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Title: Mormon Gem - Joseph Smith a Spiritual Giant View count: 320 Rating: 5.0 (5 ratings) Description: "Who could deny the fact that [Joseph Smith] received visions? He said of the Doctrine and Covenants, section 76, on the three degrees of glory: 'I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdom manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them' (History of the Church, 5:402)."A hundred times more than the present length would be more than a full-length Doctrine and Covenants."Truman Madsen has written: 'The Prophet is a God-made man. It will never do to say, as his critics are beginning to say, "This man was a genius." So saying, they wish to reduce a most remarkable movement to its leader, its founder, and, as they believe, its origin. True, he was a genius, he was a brilliant man. It takes a brilliant man even to comprehend, let alone to write, as he comprehended and wrote, the glorious insights that came to him, even granting that they came from the Lord. He was a man of superb intelligence' (Joseph Smith the Prophet, 49)."Yes, the Lord raised a spiritual giant to be receptive, to be trained, to be instructed, to be the first prophet of the Restoration." L. Tom Perry, "By the Hands of His Prophets," Ensign, Aug. 1998, 5152 Tags: mormons, love, families, joseph, smith, tom, perry, lds, jesus, christ, Author: MormonsLoveFamilies |
