Chapter III: NEPHI 15:5.--Jesus gave the law of Moses

ETHER 3:4-16.--Jesus shows His spiritual body to the brother of Jared. Jesus is born into the world, and lives as a man, this earth life. In His personal form and appearance He is

HEB. 1:3.--"In the express image of His (the Father) person."

PHIL. 2:6.--He is in "the form of God."

COL. 1:15.--He is "the image of the invisible God."

After His resurrection, Jesus is still in human form; for

LUKE 24:39-43.--He said, "Behold, my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me and see; for a spirit hath not {505} flesh and bones, as ye see me have." He also eats with His disciples.

JOHN 20:20-27.--He shows His body with its marks to His disciples.

B. of M. III NEPHI 11.--He visits the Nephites.

ACTS 1:11.--As He went to heaven, in like manner will He return.

JOHN 4:24.--"God is a spirit." As the Father is like the Son, the Father's spirit must also dwell in a glorified body of flesh and bones.

JOHN 5:19.--"The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

_ANGELS._

_1. Angels are the Same Class of Beings as Men_--differing only in the scale of progressive being. In heaven there are two kinds:

DOC. & COV. 129.--Spirits of just men made perfect, and angels who are resurrected personages, having bodies of flesh and bones. Of the latter class we have examples in

LUKE 24:39-43.--The resurrected Jesus.

ACTS 10:30-32.--The angel who taught Cornelius.

ACTS 5:19.--Who released Peter from prison.

REV. 19:10.--Who visited John on the Island of Patmos.

_2. Evil Spirits_ are those who

JUDE 6th verse.--"Kept not their first estate," but

Isaiah 14:12; 1 PETER 2:4.--Were with Lucifer, cast out of heaven.

ACTS 5:3.--These spirits tempt men to do evil.

MATT. 8:28-32.--They so desire bodies that they strive for the possession of man's--sometimes, even the bodies of swine.

_MAN._

_1. Man is a Child of God_--his spirit having been born of heavenly parents before it was clothed upon with flesh.

ACTS 17:28.--We are God's offspring.

HEB. 12:9.--God is the "Father of spirits."

HEB. 2:17.--We are brethren to Jesus--and He was a Son of God.

ROM. 8:29.--Jesus is the first-born of many brethren.

JOHN 20:17.--God is the Father of Jesus and of Mary. This relationship between the Father, Jesus and mankind presumes

_2. The Preexistence of Man_--for Jesus and mankind are children of the same Father; Jesus existed with the Father before this world was; (John 1:2) therefore, it is reasonable to suppose that we, "the many brethren" also lived with our common Father.

JER. 1:5,--The Lord and ordained Jeremiah before he was born.

{506} JOB 38:4-7.--Sons of God shouted for joy when the foundations of the earth were laid.

JOHN 9:l.--There is a possibility of a man's sinning before birth.

DOC. & COV. 93:23-29.--Man as in the beginning with God.

GEN. l:26.--Man was created spiritually first; for

GEN. 2:5.--There was not a man to till the ground.

P. of G. P. Moses 3:5.--All things, man included, were created spiritually before they were in the earth.

_3. Man is in the Physical Image of God_--for man is in the same form as Jesus, and Jesus is in the "express image" of the Father.

GEN. 1:26.--Adam was created in the image of God.

GEN. 5:3.--Adam begat a son, Seth, "after his image."

MOSIAH 7:27.--Man was created after the image of God.

_4. God's Purpose in Giving Man this Earth-life,_ is

P. of G. P. Moses 1:39.--To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

II NEPHI 2:25.--"That he might have joy." To this end

DOC. & COV. 93:33, 34.--A combination of spirit and body was necessary; also

II TIM. 1:9; TITUS l:2.--Salvation and eternal life was planned and promised "before the world began." For this purpose--

_5. Man May Become Perfect;_ for Jesus said

MATT. 5:48.--Be ye perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.

HEB. 12:23.--Just men may become perfect.

I JOHN 3:2.-The Saints shall be like Jesus.

_6. Man's Spirit is Immortal;_ for it existed before coming to earth (see Preexistence under 2) and it will exist after the body is lain down.

LUKE 16: 19-31.--Jesus teaches this in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

I PETER 3:18-20.--Christ, while His body lay in the tomb, visited the spirits in prison. The spirit of the thief went with Him.

LUKE 24:37-39.--There are spirits: "A spirit has not flesh and bones," said Jesus.

DEUT. 34:5; JOSH. 1:1, 2.--Moses died and was buried; yet

MATT. 17:3, 4.--He appeared to Peter, James, and John. This must have been in the spirit; for

I COR. 15:20.--Jesus was the first person resurrected, He being, "the first fruits of them that slept."

_7. The Resurrection of Man's Body is assured;_ for

LUKE 24:36-42.--Jesus received again His body of flesh and bones.

MATT. 27:52, 53.--Many Saints received their bodies at Christ's resurrection.

JOB 19:25-27.--Job said that he would yet in his flesh see God.

