The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion: To which is added a discourse, Jesus Christ, the revelation of God; also a collection of authoritative Mormon utterances on the being and nature of God — John Shaqi
The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion: To which is added a discourse, Jesus Christ, the revelation of God; also a collection of authoritative Mormon utterances on the being and nature of GodRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion: To which is added a discourse, Jesus Christ, the revelation of God; also a collection of authoritative Mormon utterances on the being and nature of God
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; God (Christianity); Jesus Christ -- Mormon interpretations; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
In the face of these scriptures, will anyone who believes in the Bible
say that it is blasphemy to speak of God as being possessed of a bodily
form? We find that the Son of God himself stood among his fellows a
man, with all the limitations as to his body which pertain to man's
body; with head, trunk, and limbs; with eyes, mouth and ears; with
affections, with passions; for he exhibited anger as well as love in
the course of his ministry; he was a man susceptible to all that man
could suffer, called by way of pre-eminence the "man of sorrows," and
one "acquainted with grief;" for in addition to his own, he bore yours
and mine, and suffered that we might not suffer if we would obey his
gospel. And yet we are told that it is blasphemy to speak of God as
being in human form--that it is "heathenism." In passing, let me call
your attention to the fact that our sectarian friends are pretending to
the use of gentle phrases now. They do not propose to hurt our feelings
at all by harshness. We are to be wooed by gentle methods. And yet they
denounce a sacred article of our faith as "heathenism." I think if we
were to use such language with reference to them, or their creeds, they
could not commend it for its gentleness.
But I have a text to propose to them:
_"What think ye of Christ?"_
I suppose that thousands of sermons every year are preached from that
text by Christian ministers. And now I arraign them before their
favorite text, and I ask them, What think ye of Christ? Is he God?
Yes. Is he man? Yes--there is no escaping it. His resurrection and the
immortality of his body as well as of his spirit that succeeds his
resurrection is a reality. He himself attested it in various ways. He
appeared to a number of the apostles, who, when they saw him, were
seized with fright, supposing they had seen a spirit; but he said unto
them, "Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see;
for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."[A] Then,
in further attestation of the reality of his existence, as if to put
away all doubt, he said, "Have ye here any meat?" And they brought him
some broiled fish and honeycomb, and "he did eat before them." Think of
it! A resurrected, immortal person actually eating of material food! I
wonder that our spiritually-minded friends do not arraign him for such
a material act as that after his resurrection! A Scotch Presbyterian
is particularly zealous for a strict observance of the Sabbath. One
who was a little liberal in his views of the law pertaining to the
Sabbath was once arguing with an orthodox brother on the subject, and
urged that even Jesus so far bent the law pertaining to the Sabbath
that he justified his disciples in walking through the fields of corn
on the Sabbath, and rubbing the ears of corn in their hands, blowing
away the chaff, and eating the corn. "O weel," says Donald, "mebbe
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