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Show ! THE GOD WE WORSHIP 53i tempted when it I. gods, knowing :. No wonder Father Adam fell, and ac- : good and evil. companied the woman, sharing in all the miseries of the curse, that he might be the father of an innumerable race of being s who would be capable of becoming With these considerations before can begm children. was No wonder the woman was said unto her--"Ye shall be as II . C?Od,. us,, "". are under obl tions to our to see how it is that we father Adam, as to a iqa God. He endured the sufferings and the curse that we might be; and we are, that we might become Gods. Through him the justice of God made manifest. j : I 1 Jesus came into the world, endured, and suffered, to perfect our advantages for be coming Gods, and through him the mercy of God abound came death, the triumph ed. By the first man Adam ! of evil" and by the second, came life everlasting, the ] II triumph of good. Each was neces sary in the order he appeared; if the first Adam had not performed his part, was , I I , the second could not have had his work to do. Both acted the part assigned to them, in a most Godlike manner, and the Great Eloheim accepted, the work at i i ! "for by the power of my Spirit! created I them; yea, all things, both spiritual and their hands as His own, ! temporal: firstly, spiritual--secondly, temporal, which is the beginning of my work; and again, firstly tem poral--and secondly spiritual, which is the last of my Thus the great I AM owns all things--the tern-, work. poral and the spiritual, the justice and the mercy, to I be His own work. Then why may not Adam be a God, ! , I II well as any of his sons, inasmuch as he has performed the work to which the Great Eloheim appointed as him? In ancient times the word of God a they were called God s unto whom came I God unto Pharoah. i The Almighty was not so jealous II GOSPEL OF THE FATHER I John S saying be true, God has purposed to make him that overcometh, a pillar in the temple of God, and to "write upon him the of my God." name shall be in their forehead s name . This is the hope of all Saints who have a just con ception of the future; and why should we not be will ing for father Adam to inherit all things, as well as He is the first, the Father of all the human family, and his glory will be above all, for he will be God over all, necessarily, standing as he willi for ourselves? , through all eternity at the head of those who are the I redeemed of his great family. Though all the sons should, through their faithfulness become Gods they I I would still know that the Son was not greater than l I the Father. Were we to trace this 1 subject in all its bearings I principles of planted I in every righteous and well-orgamzed farni ly upon I the earth and that they only require cultivation to : cause their expansion and development to be equal to ! anything we can now conceive of as adding power and! glory to the God of all worlds. The Great Eloheim i we I should find the te Godhe,ad I rules His over worlds. He is God right and power to rule I over them govern I I because of and control. I The: of this power is a natural right in the order of Priesthood, which belongs to every Patriarch or Father, exerc i se I in the human long as he rules subordinately to the laws of Heaven. According to the order of that a man is not only permitted God by whom we are ruled to hold full jurisdiction over his own family but he is held responsible for any violation by them of the family I so I I I revealed will of Heaven. : is the only work. It would be most unjust to require 1 "His " I because of which Moses became of His Godly title but that He could say to Moses- And if I have made thee a God to Pharoah. "See I ! 54· one where there is man who has a A man I that controls a work I that can be held responsible for that no responsibility Every power to govern and control. family I and power to control them I is exercising the rights and powers of a God, though it |
