Chapter 3: God, the Eternal Father, C: God is Perfect in His Person, Character, and Attributes

Joseph Smith stated that before we could have faith in God we must understand who and what God is. If we do not understand that God has all attributes that make him God, then why should we have faith in him?

I think often when we talk about the existence of God we forget to talk about what that existence is. If one person is talking about a God who is vengeful, capricious, prone to anger, selfish, and so on, and another person is talking about a God who is loving, unchanging, knowledgeable, just, giving, and so on, then those two people will never agree or understand each other.

The following scriptures all contain witness of the varying attributes of God. In fact, this is one of the chief purposes of scripture - to define what God is - and so you can find scriptures like this all throughout the scriptures.

The attributes these scriptures show are that God has a (perfect) body, God is perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, infinite, unchangeable, just, true, righteous, merciful, loving, and the source of all light and truth.

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. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.
D&C 130:22

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.
Matt 5:48

Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth no comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.
Mosiah 4:9

By these things we know that there is a God in heaven, who is infinite and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting the same unchangeable God, the framer of heaven and earth, and all things which are in them.
D&C 20:17

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms 89:14

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalm 103:8

And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
Exodus 34:6

Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space--The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which i the law by which all thins are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.
D&C 88:12-13