Saturday Night Thoughts: A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic ThemesWhitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Saturday Night Thoughts: A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches
This is exaltation. It is more than salvation, being an extension of
that idea or condition--salvation "added upon;" just as salvation is an
extension of, or an addition to, the idea or condition of redemption.
A soul may be redeemed--that is, raised from the dead--and yet be
condemned at the Final Judgment for evil deeds done in the body.
Likewise may a soul be saved, and yet come short of the glory that
constitutes exaltation. To redeem, save and glorify, is the threefold
mission of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Footnotes
1. Rev. 14:6.
2. Mal. 3:1.
3. Mosiah 15:1, 2; 3:5. The joyful intelligence of the advent of
the World's Redeemer, proclaimed by angels to the shepherds on the
Judean hills (Luke 2:10), furnishes another name for the Gospel--"good
tidings," or, as otherwise rendered, "glad tidings of great joy."
4. Col. 2:9. Compare Ether 3:14, and Alma 11:38, 39.
5. All fulness is relative, as pertaining to the revealed word of God.
There can be no absolute fulness with man until everything is made
known to him. The fulness of the Gospel, as delivered to the Nephites
and other ancient peoples, was not so complete as is the fulness
enjoyed by the Latter-day Saints. Truth is always the same, but more of
its principles have been revealed in modern times than at any previous
period. And the end is not yet; for, as our Prophet declares: "Those
things which never have been revealed from the foundation of the world,
but have been kept hid from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed
unto babes and sucklings in this, the dispensation of the fulness of
times." (D. and C. 128:18.) Such an outpouring of truth and light can
come only to a people prepared for it. "When that which is perfect is
come, then that which is in part shall be done away" (I Cor. 13:10).
Until then a comparative fulness, or all that the finite mind can
contain of infinite wisdom, must suffice human aspiration and continue
to be the lot even of the most enlightened.
6. D. and C. 110:1-4.
7. The book of Isaiah is sometimes called "the fifth gospel," it having
so much to say about the coming Redeemer; and just as fittingly might
the third book of Nephi be termed a "gospel," narrating as it does the
risen Christ's personal ministrations to the descendants of Lehi.
8. Abr. 3:24.
9. Job 38:7.
10. Moses 4:1-4.
11. D. and C. 76:25, 26.
12. Ib. 29:36.
"Satan (it is possible) being opposed to the will of his Father, wished
to avoid the responsibilities of this position. . . . . He probably
intended to make men atone for their own acts by an act of coercion and
the shedding of their own blood as an atonement for their sins."--"The
Mediation and Atonement," by President John Taylor, pp. 96, 97.
13. Rom. 8:29.
14. Abr. 3:23; Jer. 1:5, Hist. Ch. Vol. 6, p. 364.
15. James 1:25.
16. "Times and Seasons," Aug. 15, 1844; "Improvement Era," Jan., 1909.
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