Commenting on Mosiah 15:4, Reynolds and Sjodahl offered the following note:
The Son.
There is a tendency among modern professors of Christianity to accept the
doctrine of the Divinity of Jesus, on the slippery ground that every human is
divine. This, they argue, follows from the fact that all nature is permeated by
the divine, supreme essence. In one sense, they say, all men are divine, and
Christ is no more divine than we all are, or that all existing creatures are,
for that matter. The only difference between Him and us, in their view, is
this, that He realized He was Divine, while we hope to be able to realize our
divinity—some day.
It is not denied that there is
some truth in the conception of a universal divinity. We are all God’s
children. But Christ is much more than a child among children. He is the
Creator, our Savior, or Redeemer, the Captain of our Salvation, the Mediator
between the Father and the rest of God’s children. And that is a great
difference. (George Reynolds and Janne M. Sjodahl, Commentary on the
Book of Mormon, 7 vols. [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976],
2:166-67)
Further Reading
Blake Ostler on Christology and Christification in Mosiah 15 and D&C 93
