The resurrection of the flesh of Jesus Christ (page 4)

hooberus

dan, were you addressing myself or gumby?

gumby

You should have known it was YOU hooberus, nobody ever takes me serious on these Jesus topics

Gumby

dan

Gumby, your whole ensamble kinda lends itself to levity rather than seriousness. However, Christ visited the spirits as a spirit. It says He visited them "in spirit."

hooberus

Jospeh Smith taught that God the Father is a man.

"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret." Joseph Smith April 1844.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, basing its belief on divine revelation, ancient and modern, proclaims man to be the direct and lineal offspring of Deity. God Himself is an exalted man, perfected, enthroned, and supreme. By His almighty power He organized the earth and all that it contains, from spirit and element, which exist coeternally with Himself. He formed every plant that grows and every animal that breathes, each after its own kind, spiritually and temporally??that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal, and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual.? He made the tadpole and the ape, the lion and the elephant, but He did not make them in His own image, nor endow them with godlike reason and intelligence. Nevertheless, the whole animal creation will be perfected and perpetuated in the Hereafter, each class in its ?distinct order or sphere,? and will enjoy ?eternal felicity.? That fact has been made plain in this dispensation (see D&C 77:3 ).

Man is the child of God, formed in the divine image and endowed with divine attributes, and even as the infant son of an earthly father and mother is capable in due time of becoming a man, so the undeveloped offspring of celestial parentage is capable, by experience through ages and aeons, of evolving into a God.

Joseph F. Smith
John R. Winder
Anthon H. Lund
First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
November 1909

dan

Hooberus, that's another forced inference. He is not man. He was a man. If you have melted ice, is it still ice? No. If you have burnt paper, is it still paper? No. They are two different substances that share a common connection. An exalted man was once a man, now he's not.

ellderwho

An exalted man was once a man, now he's not.

Dan I'm not sure you realize where you posting. Most of us were in a cult. Thats C-U-L-T.

1. Cults reject all paradoxes of scriptures.

2. Cults reject anything they cannot explain.

3. Cults use the Bible-----Plus!

4. Cults recongnize a man of a group as having absolute authority.

5. Cults deny salvation by faith alone.

6. Cult leaders do not want their followers to think for themselves.

7. Cults make it difficult to leave.

Dan your in a CULT, OK I said it.

BTW wheres all the outmatching Bible wit you spoke of?

hooberus

An exalted man was once a man, now he's not.

According to this logic Jesus Christ is no longer a man. Do you also belive that Jesus Christ is not a man?

drwtsn32

and in front, in huge letters, there's a big sign that says, "FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF."

So what? The JWs have a saying "make the truth your own." Guess that means the JWs aren't a cult either...

Seeking answers on your own is fine... as long as you come to the same answers that the church already teaches.

The resurrection of the flesh of Jesus Christ

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