That is the beauty of it!

Had a wonderful friend send me the following:

“Just finished sitting through an Institute class where the instructor, a temple sealer, was explaining to us how somehow, even though the doctrine is pre-mortal to mortal to post-mortal to God-hood, Jesus Christ became a God without ever having been mortal. It was His first shot at being mortal when He arrived to be the Savior.

And then He descended below all things and understands our mortal miseries perfectly even though He lived a sinless perfect life and never experienced any of those things for Himself in mortality….and nobody seems to think this doesn’t add up but me…..”

After reading this my response was, “Huh?”

This reminded me of some dialogue that once upon a time was in the Temple endowment. Because it no longer is, I will quote it.

Adam was calling upon God when a sectarian minister approached him and said:

“I am glad to know that you were calling upon Father. Do you believe in a God who is without body, parts, and passions; who sits on the top of a topless throne; whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere; who fills the universe, and yet is so small that he can dwell in your heart; who is surrounded by myriads of beings who have been saved by grace, not for any act of theirs, but by His good pleasure? Do you believe in this great Being?”

Adam:
“I do not. I cannot comprehend such a being.”

Sectarian Minister:
“That is the beauty of it….”

(Man, I sure missed that minister after they took him out of the endowment. He had some great lines.)

I can envision my friend raising her hand and asking the Institute instructor to repeat what he had just explained. He does so, and then asks if she believes in such beautiful doctrine?

My friend then says, in my little vision, “I do not, I cannot comprehend such a being.”

The Institute instructor’s response, “That is the beauty of it!”

Ah yes, the beauty of it. We all knew the sectarian minister’s doctrine was wrong and straight from hell.

I wonder where this doctrine the Institute instructor is dispensing comes from.

I read the first quote to my ten-year-old granddaughter and she laughed because she thought I was joking around, knowing it is wrong. Now she gives me hope. Institute instructors, not so much.