Biblical Reasons Ministry
Did they really
say that?
God "fathered" Jesus with Mary as the result of "natural action?"
As found at http://www.ils.unc.edu/~unsworth/mormon/birthofjesus.html
Birth of Jesus Christ
Prophet Brigham Young (1801 - 1877):
“While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to
reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity
that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are
the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook
of flesh and blood – was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 115
“... I believe the Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said he
did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten of the
Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget him in
person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and begat Jesus
Christ.”
- Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 1, p. 238
Apostle Heber C. Kimball (1802 - 1868):
“... In relation to the way in which I look upon the works of God and his
creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my father, and
also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the Scriptures, he is the first
begotten of his father in the flesh, and there was noting unnatural about
it.”
- Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 8, p. 211
Apostle Orson Pratt (1811 - 1881):
“God, the Father of our spirits, became the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
according to the flesh.... The fleshy body of Jesus required a Mother as
well as a Father. Therefore, the Father and Mother of Jesus, according to
the flesh, must have been associated together in the capacity of Husband and
Wife; hence the Virgin Mary must have, for the time being, the lawful wife
of God the Father.... He had a lawful right to overshadow the Virgin Mary in
the capacity of a husband, and beget a Son, although she was espoused to
another; for the law which He gave to govern men and women, was not intended
to govern Himself, or to prescribe rules for his own conduct.”
- Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 158
Prophet Joseph F. Smith (1838 - 1918):
“Now, we are told in scriptures that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son
of God in the flesh. Well, now for the benefit of the older ones, how are
children begotten? I answer just as Jesus Christ was begotten of the
flesh... Jesus is the only person who had our Heavenly Father as the father
of his body.”
- Prophet Joseph F. Smith, Family Home Evening Manual, pp. 125,
126, 1972
Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith (1876 - 1972):
“Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was
not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!”
- Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, v. 1, p.
18, 1954
Apostle Bruce R. McConkie (1915 - 1985):
“Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men
are begotten by mortal fathers.”
- Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 547, 1966
“And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being;
he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that any mortal
son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing figurative about his
paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in the normal and natural
course of events, for he is the Son of God, and that designation means what
it says.”
- Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 792, 1966
“As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim;
he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man who is literally our Father in
heaven. He was born in mortality in the literal and full sense as the Son
of God. He is the Son of his father in the same sense that all morals are
the sons and daughters of their fathers.”
- Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mortal Messiah, v. 1, p. 330
Prophet Ezra Taft Benson (1899 - 1994):
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in which He performed
His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy Being we worship as
God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the son of Joseph, nor was He
begotten by the Holy Ghost.”
- Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.
7
Others:
“Thus, God the Father became the literal father of Jesus Christ. Jesus was
born of a mortal mother and an immortal father.”
- Gospel Principles, p. 57, 1988
“[Jesus Christ] was willing to make payment because of his great love for
mankind, and he was able to make payment because he lived a sinless life and
because he was actually, literally, biologically the Son of God in the
flesh.”
- Messages for Exaltation, For the Sunday Schools of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gospel Doctrine Class, pp. 378-379,
1967
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