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- ...od of the Living—Keys Committed to Joseph Smith. The Last Dispensation—Jesus the Great Redeemer—An Everlasting Priesthood—The Powers of the Resurrec ...y this is something that man should have nothing to do with, so far as the divinity of its formation was concerned. For it is interpreted thus—"And in the da46 KB (8,450 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...ay to effect the ruin of those who believe in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have submitted to its ordinances, as at any previous time in the histo ...xpect to be numbered among the happy throng who are to live and reign with Jesus. When we shall have done all they have done, passed through and experienced15 KB (2,787 words) - 14:41, 13 April 2024
- ...effect that whereas each of them take in but a part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as declared in the Scriptures, in their creeds, the Latter-day Saints embod ...tion; they were in communication with the great unseen Head of the Church, Jesus, who was crucified, and had departed from their midst.20 KB (3,830 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...he has expressed—the desire to proclaim the truth, and to win souls unto Christ, and to help establish that Zion of which God has laid the foundation. It i ...g witness whose testimony has come down to us authenticated respecting its divinity, and in fact it is so open to attack that there are thousands who deem them26 KB (4,848 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...e have received it. If this be imposture where is the truth? The Gospel of Christ was to produce union, its mission was to produce love, to destroy strife, t ...dolent and neglects his duties, needs more religion, the religion of Jesus Christ, to make him more industrious. An indolent man cannot have much of the Spir30 KB (5,639 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...with this latter-day work that one of the most remarkable features of the divinity of the work is to be found in the gathering together of the people called L ...hurches laying claim to being divine, and to being the authentic church of Christ, was the true church. He, if he could not obtain knowledge from God, or som37 KB (6,895 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...and establish it upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets with Christ Jesus as the chief corner stone. There is no man who believes in the Revelations ...o a single passage of scripture from the time of father Adam down to Jesus Christ, showing that any man had power to administer in any of the ordinances of t23 KB (4,323 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...s uttered, as I have said there was no organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; there was no gathering place; no person had ever witn ...n's wisdom, not in their own strength, but calling upon God in the name of Jesus to bestow His Holy Spirit upon the people and to carry their words by that43 KB (8,146 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...IENT PROPHECY—RISE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET—ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS—THERE UNDYING FAITH IN GOD—THE WORLD PROVIN ...IENT PROPHECY—RISE OF JOSEPH THE PROPHET—ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—PERSECUTION OF THE SAINTS—THERE UNDYING FAITH IN GOD—THE WORLD PROVIN32 KB (5,876 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...may receive the truth and be prepared for the great day of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord, in relation to sending this mission forth among the inhabitants ...omise in the last chapter of Mark. Not only were these signs promised, but Jesus said: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believ21 KB (3,827 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—ITS GROWTH AND PROGRESS DESPITE OF OPPOSITION—CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE ...OR ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY—ITS GROWTH AND PROGRESS DESPITE OF OPPOSITION—CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT—SIMILARITY OF ANCIENT, TO MODERN OPPOSITION TO THE24 KB (4,297 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../29|The Gospel of Christ or Ancient Christianity, etc.]] ...nts were chosen on the same principle. There was any amount of teachers of divinity, any amount of professors of theology, any amount of reverend, and right re46 KB (8,267 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...ht concerning our duties as Latter-day Saints, as members of the Church of Christ, and it is of the utmost importance that when we thus meet, that we should ...ing in any manner to establish the claims of what is called "Mormonism" to divinity, or that the Commissioners themselves, in coming here, have once thought th39 KB (7,344 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...etween the sects of Christendom and of heathendom, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The people of this peculiar Church worship a Being wh ...rone to walk in the ways of darkness rather than in the light, because, as Jesus explained it, "their deeds are evil." This is the reason why there is so mu46 