Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Orson Pratt: Physical Deformities Are Not Part of One’s Spirit Body

  

We, as Latter-day Saints, believe that the spirits that occupy these tabernacles have form and likeness similar to the human tabernacle. Of course there may be deformities existing in connection with the outward tabernacle which do not exist in connection with the spirit that inhabits it. These tabernacles become deformed by accident in various ways, sometimes at birth, but this may not altogether or in any degree deform the spirits that dwell with them, therefore we believe that the spirits which occupy the bodies of the human family are more or less in the resemblance of the tabernacle . . . (JOD 15:242 | December 15, 1872)

 

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