The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the GospelRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Second Year: Outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
Jesus also taught (and in doing so showed in what the "oneness" of
Himself and His Father consisted) that the disciples might be one
with Him, and also one with each other, as He and the Father were
one.[A] Not one in person--not all merged into one individual, and
all distinctions of personality lost; but one in mind, in knowledge,
in love, in will--one by reason of the indwelling in all of the one
spirit, even as the mind and will of God the Father was also in Jesus
Christ.[B]
[Footnote A: Eph. iii:14-19.]
[Footnote B: Acts v:1-14. To lie to the Holy Ghost is to lie to God,
because the Holy Ghost is God.]
The Holy Ghost, too, was upheld by the Christian religion to be God.
Jesus ascribed to Him a distinct personality; as proceeding from
the Father; as sent forth in the name of the Son, as feeling love;
experiencing grief; as forbidding; as abiding; as teaching; as bearing
witness; as appointing to work: and as interceding for men. All of
which clearly establishes for Him a personality.
_Distinct Personalities of Father, Son and Holy Ghost:_ The
distinct personality of these three individual Gods (united however
into one Godhead, or Divine Council), was made apparent at the baptism
of Jesus; for as He, God the Son, came up out of the water from His
baptism at the hands of John, a manifestation of the presence of the
Holy Ghost was given in the sign of the dove which rested upon Jesus,
while out of the glory of heaven the voice of God the Father was heard
saying, "This," referring to Jesus, "is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased." The distinctness of the personality of each member of
the Godhead is also shown by the commandment to baptize those who
believe in the Gospel equally in the name of each person of the Holy
Trinity. That is, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost.[A] And again, also in the Apostolic benediction, viz., "The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion
of the Holy Ghost, be with you all."[B]
[Footnote A: Matt. xxviii:19, 20.]
[Footnote B: II Cor. xiii:14.]
These three personages constitute the Christian Godhead, the Holy
Trinity. In early Christian theology they were regarded as the Supreme
Governing and Creating Power in heaven and in earth. Of which Trinity
the Father was worshiped in the name of the Son, while the Holy Ghost
bore record of both the Father and the Son. And though the Holy Trinity
was made up of three distinct persons, yet did they constitute but one
Godhead, or Supreme Governing Power.
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