Jesus and Christ are one in the same person from birth. The Father calls him Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten of the Father. These two = Father and Son. Likewise, Jehovah/Spirit and Jesus Christ/Flesh = Father and Son also. See: Mosiah 15:1-5butterfly wrote: ↑February 26th, 2017, 9:48 pmSo technically speaking, LoF doesn't say that the Son was made in the express image of the Father. It says that, initially, He was in the bosom of the Father. Then it says that, because the Savior overcame the world, He was then transformed into the express image and likeness of the Father.Finrock wrote: ↑February 12th, 2017, 8:30 am
The LoF also states that the Son was made in the express image and likeness of the Father.
Would that not then mean the Jesus looks like His Father and since we are begotten in the image of the Son, we must look like the Father as well?
How do you understand that portion. It right after the part you quoted earlier?
-Finrock
"The Son...- he is also the express image and likeness of the personage of the Father, or, the same fulness with the Father;...and having overcome, received a fulness of the glory of the Father - possessing the same mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit.
The Father and the Son possessing the same mind, the same widsom, glory, power and fulness. Filling all in all- the Son being filled with the fulness of the Mind, glory, and power of the Father - possessing all knowledge and glory, and the same kingdom: sitting at the right hand of power, in the express image and likeness of the Father - being filled with the fulness of the Mind of the Father, or in other words, the Spirit of the Father.
So the Son is now in the express image of the Father because, as a result of having overcome, He received a fulness of the glory of the Father. We know Jesus didn't received a fulness at first (D&C 93:11-19).
Once Jesus did receive a fulness, He then became Jesus the Christ. To become a Christ is to possess all the fulness of the Father and to be in the express image and likeness of the Father.
LoF explains that to receive a fulness and be in the image of the Father means that you now possess the same mind, wisdom, glory, and power that the Father does. This is also called "the Spirit of the Father."
When Jesus became a Christ, He was transformed into the express image of the Father, meaning they now shared the same mind and spirit. LoF says that this process is the same for us, too.
"All those who keep His commandments shall become joint heirs with Jesus Christ; possessing the same mind, being transformed into the same image of likeness, even the express image of him who fills all in all: being filled with the fulness of his glory.
You're in the image of the Son when you are physically born to earth and take upon flesh. This doesn't mean you look exactly like Jesus does, just that you have a physical body like He does.
You're in the image of the Father when you are spiritually born of God and progress to a celestial state. This is not referring to how your physical body looks, but how your spirit body works - it's just like the Father's, in His express image and likeness, filling all in all.
We, if righteous, keeping the commandments and hungering and thirsting after righteousness,and repenting often can become heirs with Christ in the Father's kingdom, rendering us Gods.
John 20:17
17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Doctrine and Covenants 84:38
38 And he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father’s kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him.