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Expert: Romy Brown - 9/15/2008
Question
I read one of your responses about the Holy Ghost receiving a body at one point. I agree with you entirely but I can not find doctrinal sources to verify for my own purposes. The question has been posed to me and I gave a similar response. I just want to make sure I am on safe doctrinal ground. Thanks.
Answer
This is a question that is left a mystery to our church since the Church has no official teaching on whether or not the Holy Ghost will ever receive a body. but since we believe that receiving body parts is a progression to becoming like our Heavenly Father we believe that the likelihood of him not having body parts isn't very likely.
President Joseph Fielding Smith advised us to avoid speculating on destiny of the spirit (OOP!)but I do believe that.
The Holy Ghost is not a personage with a body of flesh and bones, and in this respect differs from the Father and the Son. The Holy Ghost is not a woman, as some have declared, and therefore is not the mother of Jesus Christ.
It is a waste of time to speculate in relation to his jurisdiction. We know what has been revealed and that the Holy Ghost, sometimes spoken of as the Holy Spirit, and Comforter, is the third member of the Godhead, and that he, being in perfect harmony with the Father and the Son, reveals to man by the spirit of revelation and prophecy the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our great duty is so to live that we may be led constantly in light and truth by this Comforter so that we may not be deceived by the many false spirits that are in the world.
I have never troubled myself about the Holy Ghost whether he will sometime have a body or not because it is not in any way essential to my salvation. He is a member of the Godhead, with great power and authority, with a most wonderful mission which must be performed by a spirit. This has satisfied me without delving into mysteries that would be of no particular benefit.
Romy
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