In the scriptures, the name, "God" seems to have conflicting meanings. This can cause a good deal of confusion. For example, many modern Christian faiths believe that God is 3 manifestations of a single being, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. I've heard people people use the analogy of water in that it can exist in 3 different forms, liquid, solid, and a gas.
The above doesn't ring true to me for a variety of reasons, one of which is a story of Jesus' baptism in the New Testament. For that event, Jesus was in the form of a man and was being baptized. His father spoke from heaven, and the Holy Spirit descended in the sign of the Dove.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Mathew Chapter 3:16-17
There are many other examples, but this is the most concise.
In other scriptures, Jesus seems to refer to himself as God, but also refers to his father as God, and yet the assertion is made that there's one God. It's no wonder that some are confused.
What if God meant something different than a particular being? Is it possible that a better understanding of the term is that it's a concept or a representative of that concept?
In the Doctrine and Covenants 93, verse 36 we read:
The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth.
What would happen if we made the word God equivilent to, "light and truth" or a representative of those concepts?
Here's another way of looking at it.
In the traditional concept of God, did he create the principles of truth or are these principles independent of any particular person or being?
I maintain that it's the latter. God, in the traditional sense, didn't create true principles, he is a representative of them.
Another question: Who is the ultimate authority in the universe? Some would say this is God; however, in LDS theology, there are many gods with their own spheres of influence. Therefore you could accurately say there is only one ultimate authority within a particular sphere of influence. That's fine, but it doesn't take care of Jesus, his father, and the holy ghost all being gods, while there is only one god. Unless the authority is actually something like, "light and truth" and these three are God because they represent those concepts to us.