Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Jeffrey R. Holland on Deification (April 2016)

  

We’re the church that says we’re gods and goddesses in embryo. We’re the Church that says we’re kings and queens. We’re priests and priestesses. People accuse us of heresy. They say we’re absolutely heretical, non-Christian because we happen to believe what all the prophets taught and that is that we are children of God, joint-heirs with Christ. We just happen to take the scriptures literally that kids grow up to be like their parents. But how does that happen? How does godliness happen? Do we just pop up? Are we just gong to pop up out of the graves. Hallelujah, it’s resurrection morning! Give me a universe or two. Bring me some worlds to run! I don’t think so. That doesn’t sound like line upon line or precept upon precept to me. How do you become godly? You do godly things. That’s how you become godly. And you practice, and you practice, and you practice. (Jeffrey R. Holland, Arizona April 2016, beginning at the 29:44 mark)

 

Further Reading

Responding to Christina Darlington on Early Christians and Deification