![]() ![]() One of them spake unto me calling me by name and said (pointing to the other) ‘This is my beloved Son, Hear him.'”(4) The more familiar 1838 account, which was canonized into the Pearl of Great Price, reads: “When the light rested upon me I saw two personages (whose brightness and glory defy all description) standing above me in the air. Another personage soon appeared like unto the first…”(3) A personage appeared in the midst of this pillar of flame, which was spread all around and yet nothing consumed. A pillar of fire appeared above my head which presently rested down upon me, and filled me with unspeakable joy. The 1835 account states: “I called on the Lord in mighty prayer. “Now Paul is saying that the resurrected Christ is in the express image of his Father’s person, which is to say that the Father also has a body of flesh and bones or, as latter-day revelation–equally blunt, equally succinct, equally plain–says simply: ‘The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s the Son also but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit.’ (D&C 130:22).”(2)Ī careful perusal of the recorded accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision reveals the same doctrine. ‘Handle me, and see,’ he said to his affrighted disciples after his resurrection, ‘for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.’ (Luke 24:39) To show the material nature of his resurrected body, he ate and drank with them, as a resurrected Man, and they felt the nail marks in his hands and feet and thrust their hands into his wounded side. ![]() As all the meridian saints knew, the Lord rose from the dead with a body of flesh and bones. McConkie wrote of Paul’s words in this first chapter of Hebrews: “Seldom, in words as few, and with logic as persuasive, does Holy Writ set forth so clearly the nature and kind of Being that God is. In the first chapter of Hebrews, Paul brings his listeners to a true knowledge of Jesus Christ, “whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power…” (Hebrews 1:2, 3)Įlder Bruce R. Jesus Christ in the Express Image of the Father Herein we read about the relationship of the Father and the Son, the Melchizedek priesthood, the principle of faith, and the source of authority. In it are some of the most powerful doctrines of the New Testament in clarion form. The epistle to the Hebrews is Christ centered. It appears that soon thereafter, Paul wrote the epistle to the Hebrews to show them by their own scripture and by sound reason why they should no longer practice the law of Moses.”(1) This was at least ten years after the conference at Jerusalem had determined that certain ordinances of the Law of Moses were not necessary for the salvation of gentile Christians, but had not settled the matter for Jewish Christians. 60), he found that many thousands of Jewish members of the Church were still ‘zealous of the law’ of Moses (Acts 21:20). When Paul returned to Jerusalem at the end of his third mission (about A.D. Looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews “was written to Jewish members of the Church to persuade them that significant aspects of the Law of Moses, as a forerunner, had been fulfilled in Christ, and that the higher gospel law of Christ had replaced it. Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ![]() Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ![]() Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. ![]()
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