Joseph Smith Biography

(Grace) #1

Without Disclosing My True Identity


NOTES


(^1) See Revelation 3:12; Alma 7:25; 29:17; 34:36; Helaman 3:30; 3 Nephi 28:40.
(^2) See e.g., HR, chapter 4.
(^3) TPJS, 365. LDS/Mormons also rely on the following as scripture concerning foreordination:
“Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world
was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; and God saw these souls that
they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he
stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham,
thou art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.” (PGP, Abraham 3:22–3.)
(^4) D&C, 121:34–40.
(^5) D&C, 132:7. See also BOM, 3 Nephi 18:5.
(^6) 1 Samuel 1:20–3:20.
(^7) BOM, Mosiah 11:20.
(^8) BOM, Helaman 13:2.
(^9) BOM, Helaman 13:2.
(^10) Isaiah 1:2–17.
(^11) John 17:21–3.
(^12) Isaiah 6:9–10.
(^13) Isaiah 2:22.
(^14) Christopher, The Light of the Moon—The Plain and Precious Words of the Ancient Prophets,
forthcoming from Worldwide United (Introduction online), Marvelous Work and a Wonder®, 2011, A
Marvelous Work and a Wonder Purpose Trust, 12 Nov 2010
http://marvelousworkandawonder.com/LOM3DBook/.
(^15) 1 John 2:27.
(^16) Luke 17:20–1. See also Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26–7.
(^17) Quoted by John Taylor in Journal of Discourses, 10:57–8.
(^18) “And behold, the heavens were opened, and they were caught up into heaven, and saw and
heard unspeakable things. And it was forbidden them that they should utter; neither was it given unto
them power that they could utter the things which they saw and heard.” (BOM, 3 Nephi 28:13–14.)
(^19) BOM, 3 Nephi 28:14.
(^20) BOM, Alma 5:43.
(^21) Luke 14:11.
(^22) BOM, 1 Nephi 11:11.
(^23) TSP, 5:6–7. See also D&C, 131:1 and chapter 76; HR, 19:26–7; TSP, chapter 4; 58:55–7; 63:68;
chapter 97; John 14:2; 1 Corinthians 15:40–1.
(^24) HUMAN REALITY—Who We Are and Why We Exist! (Melba: Worldwide United, 2009).
(^25) HR, chapter 5.
(^26) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:11–15, 23–35; D&C, 29:39.
(^27) BOM, 2 Nephi 2:11–13.
(^28) 2 Corinthians 4:18.
(^29) See BOM, 3 Nephi 28:13–14.
(^30) See John 17:3; BOM, Mormon 8:10; 1 John 5:20.
(^31) BOM, 1 Nephi 11:7; 12:6; 3 Nephi 11:8.
(^32) BOM, 3 Nephi 18:39; 19:1; Moroni 7:27.
(^33) See BOM, 1 Nephi 11:16.
(^34) Psalms 82:6.
(^35) BOM, 2 Nephi 26:33.
(^36) BOM, 2 Nephi 26:29.

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