HOLLY - I was told that mormans believe that God & Jesus christ live in heaven with flesh and blood is that true I gotta know

JOEL - To be more precise Mormon(not Morman) doctrine teaches that our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ live in Heaven with resurected bodies of flesh and bone(not blood). When Jesus rose from the grave His spirit was reuinted with His body. Before He returned to Heaven he appeared to His apostles, who at first were startled when they thought they were seeing a ghost. Jesus then made the following statement of comfort to them:

"Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."(Luke 24:39)

He then allowed them to touch Him and later He even ate some food to show them He was real and had indeed risen from the dead. (Luke 24:41-43)
From this statement we know that at least Jesus had a tangible body of flesh and bone after He was resurrected and before He returned to Heaven.
Jesus also said that "he that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9), suggesting that since Jesus was seen as having a physical body, then God the Father must also have one.
When Stephen was being stoned he saw "the Son of man standing on the right hand of God."(Acts 7: 56) In other words, he saw two individuals, the resurrected Christ and God the Father standing next to each other in Heaven. The resurrected Jesus said to Philip, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” (John 14:9.) Jesus was informing his disciples that he and his Father were alike in attributes, in power, and in bodily appearance.
And of course the Old Testament tells us that "God created man in his own image.(Gen. 1: 27) So we know that God looks like we do. Our best evidence of God the Father having a body is found in the vision that Joseph Smith had when both the Father and Jesus appeared to him, showing him their resurrected glorified bodies of flesh and bone.
And later, in a revelation from God to Joseph Smith, we learn, “The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.” (D&C 130:22.)
This is what The Church of Jesus Christ believes regarding this point of doctrine.

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