Sunday, September 25, 2011

Self Image

Jesus didn't claim perfection until after his resurrection, so why are we so hard on ourselves for not bring perfect?  The account in Matthew was while he was on earth.  The account in 3 Nephi 12 is after he was resurrected.

Matthew 5: 48
 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

3 Nephi 12:48
 48 Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Characteristics of Christ

Premortal

Ether 3:16
 16 Behold, this abody, which ye now bbehold, is the cbody of mydspirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit; and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear unto my people in the flesh.

Characteristics of Spirits

Ether 3:16
 16 Behold, this abody, which ye now bbehold, is the cbody of mydspirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit; and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear unto my people in the flesh.


Alma 34:34
 34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful acrisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth bpossess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Law of Moses


Galatians 3:16-19
 16 Now to aAbraham and his seed were the bpromises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was afour hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
 18 For if the ainheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
 19 aWherefore then serveth the law? It was badded because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Comment:  The gospel and covenant were given to Abraham anciently, in the Old Testament.  The law of Moses was added due to the people's transgression, until Christ would come.

Gospel in the Old Testament

Galatians 3:16-19
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Comment: The gospel and covenant were given to Abraham anciently, in the Old Testament. The law of Moses was added and the higher law removed due to the people's transgression, until Christ would come.
Also, Christ was preached to Abraham and he was told that Christ would come through his seed.


Sunday, September 4, 2011

Judgement Day

James J Hamula, The Sacrament and the Atonement, October 2014 General Conference
"While every one of us will return to the presence of God, not every one of us will remain with Him."

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, "The Challenge to Become", General Conference, October 2000
"The Apostle Paul taught that the Lord’s teachings and teachers were given that we may all attain 'the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ' (Eph. 4:13). This process requires far more than acquiring knowledge. It is not even enough for us to be convinced of the gospel; we must act and think so that we are converted by it. In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something."
"From such teachings we conclude that the Final Judgment is not just an evaluation of a sum total of good and evil acts—what we have done. It is an acknowledgment of the final effect of our acts and thoughts—what we have become. It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions. The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become."