No place in scripture is better to begin a study of the foundational doctrines of the Gospel of Jesus Christ then The Articles of Faith. In this episode we will start our study with the 1st Article of Faith. "1: We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost." We explore doctrines of the nature of the God Head, God's attributes, and our relationship to Him. Without the core belief that our Father in Heaven is a loving and perfect parent, the rest of the gospel falls apart. 

". . . He [referred] to a saying of Joseph Smith, which he heard him utter (like this) That if the People knew what was behind the veil, they would try by every means to commit suicide that they might get there, but the Lord in his wisdom had implanted the fear of death in every person that they might cling to life and thus accomplish the designs of their creator" (A. Karl Larson, Katherine Miles Larson, "Diary of Charles Lowell Walker," Utah State University Digital Commons).https://www.ldsliving.com/Where-the-Belief-That-Everyone-Who-Commits-Suicide-Ends-Up-in-the-Telestial-Kingdom-Come-from/s/88513   Mother in heaven https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/ensign/2002/02/the-origin-of-man.p14?lang=eng   Different capacities of spirits https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/3.p18-p19?lang=eng#p18   Intelligences https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/gs/intelligence-intelligences.p1?lang=eng   Saved no faster than we gain knowledge https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-10-april-1842-as-reported-by-wilford-woodruff/1   Three things in order to exercise faith in god unto life and salvation http://lecturesonfaith.com/3/   Produced by Valkyrie Podcast Solutions.