KB (8,705 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...said to him, "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" Jesus said to him, "Suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill al You know that Jesus said to His Apostles in ancient days, that they should "sit upon twelve thr37 KB (6,788 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...t that has ever lived of whom we have any knowledge, save and except Jesus Christ Himself. The world would say that he was an impostor; and the Lord said tha ...ieved His testimony. The great majority of mankind then living who knew of Christ, deemed Him an impostor, and considered him worthy to be put to death; prec26 KB (4,695 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../11|The Church of Christ, etc.]] ...of the most striking evidences that this people offer to the world of the divinity of this work, which the world opprobriously call "Mormonism," is the fact t35 KB (6,566 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...THE PEOPLE-INTEREST MANIFESTED BY THE WORLD IN THE "MORMONS"-EVIDENCES OF DIVINITY IN THE WORK-SAME EFFECTS FOLLOW THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT AGES-AUTHORITY REST ...THE PEOPLE-INTEREST MANIFESTED BY THE WORLD IN THE "MORMONS"-EVIDENCES OF DIVINITY IN THE WORK-SAME EFFECTS FOLLOW THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT AGES-AUTHORITY REST36 KB (6,687 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...clared in that dispensation God would gather together in one all things in Christ; not only the things in the earth, but also the things in the heavens—the ..."When darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people." When Jesus was upon the earth He told His disciples that the time would come when fals47 KB (8,759 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...n within its lids, but what agrees in sentiment and veracity with those of Christ and His Apostles, as contained in the Bible. Neither is there a word of cou ...f faith, and strengthen us to do the labors required of us, in the name of Jesus. Amen.15 KB (2,690 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |H=PREDICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON—EVIDENCE OF ITS DIVINITY—PROOF THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS INSPIRED—PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE INDIANS ...rnal of Discourses 25: PREDICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON—EVIDENCE OF ITS DIVINITY—PROOF THAT JOSEPH SMITH WAS INSPIRED—PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE INDIANS33 KB (6,107 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- We who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, believe in God; not a God who lived a few thousand ye ...we have become familiar with it. And so, if we understood the law by which Jesus operated when He fed the multitude, it would be as simple to us as the law40 KB (7,544 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...power to retard the work of God. By the revelation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the two forces which have been arrayed against each other since the beginn ...igham Young, nor any other man who has been identified with this Church of Christ.33 KB (6,131 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...is labors—I had heard every man say: "I know this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ." And I felt within myself, if I can acquire a knowledge of the truth of th ...that they could not be denied, that the same Gospel was preached by Jesus Christ and His Apostles—but I have found among those hundreds very few who were53 KB (9,777 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...y him through the Spirit of God, which rested down upon him. Men doubt the divinity of this work. Men question the spirit of prophecy, or the divine mission of ...d unto us as a people. There is no doubt of it. I say in the name of Jesus Christ, that it will be so. I promise it in His name, and in the authority which I36 KB (6,731 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../Chapter 2|Chapter 2: Jesus]] ...1) Yet at the same time they ignored the clear evidence in the prayer that Jesus was on earth, at that time, speaking to a Being elsewhere; and the equally22 KB (3,638 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ...nstream Christians and Latter-day Christians "both accept the atonement of Christ" ...e President Ezra Taft Benson to the effect that "it was in Gethsemane that Jesus took on Himself the sins of the world"29 KB (4,781 words) - 14:13, 13 April 2024
- ...istians; their worship is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ and accepted by Peter, James and John and all the ancient saints.<ref>Bill ...y which they practice "is the pure, unadulterated Christianity authored by Christ." If they do not believe this, then perhaps they had better choose another48 KB (8,193 words) - 14:14, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: How is the atonement of Jesus Christ portrayed in Latter-day Saint hymns== ...that this book is, in effect, a little body of experimental and practical divinity." Quoted in Ken Bible, "The Wesley's Hymns on Full Redemption and Pentecost16 KB (2,724 words) - 15:23, 13 April 2024
