ES says it is reasonable to believe in MIH from Genesis 1:26-27 and Eliza Snow's "O My Father."
- Type
- Speech / Court Transcript
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim
- Reference
Erastus Snow, "The Creation, Male and Female—Calling of Enoch and Noah—God Selected Abraham and His Seed to Be a Chosen People—He Commanded His People to Multiply But Forbade Adultery and Whoredom in Every Form—Plural Marriage Enjoined Upon Abraham and His Seed to Make Them a Great People—the Principle of Life and Eternal Increase is a Spiritual Power—Modern Christendom Opposed to Large Families—Latter-Day Saints Encourage Them—the Edmunds Law Passed With the Pretence of Repressing Immorality Among the Mormons—that Mask of Hypocrisy Now Thrown Off—the Religious Sentiment of the Latter-Day Saints the Real Object of Persecution—Concluding Exhortations," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Daniel H. Wells, 1886), 26:214
- Scribe/Publisher
- John Irvine
- Audience
- Latter-day Saints
- Transcription
Now, it is not said in so many words in the Scriptures, that we have a Mother in heaven as well as a Father. It is left for us to infer this from what we see and know of all living things in the earth including man. The male and female principle is united and both necessary to the accomplishment of the object of their being, and if this be not the case with our Father in heaven after whose image we are created, then it is an anomaly in nature. But to our minds the idea of a Father suggests that of a Mother: As one of our poets says:
"In the heavens are parents single?
No; the thought makes reason stare!
Truth is reason; truth eternal
Tells me, I've a Mother there."
Hence when it is said that God created our first parents in His likeness—"in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them"—it is intimated in language sufficiently plain to my understanding that the male and female principle was present with the Gods as it is with man.
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