When your mothers first read this Scripture, it was so
plain to their understandings and to their children, that they understood it as
an angel would, but deacon Jones must be called in to explain, and he explained
it away. So I disagree with you, Mr. B., in the first point we have noticed,
for you believe that God is without body and parts, while the Bible declares. He
has a corporeal body; that in His likeness, precisely, He created Adam. The
priests of this age declare it is not so. The God Mr. B. believes in. is
without body, parts, and passions. The God that his "brother Mormon"
believes in, is described in the Bible as being a personage of tabernacle,
having eyes to see, for he that made the eye shall he not see? Having ears to
hear, for his ear are open to hear the prayers of the righteous. He has limbs
that he can walk, for the Lord God walked in the garden in the cool of the day.
He conversed with His children, as in the case of Moses at the fiery bush, and
with Abraham on the plains of Mamre. He also ate and drank with Abraham and
others. That is the God the "Mormons" believe in, but their very
religious Christian brethren do not believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
which is the God the Bible sets forth, as an organized corporeal being. In this
one point, you can now clearly see wherein we disagree.
. . .
Again, I believe he endowed the Apostles to go and preach
the Gospel of life and salvation to the world. For, said Jesus Christ, "Ye
are my witnesses; go and preach my resurrection from the dead. Tell the
people, the Father gave me for their sins; but in Adam all die, but in me all
shall again be made alive. If they ask you what they shall do to be saved,
tell them what I have told every other person who has been saved; that they can
only be saved in acts of obedience to prove they believe in me, in the Father,
in heaven, in angels, and in you, that you are my servants and true believers
in me. Tell them to go into the waters of baptism, and be baptized for the remission
of sins. That is the first ordinance to be attended to after believing. After
they have manifested their faith in God the Father, in me, and in your words by
their repentance, then immerse them in water in imitation of my burial, and
raise them up again out of the water, in imitation of my resurrection." (Brigham Young, “Effects
and Privileges of the Gospel the Latter-Day Saints and the Christian World,”
July 24, 1853, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [Liverpool: F.D. and S.W.
Richards, 1854], 1:238-39)
Here
are the relevant portions from LaJean Carruth’s transcription of the
shorthand made by George D. Watt. Note that it includes God the Father
eating with Adam, something not in the Journal of Discourses, showing another
distinction between the God and Father of Jesus Christ and the person of Adam:
I
disagree with you in first point we shall therefore disagree in next for you
believe God without body parts disagree because that book says has body that
Jesus in likeness of Father created Adam after his express person and made him
like himself precisely the priests says it is not so that Bible tells me it
is so we disagree upon that point without body parts or passions God we believe
says Brother B Brother Mormon says that God is described there being
personage of tabernacle having ears body walks converses with people travels
eats drinks with Abraham Adam and others that is God Mormon believes in
Christian brother doesn't believe it that is God that Bible sets forth . . . I
believe the Father begat the Son him be propitiation for ins of world he died
for the sins of world I believe he rose again the third day do you believe that
Brother B yes he was supposed by Mary to be the gardener [though?] he was the
Savior I believe it says B what next I believed he endowed to Apostles to go
and preach the gospel of life and salvation to the people says he go and preach
my resurrection tell them that Father gave me for their sins that in Adam
all died in me all made alive.
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