Christ in image
of God.
Missionary: Wonderful. Now I want you
to read what Christ did when he got to heaven. This is the Apostle Paul talking,
and he is speaking of his own time.
(Mrs. Rosen reads Hebrews 1:1-3)
Missionary: Let’s go over it. “GOD,” .
. . which means God the Father, doesn’t it?
Mrs. Rosen: Yes.
Missionary: “God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers” . . . who are the
fathers
Mrs. Rosen: Our ancestors?
Missionary: Right. “God . . . spoke to
our fathers by the prophets” . . . who are they? (Indicate the Old Testament.)
Mrs. Rosen: The Old Testament
prophets.
Missionary: yes.
“Hath in these last days, (Paul's days)
spoke unto US by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, BY WHOM
ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS.” . . . . Remember reading how God had help? “Who,
being in the brightness of his glory and” . . . read it . . .
Mrs. Rosen: . . . “the express image
of his person.” . .
Missionary: Just a minute. When an actor
appears in person at the theatre where his movie is showing, is only the movie
there, or is he there physically?
Mrs. Rosen: He is there physically.
Missionary: So when we speak of
someone’s person, we mean his body, don’t we?
Mrs. Rosen: Yes.
Missionary: So Christ was in the
express image of God’s person. So God has a body of what?
Mrs. Rosen: Flesh and bones.
. . .
Missionary: Right.
“Upholding all things by the word of
his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,” then what did Christ do
Mrs. Rosen: “Sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on high.”
Missionary: Does that mean that when Christ
ascended He got into God’s body?
Mrs. Rosen: Hardly.
Missionary: So God and Christ have
bodies of what in heaven?
Mrs. Rosen: Flesh and bones. (Rose
Marie Reid, Suggested For Teaching the Gospel to the Jewish People [Salt
Lake City: Deseret News Press, n.d.], 120-21)
Further
Reading:
Lynn
Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment
