What power do spirits have that resurrected beings do not?
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What an excellent question, as it forced me to really think it through.
I think the disconnect is in the very first lines. You make two assumptions that Mormons would not agree with. The first is that without a physical body a spirit is able to be in more than one place at a time.
Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8
7 There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;8 We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter.
the second assumption you made with which Mormons would disagree would be to lump the Holy Ghost in with 'Spirits'. We do have doctrine that states that He is a personage of Spirit without a body of flesh and bone but we know very little about Him. We don't know if He is yet to be born into mortality, already passed through a mortal state, or never to be born at all. We don't know how He accomplishes His divine mission but we don't assume that because the Holy Ghost is capable of it, then all spirits must be equally endowed.
What we do know (what we have doctrines declaring) is that we can become joint heirs with Christ, receiving all that the Father hath. We can become like Him and part of the process includes being resurrected into a glorified physical body. We saw an example of such a body in Jesus Christ and we saw that it (His glorified body) was capable of things which ours are not (see John 20:19).
There is no regression in resurrection.
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