Truman Coe writes in letter to Ohio Observer that Latter-day Saints (c. 1836) believed in an embodied God.
- Type
- Letter
- Source
- Truman Coe Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- 2nd HandReprintJournalism
- Reference
Truman Coe, Letter to Mr. Editor, Ohio Observer, August 11, 1836 in Milton V. Backman, "Truman Coe’s 1836 Description of Mormonism," BYU Studies 17, no. 3 (Spring 1977): 354
- Scribe/Publisher
- Ohio Observer, BYU Studies
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
They contend that the God worshipped by the Presbyterians and all other sectarians is no better than a wooden god. They believe that the true God is a material being, composed of body and parts; and that when the Creator formed Adam in his own image, he made him about the size and shape of God himself.
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