Posted by:
baura
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Date: September 22, 2014 06:34PM
The LDS scriptures used to contain the "Lectures on Faith."
They were removed sometime around 1921. They contained the
following:
"2. There are two personages who constitute the great
matchless, governing and supreme power over all things--by whom
all things were created and made, that are created and made,
whether visible or invisible: whether in heaven, on earth, or
in the earth, under the earth, or throughout the immensity of
space--They are the Father and the Son: The Father being a
personage of spirit, glory and power: possessing all perfection
and fulness: The Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, a
personage of tabernacle, made, or fashioned like unto man, or
being in the form and likeness of man, or, rather, man was
formed after his likeness, and in his image;-- he is also the
express image and likeness of the personage of the Father:
possessing all the fulness of the Father, or, the same fulness
with the Fathe[r]; being begotten of him, and was ordained from
before the foundation of the world to be a propitiation for the
sins of all those who should believe in his name, and is called
the Son because of the flesh--and descended in suffering below
that which man can suffer, or, in other words, suffered greater
sufferings, and was exposed to more powerful contradictions
than any man can be. "
--Lectures on Faith, D&C 1835 edition.
Now TBMs will say, It doesn't say God DOESN'T have a body. But
when you are DESCRIBING two things and you give different
descriptions to them both the only reason for that is to show
DIFFERENCES between them.
Note also that the Son "is called the Son because of the
flesh" This makes no sense if God the Father also is a being
of flesh and bone.