fight it.
So please —
don’t take my word for it.
Don’t take Rob’s word for it.
Don’t take anybody’s word for it.
**Ask the Lord.
Only He can tell you the truth of these things.**
You won’t get this answer from the outside world.
You won’t get it from a pulpit.
You won’t get it from an institution.
**You will get it from the Lord Himself.
And only from Him.**
That’s the whole key.
If this is true, the Spirit will confirm it.
If it’s not, He will check you.
Either way, you will know.
🔥 6. What does this mean for us?
It means this:
**If you want to know God, you don’t need a building.
You need stillness.**
**If you want truth, you don’t need an institution.
You need revelation.**
**If you want to understand the Godhead, you go back to the beginning —
not the edits that came after.**
Because the truth is simple:
**The Lord will teach you Himself.
Always has.
Always will.**
🕊️ Final Thoughts
I’m not here to tear down the LDS Church.
I’m not here to fight with anyone.
I’m just sharing what the Lord has walked me through:
Joseph’s first teachings were beautiful and simple.
Later hands altered them.
The Nemenhah, the Book of Mormon, and the Bible confirm the early version.
And the Spirit confirms it in the quiet places of your own heart.
So approach this prayerfully.
Ask Him.
Seek Him.
Let Him correct you, teach you, guide you.
Because in the end…
**It’s His voice that matters — not mine, not theirs.
Just His.**
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