The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion. B. H. Roberts

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       B. H. Roberts

      The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664592132

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       THE "MORMON" DOCTRINE OF DEITY. [A]

       CHAPTER I.

       I. FORM OF GOD.

       II. THE ONENESS OF GOD.

       III. THE PLURALITY OP GODS.

       IV. The Future Possibilities for Man.

       CHAPTER II.

       I.

       II.

       CHAPTER III.

       I. THE FORM OF GOD.

       II. MR. VAN DER DONCKT'S "PHILOSOPHICAL PROOFS" OF THE FORM AND NATURE OF GOD.

       III. MR. VAN DER DONCKT'S CONTRASTS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD.

       OF THE UNITY OF GOD.

       CHAPTER IV.

       I. JESUS CHRIST: THE REVELATION OF GOD. [A]

       II. EVIDENCE OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY FROM THE SCRIPTURE.

       III. THE CHARACTER OF GOD REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST.

       CHAPTER V.

       The Father and the Son are Represented as Distinct Persons, and also as Being in the Form of Men, in the First Vision of the Prophet of the New Dispensation.

       THE DOCTRINE OF THE GODHEAD ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF MORMON.

       THE DOCTRINES OF THE GODHEAD AND MAN ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM.

       THE GODHEAD ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS.

       THE "MORMON" DOCTRINE OF DEITY AS SET FORTH IN THE DISCOURSES OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH AND EARLY CHURCH PUBLICATIONS.

       USE OF THE WORD ELOHIM. [A]

       OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD. [A]

       CHAPTER VI.

       I.

       II.

       OF ADAM AND HIS RELATION TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH.

       THE LIVING GOD. [A]

       MATERIALITY. [A]

       CHAPTER VII.

       I. PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG. [A]

       II. ELDER ORSON PRATT. [A]

       CHAPTER VIII.

       "I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES." [A]

       Gift of the Holy Ghost.

       Jesus, the Father of this World.

       Glorious Possibilities of Man.

       Man to Become Like Christ.

       Personal Testimony.

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      In nothing have men so far departed from revealed truth as in their conceptions of God. Therefore, when it pleased the Lord in these last days to open again direct communication with men, by a new dispensation of the gospel, it is not surprising that the very first revelation given was one that revealed himself and his Son Jesus Christ. A revelation which not only made known the being of God, but the kind of a being he is. The Prophet Joseph Smith, in his account of his first great revelation, declares that he saw "two personages," resembling each other in form and features, but whose brightness and glory defied all description. One of these personages addressed the prophet and said, as he pointed to the other—

      "This is my beloved Son, hear him."

      This was the revelation with which the work of God in the last days began. The revelation of