![]() That pattern is that he reveals doctrine “collectively” to the whole Church through His servants the prophets. ![]() Why? Because God the Father has a pattern of revealing truth. These are sacred truths given through personal avenues which should be kept sacred and revered as treasured gifts. If we want to know more about Heavenly Father then we need to seek personal revelation for “God can be known only by revelation.” Now, in your personal studies should God reveal truths to you personally about Him, then be wise and do not share what you have learned publicly. Let us end “theory” and “speculation” for now, and stick with what has been revealed now. Was the Father, God the Father, a Savior also then?ģ) Eternal lives is often described as eternal offspring. Let us begin with concepts that fall under “theory” or “speculation”:ġ) The doctrine of eternal progression, our own (eternal companionship of husband and wife), provides a possibility that God the Father had a Father, and so on down the line.Ģ) Our Savior specifically said that he doesn’t, or hasn’t, done anything that his Father did not do. One tenet within our Church’s teachings is found within the following scriptures, ( D&C 88:78) ( D&C 97:14) “Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand.” We are to teach and to be instructed more perfectly “in theory” as well as principle and doctrine. All other thoughts and theories relating to our Heavenly Father are classed within theory and speculation. ![]() We do not know as a Church collectively, any more detail than what has been provided. There isn’t much said about God the Father. This is the currently revealed truths we have pertaining to God the Father. 11:7).ġ0) Latter-day revelation confirms the biblical account of God as the literal father of the human family, as a being who is concerned for the welfare of mankind and a Personage who hears and answers prayers.ġ1) We should seek to know our Father in Heaven. God can be known only by revelation.ĩ) God the Father and His Son have been manifested by voice, sight, or otherwise at various times, as at the baptism of Jesus ( Matt. Man is commanded to be holy because God is holy ( Lev. All mankind are His children.Ĩ) The God of the scriptures is a holy being. … He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” ( John 14:7, 9).ħ) When one speaks of God, it is generally the Father who is referred to that is, Elohim. His work and glory is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” ( Moses 1:39).Ħ) The Savior taught His disciples: “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. He “has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s” ( D&C 130:22)Ģ) Latter-day Saints hold that God the Father is an embodied being with the attributes ascribed by the earliest Christians.ģ) We are all literally children of God, spiritually begotten in the premortal life.Ĥ) Heavenly Father is the Supreme Creator.ĥ) Our Father in Heaven wants us to dwell with Him eternally. He is perfect, has all power, and knows all things. He is the ultimate Creator, Ruler, and Preserver of all things. If we solely study canonized scripture as to what has been revealed pertaining to Heavenly Father we find the following: ( God the Father):ġ) God the Father is the Supreme Being in whom we believe and whom we worship. This understanding is rooted in scriptural and prophetic teachings about the nature of God, our relationship to Deity, and the godly potential of men and women. The doctrine of a Heavenly Mother is a cherished and distinctive belief among Latter-day Saints.” ( Mother In Heaven) In light of these principles a common theoretical question is asked, “Does our Heavenly Father have a Father?” Within these tenets, as a result of modern-day revelation we have received the following, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all human beings, male and female, are beloved spirit children of heavenly parents, a Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother. Unique to tenets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are the notions of eternal progression, and that of eternal families (eternal lives). If so, does that mean there is a higher God above our Heavenly Father? Does our Heavenly Father have a father? In other words, do we have a Heavenly Grandfather? I believe that parenthood hierarchy is an eternal law, which applies to our Deity.
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