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Prophet Brigham
Young (1801 - 1877):
“While brother Joseph
was referring to the provinces of God, I was led
to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to
the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as
natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural
action. He partook of flesh and blood – was begotten of his
Father, as we were of our fathers.”
-
Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
v. 8,
p. 115
“... I believe the
Father came down from heaven, as the apostles said
he did, and begat the Saviour of the world; for he is the ONLY-begotten
of the Father, which could not be if the Father did not actually beget
him in person.... I believe the Father came down in His tabernacle and
begat Jesus Christ.”
-
Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses,
v. 1,
p. 238
Apostle Heber C.
Kimball (1802 - 1868):
“... In relation to
the way in which I look upon the works of God and
his creatures, I will say that I was naturally begotten; so was my
father, and also my Saviour Jesus Christ. According to the
Scriptures, he is the first begotten of his father in the flesh, and
there was noting unnatural about it.”
-
Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses,
v.
8, p. 211
Apostle Orson Pratt
(1811 - 1881):
“God, the Father of
our spirits, became the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ according to the flesh.... The fleshy body of Jesus required a
Mother as well as a Father. Therefore, the Father and Mother of
Jesus, according to the flesh, must have been associated together in
the capacity of Husband and Wife; hence the Virgin Mary must have, for
the time being, the lawful wife of God the Father.... He had a lawful
right to overshadow the Virgin Mary in the capacity of a husband, and
beget a Son, although she was espoused to another; for the law which He
gave to govern men and women, was not intended to govern Himself, or to
prescribe rules for his own conduct.”
-
Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, p. 158
Prophet Joseph F.
Smith (1838 - 1918):
“Now, we are told in
scriptures that Jesus Christ is the only begotten
Son of God in the flesh. Well, now for the benefit of the older
ones, how are children begotten? I answer just as Jesus Christ
was begotten of the flesh... Jesus is the only person who had our
Heavenly Father as the father of his body.”
-
Prophet Joseph F. Smith, Family Home Evening
Manual,
pp. 125, 126, 1972
Prophet Joseph
Fielding Smith (1876 - 1972):
“Christ Not Begotten
of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God.
He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!”
-
Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of
Salvation,
v. 1, p. 18, 1954
Apostle Bruce R.
McConkie (1915 - 1985):
“Christ was Begotten
by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal
men are begotten by mortal fathers.”
-
Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine,
p. 547,
1966
“And Christ was born
into the world as the literal Son of this Holy
Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal sense that
any mortal son is born to a mortal father. There is nothing
figurative about his paternity; he was begotten, conceived and born in
the normal and natural course of events, for he is the Son of God, and
that designation means what it says.”
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Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine,
p. 792,
1966
“As far as this life
is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of
Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man who is literally
our Father in heaven. He was born in mortality in the literal and
full sense as the Son of God. He is the Son of his father in the
same sense that all morals are the sons and daughters of their fathers.”
-
Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, Mortal Messiah,
v. 1, p.
330
Prophet Ezra Taft
Benson (1899 - 1994):
“The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in
which He performed His mission in the flesh was sired by that some Holy
Being we worship as God, our Eternal Father. Jesus was not the
son of Joseph, nor was He begotten by the Holy Ghost.”
-
Prophet Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra
Taft Benson, p. 7
Others:
“Thus, God the Father
became the literal father of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was born of a mortal mother and an immortal father.”
- Gospel Principles, p. 57, 1988
“[Jesus Christ] was
willing to make payment because of his great love
for mankind, and he was able to make payment because he lived a sinless
life and because he was actually, literally, biologically the Son of
God in the flesh.”
- Messages
for
Exaltation, For the Sunday Schools of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gospel Doctrine
Class,
pp. 378-379, 1967
