[First Presidency letter] [Yours of the 7th] occasioned both amazement and regret; surprise that one of your experience would undertake to teach a novel doctrine to the First Presidency, using terms both dogmatic and dictatorial, and sorrow that you place yourself in direct antagonism to an established and well-known principle of the Church. That which you pronounce 'a fallacy' and condemn as 'erroneous' is not new nor does it originate with the authorities whose names you mention, but is set forth in the revelations of God both ancient and modern. That the Jesus Christ of the New Testament was the Jehovah of the Old Testament is an accepted feature of the faith of the Latter-day Saints, and yet you presume to assail it as 'error' and call for its 'elimination' from a book that has been inspected and endorsed by the presidency of the Church and the council of the Twelve Apostles! We now pronounce your theory in opposition to it as wrong and misleading and unauthorized and forbid its promulgation as doctrine.... The notion that Christ, the firstborn, could not possibly be a Creator before he received a body of flesh and passed through a mortal probation, is one of your own and is not a doctrine of the Church ...
[Source: First Presidency, Letter to Ferdinand F. Hintze, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
Actually both doctrines are erroneous.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ of the A.D. period of history was the exact same Jesus Christ of the B.C. period of history. See Ether 3:14-16 (circa 2234 B.C.)
JEHOVAH is the only name forever past and forever future of the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. See Psalm 83:18.
2 distinctly different names for 2 separate Eternal Personages, BUT with the one and exact same mind, the Holy Ghost, the mind of the Father and the Son per 1 Cor.2:10-16, & Philip.2:5. The Holy Ghost, aka Holy Spirit, is NOT an Eternal Personage.
Here is some food for thought on this topic:
Deletehttps://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/115-6-15-29.pdf
Or
http://www.lds-mormon.com/jehovahasfather.shtml
Thanks
DeleteThe Holy Ghost is also the power, energy, and glory that emanates from the Father and the Son, and can at various times manifest itself into different forms, such as a man to Nephi and a white dove on Jesus shoulder at his water baptism. E = mc*2
ReplyDeleteFinally, Elohim is just the Hebrew PLURAL word for GOD. It is NOT the name of the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is also an error.
ReplyDeleteExamples of words for God (and language):
Eloah or Eloi (Hebrew singular or Aramaic singular).
Elohim (Hebrew plural, in reality, the Father AND the Son).
Allah (Arabic singular).
El oah = "the God"
ReplyDeleteAll ah = "the God"
Note how "Eoah" and "ah" are fragments from the one and only true name of the Father JEHOVAH. Of course in the new heaven and the new earth in eternity, JESUS CHRIST will have a new name per Rev.3:12.
Also, the Holy Ghost was and is manifested as "cloven tongues of fire"
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