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The Doctrine of Resurrection Teachings Concerning The Doctrine of Resurrection The Necessity of Death and Resurrection Joseph Smith (President) for? That the dust, our mother earth, that composes the Perhaps there are principles here that few men have house of the spirit, may be purified by passing through thought of. No person can have this salvation except this ordeal, and be prepared to be called up and united through a tabernacle. (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph with the intelligent heavenly body that God has prepared. Smith, p.297) This is nothing but a change. It is not the dissolution of the creature; it is merely putting off the flesh that pertains Brigham Young (President) to this world. (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.373) • The next state of existence is the paradisiacal state of the spirit, a state of waiting until the body shall pass Joseph Fielding Smith (President) through the purification and refinement given to it by Death is a purifying process as far as the body is passing through death and the grave; then cometh the concerned. (Answers to Gospel Questions, 4:185) resurrection which bringeth to pass the reunion of the body and the spirit. (Journal of Discourses, 10:24) Spencer W. Kimball (President) • The resurrection from the dead may also, with The meaning of death has not changed. It releases a propriety, be called a birth. (Discourses of Brigham spirit for growth and development and places a body in Young, p.374) the repair shop of Mother Earth, there to be recast, • The only true riches in existence are for you and me to remolded into a perfect body, an immortal glorious secure for ourselves a holy resurrection. (Discourses temple, clean, whole, perfected, and ready for its of Brigham Young, p.372) occupant for eternity. (The Teachings of Spencer W. • Yes, we will lay down these bodies in the grave. What Kimball, p.45) Universality of Resurrection Joseph Smith (President) lived and died on earth is a scriptural certainty. And surely As concerning the resurrection, I will merely say that all there is no event for which one should make more careful men will come from the grave as they lie down, whether preparation. old or young; there will not be "added unto their stature Nothing is more absolutely universal than the one cubit," neither taken from it; all will be raised by the Resurrection. Every living being will be resurrected. "As power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood. in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.199) (1 Corinthians 15:22). Yes, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a glorious reality. He became the first fruits of Ezra Taft Benson (President) them that slept. He truly rose from the tomb the third day, The greatest events of history are those which affect as He and His prophets foretold, and became, in very the greatest number for the longest periods. By this deed, "the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). He standard, no event could be more important to individuals broke the bonds of death for all of us. We, too, will be or nations than the resurrection of the Master. The resurrected -- our spirits will be reunited with our bodies. eventual resurrection of every soul who has (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.16) Process of Resurrection Resurrection - An Ordinance of the Priesthood would ask what they are. I will mention one. We have not, neither can we receive here, the ordinance and the keys Brigham Young (President) of the resurrection. They will be given to those who have It is supposed by this people that we have all the passed off this stage of action and have received their ordinances in our possession for life and salvation, and bodies again, as many have already done and many exaltation, and that we are administering in these more will. They will be ordained, by those who hold the ordinances. This is not the case. We are in possession of keys of the resurrection, to go forth and resurrect the all the ordinances that can be administered in the flesh; Saints just as we receive the ordinance of baptism, then but there are other ordinances and administrations that the keys of authority to baptize others for the remission of must be administered beyond this world. I know you their sins. This is one of the ordinances we cannot receive here, and there are many more. We hold the and your glory shall be that glory by which your bodies authority to dispose of, alter and change the elements; are quickened." but we have not received authority to organize native From this we have the Lord's endorsement of a element, to even make a spear of grass grow. spiritual body being the body which has ceased to be a (Discourses of Brigham Young, pp.397-398; see also blood body. Spencer W. Kimball, “Our Great Potential,” in Ensign May Now when Adam was in the Garden of Eden, he was 1977, p. 49) not subject to death. There was no blood in his body and he could have remained there forever. This is true Ordinance of Resurrection Performed by of all the other creations. This statement may not be Previously Resurrected Being very pleasing to our evolutionists, but it is true. (Doctrines of Salvation, 1:77) Brigham Young (President) • In the resurrection from the dead, the bodies which Some person holding the keys of the resurrection, were laid down natural bodies shall come forth spiritual having previously passed through that ordeal, will be bodies. That is to say, in mortality the life of the body is delegated to resurrect our bodies, and our spirits will be in the blood, but the body when raised to immortality there and prepared to enter into their bodies. shall be quickened by the spirit and not the blood. (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.373) Hence, it becomes spiritual, but it will be composed of flesh and bones, just as the body of Jesus was, who is Blood Supplanted by Spirit the prototype. (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:284-285) Joseph Smith (President) Literal Resurrection of the Same Particles As concerning the resurrection, I will merely say that all men will come from the grave as they lie down, whether Joseph Smith (President) old or young; there will not be “added unto their stature There is no fundamental principle belonging to a one cubit,” neither taken from it; all will be raised by the human system that ever goes into another in this world or power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood. in the world to come; I care not what the theories of men (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.199) are. We have the testimony that God will raise us up, and he has the power to do it. If any one supposes that any part of our bodies, that is, the fundamental parts thereof, Brigham Young (President) ever goes into another body, he is mistaken. (History of The blood he spilled upon Mount Calvary he did not the Church, 5:339) receive again into his veins. That was poured out, and when he was resurrected, another element took the place Brigham Young (President) of the blood. It will be so with every person who receives • The question may be asked, Do not the particles that a resurrection; the blood will not be resurrected with the compose man's body, when returned to mother earth, body, being designed only to sustain the life of the go to make or compose other bodies? No, they do not. present organization. When that is dissolved, and we Some philosophers have asserted that human body again obtain our bodies by the power of the resurrection, changes every seven or ten years. This is not correct, that which we now call the life of the body, and which is for it never changes; that is, the substances of which it formed from the food we eat and the water we drink will is composed do not pass off and other particles of be supplanted by another element; for flesh and blood matter come and take their place. Neither can the cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. (Discourses of particles which have comprised the bodies of men Brigham Young, p.374) become parts of the bodies of other men, or of beasts, fowls, fish, insects or vegetables. They are governed by Joseph Fielding Smith (President) a divine law, and though they may pass from the • Now what is a spiritual body? It is one that is quickened knowledge of the scientific world, that divine law still by spirit and not by blood. Our Father in heaven and holds and governs and control them. Man's body may our Savior and all those who have passed through the be buried in the ocean, it may be eaten by wild beasts, resurrection have physical bodies of flesh and bones, or it may be burned to ashes, and be scattered to the but their bodies are quickened by spirit and not by four winds, yet the particles of is composed will not be blood, hence they are spiritual bodies and not blood incorporated into any form of vegetable or animal life, bodies. The immortal body is quickened by spirit, but to become a component part of their structure. Are they the mortal body is quickened by blood. The Lord said to gross, tangible, and, in their organized capacity, subject Noah, that blood is the life of the body in this mortal to decay and change? Yes, and if buried in the earth, sphere.
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