- ...ke Him whom they call the Son to be God all but the name, or they deny the divinity of the Son, giving Him a separate existence of His own, and making His sphe ===If the Father and the Son were numerically one, where would Jesus go?===14 KB (2,439 words) - 15:35, 13 April 2024
- How could the Jesus of the New Testament be the God of the Old Testament? The same man that sai ...the Canaanites depicted in Deuteronomy and Joshua with the God revealed in Jesus in the New Testament.<ref>Kenton Sparks, ''Sacred Word, Broken Word: Biblic51 KB (8,337 words) - 21:51, 12 April 2024
- ...5}}; {{Harvtxt|Smith|1830|p=544}} (story from the [[Book of Ether]] of [[Jesus]] revealing "the body of my spirit" to an especially faithful man, saying ...33}} (arguing that Smith's original view was [[Sabellianism|modalism]], [[Jesus]] being the embodied manifestation the spirit Father, and that by 1834 Smit37 KB (4,789 words) - 13:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ch has "exaggerated the ignorance" of Joseph Smith in order to bolster the divinity of the Book of Mormon |L2=Response to claim: 70 - The Book of Mormon claims that Jesus was born in Jerusalem15 KB (2,397 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...usands are preaching in precept, that "they that will live Godly in Christ Jesus, must suffer persecution." ...ok like the Millen[n]ium, the peaceable reign of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Yours in gospel bonds,86 KB (15,726 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...are not among the gifts of the spirit, I would observe that Paul speaks of Christ ascending to heaven, and gave gifts to men, and he gave some apostles, &c. ...hers-the ''opinion'' of Commentators-the ''opinion'' of Divines, bodies of divinity-and cart loads of Theology!-all the ''opinions of men'', and those opinions69 KB (12,359 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...mposition of Mosaic observances, and to teach them to rely on the grace of Christ alone for salvation. But self-righteousness is a weed of too quick a growth ...ocetæ: Nor can I understand his laying so grhat [great] a stress on Jesus Christ's coming in the flesh in any other manner.66 KB (11,536 words) - 14:59, 13 April 2024
- ...he dust to bear witness of the divinity of Thy Beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.<ref>Dieter F. Uchdorf, dedicatory prayer of Quetzaltenango Guatemala Templ3 KB (567 words) - 14:05, 13 April 2024
- ...e old paths, nor did search out the everlasting gospel; when the church of Christ, and the gifts which he left in it, could not be found; when men built up c ...t the things of God, that ye may be found spotless at the judgment seat of Christ;90 KB (16,997 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...rpetrators of such crimes! No ambitious, hypocritical pretended doctors of divinity, would ride over the ruins of men in gilded coaches, to lord it over God's ...of God! Such monsters betrayed, led to the cross, and slew the Lord Jesus Christ! Such infernal-influenced beings martyred the ancient saints, and marked th96 KB (17,771 words) - 15:49, 13 April 2024
- ...notwithstanding all that I suffer, I rejoice. I will live godly in Christ Jesus, though I suffer persecution. A man has just told me, that in Palmyra, in f ...ing gospel of Jesus. I feel much weakness as a man, but in the strength of Christ, I am resolved to blow the trumpet of the gospel, until the people of God a76 KB (13,626 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...Book of Mormon, and the revelations and commandments of God through Jesus Christ, respectfully show:- There is a spirit in man, possessed of so much "divinity," that it will discover truth by its own light; no matter whether it is cov80 KB (14,317 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...nch of the church, which we call the Tooboui branch of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints; (take particular notice) consisting of eleven members A conference of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints was held at the house of P. Brunson, pursuant to previ78 KB (13,863 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |L14=MINUTES OF A CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, HELD IN BURK'S GARDEN TAZWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA ON THE I am yours in Christ,77 KB (13,442 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ophet. In speaking of him, he bears a positive and direct testimony to the divinity of his mission. He does this without hesitation; just as if he meant what h A special Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convened on the platform of the Temple. There wer80 KB (14,469 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024
- |L8=DISSERTATION UPON CHRIST'S PARABLE OF THE LABORERS AND THE VINEYARD ...all diligence, by perils, by sea and land; as was the case in the days of Jesus, which appears in the 6th chapter of St. John's Gospel he said, "verily, ve79 KB (14,213 words) - 15:53, 13 April 2024
- |L6=Response to claim: "35. When Christ died, did darkness cover the land for three days or for three hours?" |L18=Response to claim: "47. The Bible says, 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin'. Why did Brigham Young say that there are some sins51 KB (8,385 words) - 14:00, 13 April 2024
