Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The Eternality of the Father being God in Orson Hyde's Dedicatory Prayer of Jerusalem


In his 22 November 1841 dedicatory prayer of Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives, apostle Orson Hyde (1805-1878) affirmed the eternality of God the Father being divine:

O Thou! Who art from everlasting to everlasting, eternally and unchangeably the same, even the God who rules in the heavens above, and controls the destines of men on the earth . . . (as cited in Yong-In Spencer Shin, Plain and Precious: Finding the Fulness of the Gospel Through the Bible-Book of Mormon Connection [American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Inc., 2019], 276)

That the Father is in view can be seen near the end of the prayer:

O my Father in heaven! I now ask Thee in the name of Jesus to remember Zion . . .  (Ibid., 278)