Brigham Young calls God the Father and Framer of our Spirits and is a "Being," not a "nonentity."

Date
1871
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Brigham Young, "The Power of Tradition on the Human Mind," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Horace S. Eldredge, 1871), 13:250

Scribe/Publisher
David W. Evans
People
Brigham Young
Audience
Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
PDF
Transcription

We believe in our Father, and do not apply this term to a nonentity—to a fancied something that never existed; the application would not be correct. We do not so use language. We use this term to a being, and we claim this title as children. He is our Father; He is our God, and the Father of our spirits; He is the framer of our bodies, and set the machine in successful operation to bring forth these tabernacles that I now look upon in this building, and all that ever did or ever will live on the face of the whole earth.

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