Think about the implications of this. God the Father has created worlds without end. He's been through the plan of salvation more times than there are quarks in the entire universe. Yet, when he visited Joseph Smith in the grove, did he let out a lifeless, on the verge of snoring, "behold, this is my beloved son, hear him?"DCP wrote:I’ve had a number of people ask whether I could share a link to a video of my remarks on Easter Sunday. Not feeling entirely comfortable (or authorized) to treat a sacrament meeting talk that way, though, I sat down today with my friend Tom Pittman and recorded it. The talk is now available on YouTube as “Truly He has risen!” My delivery seems a bit lifeless to me, as I watch it now — sometimes a live audience is energizing — but I suppose it will serve the purpose.
No, it was as if it were the first time. It was a universe-shaking event of profundity.
But yet, here is DCP giving a talk on the resurrection for what, the hundredth time only? And he's bored. And the subject matter couldn't be more important, because this is the stuff he wants to beat critics over the head with. Sure, critics aren't going to accept any of the points he makes, he knows that, but what's in his power is to show them the majesty of the believer. He can show them how full of life the believer is, and the great celebratory affair the resurrection is.
What he shows us here is that he, like everyone else, is just suffering through the rote. Get it over with so he can go out to eat at Seasons 52 or Taco Bell.
Do you think God came back to the C after visiting Joseph Smith and said, "I suppose it will serve the purpose?"
Think of how terrible of an eternity that is going to be. Because Eternity is going to be real God-damned repetitive.
People will make comments now and again that DCP in brainwashed. Not so. He's just desperate. He's not brainwashed enough. If he were as convinced as people think, then he'd have been up there celebrating the majesty of the atonement and nearly fainting as he uttered the words to describe the greatest event in the universe. Not just in the earth, remember, because Jesus died for all the planets in this universe and is the most important of all God's planets, with the most righteous and the most wicked, and produced by a pure chain of God's who were the Christ's of their world.
It literally doesn't get better than this, and DCP is bored. What he hopes for deep down is that Gemli was right all along, and he doesn't have to bear this cross forever.
