Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young

We belong to our progenitors—to our Father and our God [see Acts 17:29] (DBY, 50). Had he refused to obey his Father, he would have become a son of perdition.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

Faith in God and in his Son, Jesus Christ, and in the restored gospel, has guided him from boyhood. Jesus Christ is literally the Son of God, the Only Begotten in the flesh.

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Gospel Principles

The angel declared, “Behold the lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father!” (1 Nephi 11:21). Thus, God the Father became the literal father of Jesus Christ.

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Gospel Principles

God: Our Father in Heaven, the Father of Jesus Christ in the flesh and of the spirits of all mortals. Only Begotten Son: Jesus Christ, the only person who had God the Father as the father of his mortal body.

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Primary 6: Old Testament

After Adam and Eve “fell” from the presence of God and became mortal, we needed a Savior so we could live again and return to our Father in Heaven. Place the picture of Adam and Eve next to the one of God the Father and Jesus Christ.

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2007 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children’s Sacrament Meeting Presentation: I’ll Follow Him in Faith

Teach them that the Atonement makes it possible for us to live with Heavenly Father again. Write What God has created for me under a picture of Jesus Christ, and read 3 Nephi 9:15.

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The Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part B

My father hugged me, and when we went into the house my mother said that the night I left, some Mormon missionaries had come. ‘Your father has read almost the whole Book of Mormon and is going to be baptized,’ she said. My father, at age 40, became the best father in the world, with a unique humility, and my brother will soon serve as a missionary.

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Young Women Manual 2

One, we would receive a mortal body, created in the image of God. It is a gift from God our Father.

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Young Women Resource Guide 2009—Manual 1

How can remembering I am a daughter of God help me avoid these comparisons? When these promptings come, they will not generally stop us in our tracks, for the Spirit of God does not speak with a voice of thunder.

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Young Women Manual 3

Through understanding that God was his Heavenly Father and that he was literally a spirit child of God, Ev was able to find great purpose in his life.We Can Increase Our Understanding of God the FatherDiscussion• Why was it difficult for Ev to pray to his Heavenly Father? Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ are one.• In what ways are God the Father and Jesus Christ one?

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith

If, therefore, we can ascertain the form of the “Father of spirits,” “The God of the spirits of all flesh,” we shall be able to discover the form of the original man.Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is “the express image” of His Father’s person (Hebrews 1:3). And I, God, created man in mine own image, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I him, male and female created I them” [Moses 2:26–27].The Father of Jesus is our Father also.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith

It is a sign and a commandment which God has set for man to enter into His kingdom. Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, … came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay

Just as real and just as close to me seems the Savior of the world.I feel as I have never felt before that God is my Father. I ask tonight that every father in the Church see to it that in all sincerity he impress his children with the reality of the existence of God and with the reality that God will guide and protect his children.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith

There was nothing in it, in the beginning, that was superfluous or unnecessary; nothing in it that could be dispensed with; it was a complete plan devised in the beginning by the wisdom of the Father and the holy ones for the redemption of the human race and for their salvation and exaltation in the presence of God. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation. 7God did speak to His servant Joseph Smith, and did reveal Himself unto him; not only the Father, but the Son also.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee

Here the Lord [Jehovah], who was that great illustrious spirit like unto God [the Father], came among those organized intelligences called spirits, and He said to them, We will make an earth whereon you as spirits may dwell, and you who live worthy here in the spirit world can go down upon that earth and be added upon. Having established our premortal identity, who we are—sons and daughters of a God before this world was, who is the Father of the spirits of all men who live in the flesh upon the earth—then we are prepared to proceed to the next answer to the query.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith

My whole life has been identified with this people,” he said. 1 He sought earnestly to know God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, and to serve them with whole-souled devotion. And while he could play with children and amuse himself at simple, innocent games among men, he also communed with the Father and the Son and spoke with angels, and they visited him, and conferred blessings and gifts and keys of power upon him.” 8Joseph F. was not yet six years old when his uncle Joseph and his father, Hyrum, laid down their lives for the kingdom of God.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith

There is no other God in heaven but that God who has flesh and bones.”13 The Godhead is in perfect unity, and God the Father presides. “There is much said about God and the Godhead. The teachers of the day say that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, and they are all in one body and one God.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith

He said, “I believe with all my soul in God the Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 1 While he was President of the Church, he sought to clarify the identity and roles of the Father and the Son, especially since some scripture passages designate Jesus Christ as Father. It is unreasonable, a physical, a theological inconsistency, to imagine that even God the eternal Father would be in two places, as an individual, at the same moment.

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith

A Aaronic Priesthood administers in outward ordinances, 109 holders must be called of God, 110 John the Baptist held, 84–85 made without an oath, 109 magnifying offices in, 111–12 quorums established, 13 restoration of, xv, 7–8, 78–80, 85, 89

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Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith

The Savior’s Apostles were rejected and slain, His teachings were corrupted, and the priesthood of God was taken from the earth. He worked long hours helping his father and older brothers fell trees and plant crops on his family’s thickly wooded, hundred-acre farm.

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