Monday, May 22, 2023

*This* is the Gospel!

In the Book of Mormon, Christ says in 3 Nephi 27: 13-14, 16 (emphasis added): 


This is the gospel . . . that I came into the world . . . that I might be lifted up upon the cross . . . that I might draw all men unto me …. whoso shall be filled …" 


The gospel is Christ died so God would manifest as a pneumatic fluid filling Christians with divine-DNA, thus replacing physical religion with the seed of Christ planted in hearts and minds through the Iron Rod (Word of God) that grows the true vine (1 Nephi 15:15; Alma 16:17).


John 12:24 (Expanded Bible):


24 ·I tell you the truth [L Truly, truly I say to you], a grain of wheat must fall to the ground and die to make ·many seeds [L much fruit]. But if it never dies, it remains only a single ·seed [grain].


That's the "good news": that for Gentiles, God doesn't command 600+ policies, purity codes, and dietary restrictions, etc., nor is God worshiped only in one spatial location (the Jerusalem temple); but like the wind God can be worshiped anywhere.


The Restoration was meant to correct the errors and abominations in the Creeds, in particular the disembodiment of God the Father, and restore the primitive church model; as the sixth Article of Faith puts it: “We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.” With prophets, seers, and revelators there is not a closed Canon and fixed dogma. This is what is meant by “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth.” Seers see and translate new scripture which is then sent forth by the Mormon apostles (sent-forth-ones), pastors, teachers, and evangelists.