The Rise and Fall of NauvooRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo; Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History
We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I
will refute that idea, and will take away the vail, so that you may
see. * * * The Scriptures inform us that Jesus said, "As the Father
hath power in Himself, even so hath the Son power"--to do what?
Why, what the Father did. The answer is obvious--in a manner to
lay down His body and take it up again. Jesus, what are you going
to do? To lay down My life as My Father did and take it up again.
Do you believe it? If you do not believe it you do not believe the
Bible. Here then is eternal life, to know the only wise and true
God, and you have got to learn to be Gods yourselves, and to be
kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before
you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a
small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation
to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead and
are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory as
do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power.
THE APPOINTMENT OF GODS.
The Scriptures are a mixture of very strange doctrines to the
Christian world, who are blindly led by the blind. I will refer
to another Scripture. "Now," says God, when He visited Moses in
the bush, (Moses was a stammering sort of a boy like me,) God
said, "Thou shalt be a God unto the children of Israel." God said,
"Thou shalt be a God unto Aaron, and he shall be thy spokesman." I
believe those Gods that God reveals as Gods to be sons of Gods, and
all can cry, "Abba Father!" Sons of God who exalt themselves to be
Gods, even from before the foundation of the world and are the only
Gods I have a reverence for.
THE APPOINTMENT OF OUR GOD.
The head of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take
a view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty,
holiness and perfection of the Gods. All I want is to get the
simple, naked truth, and the whole truth.
THE ONENESS OF GOD--IN WHAT IT CONSISTS.
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