Brigham Young, when addressing the meaning of "image" in Genesis 1 and 5, teaches that Adam is the Father of Jesus and the Father of our spirits and creator our bodies which bear his image.
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- Speech / Court Transcript
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Brigham Young, "Personality of God—His Attributes—Eternal Life, Etc.," Journal of Discourses, 26 vol. (Liverpool: B. Young, Jun., 1867), 11:122-23
- Scribe/Publisher
- George D. Watt
- Audience
- Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
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The word image we understand in the same sense as we do the words in the 3rd verse of the 5th chapter of Genesis, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image." I am quite satisfied to be made aware by the scriptures, and by the Spirit of God, that He is not only the God and Father of Jesus Christ, but is also the Father of our spirits and the Creator of our bodies which bear His image as Seth bore the image of his father Adam. Adam begat many children who bore His image, but Seth is no doubt more particularly mentioned, because he was more like his father than the rest of the family.
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