Psalms 82:6; I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Genesis 1:26; And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…
Romans 8:16-17; The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Moses 5:9; And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will.
Hugh B Brown said “Man is greater then all the planets, for him they were created… Incomprehensibly grand are the creations on the earth but His work and His glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” (God is the Gardener)
“Mortality made it possible for us to be endowed with the powers of procreation…this pledge of participating in the organizing or creative process of God was barred from us until we had scaled the heights of eons of loyal obedience in our ante-mortal state; first as intelligences and then as spirits. Only at this late stage of our development when we have become potential candidates for a place in the councils of the Gods are we permitted to partake of these powers… The fact that parenthood upon this earth is but a training period for parenthood in the eternities.” Cleon Skousen, The First 2000 Years
We have potential godhead dwelling within us for we are the children of God.
Just as an Oak Seed becomes an Oak Tree, we can grow and become like our Heavenly Parents
1) In life many of us often struggle with finding charity towards ourselves and toward others.
2) Going through this life we must acknowledge and act upon that knowledge that we are children of God. We have the potential to do all things if we rely on our Savior. We are worthy of our Father’s blessings even though we may not feel that we are.
3) Every child of God on this earth fought the same battles and because they also made it to this “final period of probationary testing” (Skousen, The First 2000 Years). We must also acknowledge and treat them as though they have godhood dwelling within them because they do!
4) Moses 7:38-33; Even with all the vast creations of our Father’s, he knows us individually, loves us individually and we are his greatest creation. How can we not love one another and ourselves when each precious child is so important in the sight of God?
If we take man, he is said to have been made in the image of God, for the simple reason that he is a son of God, and being his son, he is, of course, his offspring, an emanation from God, in whose likeness, we are told, he is made. He did not originate from a chaotic mass of matter, moving or inert, but came forth possessing, in an embryonic state, all the faculties and powers of a God. And when he shall be perfected, and have progressed to maturity, he will be like his Father—a God, being indeed His offspring. As the horse, the ox, the sheep, and every living creature, including man, propagates its own species and perpetuates its own kind, so does God perpetuate his. John Taylor "Chapter 1: The Origin and Destiny of Mankind," Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor, (2001)
Genesis 1:26; And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…
Romans 8:16-17; The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Moses 5:9; And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will.
Hugh B Brown said “Man is greater then all the planets, for him they were created… Incomprehensibly grand are the creations on the earth but His work and His glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” (God is the Gardener)
“Mortality made it possible for us to be endowed with the powers of procreation…this pledge of participating in the organizing or creative process of God was barred from us until we had scaled the heights of eons of loyal obedience in our ante-mortal state; first as intelligences and then as spirits. Only at this late stage of our development when we have become potential candidates for a place in the councils of the Gods are we permitted to partake of these powers… The fact that parenthood upon this earth is but a training period for parenthood in the eternities.” Cleon Skousen, The First 2000 Years
We have potential godhead dwelling within us for we are the children of God.
Just as an Oak Seed becomes an Oak Tree, we can grow and become like our Heavenly Parents
1) In life many of us often struggle with finding charity towards ourselves and toward others.
2) Going through this life we must acknowledge and act upon that knowledge that we are children of God. We have the potential to do all things if we rely on our Savior. We are worthy of our Father’s blessings even though we may not feel that we are.
3) Every child of God on this earth fought the same battles and because they also made it to this “final period of probationary testing” (Skousen, The First 2000 Years). We must also acknowledge and treat them as though they have godhood dwelling within them because they do!
4) Moses 7:38-33; Even with all the vast creations of our Father’s, he knows us individually, loves us individually and we are his greatest creation. How can we not love one another and ourselves when each precious child is so important in the sight of God?
If we take man, he is said to have been made in the image of God, for the simple reason that he is a son of God, and being his son, he is, of course, his offspring, an emanation from God, in whose likeness, we are told, he is made. He did not originate from a chaotic mass of matter, moving or inert, but came forth possessing, in an embryonic state, all the faculties and powers of a God. And when he shall be perfected, and have progressed to maturity, he will be like his Father—a God, being indeed His offspring. As the horse, the ox, the sheep, and every living creature, including man, propagates its own species and perpetuates its own kind, so does God perpetuate his. John Taylor "Chapter 1: The Origin and Destiny of Mankind," Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor, (2001)
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