Joseph, while preaching a sermon, draws from concepts from the Book of Abraham.

Date
Feb 5, 1840
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Joseph Smith, Discourse, 5 February 1840, [2], The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed July 8, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Matthew L. Davis
People
Matthew L. Davis, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
General Public
Transcription

I believe that God is Eternal. That he had no beginning and can have no End. Eternity means that which is without beginning or End. I believe that the Soul is Eternal. It had no beginning; it can have no End. Here he entered into some Explanations, which were so brief that I could not perfectly comprehend him. But the idea seemed to be that the Soul of man— the Spirit, had Existed from Eternity in the bosom of Divinity, and so far as he was intelligible to me, must ultimately return from whence it came

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