A Rational Theology, as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — John Shaqi
A Rational Theology, as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsWidtsoe, John Andreas
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A Rational Theology, as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Widtsoe, John Andreas
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines; Theology
that the thunders and the lightnings, the movements of the heavenly
bodies, the ebb and flow of the oceans, and all the phenomena known to
man, are only manifestations of the will of God as transmitted and
spread by the measureless, inexhaustible, infinite, all-conducting
holy spirit.
By the holy spirit, which fills every person, man may obtain
information from God. By its means come the messages which transcend
the ordinary methods of acquiring knowledge. By it man may readily
communicate with God, or God with him. When a person utters his prayer
in faith it is impressed upon the holy spirit, and transmitted, so
that God may read the man's desire.
This doctrine of a rational theology has been duplicated in a modest
way by the development of wireless telegraphy. According to science,
the universe is filled with a subtle substance called the ether, on
the waves of which the message is spread throughout the universe to be
taken up by any person who has the proper receiving apparatus.
**The Eternal Record.** So thoroughly permeated with the holy spirit
is the immensity of space that every act and word and thought is
recorded and transmitted everywhere, so that all who know how to read
may read. Thus we make an imperishable record of our lives. To those
whose lives are ordered well this is a blessed conception; but to
those of wicked lives, it is most terrible. He who has the receiving
apparatus, in whose hands the key is held, may read from the record of
the holy spirit, an imperishable history of all that has occurred
during the ages that have passed in the world's history. This solemn
thought, that in the bosom of the holy spirit is recorded all that
pertains to the universe--our most secret thought and our faintest
hope--helps man to walk steadily in the midst of the contending
appeals of his life. We can not hide from the Master.
CHAPTER 14.
MAN WALKS WITH GOD.
The knowledge of means of communication between man and God is of
great help to man in all the affairs of his life.
**Reading God's Message.** In possession of the holy spirit is a
record of the will of God with respect to all things and all
occurrences, great or small, in the universe from the first day. The
big problem of man is to read the message of God as it is held by the
holy spirit. In wireless telegraphy, a spark coil sets up waves in the
ether and other coils similarly "tuned," receive the waves anywhere in
the universe. In wireless telegraphy the all-important thing is that
the transmitting and receiving instruments be tuned alike, for only
then may the message be read. The same principle holds with the holy
spirit. The giver and the receiver must be "tuned" alike, that is,
must be in harmony, if the messages are to pass readily and
understandingly from one to the other. The clearness of the message
depends wholly upon the degree to which this tuning approaches perfect
harmony.
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