Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Dec 5, 2021 22:13:10 GMT -6
2013 AD
11/04-
MONDAY
I finally got the book Visions of Glory! It’s wonderful! I am on pg. 34. So much to take in!
Man can never be God or higher than God. Some Utah Mormons think man can become “all that God is and more” but this is blasphemy. The author of Visions of Glory says we are born gods (small ‘g’) but even Joseph Smith and the Bible agree with that. (According to Joseph Smith, Jr. man in his exalted state is just as exalted as the Father is. However, we can never take his place or do all that he does or be responsible for all that he is responsible for, nor can He ever do all that we can do. Those lines never cross. Lucifer aspired to exalt his throne ABOVE his God, which is why he became satan.-Brent Koivopolo V, 07/27/2021 AD 4:31 PM CDT)
It is my understanding that we are under a greater light than the Utah Mormons (as God told Joseph III out of the whirlwind) but I know God can speak to them just as he can speak to us and all men who will listen.
The Utah Mormons have only as much authority as Jimmy Swaggart and other commissioned Protestants. However, the Utah Mormons stand in a greater light than them, but the RLDS stands in a much greater light than both.
Seek for light and truth wherever it may be found is a divine injunction to the Church. The former President of the Utah Mormons, David O. McKay, said this:
“Every person who lives in this world radiates light, which affects and influences every other person in the world. Our choices in life determine what we really are. The radiance of the light that emanates from our countenance is determined by the choices we make, and is a powerful force in human relationships. And every person is the recipient of that radiation. The Savior was conscious of that reality; and to a degree so are we.”
Well that is the first part of his statement. I can’t put the rest presently, circumstances as they are. I was using the nets on Dad’s phone and can’t cut and paste from there to here, so I had to type it manually.
12/05/2021 AD-
Here is the rest:
Whenever Jesus came into the presence of an individual He was conscious of a light emanating from that person’s soul, and which was mirrored in his countenance. He knew the behavior and conduct, and the choices a person had made because that behavior and those choices were reflected by the radiating light in one’s countenance. My dear brothers and sisters, we must make nobler choices. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. Every moment of life we are affecting, to a degree, the life of every other person with whom we may come in contact, and who comes within the sphere of our influence.
Every person is affecting every other person who lives. We cannot for one moment escape this emanation, this radiation of light that emanates from our countenance. Life is a constant state of radiation and absorption of light. To exist is to radiate light; to exist is to be the recipient of light. And we choose the qualities we permit to be radiated by the light within us, determined by our behavior, and by the choices we make.”
[The Prayer of Adam and Eve by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (A. F. Segal, Paul, p. 152. President David O. McKay)]
11/04-
MONDAY
I finally got the book Visions of Glory! It’s wonderful! I am on pg. 34. So much to take in!
Man can never be God or higher than God. Some Utah Mormons think man can become “all that God is and more” but this is blasphemy. The author of Visions of Glory says we are born gods (small ‘g’) but even Joseph Smith and the Bible agree with that. (According to Joseph Smith, Jr. man in his exalted state is just as exalted as the Father is. However, we can never take his place or do all that he does or be responsible for all that he is responsible for, nor can He ever do all that we can do. Those lines never cross. Lucifer aspired to exalt his throne ABOVE his God, which is why he became satan.-Brent Koivopolo V, 07/27/2021 AD 4:31 PM CDT)
It is my understanding that we are under a greater light than the Utah Mormons (as God told Joseph III out of the whirlwind) but I know God can speak to them just as he can speak to us and all men who will listen.
The Utah Mormons have only as much authority as Jimmy Swaggart and other commissioned Protestants. However, the Utah Mormons stand in a greater light than them, but the RLDS stands in a much greater light than both.
Seek for light and truth wherever it may be found is a divine injunction to the Church. The former President of the Utah Mormons, David O. McKay, said this:
“Every person who lives in this world radiates light, which affects and influences every other person in the world. Our choices in life determine what we really are. The radiance of the light that emanates from our countenance is determined by the choices we make, and is a powerful force in human relationships. And every person is the recipient of that radiation. The Savior was conscious of that reality; and to a degree so are we.”
Well that is the first part of his statement. I can’t put the rest presently, circumstances as they are. I was using the nets on Dad’s phone and can’t cut and paste from there to here, so I had to type it manually.
12/05/2021 AD-
Here is the rest:
Whenever Jesus came into the presence of an individual He was conscious of a light emanating from that person’s soul, and which was mirrored in his countenance. He knew the behavior and conduct, and the choices a person had made because that behavior and those choices were reflected by the radiating light in one’s countenance. My dear brothers and sisters, we must make nobler choices. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. Every moment of life we are affecting, to a degree, the life of every other person with whom we may come in contact, and who comes within the sphere of our influence.
Every person is affecting every other person who lives. We cannot for one moment escape this emanation, this radiation of light that emanates from our countenance. Life is a constant state of radiation and absorption of light. To exist is to radiate light; to exist is to be the recipient of light. And we choose the qualities we permit to be radiated by the light within us, determined by our behavior, and by the choices we make.”
[The Prayer of Adam and Eve by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (A. F. Segal, Paul, p. 152. President David O. McKay)]