http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=3519

I wrote a related post here:

http://www.millennialstar.org/index.php/2006/10/24/proper_nouns

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one God, infinite and eternal (D&C 20:28). The idea of three uppercase-G Gods is one of the most severe grammatical and theological errors imaginable. There is and can be only one fulness of divinity, possessed by the Father, and by the Son, and by the Holy Ghost collectively.

They are indeed distinct persons, but together they are one God, not three. The scriptures are insistent on this fact, the Book of Mormon so insistent than many mistakenly believe it to be teaching Sabellianism or modalism.

And to read this statement (in its context) as a claim of strict monotheism (or that it removes the possibility of having other divinities like God) is simply to remove it from its context.

What this author has done was to supply one possible context, and then claim that another possible context is impossible, and thus it is “removed from its context”. Should not the context he provided also agree with Isaiah 44:8, “ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.” The context that he suggests does not, because this scripture does preclude the possibility of having other divinities like God. Unless of course we know something that God does not.