Is there a God who is our Father? Begin with what scripture says about His relationship with us, then make room for thoughtful inquiry, prayer, and lived experience. This study presents a Latter-day Saint approach to that foundational question.
You can enter this study with conviction, uncertainty, or a mixture of both. Start by writing your question in your own words. Are you asking whether God exists, whether He knows you, or how to recognize an answer? These are related questions, but naming the one you are carrying makes your next step more useful.
Choose a short reading below before starting a longer video. In a notebook, keep three spaces: what the source says, what I understand, and what I still wonder. This simple distinction helps a meaningful impression become something you can revisit without turning every personal interpretation into a scriptural claim.
The portrait in the opening is Jesus Christ, who directs disciples to the Father. It is not a depiction of Heavenly Father. The study focuses on the relationship described in the texts.
Acts 17 places Paul in Athens, speaking with people whose religious assumptions differ from his own. In verses 22–31, he describes God as the giver of life and speaks of humanity as His offspring. Paul moves from the world his listeners know toward an invitation to seek God and consider resurrection.
Read the address as a whole. Notice what Paul says about God, what he asks people to do, and the varied reactions afterward. The passage records religious teaching and a public encounter; it is not a modern scientific demonstration. Latter-day Saints read its language of offspring as part of their scriptural understanding of a relationship with Heavenly Father.
Which description of God stands out to you? How might seeing another person as connected to God change the way you listen to or treat that person?
For a longer exploration of this question, watch Corbridge’s discussion and return to Paul’s address with your own notes.
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Lawrence E. Corbridge considers belief in God and the roles of reason and spiritual witness. Compare his discussion with your notes from Acts 17.
Scripture Central · Lawrence E. Corbridge
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches His disciples to pray to the Father. Matthew 6:5–13 connects prayer with sincerity rather than public performance. The prayer includes reverence, daily need, forgiveness, and dependence on God. Its simplicity offers a starting place even when you do not know what to say.
Read the surrounding teaching about giving and forgiveness. Jesus places prayer within a life turned toward God, not within a technique for controlling an outcome. You might begin by naming one gratitude, one need, and one question. This is a suggested practice, not a promise that a particular feeling or answer will arrive on your schedule.
What would I say to the Father if I did not need to sound certain or polished? What part of the Lord’s Prayer could help me begin?
Moses 1 is part of the Pearl of Great Price, a book of scripture in the Latter-day Saint canon. The chapter presents Moses speaking with God and learning about his own relationship to Him. Near its conclusion, God explains His work in terms of the immortality and eternal life of humanity.
Read verses 1–11 alongside verses 37–39. Hold the chapter’s sense of human limitation together with its attention to human worth. This text gives a theological account of purpose; it does not supply the cause of every experience a person has. Let its claims about God and His work lead your reflection before asking it to resolve a different question.
Read Moses 1, especially verses 1–11 and 37–39
What kind of purpose does this chapter describe? What ordinary responsibility or relationship could I approach with greater care because of it?
Alma 32 addresses people who have been excluded from their place of worship. Alma discusses humility and faith, then uses a seed as a comparison for receiving and nourishing the word. His invitation includes beginning with a desire to believe and attending to what follows over time.
Read verses 21–43 rather than isolating the seed image from its setting. Notice the difference between an initial response and continued nourishment. The passage invites participation, patience, and examination. A focusChrist application is to choose one teaching of Jesus, live it deliberately, and record what you notice without exaggerating either certainty or disappointment.
What teaching could I practice this week? What would I observe honestly, and when will I return to the passage to reflect?
Continue from Corbridge’s discussion above into Nelson’s teaching about following Jesus Christ through covenants. Pause to write one idea and its supporting passage before moving to another video.
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Russell M. Nelson connects rest in Jesus Christ with covenant discipleship. Consider how a belief about God can shape a daily commitment.
Official General Conference channel · October 2022
You do not need to complete every resource in one sitting. A family or study partner can choose one reading together, let each person describe what they noticed, and leave room for different questions. Keep the conversation curious and respectful; the purpose is to understand and grow, not to force identical responses.
Bring a question to Ask and include the passage you were reading. Treat an AI-assisted explanation as a study aid and check its references in the original source.
The explanations here draw on Acts 17, Matthew 6, Moses 1, and Alma 32. The linked videos are separate presentations by their named speakers. Reflection questions, reading order, and suggested practices are original focusChrist study aids.
These studies belong together. Keep your notes as you move between them: what the sources teach, what you have experienced, what remains open, and what you want to do next.