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Post Date: 24th Jul, 2010 - 9:12pm / Post ID: #
What about the Holy Ghost's body? Studies Doctrine Mormon
Name: Mason
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Comments: Has anyone considered that the body the Holy Ghost needs is a different body? In other words his position is not one for coming into this world and getting one like we are/ maybe he is not even subject to the plan of Salvation.
Post Date: 9th Jul, 2011 - 6:40pm / Post ID: #
Page 10 body Ghosts Holy the What
Name: Don
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Comments: Adam, is a position, the first man, which on this earth was filled by Michael, who from the pre-existence was a member of the Presidency of Creation. Question 1)Does that mean that each earth created has an Adam? I believe the answer is affirmative. However, the Atonement of the Savior is infinite and eternal with the power unto salvation for all those that inhabit worlds created by the power of His word.
Is the Holy Ghost also a position unique to each earth? The Father and the Son and their power, glory and dominion extend throughout the expanse of the Creators realm, but does that also apply to the Holy Ghost? We know that the Holy Ghost dwells in the Spirit World and that when the Savior organized His church there after the crucifixion, He left the work of the (first) "comforter" to the charge of the Holy Ghost. The spirit world for this earth is on this earth. Likewise, the spirit world for other earths remain on those earths. Likely, the position of Holy Ghost is unique to each earth.
Post Date: 23rd Jan, 2012 - 12:50am / Post ID: #
body Ghosts Holy the What
Name: JoeD
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Comments: Lots of interesting stuff, [..] I personally felt the lack of the presence of the Holy Ghost while reading this a testimony of truth to me that its not necessary to discuss and we should instead be focusing on the necessary doctrines of the Gospel. To quote Harold B. Lee:
QUOTE You just remember what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians. He said, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2). Well now, as teachers of our youth, you're not supposed to know anything except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. On that subject you're expected to be an expert. You're expected to know your subject. You're expected to have a testimony. And in that you'll have great strength. If the President of the Church has not declared the position of the Church, then you shouldn't go shopping for the answer. (Harold B. Lee, Teachings of Harold B. Lee (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1996), 445
Add to this another quote:
QUOTE Before he was president of the Church, Joseph Fielding Smith wrote:
AVOID SPECULATING ON DESTINY OF THE SPIRIT. The Holy Ghost is not a personage with a body of flesh and bones, and in this respect differs from the Father and the Son. The Holy Ghost is not a woman, as some have declared, and therefore is not the mother of Jesus Christ.
It is a waste of time to speculate in relation to his jurisdiction. We know what has been revealed and that the Holy Ghost, sometimes spoken of as the Holy Spirit, and Comforter, is the third member of the Godhead, and that he, being in perfect harmony with the Father and the Son, reveals to man by the spirit of revelation and prophecy the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our great duty is so to live that we may be led constantly in light and truth by this Comforter so that we may not be deceived by the many false spirits that are in the world.
I have never troubled myself about the Holy Ghost whether he will sometime have a body or not because it is not in any way essential to my salvation. He is a member of the Godhead, with great power and authority, with a most wonderful mission which must be performed by a spirit. This has satisfied me without delving into mysteries that would be of no particular benefit.
AVOID SPECULATING ON DESTINY OF THE SPIRIT. The Holy Ghost is not a personage with a body of flesh and bones, and in this respect differs from the Father and the Son. The Holy Ghost is not a woman, as some have declared, and therefore is not the mother of Jesus Christ.
It is a waste of time to speculate in relation to his jurisdiction. We know what has been revealed and that the Holy Ghost, sometimes spoken of as the Holy Spirit, and Comforter, is the third member of the Godhead, and that he, being in perfect harmony with the Father and the Son, reveals to man by the spirit of revelation and prophecy the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our great duty is so to live that we may be led constantly in light and truth by this Comforter so that we may not be deceived by the many false spirits that are in the world.
I have never troubled myself about the Holy Ghost whether he will sometime have a body or not because it is not in any way essential to my salvation. He is a member of the Godhead, with great power and authority, with a most wonderful mission which must be performed by a spirit. This has satisfied me without delving into mysteries that would be of no particular benefit.
Next, J. Reuben Clark said this:
QUOTE Here we must have in mind-must know-that only the President of the Church, the Presiding High Priest, is sustained as Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the Church, and he alone has the right to receive revelations for the Church, either new or amendatory, or to give authoritative interpretations of scriptures that shall be binding on the Church....
When any man, except the President of the Church, undertakes to proclaim one unsettled doctrine, as among two or more doctrines in dispute, as the settled doctrine of the Church, we may know that he is not "moved upon by the Holy Ghost," unless he is acting under the direction and by the authority of the President.
Of these things we may have a confident assurance without chance for doubt or quibbling.
-J. Reuben Clark, Jr., "Church Leaders and the Scriptures," [original title "When Are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?"] Immortality and Eternal Life: Reflections from the Writings and Messages of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Vol, 2, (1969-70): 221; address to Seminary and Institute Teachers, BYU (7 July 1954); reproduced in Church News (31 July 1954); also reprinted in Dialogue 12/2 (Summer 1979): 68-81.
When any man, except the President of the Church, undertakes to proclaim one unsettled doctrine, as among two or more doctrines in dispute, as the settled doctrine of the Church, we may know that he is not "moved upon by the Holy Ghost," unless he is acting under the direction and by the authority of the President.
Of these things we may have a confident assurance without chance for doubt or quibbling.
-J. Reuben Clark, Jr., "Church Leaders and the Scriptures," [original title "When Are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?"] Immortality and Eternal Life: Reflections from the Writings and Messages of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Vol, 2, (1969-70): 221; address to Seminary and Institute Teachers, BYU (7 July 1954); reproduced in Church News (31 July 1954); also reprinted in Dialogue 12/2 (Summer 1979): 68-81.
And finally the LDS Newsroom official statement approved by the First Presidency:
Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine. A single statement made by a single leader on a single occasion often represents a personal, though well-considered, opinion, but is not meant to be officially binding for the whole Church. With divine inspiration, the First Presidency...and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles...counsel together to establish doctrine that is consistently proclaimed in official Church publications. This doctrine resides in the four 'standard works" of scripture (the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price), official declarations and proclamations, and the Articles of Faith. Isolated statements are often taken out of context, leaving their original meaning distorted.
Post Date: 26th May, 2013 - 4:51pm / Post ID: #
What about the Holy Ghost's body?
Name: Patrick
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Title: The Holy Ghost
Comments: This is the great secret, on an Earth like this the Holy Ghost was a fallen spirit, on this Earth He was Exalted God the Holy Spirit, in another Earth to come He will be exalted God the Son, like the savior He will have a tangible body then.
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