{507} I THESS. 4:13-16; REV. 20:4-6; DOC AND COV. 88:97, 98.--The righteous will come forth in the first resurrection.

REV. 20:5.--"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished."

II NEPHI 9:12-14; ALMA 11:42-45.--The resurrection is to be literal.

_OUR FIRST PARENTS' FALL._

GEN. CHAP. 3; Rom. 5:12.--Our first parents brought sin and death into the world.

I TIM. 2:14.--Adam knowingly transgressed the lesser law that he might obey the greater law to "multiply and replenish the earth."

DOC. & COV. 29:41.--By the fall, man became spiritually dead--which is to be banished from the presence of God; he also became subject to the temporal death--a separation of the spirit from the body.

_THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST._

In order to attain to the perfection spoken about, man must be released from the effects of Adam's transgression.

REV. 13:8; P. of G. P. Moses 4:1-4.--This was provided for from the "foundation of the world" by Christ, the Savior, who has brought salvation to all men.

_1. General Salvation_ ROM. 5:12.--What was lost to the race through the fall was restored through Christ.

I COR. 15:21, 22.--"As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

I PETER 1:18-20.--We are redeemed through the blood of Christ.

II NEPHI 2:26, 27.--Men are redeemed from the fall. Although thus redeemed, unconditionally, from eternal spiritual and temporal death, man, exercising his free agency, commits personal sins; therefore, he needs also--

_2. Personal Salvation_ ROM. 3:23; I JOHN 1:8-10.--All men are sinful. Christ atoned for personal sins also, but to obtain forgiveness for them, man must do something himself.

HEB. 5:9.--Christ is the Author of salvation unto all those that obey Him.

I JOHN 1:7.--The blood of Christ cleanses us from sin, if we walk in the light.

I TIM. 4:10.--God is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

MOSIAH 3:11, 12.--Those who knowingly sin must repent.

_FAITH._

Faith is the first requirement to obtain forgiveness of personal sins.

{508} JOHN 3: 16; ACTS 16:31.--Belief in Christ is necessary to salvation.

HEB. 11:l.--Definition of faith.

ROM. 10:14, 15.--How faith comes.

ALMA 32:21-43.--How faith is developed.

JOHN 7:17.--How faith is perfected; they that do shall know.

DOC. AND COV. LECTURES ON FAITH--contain an exhaustive treatment of faith.

_FAITH AND WORKS._

JAMES 2:14-26.--Faith without works is dead.

MATT. 7:21.--Not he that sayeth, Lord, Lord, shall enter heaven, but he that doeth the will of God.

I JOHN l:3-6.--We know that we know the Lord, if we keep His commandments; and to know Him is eternal life. (John 17:3.)

Some religionists claim that the saving works come only after salvation is obtained, but Jesus said, "He that doeth shall enter."

HEB. 5:9.--Obedience must come before salvation.

REV. 22:14.--They who do the Lord's commandments shall enter the holy city.

DOC. & COV. 76: 111; MATT. 16:27.--Man rewarded according to his works.

GAL. 2:16.--"Man is not justified by the works of the law." What law?

GAL. 6:12-15; ROM. 3:28-31.--The law of Moses, especially circumcision.

_REPENTANCE._

ISAIAH 55:7.--The Lord will forgive those who repent.

LUKE 13:3.--Necessity of repentance.

II COR. 7:8-10.--"Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation . . . . but the sorrow of the world worketh death."

The process of true repentance may be stated thus: (1) Consciousness of sin; (2) Sorrow for sin; (3) Ceasing to sin, illustrated in

JONAH 3:5-10.--Case of Nineveh.

ALMA 15:3-12.--The conversion of Zeezrom.

_BAPTISM._

_1. History of_

P. of G. P. MOSES 6:63, 64.--The baptism of Adam.

I COR. 10:l, 2.--Israel was baptized in the cloud and in the

MARK 1:4, 5.--Baptism was well known among the Jews.

MOSIAH 18:5-17.--Alma baptizes in the waters of Mormon.

_2. Necessity and Object of_

MATT. 3:15.--In the case of Jesus, "to fulfill all righteousness."

{509} MARK 1:4; LUKE 3:3; ACTS 2:38.--For the remission of sins.

GAL. 3:27.--To "put on Christ."

JOHN 3:3, 5.--To permit a person to enter the kingdom of heaven.

ACTS 2:38; ACTS 19:1-6.--As a prerequisite to receiving the Holy Ghost.

ACTS 10:6, 48.--To obtain salvation: case of Cornelius.

ACTS 22:16.--To wash away sins: case of Paul.

_3. Mode of_

MATT. 3:16.--The baptism of Jesus: He came up out of the water.

MARK l:5.--John baptizes in the river Jordan.

ACTS 8:38.--Philip and the eunuch went down into the water.

ROM. 6:3-5; COL. 2:12.--We are buried with Christ in baptism. JOHN 3:5.--It is likened to a birth.