- ...hen showed them the plates: This was a much more powerful witnesses of the divinity of the translation effort. Did the angel retrieve the plates from the curre ...ommunity of Christ, and they have been photographed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The document referred to by the author is indeed the23 KB (3,867 words) - 14:19, 13 April 2024
- ...n average of 1 reference to Christ every 1.7 verses. [{{Book:Black:Finding Christ|pages=16-18}}] ...rist was seen and touched by thousands of people in ancient America. Thus, Jesus really rose from the dead and the Atonement is real.13 KB (1,953 words) - 14:23, 13 April 2024
- ...witnesses would have said all objective statements testifying of the BOM's divinity. They would not have said things like "I did not see them as I do that pen ...ROBERTSON, AND PHILIP CATER, AND ELDER JOHN TAYLOR, OF THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, AT BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, FRANCE.'', Liverpool: John Taylo45 KB (7,307 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...ll wrong; that they were following the precepts of men instead of the Lord Jesus; that He had a work for him to perform, inasmuch as he should prove faithfu ...ll wrong; that they were following the precepts of men instead of the Lord Jesus; that He had a work for him to perform, inasmuch as he should prove faithfu63 KB (10,994 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- |section=An Address to All Believers in Christ ...rzg3TSazW&sig=wnhh_R4MyfhBmMnHydpfbF4-B0w ''An Address to All Believers in Christ''] in Google Books234 KB (43,989 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- ...y life, of the presence of the Holy Ghost and the special witness of Jesus Christ. How many boring stake conferences would I attend to be even once in the pr ...e provided the rock-bottom convictions I have about the reality of God and Christ and their divine work, as well as my most troubling, soul-searching moral s36 KB (6,144 words) - 15:17, 13 June 2022
- ...trangers: A Study of the ex-Mormon Narrative,” working paper draft, Yale Divinity School, 15 October 2007, 2, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract ...ticism about LDS truth claims, oppose the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on some matters of sexual morality, and seek to form a50 KB (7,519 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...of the Church at one time, said this: `I know that God lives. I know that Jesus lives; for I have seen him.'"<ref>Spencer W. Kimball, ''Ensign'' (May 1974) * "I know that Jesus lives; for I have seen Him."<ref>George Q. Cannon, “Supporting Church Lea28 KB (5,134 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...' ([https://www.lds.org/ensign/2001/12/five-marks-of-the-divinity-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng December 2001]).</ref> .../www.lds.org/ensign/1991/04/jesus-christ-our-savior-our-god?lang=eng Jesus Christ: Our Savior, Our God]|date=April 1991|pages=4; citing a talk given in San D29 KB (5,103 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- {{:Prothero:American Jesus:2003:in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, ...ase used repeatedly elsewhere to describe the Father's witness of Christ's divinity, whom Joseph also describes in the 1832 account as "the '''son''' of the li8 KB (1,292 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ..."It also makes no sense to me that Native Americans were Christians before Christ was even born" ..."It also makes no sense to me that Native Americans were Christians before Christ was even born"==13 KB (2,088 words) - 14:18, 13 April 2024
- ...ary 1841): 317; also cited in Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, ed. Brigham H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah ...ned, commend yourself to our God, and your God, and to the Church of Jesus Christ…28 KB (4,459 words) - 14:29, 13 April 2024
- * "Seest thou that ye are created after mine [Christ's] own image? Yea, even all men were created in the beginning after mine o ...rnacles, that we might become conformed to the likeness and image of Jesus Christ and become like him; that we might have a tabernacle, that we might pass th41 KB (6,617 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
- ...st King James Bibles today including that published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Only the 1611 and 1769 editions can be found online. ...and other items on Mormonism and Joseph Smith," About The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon): Perspective on all things LDS/Mormon/Latter-198 KB (31,143 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ...ncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'"== ...time of this writing), Master of Divinity candidate at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School:2 KB (326 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ==Non-LDS Christian Stephen H. Webb: The "sameness of Jesus" and humanity== ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall2 KB (249 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...Mormonism's differences try "to do justice to the honor