Comments on: How do we distinguish when Elohim or Christ is speaking? https://askgramps.org/distinguish-elohim-christ-speaking/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alan Swenson https://askgramps.org/distinguish-elohim-christ-speaking/#comment-33686 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:38:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=30960#comment-33686 One of my favorite quotes about this is from Elder Richard G. Scott:
“The scriptures record that throughout history, on occasions of exceptional importance, God the Father’s voice has been heard. On repeated occasions Jesus Christ has personally appeared to select individuals. Yet there is only one supernal, singular instance of which we have knowledge that God the Father Himself appeared in person. This was done with His precious Holy Son, Jesus Christ, to an audience of one. That one was young Joseph Smith Jr., an extraordinary spirit prepared before the foundation of the earth. He would become the greatest prophet sent to earth.” (October 2005 General Conference, “Truth Restored”)

Similarly, President Joseph Fielding Smith taught:
“All revelation since the fall has come through Jesus Christ, who is the Jehovah of the Old Testament. In all of the scriptures, where God is mentioned and where he has appeared, it was Jehovah who talked with Abraham, with Noah, Enoch, Moses and all the prophets. He is the God of Israel, the Holy One of Israel; the one who led that nation out of Egyptian bondage, and who gave and fulfilled the law of Moses. The Father has never dealt with man directly and personally since the fall, and he has never appeared except to introduce and bear record of the Son” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 1:27)

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