Is JOSEPH SMITH more important than Jesus the Christ? Is Jesus the Christ more important than JOSEPH SMITH or are THEY both equal? Why or why not?
Established Mormon doctrine answers this question quite decisively about whose mission is more important leaving no room for debate:
2Nephi 9:7-9 wrote:Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.
O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace! For behold, if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject to that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal God, and became the devil, to rise no more.
And our spirits must have become like unto him, and we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our first parents, who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness.
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D&C 135:3 wrote:Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.
Is JOSEPH SMITH more important than Jesus the Christ? Is Jesus the Christ more important than JOSEPH SMITH or are THEY both equal? Why or why not?
Established Mormon doctrine answers this question quite decisively about whose mission is more important leaving no room for debate:
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D&C 135:3 wrote:Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.
[x] Jesus
[ ] Smith
It would suggest to you that Paul/Saul would be regarded as far more important and likely the more modest.
It would suggest to you that Paul/Saul would be regarded as far more important and likely the more modest.
I’m quite familiar with everything Paul/Saul is said to have written in the epistles of the New Testament and his fame therein certainly credits him with building the Christian religion on a grand scale. I can agree that Paul was more modest in character than Joseph Smith whose writings and personality exhibit qualities that are more modest than Smith who was known to be arrogant and overbearing.
