The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy GhostRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
The prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane: "O my Father if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."
And again: "O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except
I drink it, thy will be done."[A]
[Footnote A: Ibid, verses 39, 42.]
John represents Jesus as saying in Gethsemane: "Father, the hour is
come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. * * * And
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was. * * * Holy Father, keep
through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be
one as we are. * * * That they all may be one: as thou, Father, art in
me, and I in thee. * * * O righteous Father, the world hath not known
thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent
me."[A]
[Footnote A: St. John xvii.]
Then, after the resurrection of Jesus, he meets Mary of Magdala
and said to her, when she in her joy was about to lay hold of him:
"Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my
brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father;
and to my God and your God."[A]
[Footnote A: St. John xx.]
The separate and distinct individual existence of God the Father could
not be more emphatically represented than in these scriptures.
_3. The Separate and Individual Existence of the Son:_ The
scriptures which teach the separate existence of the Father, teach also
the separate and individual existence of the Son; but the question
may arise, Was Jesus, the Son of God, also God? The passage already
considered, in which Jesus is given equal rank with the Father and with
the Holy Ghost, strongly implies that he is Divine, that he is Deity.
In the Seventy's Year Book No. III, Lesson xxxiii, in treating at
length upon the subject of the divinity of Jesus, the conclusion that
Jesus, as well as the Father, is God, is worked out from the fact that
Jesus is called God in the Scriptures;[A] that Jesus declares himself
to be God--the Son of God;[B] that Jesus is to be worshiped--hence
God;[C] that Jesus, under the Father's direction, is the Creator, hence
God;[D] that Jesus Christ is declared to be equal with God the Father,
hence God.[E] All these declarations are sustained by the scriptures
and reasoned out in detail in the lesson of Year Book III cited
above, and to that work the student is referred. Here it will be only
necessary to cite the scriptures which sustain these several specific
declarations concerning Jesus, the Christ, which I have done by giving
them in the margin.[F]
[Footnote A: Isaiah vii:14; Matt. i:23; Isaiah ix:6.]
[Footnote B: John x:33; Matt. xxvii:63, 64; Matt. xxviii:18, 19; Heb.
i:8.]
[Footnote C: Rev. xix;10 c. f; Heb. i:5, 6; Phil. ii:9, 10.]
[Footnote D: St. John i:1-4; Col. i:12-17; Heb. i:2.]
[Footnote E: Matt. xxviii:18, 19; Phil. iii:6; Heb. iii:3; Col. i:19:
ii:9; II. Nephi xxvi:12.]
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