and glory of Jesus Christ"== ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall2 KB (238 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall ...p. Thy answer the question of whether it is possible to say too much about Jesus with a resounding “No!”2 KB (337 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall ...odied: The Matter of the Latter-day Saints] (reprint from his book ''Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter'' (Oxford Univer2 KB (364 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall ...odied: The Matter of the Latter-day Saints] (reprint from his book ''Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter'' (Oxford Univer2 KB (270 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ==Pre-existent Jesus and divinized humanity== ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall2 KB (264 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...H. Webb: Creedal Christians in effect say the LDS make "too much of Jesus Christ"== ...ewood Christian Church, an evangelical church. He joined the Disciples of Christ during He was briefly a Lutheran, and on Easter Sunday, 2007, he officiall2 KB (285 words) - 15:47, 13 April 2024
- ...of the Savior’s agony. … I stood behind a tree in the foreground. … Jesus, with Peter, James, and John, came through a little wicket gate at my right ...s morning.<ref>{{IE1|author=Orson F. Whitney|article=The Divinity of Jesus Christ|date=Jan. 1926|start=224–25}} {{link|url=https://archive.org/details/impr3 KB (587 words) - 15:07, 13 April 2024
- ==Lorenzo Snow: "It was right here that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me at the time of the death of President Woodruff"== ...Allie, I want to tell you something. It was right here that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me at the time of the death of President Woodruff. He instructe8 KB (1,365 words) - 15:46, 13 April 2024
- ...ted by the power of God, and supplies the world with a new witness for the Christ, and the truth and the fulness of the Gospel.<ref>{{CR1|author=Brigham H. R ...de with me, in my more than fifty years of ministry in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that it was no trivial thing which called this Church27 KB (4,505 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...John Kempton, 26 August 1838, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, microfilm no. 840025.</ref> ...testimony of the Patriarch Hyrum Smith, one of the eight witnesses, to the divinity of the Book of Mormon and teh appearance of the plates from which it was tr5 KB (848 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ...Its purpose is "to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations" ([http://scriptures ...s not use the Book of Mormon in its research says nothing about the book's divinity and truthfulness.4 KB (650 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- my mind is of so mathematical and philosophical a cast, that the divinity of Moses makes no impression on me, and you will not be offended when I say ...ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.”17 KB (2,876 words) - 20:57, 12 April 2024
- ==Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the significance of Christ's death on the cross?== ===The importance of Christ's death on the cross is found in all LDS scriptures, and is spoken of frequ15 KB (2,554 words) - 15:22, 13 April 2024
- my mind is of so mathematical and philosophical a cast, that the divinity of Moses makes no impression on me, and you will not be offended when I say ...ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.”17 KB (2,875 words) - 13:37, 13 April 2024
- ...will be properly directed at anyone but God the Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ. ...Mormons believe, they will reverence and worship God the Father and Jesus Christ. The goal is not to equal them or to achieve parity with them but to imitat5 KB (828 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...e LDS, Irenaeus did not believe that this belief in any way displaced God, Christ, or the Holy Ghost: Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, of his boundless love, became what we are that he might m15 KB (2,524 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ...e in harmony or tension with that divinity. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all people may “progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their1 KB (187 words) - 15:44, 13 April 2024
- Some readers of the Book of Mormon and other students of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have become concerned with issues that might, in their ...human" should feel right at home to Latter-day Saints whose theology sees divinity as the fullest expression of humanity.3 KB (486 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...Joseph, introduced the doctrine of plural marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...Smith did introduce the doctrine of plural marriage in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.522 KB (89,565 words) - 14:45, 24 September 2023
