_Personality and Fatherhood of God_--Some would have us believe
that God is present everywhere. It is not so. He is no more everywhere
present in person than the Father and Son are one in person. 6:345.
God is considered to be everywhere present at the same moment; and the
Psalmist says, "Whither shall I flee from thy presence?" He is present
with all his creations through his influence, through his government,
spirit and power, but he himself is a personage of tabernacle, and we
are made after his likeness. 10:319.
Our God and Father in Heaven, is a being of tabernacle, or, in other
words, he has a body, with parts the same as you and I have; and
is capable of showing forth his works to organized beings, as, for
instance, in the world in which we live, it is the result of the
knowledge and infinite wisdom that dwell in his organized body. His Son
Jesus Christ has become a personage of tabernacle, and has a body like
his Father. The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth
from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his
will in immensity; {37} being called to govern by his influence and
power; but he is not a person of flesh as we are, and as our Father in
Heaven and Jesus Christ are. 1:50.
The Kingdom of God on earth is a living, moving, effective institution,
and is governed, controlled, dictated and led by the invisible God whom
we serve who is an exalted, living being, possessing body, parts and
passions, who listens to the prayers of his Saints, is a reasonable,
merciful and intelligent being, who is filled with knowledge and
wisdom, who is full of light and glory, and the foundations of whose
throne are laid in eternal truth; whose personal form is perfect in
proportion and beauty. He loves the good, and is angry with the wicked
every day as it is written in the Scriptures. He hates the evil that
is done by evil doers, and is merciful to the repenting sinner. He is
beloved by all who know him for the attributes he possesses in and
of himself, in common with all glorified beings who now dwell with
him, and who will yet be glorified and crowned with crowns of glory,
immortality and eternal lives. 11:251.
It must be that God knows something about temporal things, and has had
a body and been on an earth. Were it not so, he would not know how to
judge men righteously, according to the temptations and sin they have
had to contend with. 4:271.
Our Father in Heaven begat all the spirits that ever were, or ever will
be, upon this earth; and they were born spirits in the eternal world.
Then the Lord by his power and wisdom organized the mortal tabernacle
of man. We were made first spiritual, and afterwards temporal. 1:50.
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