Who is the Mormon God?

[_tagriffy]

Judging by those paintings, I would hazard to guess the average LDS does conceive of the Father and the Son as identical twins. Based on how literally they tend to read Scripture, I would also guess an average LDS would say God's body could do the things the resurrected Jesus seemed to do in the resurrection accounts, e.g., teleporting, flying, etc. I would also say this is pure guesswork and it shouldn't be taken seriously.

I think you're right that, for most Mormons, it isn't as important what the resurrection bodies will be so much that they will have them someday. One of the reasons I shy away from such speculations is that this is the language of mythology. There is a certain truth about what is said about divine embodiment and glorified bodies. But the language used is an attempt to model that reality, and taking it too literally will only confuse the model with the reality.

[_Fence Sitter]

Judging by those paintings, I would hazard to guess the average LDS does conceive of the Father and the Son as identical twins. Based on how literally they tend to read Scripture, I would also guess an average LDS would say God's body could do the things the resurrected Jesus seemed to do in the resurrection accounts, e.g., teleporting, flying, etc. I would also say this is pure guesswork and it shouldn't be taken seriously.

I think you're right that, for most Mormons, it isn't as important what the resurrection bodies will be so much that they will have them someday. One of the reasons I shy away from such speculations is that this is the language of mythology. There is a certain truth about what is said about divine embodiment and glorified bodies. But the language used is an attempt to model that reality, and taking it too literally will only confuse the model with the reality.

It seems strange to shy away from metaphysical speculations in a belief system based on such.

[_tagriffy]

It is more of a recognition that any theological construct is inevitably going to be wrong.