Joseph Smith taught that the Son is the Father, and the Father is the Son. This is seen in his change to Luke, chapter 10, verse 22, in the JST. See below for the changes he made to this one verse. Please note that the JST means “Joseph Smith Translation” of the KJV.
Luke 10:22 (JST) – Jesus is the Father and the Father is the Son
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man knoweth that the Son is the Father and that the Father is the Son but him to whom the Son will reveal it.
Versus
Luke 10:22 (KJV) – The Father and the Son are different persons
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
The change you see above is what false prophets do to the Biblical text. They change verses into a lie from Satan. Modalism is not a teaching from the Bible, but a manmade teaching. This is where Jesus is the Father, and the Father is the Son, as the Father was manifest as the Son while He was on earth. Only heretics believe this false doctrine. True Christians believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct persons, not the same, but manifest as one God. This is called the Trinity. Amen.
If they believe that the Father is the Son and the Son is the Father, how can they also believe that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three separate Gods?
That’s right, it sounds like Joseph Smith was psychologically manipulating the Scripture into a sort of mind control, it’s a roundabout cycle, textual looping so that the reader that believes this looping text is stuck in that psychological loop, a brocken record effect on how Mormons think. No wonder Mormons can’t understand the Trinity, their carnal mind wont allow them to expand the psychological loop so they are stuck in their carnal beliefs and don’t have an understanding of the Spiritual Essence contained in the Bible. So they can’t understand that the Trinity contains the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost that exist in three levels of Spiritual Essence, but all three are one the same image as in Genesis 1:27 simply explains.