Wow! You put some work into that picture. Nice job!Thinker wrote: ↑November 30th, 2022, 4:48 pmHow can a father be the son?Shawn Henry wrote: ↑November 26th, 2022, 9:13 pmBecause almost all of the Mormons and ex-Mormons and all in between, don't seem to believe the BoM that the Father is the Son, but it seems you do. Good on you!
Christ wasn’t Yeshua/Jesus’s last name but what he became & urged us to follow and become. He wasn’t the great exception but the great example. If we imagine him on a godly throne pedestal up a mile high - how could we possibly follow him?
Moreover, as Gadianton Slayer wrote: ↑
“… the existence of a Father and Son proves the existence of a Mother.”
I'm not trying to tell anyone how to interpret the BoM. I'm just saying that it is a common theme throughout the book that he is both the father and the son and pretty much everyone ignores those verses.
In 3 Nephi 1 he says: "Behold, I come unto my own, to fulfil all things which I have made known unto the children of men from the foundation of the world, and to do the will, both of the Father and of the Son—of the Father because of me, and of the Son because of my flesh."
I see this as saying that it is the flesh that makes him the son. The will of the flesh was the same as the will of his spirit, indicating that he had enough control over the flesh to subjugate it to the will of the spirit.
There is also the change in the JST where Joseph changed one verse to, no one knows that the Father is the Son (that's my paraphrase).