I have read the KFD several times
So have I. The fact remains, no matter how many times you or anyone else reads it, they will never find the words, God was once not God, in it. If you are reading it, you are not paying attention to the context. Joseph Smith is explaining that God, the Father is a resurrected being who lived the same kind of life that Jesus did and that he is now a resurrected being, embodied, flesh and bone having the same DNA that we have.
Now, have you ever supposed or imagined God was any of that? No? I didn't think so. The idea that God is some ethereal nothingness that fills the universe is the idea that Joseph Smith was refuting. To take it further than that, you'd have to have something that actually said, that God wasn't God at one time and he never said that nor did he even hint at it. You all have conjured up that idea because of your propensity of focusing on only 4 or 5 words and disregarding the context in favor of your animus.
and Smith does support his claim and attempt to refute the idea that "God was God from all eternity."
Where?
Sorry, but what you wrote is NOT what we have "imagined and supposed". What we have "imagined and supposed" is that God is eternal.
That was never brought into question at any point of the discourse. So, now you're telling me that you know that God the Father has a body and is a resurrected being? That's odd.
NOT that we believe God is some "blob." That is nonsense.
Then what do you suppose and imagine him to be? What does he look like? Can we touch him? We have pictures of Jesus, do you have one of God the Father that would suggest to us how our mind imagines him to be?
But even Jesus Himself said, in John 4, that "God is spirit."
Again, God was standing right there. How can God be a spirit if he was standing right there in the flesh talking to them?
And in context, He meant His Father.
I know that. But are you now saying that Jesus isn't God? Are you saying that God is two different beings? Your argument is weak and you know it, that's why you keep adding that caveat. You have nothing. IF Jesus is God, then regardless of who Jesus was talking about, God obviously has a body. I know he was talking about His Father (and our Father). While God, who was standing right there in the flesh had a body, He also had a spirit. If we truly followed the context and not the 4 or 5 words you seem to only be able to see, we would see that it is through the spirit that God communicates with us and that we can worship him in spirit wherever we are. That passage continues, "and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth." Obviously, the intent was not for us to get rid of our bodies so we could worship God in spirit. Why then would you interpret them separately? That one instance, that God doesn't have a body and in the other instance, that the fact that we do has no relevance on worshiping in spirit? So, we have three parallels here.
1. God, in Jesus was present in body and spirit.
2. The worshippers were present in body and spirit.
3. God, in the Father was present in spirit but not body.
It seems that the spirit is consistent throughout, but the body is irrelevant to worship. or more specifically, that where the body is, is irrelevant to worship. It is clear from the passage that the context has nothing to do with the physical characteristics of God the Father. It was not an attempt to define his physical appearance, but rather his all-encompassing presence. The fact that God was standing right there, for the believer, should make that obvious, but you all ignore it and you just did.
I have asked this question before, but our critics never answer it. Does Jesus still have his body or did He leave it somewhere? If he does, is he aware of us only if he is present as he was when he made that statement you referenced? or his he just a spirit now? I personally believe, and I believe this should be the doctrine of all Christians, that Jesus is both embodied and will be forever and spiritually present everywhere. The Father is also, which was the point of the KFD.
So, what does a spirit look like? How big is it? When I said blob, I meant no disrespect but I used it because it has no describable dimensions whatsoever, like a blob. We just know it's big. I guess in your imagination, it must be really really big. I mean, HUGE, right?
The point of the KFD, again, was that God is a man now, in very form and Joseph proved that by the Bible and made no reference to there being a time when God wasn't God. That is purely manufactured by our critics using the same methods they used to manufacture that God is an ethereal nothingness floating in space and time, namely by focusing on 4 or 5 words they RIPPED out of context from the scriptures.
God the Father can't be a blob or an ethereal nothingness or a spirit because biology 101 states that only humans can make babies with humans. Period. To believe anything else is to believe in magic, the same as only nothing can be created from nothing.