William P. McIntire records Joseph teaching, based on Revelation 1:6 and John 17:20-23, that Jesus only did what the Father previously did.

Date
Jun 16, 1844
Type
Manuscript
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Paraphrase
Reference

Discourse, June 16, 1844–A, as Reported by William McIntire: [21], The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed February 22, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
William P. McIntire
People
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

he comenced By Reading Rev. 1st & 6 verse— “and hath made us kings & preists unto God & his father &c the He then prceeded to show the plurality of Gods By Refering to the 1st Jen.— [Genesis] as in the origanel Hebrew— that it Read that in the Begining the Head Gods organized the Earth & the heavens &—c and that God was a distinct [personage?] in [and?] of himself & the Son also was a distinct perso[n]age But in the image of the Father— and that the Holly Ghost was a personge of spirit without a Tabernicle— he quoted the 17th. of st John 20, 21, 22, 23 that the apostles & the Desciples may all agree in one— or be agreed in the one princepal as thou father & me are ag[r]eed—— Jesus said that all things that He saw the father do he did— and also the 82 psalm 1st verse God standith in the Congragations of the Mighty; he Judgeth among the Gods

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