- ...s, and giving refuge under His wings, the metaphor is completely clear. As Jesus said, “How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a h Furthermore, Christopher Stead of the Cambridge Divinity School (another non-Mormon scholar) explains how such statements would have15 KB (2,489 words) - 15:30, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Mary was still a virgin when Jesus was born?== ...also claimed that Latter-day Saints reject the "Evangelical belief" that "Christ was born of the virgin Mary, who, when the Holy Ghost came upon her, miracu11 KB (1,741 words) - 01:15, 27 April 2024
- [[Jesus Christ/Divinity without a body|Jehovah, the premortal Jesus Christ]], was part of the Godhead before his mortal birth. He was the God of Israe2 KB (290 words) - 15:11, 13 April 2024
- ...y of talking about God because of disputes about the nature and mission of Christ=== ...ne Godhead appeared, there the Dynamists or Adoptionists, who conceived of Christ either as a man who was raised up by being adopted by God, or as a man fill2 KB (379 words) - 15:39, 13 April 2024
- ...who according to the flesh is the only begotten as it is written. (In his divinity he having gone back into the spirit world, and came in the spirit to Mary a11 KB (1,835 words) - 15:28, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Is Jesus Christ the savior of other worlds?== For we saw him [Jesus Christ], even on the right hand of God; and we heard [a] voice bearing record that8 KB (1,285 words) - 15:25, 13 April 2024
- ...John Kempton, 26 August 1838, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, microfilm no. 840025.</ref> ...testimony of the Patriarch Hyrum Smith, one of the eight witnesses, to the divinity of the Book of Mormon and teh appearance of the plates from which it was tr2 KB (278 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ...g/study/manual/teachings-joseph-smith/chapter-3?lang=eng "Chapter 3: Jesus Christ, the Divine Redeemer of the World,"] ''Teachings of Presidents of the Churc We link the names of Jesus Christ and of Joseph Smith. Christ is the Lord; he worked out the atoning sacrifice; he is the resurrection an7 KB (1,043 words) - 20:58, 12 April 2024
- ...were generally forgotten until historians working for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rediscovered and published them in the 1960s. Since th ...e urgent need for unity in proclaiming the divinity and teachings of Jesus Christ.10 KB (1,587 words) - 15:33, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Do Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") consider Jesus to be the brother of Satan?== ===We believe Jesus is the divine Son of God and that Satan is a fallen angel, but that God is12 KB (1,980 words) - 15:17, 13 April 2024
- ...ary 1841): 317; also cited in Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, ed. Brigham H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah ...ned, commend yourself to our God, and your God, and to the Church of Jesus Christ…28 KB (4,458 words) - 20:58, 12 April 2024
- ...eological and ontological developments that led to the confession of Jesus Christ as 'true God of true God' must not cause believers to overvalue or underval9 KB (1,507 words) - 15:48, 13 April 2024
- ...papers.org.</ref> They were called to be "special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world" and given responsibility, "under the direction of the Pre ...rum of the Twelve Apostles, including those living in our day, have to see Christ in person to receive this same testimony and bear it to the world.23 KB (4,066 words) - 14:00, 13 April 2024
- ...ivative of Adam and not derivative of God that she was two steps away from divinity, not one step as Adam was. ...e symbolizes the gift that women give to every soul that chose the plan of Christ. It symbolizes the role and power of women in the Great Plan of Happiness.8 KB (1,445 words) - 15:10, 13 April 2024
- Since the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, there has been a continual and increasing opposition ...ble State, thousands have listened to their tale of woe, and the gospel of Christ has been prominently held forth wherever the Saints have been scattered, an77 KB (13,683 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |L6=Minutes of a Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, held in Nauvoo, Ill, Commencing Oct. 1st, 1841. Brethren the blessings of the kingdom are for you, for the body of Christ, for71 KB (12,386 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...and vicinity, and to my old friends and associates in the kingdom of Jesus Christ:-Greeting:- ...were strangers to me but yesterday, but who are made nigh by the blood of Christ,) that I behold in their features some outlines of those faces which I have70 KB (12,552 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...fourteenth year, (form [from] the time the sign was given of the birth of Christ,) the war between the robbers and the people of Nephi did continue, and did Again; this history informs us that about four hundred years after Christ, this nation of Nephites were brought down and destroyed by the Lamanites;73 KB (12,675 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- |L9=THE COMING OF CHRIST. ...e came directly from the city of Jerusalem, about six hundred years before Christ. They were principally Israelites, of the descendants of Joseph. The Jaredi69 KB (12,301 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024