As most people are aware, the organization that calls itself the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, teaches that God the Father has a human body, just as the Son does. They claim that this is implied by His creation of Adam in His own image, since Adam had a body. As one of their own websites says, "Hey, guys, so when it comes to the nature of God, Latter-day Saint Scripture teaches that, 'The Father has a body as tangible as man's...'" The site doesn't give which Scripture that is.
However, I can give another exact citation from Mormon Scripture which is a problem for official Mormon doctrine. In the Book of Mormon, Mosiah 7:27 says, "He [I. e., the prophet] said unto them that Christ was the God, the Father of all things, and said that he should take upon him the image of man...; and that God should come down among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon the face of the earth."
I think any rational reader would find that verse to be logically garbled, since it says Christ, but calls Him the Father, yet Mormons deny that the Book of Mormon teaches Modalism. However, it says that Christ came and took upon Himself flesh and blood, as Christians also say, but this was not after the image of God, but after the image of man! Having a physical body is explicitly described as a human characteristic undertaken by Christ, not a divine characteristic as claimed by Mormons.
Their own Scripture teaches the opposite of the doctrine claimed by Mormons!
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