The Mortal Messiah

Question 1

Eternal verities prerequisite to an understanding of the mortal life of the Messiah.

Bruce R. McConkie
The Mortal Messiah
Book 1, pp. 21 - 25

Answer 1

1. The Father is an exalted Person.
2. Christ and all men are spirit children of the Father.
3. The spirit children of the father were subject to his laws.
4. All spirits were endowed with agency in pre-mortal life.
5. Spirits developed an infinite variety and degree of talents while yet in pre-mortal life.
6. Spirit children have the capacity to become like their Eternal Father.
7. Mortal life is an essential step leading to eternal life.
8. Mortal life is simply a projection of pre-mortal life.

Question 2

In the pure language, spoken by Adam, the name of the Father is?

Answer 2

Man of Holiness

Question 3

What did Joseph Smith teach in the King Follet discourse about God the Father?

Answer 3

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder happens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible, – I say, if you were to see Him today, you would see him like a man in form – like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instructions from, and walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another.”

Question 4

Doctrine and Covenants 130:22

Answer 4

“The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as mans”

Question 5

Hebrews 1:3

Answer 5

“When Paul says the Son is the brightness of his Father’s glory, “and the express image of his person”, he is certifying that the Risen Lord – who ate and drink with the apostles after he rose from the dead, and into whose riven side they had thrust their hands – had a resurrected body of the same sort and kind possessed by the exalted Father.”